Man Arrested For Threatening To Kill Ben Shapiro

A Kansas wacko is behind bars after allegedly threatening to kill conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro, who opened up about daily security concerns in a new interview.

Korby Allen Strube, 29, was arrested recently by Florida police for allegedly posting a spree of vile antisemitic threats on X, including a menacing countdown to Yom Kippur and insinuations something would happen to Shapiro on the Jewish holiday.

“I’m going to kill be Shapiro and hes not gonna be a-live,” read a July 31 post, with a deluge of menace pouring across Strube’s X account over the following days, police records obtained by The Post showed.

“I’ll kill you just the same. Go meet Jesus. 51 days left,” read another. “Die with Jesus … I’ll kill you just the same I guess. 52 days.”

Others claimed Shapiro would be killed “for being Jewish,” or else called him a “stupid jew,” with police determining the countdown to the supposed murder plot coincided with this year’s Yom Kippur dates.

The threats weren’t just reserved for Shapiro – Strube allegedly named President Trump, the Obamas and suggested his social media behavior had somehow led to the death of Shapiro’s fellow conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

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Florida law has a provision that protects people from written and electronic threats to their life and safety. Ben Shapiro lives in Florida. His security team identified a failure to launch / mama’s basement dweller in Kansas as someone threatening Shapiro’s life on X and handed… pic.twitter.com/3E2RPsScHN

— Marina Medvin

(@MarinaMedvin) September 15, 2026

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JUST IN: Ben Shapiro on the antisemitism he's dealt with post-October 7th: "The reaction to the full scale pogrom style massacre of 1200 Jews, which was by a lot of people, that the Jews had it coming, and that they deserved it, and that this was part of a broader Jewish plot… pic.twitter.com/ZlcFzdH96b

— David Brody (@DBrodyReports) September 16, 2026

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Ben Shapiro has announced that his conservative outlet, the Daily Wire, cut 13 percent of staff this year, following reports that his media empire was “collapsing.”

Shapiro called the layoffs “truly sad” in a video clip from his podcast, The Ben Shapiro Show, released on social media Friday.

After reports from The Washington Post and New York Magazine’s Intelligencer about sizable layoffs at the Daily Wire, Shapiro admitted, “It’s true.”

“The Daily Wire laid off some 13 percent of our workforce since the beginning of the year. And that really sucked. It was truly sad because all those people are great,” he said.

Shapiro said he is personally helping as many of his laid-off workers find new jobs as he can “because everybody who we let go deserves a job somewhere else. They’re great folks.”

The Daily Wire was co-founded by Shapiro in 2015. The outlet describes itself as “opinionated” and “noisy.”

The Washington Post reported Saturday that Shapiro’s critics believe the Daily Wire’s “relevance to the right has irrevocably collapsed.”

Daily Wire spokesman Brad Bishop told The Washington Post that the company still has more than 200 employees and that most of the layoffs mainly occurred at its headquarters in Nashville.

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