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  When the Ayyubid Sultan Saladin laid siege to the Christian fortress of Tiberias in present-day Israel, a Christian army led by Guy of Lusignan marched to relieve the city. The ensuing Battle of Hattin led to the destruction of Guy’s army and the subsequent fall of Jerusalem. Within two years, Christian armies set out to avenge the defeat, leading to the Third Crusade.   The Opposing Commanders The Battle of Hattin depicting Saladin and Guy of Lusignan in personal combat, from a 13th century British manuscript by Matthew Paris. Source: Wikimedia Commons   The opposing forces at the Battle of Hattin were led by Saladin, the Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt and Syria, and Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem. Both men believed that they had a divine right to rule Jerusalem. The outcome of the battle dictated the course of events in the Holy Land for the next several decades.   Guy of Lusignan was born in the French town of Lusignan in 1150 as the scion of a prominent noble family in Poitou. His family had been staunch supporters of the Catholic Church’s efforts to retake the Holy Land and his father had taken part in the Second Crusade. The date of Guy’s arrival in the Holy Land is not exactly known, but is believed to have been around the late 1170s. He steadily rose up the ranks of the nobility, becoming the Constable of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. In 1180, he married Sibylla, the sister of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem.   Saladin was born in 1137 or 1138 in Tikrit, in modern-day Iraq, into a Kurdish Muslim family. Raised in Syria and brought up as a Sunni Islam, he entered military service under his uncle Shirkuh, a general for the Zengid dynasty, gaining experience in Egypt where he rose to power after Shirkuh’s death. By the 1180s, he united Egypt, Syria, and parts of Iraq under his rule and declared Jihad against the Crusader states.   Succession Crisis in Jerusalem Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Guy was crowned king in 1186. Source: Tourist Israel   In the years leading up to the battle, the Kingdom of Jerusalem was embroiled in a bitter succession crisis that severely weakened its political cohesion and military preparedness. The death of King Baldwin IV in 1185, who had ruled effectively despite suffering from leprosy, set off a period of instability. Baldwin IV had appointed his nephew Baldwin V as his successor, under a regency led by Count Raymond III of Tripoli. However, Baldwin V died the following year under suspicious circumstances.   His death reopened the power struggle between rival factions. One group supported Sibylla, Baldwin IV’s sister and the mother of Baldwin V, who appeased her opponents by promising to divorce her unpopular husband Guy of Lusignan. After she was crowned queen, she shocked the nobles by remarrying Guy, who was crowned king at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in August 1186.   Meanwhile, Raymond of Tripoli and other nobles who favored a more cautious and diplomatic approach toward Saladin were marginalized. This deep internal division left the kingdom vulnerable. When Saladin launched his major invasion in 1187, the fractured leadership proved disastrous. The failure of the Christian nobles to unify would have a major impact on the ability of the Kingdom of Jerusalem to resist. By contrast, Saladin had pretty firm control over his caliphate when he invaded the Holy Land.   The Siege of Tiberias Photograph of the ruined Crusader fortress of Tiberias. Source: 101 Israel   By late May of 1187, Saladin assembled the largest force he had ever commanded to date on the Golan Heights to march against the Kingdom of Jerusalem. His troops were composed of a mix of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and other Muslim communities. He was reinforced by contingents of Druze warriors who resented the Crusaders because of their heavy-handed rule. His forces marched along the Sea of Galilee and surrounded the small garrison in the fortress of Tiberias. Saladin lacked the heavy siege equipment needed to reduce the garrison, but he had a plan. He hoped to draw Crusader reinforcements away from the fortresses deeper inside the country and defeat them in a pitched battle. Then his army could march on Jerusalem and Acre.   Back in Jerusalem, there was a dispute between Raymond III and Guy about how to resist Saladin’s advance. Guy hoped to advance towards Tiberias and relieve the garrison. Raymond advised against this, claiming that it played into Saladin’s hands. He had support from other nobles, who believed that the Ayyubid army could not take a city by siege without heavy equipment and that he would withdraw. Nonetheless, Guy ordered a force of 20,000 men to prepare to march on Tiberias and fight Saladin.   