I smelled a rat immediately when with the first shot to hit the internet had an absolutely uncannily timed zoom in and then zoom out (?!). I detect a VFX blood gag with a very fast track (and what appears to be AI slop) in the close up video. Then all the footage of old men being detained being crystal clear but all footage of the death being highly compressed? It became too much to ignore.

Then his wife and best friend (Candace) have just NOT acted like he is actually dead, all kinds of examples of strange comments and tonally off, especially the wife. Big smiles all through her speech.

The “Charlie could no longer carry water for Israel” narrative Candace and others have been laying out makes me think he brokered some kind of deal with his big donors to step down/aside from public spotlight in spectacular fashion

That’s my working means/motive/opportunity

Of course that makes me sound insane but it’s genuinely what my mind finds most plausible.

If he was really dead and the wife is smiling like that, she had him killed. But the videos don’t show a man getting murdered at all, they show really advanced AI doctoring IMHO