While Saladin laid siege to the city, Guy assembled his forces near the town of Sepphoris. To goad the Crusaders into marching, Saladin ordered repeated assaults against Tiberias, gradually encircling the citadel. The garrison barely held on and Guy fell for the bait, ordering his forces to march towards Saladin’s army. The stage was set for a major battle.   Battle of Hattin                                Topographical map of the Horns of Hattin, 2012. Source: The History of England Podcast   Owing to a lack of available fresh water, the Crusaders were tormented by thirst during the march to Tiberias. Guy of Lusignan had an estimated 18,000 infantry and cavalry with him against Saladin’s 40,000. Saladin’s men were positioned between the Crusaders and the Sea of Galilee. Before the battle, they lit the grass on fire and taunted the Crusaders, trying to entice Guy’s forces to advance. Meanwhile, Saladin sent light infantry and cavalry units around the Crusaders’ flanks in an effort to encircle the Christian forces.   As Muslim archers rained arrows down on the Crusaders’ columns, Count Raymond led a contingent forward and managed to break through to the Sea of Galilee. However, the rest of the Christian forces were encircled and repeatedly attacked by Saladin’s forces. Their thirst contributed to combat exhaustion and they were no match for the Muslim army. After several attempts by Guy’s troops to break out, the Christian force was annihilated, with its men either being taken prisoner or being killed. Subsequently, the garrison of Tiberias surrendered.   While Saladin proved merciful to many of the captured Christian nobles, including Guy, he was harsh to other groups of captives, particularly the Turcopoles (Levantine Christians serving in the Crusader armies) and the Knights Templar. Some 200 Knights were beheaded after the battle on Saladin’s personal orders. The remaining prisoners were sold into slavery or held in Muslim fortresses until they were ransomed. After his stunning success, Saladin ordered his forces to march south towards Jerusalem, now lightly defended following the destruction of Guy’s forces.   The Fall of Jerusalem Saladin’s army laying siege to Jerusalem, by Jan Luyken, 1683. Source: World History Encyclopedia   The capture of Tiberias and Guy’s Crusaders freed Saladin’s forces for an advance on Jerusalem. By mid-September, Saladin had conquered multiple towns in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, including Acre, Nablus, Jaffa, Toron, Sidon, Beirut, and Ascalon. The weakness of the Christian defenses was a reflection of Guy’s decision to go after Saladin with almost all of his forces. Only the city of Tyre managed to hold on after receiving Crusader reinforcements.   In Jerusalem, the nobleman Balian of Ibelin tried to rally the Christian community to defend the city. Most of its garrison had been sent to fight at Hattin, meaning that the city was poorly defended. By September 20, Saladin’s forces arrived outside the city to find that Balian only had a small contingent of men available to fight. After repeated assaults, the Muslim army gained ground but could not take the citadel. By the end of September, Balian managed to secure a surrender agreement that allowed many of the city’s residents to go free in exchange for hefty ransoms.   As part of the deal, Frankish knights and their families were taken captive until they could pay their ransom. Local Christians were allowed to remain in the city and Jews were allowed to return for the first time since they had been expelled during the First Crusade. Saladin’s treatment of the city’s population was noticeably more humane than the Crusaders and even earned him a message of congratulations from the Byzantine Emperor Isaac Angelus.   The Third Crusade Map of the Levant at the start of the Third Crusade. Source: Wikimedia Commons   The Battle of Hattin is regarded as one of Saladin’s greatest battlefield triumphs. A combination of luck, guile, ruthlessness, and agility meant that he managed to draw out a formidable enemy from their fortifications and fight them on ground of his choosing. By forcing the Crusaders to fight a battle on his terms, Saladin all but guaranteed victory, and the destruction of Guy’s army allowed him to overrun multiple Crusader fortresses without having to lay siege to most of them.   By contrast, Guy of Lusignan committed a series of mistakes when confronting the Muslim army. With little backing from the High Court of Nobles in Jerusalem, he sought to enshrine his legitimacy by defeating Saladin in a pitched battle. However, his poor strategic and tactical decision-making minimized his chances of victory. His prospects were poor once he had left the safety of Jerusalem.   The loss of Jerusalem inspired the Third Crusade, during which King Richard the Lionheart of England sought to recapture Jerusalem from Saladin. When his army managed to defeat Saladin in several battles and recaptured Acre in 1191, he partly avenged the defeat at Hattin. However, Jerusalem remained out of his reach, and the reborn kingdom of Jerusalem was confined to the Levantine coast.

  Italian writer Carlo Levi, author of Christ Stopped at Eboli (1945), described Italy as “a great, mythological artichoke” made by multiple layers that lead on “a difficult journey through space and across time.” This article aims to guide the reader through some of these layers with the assistance of a series of seven books that cover different periods of Italian history, from the Middle Ages to World War II. From Dante’s Commedia to Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, the seven books offer a diverse array of perspectives on Italy and its tortuous history.   1. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (ca. 1308-1321) Dante Alighieri, detail from Luca Signorelli fresco in the Cappella di San Brizio, ca. 1499-1502. Source: Wikimedia Commons / Cappella di San Brizio, Orvieto, Italy   “When I had journeyed half of our life’s way/ I found myself within a shadowed forest/ for I had lost the path that does not stray.” Hardly any Italian student won’t instantly recognize the first three verses of Dante’s La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), perhaps the most widely known incipit in Italian literature.   Written between 1308 and 1321, the Commedia is not only a landmark of medieval literature but also a comprehensive analysis of 14th-century Italy. After all, Dante Alighieri, born in Florence in 1265, was actively involved in the ever-shifting political landscape of the Italian peninsula, where different powers—the city-states, the papacy, and the Holy Roman Empire—fought for dominance and control.   In the sixth canto of the Purgatorio, Dante bemoans Italy’s political and moral crisis, where internal divisions had weakened the city-states, leading to corruption and a lack of political agency: “Ah, abject Italy, you inn of sorrows/ you ship without a helmsman in harsh seas/ no queen of provinces but of bordellos!”   Dante and the Three Kingdoms, by Domenico Di Michelino, 1465. Source: Wikimedia Commons   In the 13th and 14th centuries, the antagonism wreaking havoc in most Italian city-states stemmed from the rivalry between two political factions: the Guelfi (Guelfs), supporting the papacy, and the Ghibellini (Ghibellines), the emperor’s partisans. In the 1290s, when Dante began his political career, the Guelfs controlled the Florentine government, having defeated the Ghibellines at Benevento in 1266. The ruling elite, however, was split into two parties, the Bianchi (Whites), to which Dante belonged, and the Neri (Blacks), who favored Pope Boniface VIII’s involvement in Florentine politics.   In 1302, after an alliance between the pope, Charles of Valois, and the Black Guelfs overthrew the Whites, Dante was falsely accused of corruption and condemned to death in absentia. He would never return to Florence again. In the Commedia, the poet condemns the political practices of his time and denounces the papacy’s involvement in temporal matters as the source of moral bankruptcy.   His dream of a universal monarch dealing with earthly concerns while leaving spiritual matters to the pope, however, would never come to fruition. In 1313, when Dante died in Ravenna, the Italian peninsula was still much affected by internal divisions.   2. Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio (ca. 1349-1353) The Decameron, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1837. Source: Wikimedia Commons / Liechtenstein Museum, Liechtenstein   While Dante was a concerned witness to the political turmoil of his time, he also believed earthly events happened according to a preordained fate, an inscrutable master plan of divine providence. In his Decameron, written in the second half of the 14th century, Giovanni Boccaccio offers a significantly different perspective on the concepts of change and fortune, spearheading the humanism of the Renaissance.   The son of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Boccaccio belonged to the merchant class, a group playing an increasingly influential role in the social fabric of the time. No longer condemning the merchants’ business acumen as sinful greed, Boccaccio, on the contrary, praises their industria (ingenuity) in the face of change and adverse fortune.   Correspondingly, while God is still very much present in Boccaccio’s worldview, his concept of fortune is much more “materialistic,” emphasizing both the irrationality of the world and the importance for industrious men and women to seize all given opportunities to make their own fortune. The Decameron’s focus on perceived reality rather than divine providence laid the foundations for Western realism and the Italian humanist movement’s emphasis on human ingenuity.   “Umana cosa è” (It is a human thing), writes Boccaccio in the prologue, setting the tone for the 100 stories told by the ten young people who fled from Florence to the nearby Fiesole as the Black Death spread across Tuscany. From bawdy tales of love and deceit to stories of triumph over adversities, each novella offers an unprejudiced analysis of human experience, celebrating humankind’s resilience and capacity for knowledge.   3. The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli (1513) Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli, by Santi di Tito, ca. 1550-1600. Source: Wikimedia Commons / Palazzo Vecchio, Florence   The struggle between human ingenuity (virtù) and fortuna (fortune) is also a key motif in Niccolò Machiavelli’s most influential political work, Il Principe (The Prince). Written more than a century and a half after the Decameron, Machiavelli’s treatise portrays fortuna as a malevolent force that randomly wreaks havoc on humanity.   Faced with constant uncertainty and looming threats, a good prince can only rely on his virtù to rule effectively. Separating politics from morality and the “effectual truth” from “what should be done,” Machiavelli argues that an effective ruler must be able to adapt quickly to the shifting circumstances, knowing when to be calculative and ruthless.   The ability to adapt to swift changes was undoubtedly a useful tool to navigate the unstable political landscape of Renaissance Italy, where one’s fortune could change quickly. Machiavelli himself, as an active player in Florentine politics, fell victim to the volatile power dynamics of his time. When Giovanni de’ Medici (the future Pope Leo X) reinstated his family’s rule in Florence in 1512, Machiavelli was falsely accused of conspiracy and even tortured and exiled.   He eventually managed to return to his beloved city, but when the Medicis were expelled from Florence after Charles V’s sack of Rome in 1527, his involvement with the Medicean regime once again cast suspicions upon him. Similarly to Dante, Machiavelli lamented the rivalry between the Italian regional states, criticizing their political, military, and moral crisis. In the last chapter of The Prince, Machiavelli calls for a “new prince” to “seize Italy and to free her from the barbarians,” acting as a Moses for the disunited Italian peninsula.   4. The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis, Ugo Foscolo (1802) Ugo Foscolo, Italian Poet, by François-Xavier Fabre, 1813. Source: Wikimedia Commons / National Central Library of Florence   In the 1790s, Machiavelli’s wish for unity and independence seemed close to becoming true for many Italian patriots. Among them was Ugo Foscolo, an Italian Romantic poet and writer born in present-day Zakynthos, a Greek island then controlled by the Republic of Venice.   As the ideals of liberty and equality of the French Revolution spread across Europe, a sense of national consciousness began to form across the Italian peninsula, particularly among the middle class, with many calling for independence from foreign control. In 1796 and 1797, when French forces, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, drove the Austrians out of Milan and several cities in present-day Emilia-Romagna, many Italian patriots joined the fight.   However, their hopes for independence were crushed in October 1797, when Napoleon ceded Venetia to the Habsburg Empire by the Treaty of Campoformio. In 1802, Ugo Foscolo, who had served as captain in the Cispadane Republic (later merged into the Cisalpine Republic), expressed the disillusionment and outrage of many Italians in The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis.   An epistolary novel inspired by Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), Foscolo’s work follows the tragic love story between Jacopo, a student and revolutionary, and Teresa against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. “The sacrifice of our land is complete. All is lost, and life remains to us—if indeed we are allowed to live—only so that we may lament our misfortunes and our shame,” writes Ortis in his famous first letter, a lament for the disappointment at the 1797 treaty between Austria and Napoleon.   5. The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1958) Burt Lancaster as Don Fabrizio di Salina in a scene from Visconti’s Il gattopardo. Source: Wikimedia Commons   Ugo Foscolo’s vision of a united and independent Italy would become a reality in 1861, when, after three wars, the movement for Italian unification known as the Risorgimento culminated in the creation of the Kingdom of Italy under the leadership of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia and its Savoy dynasty. Nine years later, in 1870, the new Italian state annexed Rome, thus completing the long process of territorial unification.   From the beginning, however, it became clear that transforming the former patchwork of states into a national entity would not be an easy task. As Massimo D’Azeglio famously put it, “We have made Italy, now we must make Italians.” The centralization policy adopted by the first Italian government as a means of nation-building had the reverse effect of widening the economic and cultural divide between the North and South, resulting in the so-called Southern Question and Brigantaggio. Disillusioned with the failed promises of socio-economic equality, the South came to resent the unification and scornfully dubbed it a forced annexation to the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia.   In 1958, Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), an unexpected bestseller, sparked a heated debate in Italy, showing how the Risorgimento remained a controversial question. Written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, born into the Sicilian aristocracy in 1896, the novel was initially rejected by the leading publishing houses. Criticized for delivering a frontal attack on the Risorgimento, The Leopard revolves around Don Fabrizio, prince of Salina, a Sicilian feudal landowner and a detached but sharp observer of the events following Garibaldi’s Expedition of the Thousand in Sicily.   The Departure of the Garibaldian, by Gerolamo Induno, 1860. Source: Wikimedia Commons / Artgate Fondazione Cariplo, Gallerie d’Italian, Milan   In the key scene of the novel, Don Fabrizio meets Chevalley, a representative of the Savoy government, who wants to offer him a seat in the new kingdom’s parliament and, in a revealing slip of the tongue, describes the merger of Sicily with Piedmont as an “annexation.” Don Fabrizio declines the offer, urging Chevalley to give the position to Calogero Sedara, a wealthy bourgeois, pessimistically declaring: “We were the leopards, the lions. Those who will take our place will be jackals, hyenas.”   Besides offering a unique perspective on the Italian unification, The Leopard is also a masterful description of the Italian South in all its sensual glory and atavistic sleepiness. The vivid descriptions of the Sicilian landscapes, the luxury of the declining feudal aristocracy, and the poverty of the population are masterfully recreated in Luchino Visconti’s 1963 movie of the same name.   6. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (1929) Portrait of Ernest Hemingway in Milan during WWI, 1918. Source: National Archives   In 1918, a young Ernest Hemingway served in World War I in the Italian ambulance service. Wounded in July 1918 at Fossalta di Piave on the Austro-Italian border, he received a war cross from the Italian government. In 1929, he drew on his wartime experience as the basis for the novel A Farewell to Arms, the tragic love story between Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver on the Italian front, and Catherine Barkley, an English nurse.   A realistic and unromanticized account of World War I, Hemingway’s novel documents the devastating Italian defeat at Caporetto (present-day Kobarid, Slovenia) and the subsequent tragic retreat to the Piave River. War-weary and disillusioned about the outcome of the conflict, the Italian soldiers begin their slow and tortuous retreat in the rain. Confused and fearful of their fate, some throw down their arms, others, panicking, mistakenly fire at their own side.   The Battle of Caporetto, fought between October and November 1917, is one of the most infamous events in Italy’s military history. From 1915 to 1917, General Luigi Cadorna, the chief of staff of the Italian army, launched repeated attacks against the Austrian forces along the Isonzo River along the border between Italy and the Habsburg Empire. Though the Italian troops managed to capture Gorizia in 1916, they failed to penetrate the Austrian sector.   General Luigi Cadorna in uniform, 1917. Source: Wikimedia Commons   On October 24, the German and Austrian forces broke through the Italian lines, crossing the Isonzo and pouring into Caporetto. By November 9, when the Italian troops finally managed to hold the line behind the Piave River, about 300,000 soldiers had died. Some 250,000 were taken prisoner.   Faced with the possibility of a military collapse, General Cadorna blamed some units of the 2nd Army for the disastrous defeat, accusing them of cowardice in the War Bulletin no. 887. Cadorna, however, was heavily criticized for his harsh discipline (in 1916, he introduced decimation as a punishment method), and he was replaced by General Armando Diaz.   Toward the end of 1918, Diaz launched another offensive, scoring a decisive victory at the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, bridging the Piave River and attacking the Austro-Hungarian line. The battle was seen as a form of revenge for Caporetto, whose name remains a synonym for disaster in the Italian language. After the war, the 1918 offensive was celebrated in the song The Legend of the Piave, one of the most famous Italian patriotic songs.   7. Family Sayings, Natalia Ginzburg (1963) Benito Mussolini in Rome after King Victor Emmanuel III appointed him prime minister, October 30, 1922. 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I know some of you are not going to like this article, but we report FAIRLY and OPENLY and HONESTLY around here, and we also do our homework and fact-check things. And no topic is off-limits. Look folks, I want to like Erika and believe the best about her, but I’m telling you my Spidey Senses are off the charts with this one… The constant fake crying (but never any actual tears)… The Devil Horns at Charlie’s Memorial… And now the backstory. You might have heard some of this before, but most of it was entirely new to me.  And it’s so eye-opening that I immediately did a Fact-Check on it to see if it was actually true. Spoiler alert: it looks like it is. It all comes from this Substack Article I came across earlier today: I don’t go looking for these things but that caught my attention, so I took a look. Check it out for yourself and then we’re going to Fact-Check it: The Shooter, the Widow, the Crown September 10, 2025. Charlie Kirk assassinated. Erika Kirk – former Miss Arizona, faith influencer – becomes CEO of Turning Point USA. She shares a public story: Swedish war-hero grandfather Catholic single mom Soup kitchens and Swedish pancakes But public records and her own past words create curious gaps. Let’s walk through them – source by source. The Mom in the NSA Leak A publicly available PDF titled “NSA Officials and Employees Dox” – hosted on jar2.com and credited to Anonymous (special thanks to Snowden) – lists: Ms. Lorin Frantzve 9743 E. Sharon Dr., Scottsdale, AZ 85260 Email: lfrantzve@imetlabs.com (Source: jar2.com public file – no private data accessed >View Here) Publicly verifiable facts: 9743 E. Sharon Dr. = Frantzve family home 1980s–2000s (Whitepages, property records). “Lorin” = known alias for Erika’s mom Lori Abbas – appears in Whitepages. IMET Labs = officially IMET Laboratories, a DBA (doing business as) for AZ-Tech International, Inc., headquartered at 8321 E. Gelding Dr. #101, Scottsdale, AZ 85260, during the 2000s to early 2010s. Erika’s mom Lori today = CEO of E3TEK Group, a defense-tech company with DHS/DOD contracts (LinkedIn, company site). Alias Overload: Public records reveal a notable array of name variations for Lori, including Lori Ann Frantzve, Lorin A. Frantzve, Lori A. Walstad, Lori Ann Guinta, Lori W. Frantzve, Lori Ann Frantzue, Lori A. Srantve, Lori A. Frantze, Lori W. Frantze, and Lori Frantzue – totaling at least seven distinct aliases, with up to eleven when including spelling variations. These are tied to Scottsdale and Fountain Hills addresses, such as 9743 E. Sharon Dr., Scottsdale, AZ 85260, and 14425 E. Shadow Canyon Dr., Fountain Hills, AZ 85268, across voter rolls, property deeds, and phone directories. Question: Why is Erika’s mom Lori listed in an NSA file – and why does she have so many known aliases? … The Invisible Grandparents Geneastar.org – a public genealogy site, lists Lori Abbas’s parents as: Joseph Anthony Abbas (Syrian/Lebanese) Angeline Maria Carresscia (Italian) No photos. No mentions in Erika’s interviews or social media. Question: Why has Erika never highlighted her maternal grandparents, Joseph and Angeline, despite their public records? The Video That Doesn’t Match A single old video, shared by Erika on Facebook in 2016, captures a touching moment: various images of her grandfather alongside what appear to be family gatherings. The caption reads: “What was it like to lose him? …It was like hearing every goodbye ever said to me – all at once.” Among the footage, a man stands out, he could be Erika’s father, Kent Frantzve. His features hint at a resemblance, but here’s the puzzle: no one seems to know what he looks like. With public ties to defense-tech firms like AZ-Tech International (which has faced speculation about Raytheon links), a Google search for “Kent Frantzve photos” as of October 25, 2025, yields nothing. No images, no profiles, no casual snapshots in family posts or business bios – just text mentions in obituaries, LinkedIn stubs, and genealogy records. Question: Could this man be Kent Frantzve? If so, why is there no visual record of him online, especially when Erika’s mom Lori is so visible – despite his defense-tech ties? The Five Questions Why is Erika’s mom Lori listed in a file labeled “NSA personnel” – and why does she have so many known aliases? Why did Erika call her paternal grandfather Carl ‘morfar’ instead of ‘farfar’ per Swedish tradition? Why has Erika never highlighted her maternal grandparents, Joseph and Angeline, despite their public records? Who is the man in the 2016 video – and why does Kent Frantzve maintain such a low profile compared to Lori? How do these family mysteries challenge Erika’s ‘real America’ image at Turning Point USA? You can read the full article here:  https://substack.com/home/post/p-176948281 Ok, so now let’s break it down…is any of that even real?  Because if it is real, then honestly you have to admit it’s all pretty weird and the circumstances are really stacking up here towards something not good. What they’re stacking up to is something called a HONEYPOT and that’s why I will not be silenced into not speaking about this. I’m not attacking a widow, but I am investigating and doing my homework and if Charlie Kirk was Honeypotted and then Killed (I’m not saying by who), then the victim here (even way more than we initially knew) was Charlie Kirk. Now the Fact-Check…. I took this to Grok and asked it to tear these claims apart and tell me if they are real and documented or fake and false, and almost all of them are confirmed TRUE.  See for yourself here: Overview of the Substack Post The Substack article, published on September 10, 2025 by PepeChiQ, examines aspects of Erika Kirk’s (née Frantzve)family background following the assassination of her husband, Charlie Kirk, on the same date. It presents itself as an exploration of “curious gaps” in public records, without asserting conspiracy theories. The post focuses on: Erika’s mother, Lori Frantzve, appearing in an alleged NSA leak Her multiple aliases and defense-tech career Inconsistencies in Erika’s references to her Swedish grandparents Lack of mention of maternal grandparents Low online visibility of Erika’s father, Kent Frantzve The article concludes with five open questions about these topics. To fact-check, I verified the key factual claims using public sources. Overall, the post accurately cites verifiable recordsand Erika’s past statements, though it emphasizes discrepancies that suggest intrigue without evidence of wrongdoing. The assassination of Charlie Kirk is confirmed as a real event, and Erika did assume leadership of Turning Point USAshortly afterward.Below is a breakdown of the main claims. Claim 1: Charlie Kirk’s Assassination and Erika’s Role at Turning Point USA Post’s claim:Charlie Kirk was assassinated on September 10, 2025, and Erika became CEO of Turning Point USA (TPUSA). Verification: Confirmed. Kirk was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. The FBI is investigating, and Tyler Robinson has been charged. Erika, his widow, was appointed CEO of TPUSA, the organization he founded. They married in 2021 and had two young children. Claim 2: Erika’s Mother (Lori Frantzve) Listed in an NSA Leak File Post’s claim:A public PDF on jar2.com (“NSA Officials and Employees Dox”) lists “Ms. Lorin Frantzve” with a Scottsdale address and an IMET Labs email. Verification: Confirmed. The file exists and lists “Lorin Frantzve” at 9743 E. Sharon Dr., Scottsdale, AZ 85260, matching historical Frantzve property records.IMET Labs was a DBA for AZ-Tech International, a defense consulting firm where Lori worked. The authenticity of the file as a legitimate NSA leak is unverified, but its contents are accurate.Lori’s professional background in network security and defense contracting (DHS/DOD) provides plausible context for inclusion. Claim 3: Lori Frantzve’s Multiple Aliases and Defense-Tech Career Post’s claim:Lori has numerous aliases (e.g., Lori Ann Frantzve, Lorin A. Frantzve, Lori A. Walstad) tied to defense-tech roles. Verification: Confirmed. Public records list 7–11 variations of her name linked to Scottsdale addresses, consistent with marriage history or clerical variations.No illicit purpose is evident. Career details:Lori is Chairman/Founder of AZ-Tech and GTEK, and Principal CEO of E3TEK Group, specializing in EMP mitigation and network security for government agencies.She worked nearly 20 years for General Electric and co-filed a 2005 patent with Lawrence R. Guinta. E3TEK’s website omits her name, but corroborating LinkedIn profiles confirm it. Claim 4: Swedish Grandparents “Mix-Up” Post’s claim:Erika misused Swedish family terms (“morfar” vs. “farfar”) when referring to her paternal grandfather, Carl Kenneth Frantzve. Verification: Confirmed. In Swedish: Morfar = mother’s father Farfar = father’s father Mormor = mother’s mother Farmor = father’s mother Carl Kenneth Frantzve was a Swedish-born WWII/Korean War veteran, Silver Star recipient, and father of Kent.Erika’s 2012 and 2016 posts refer to “morfar” and “mormor” when describing him and Swedish pancakes—likely a cultural or linguistic mix-up rather than deception. Claim 5: “Invisible” Maternal Grandparents Post’s claim:Erika never mentions her maternal grandparents, allegedly of Lebanese and Italian descent. Verification: Partially confirmed.Lori’s maiden name is Abbas, consistent with Lebanese heritage.Geneastar and Geni entries list Joseph Anthony Abbas and Angeline Maria Carresscia as her parents, though Erika has never publicly referenced them. Her narratives emphasize her Swedish paternal roots and her Catholic upbringing by a single mother, aligning with public statements. Claim 6: Erika’s Father (Kent Frantzve) and the 2016 Video Post’s claim:Kent appears in a 2016 Facebook video, but has almost no online presence despite defense ties. Verification: Confirmed. Kent maintains a very low digital profile.He serves as Program Research Director at AZ-Tech International, focusing on defense project analysis. Rumors of his involvement with “Raytheon Israel” are debunked as viral misinformation.The Facebook video exists, but the man shown cannot be conclusively verified as Kent without direct comparison. Overall Assessment The post’s factual claims—records, quotes, and biographical data—are accurate and verifiable.Discrepancies like the “morfar” usage appear linguistic or cultural, not deceptive. Items such as Lori’s listing in the NSA file and her alias history are real but explainable within business or government contracting norms. The article uses verified facts but frames them to imply intrigue without substantiation.In sum, it amplifies mundane details for dramatic effect rather than uncovering wrongdoing. Erika’s background—as a Scottsdale-raised Catholic, Miss Arizona USA 2012, and volunteer-turned-CEO—is consistent with her public persona. Then of course there’s this….is this Erika telling us she’s been “working in the military” for 13 years? Meet the REAL Erika Kirk…Groomed for this part since birth. “Working in the military.” Over 13 years ago. pic.twitter.com/1m1zh62lFm — In2ThinAir (@In2ThinAir) October 1, 2025 Folks, I don’t want to believe the worst but if Charlie Kirk was Honeypotted I am freaking pissed off!  He was a good guy and always saw the good in everyone and that may have just been his demise. I’m not saying everything in this next post is true and accurate, but it lays out a very compelling case. Take a look: https://x.com/search?q=Erika%20Kirk%3A%20Who%20Is%20She%20Really%3F&src=typed_query amERIKA – THE ERIKA KIRK FILES 1. Meet Erika Frantzve Kirk. Miss Arizona 2012. Trump pageant girl. Casting director. Now the widowed queen inheriting Charlie Kirk’s empire. But peel back the “trad wife” veneer, and you’ll find something darker. 2. She ran Romanian Angels, an “orphan ministry” in Constanța, Romania. Locals accused it of trafficking children under the guise of mission work. Exactly the model exposed in Clinton Foundation scandals & Guatamala through ‘Save The Children.’ Those Romanian “orphans” are exported to UK, Israel, and undisclosed islands. “Philanthropy” or pipeline? 3. Her résumé writes itself like a honeypot manual: • Trump’s Miss Arizona, 2012 (Trump-owned pageant). • Casting director. • Founder of multiple “nonprofits” with orphan projects. • Married into MAGA’s golden boy after falling in love over an interview set up by Trump’s team. That’s not coincidence. That’s placement. 4. Her father? DoD + Raytheon, Israeli division. Her parents? Prominent Zionists. Her grandfather? Carl Kenneth Frantzve Vice President of American Bank Note Co. (yes, the ones tied to secure printing & IDs), was Grand Chief of the Independent Order of Vikings, knighted by the King of Sweden. This is not some random “trad wife.” She was wealthy before knowing Charlie. 5. Zoom out. The architecture is déjà vu: • Roy Cohn built the CIA sex-kitten blackmail machine. • Trump owned pageants & hotels perfect leverage farms. • Epstein wasn’t a fluke, he was a franchise plug-in. Erika’s pageant-to-“angel” trajectory fits the blueprint. Why would a young multimillionaire from an initiated family become a Trump pageant girl?.. unless. Erika attended a Jesuit University, REGIS University located in Denver CO. Guess who else attended a Jesuit School… Again, Erika was recruited into modeling, her first pageants were Donald Trump-owned Miss USA pageants, winning Miss Arizona in 2012. Was she set up for Charlie the way Melania was set up for Donnie? Brought to the U.S. by Paolo Zampolli a modeling agent with ties to Mossad, Epstein’s orbit, and elite trafficking rings. Starting to notice a pattern here? 6. Even the branding repeats: • “Tate’s Angels” the cam-girl/trafficking ring. • “Romanian Angels” Erika’s orphan project accused of trafficking. • “Angels” as cover for export pipelines of flesh. On the younger side.. This isn’t religious branding. It’s operational branding. 7. Meanwhile Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA UK launched at the Royal Automobile Club under Prince Michael of Kent, Grandmaster of Freemasonry. George Farmer (Candace Owens’ husband) sat as Chairman, tied to Andrew Tate long before Candace. Controlled networks, every link in place. And George Farmer, Candace’s elite husband ties Tate’s Angels to Erika. 8. So ask yourself: Is Erika Kirk the grieving trad wife… or the CIA-Mossad honeypot who just inherited the keys to MAGA’s youth machine? Did she pay her dues and rite of passage? Charlie’s political machine didn’t collapse. It was transferred. Resurrected through his ritual death. Again, I’m not printing that as fact, I’m just showing you one person’s opinion. But when you combine that with the Fact-Check I personally did above, what do you make of all of this? Love to hear what you think in the Comments.