On this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie Kirk talks about the dark night of January 6th, 2020 and the events that took place that day in the streets of Washington D.C. on the night of that day.
00:01:30.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:11.000It seemed as if, to an untrained eye, It was Trump supporters that got so out of control, some of which may or may not have been organized, and tried to storm the government.
00:03:21.000We did not appreciate or understand how many FBI agents were involved, how many deep state actors were involved.
00:03:27.000We did not know the complexities or the details of how Ashley Babbitt was murdered in cold blood.
00:03:33.000And the Democrats and the regime, they thought they had their Reichstag fire.
00:03:40.000The moment that they could blame the opposition party for all of the problems, clamp down, put them in prison, break their will, and own the country for a generation.
00:03:54.000Understand the bad guys thought that January 6th was a gift to them from the political gods to be able to own, monopolize, and dominate the political discourse for a generation.
00:04:09.000And the political power for a generation.
00:04:11.000They saw their opening and they went for it.
00:04:13.000What ensued was the most over-the-top exercise of legal authority and the criminal justice system we've seen in the modern era.
00:04:24.000From granny's homes being raided to patriots in Homer, Alaska being hunted down by FBI agents.
00:04:32.000We've now learned that doors were opened.
00:04:35.000for some of the protesters protesters even stayed inside of rope lines that this was largely an entrapment operation they said it was the biggest attack since Pearl Harbor or even worse than Pearl Harbor and they said that because they could justify declaring war on their fellow citizens there was even a talk by John Brennan Of a new Patriot Act.
00:04:58.000In fact, can you guys get that tape of John Brennan a couple weeks after January 6th?
00:05:02.000I think it was January 19th on MSNBC, where he said, we anti-government types and libertarians must be spied on and rooted out if our country is a chilling clip.
00:05:10.000They were talking about expanding federal surveillance authority.
00:05:15.000They thought they had their Reichstag fire.
00:05:19.000And the Reichstag fire, of course, was used by the National Socialist Workers Party of Nazi Germany.
00:05:25.000To be able to justify complete and total governmental control.
00:05:54.000They said Donald Trump is going to be put in exile, and if he dares to try to cross the line to run for political office again, we're going to lock him in prison for 700 years.
00:06:02.000They thought they had the movement dead to rights.
00:06:05.000They were certain on this day, four years ago, that if they compare it to Pearl Harbor and compare it to the Civil War and call it an insurrection, that they would break our will.
00:06:15.000And a lot of people went through a lot.
00:06:18.000I was subpoenaed by the January 6th committee.
00:06:21.000A lot of people I know were subpoenaed by the January 6th committee.
00:06:24.000All for nonsensical, ridiculous stuff.
00:06:27.000Steve Bannon served federal prison time because of the illegitimate January 6th committee.
00:06:32.000Peter Navarro served prison time because of the illegitimate January 6th committee.
00:06:37.000Illegally constituted with Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.
00:06:41.000Of course, Donald Trump authorized 10,000 National Guard troops, but was rejected.
00:06:46.000This day was a day they wanted to try to say, well, live in infamy.
00:06:51.000It was the Pearl Harbor of those crazy MAGA folks that wear those red hats and they own guns and they go to church and they live in the countryside.
00:07:00.000When they get too big of a voice, they try to storm the government.
00:07:36.000And he lost his Twitter account as a sitting president of the United States.
00:07:42.000Donald Trump lost his Twitter account as a sitting Four years ago, we entered the lowest point the conservative movement has been at in 100 years.
00:07:58.000Ever since the founding of our country, it looked completely dark.
00:08:03.000It was the darkest midnight of winter.
00:08:07.000The bad guys controlled the House and they controlled the Senate.
00:08:10.000And don't forget, the night before January 6th on January 5th, The Democrats won control of the U.S. Senate.
00:08:19.000Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff won their Senate seats in Georgia on January 5, 2021 in the Georgia runoff, which gave them the control of the Senate.
00:08:27.000And it was just another demoralization gut punch.
00:08:30.000They control the House and they control the Senate.
00:08:45.000You were out trying to duck and run for cover when those of us had to go lawyer up and hire up, and we were on the run.
00:08:55.000There was a worry and a concern that the first couple days, we said, are they going to go raid the offices of Turning Point USA? Is the FBI just going to kind of show up and say, FBI, give us all your computers.
00:11:14.000And you can all delight and celebrate, four years later, it is one of the greatest reversals in political fortunes in the history of the planet.
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00:13:38.000To understand this, that these people are willing to go represent cartels and drug smugglers and child sex traffickers, and I went through 10 different law firms.
00:13:47.000I spent all day, when I found out that this whole thing was going to turn into a committee, like a day and a half, going from one Zoom call to the next, trying to get a lawyer to represent me.
00:15:08.000You said that Trump's political career is over.
00:15:11.000She says here, in her piece, very bluntly, there will be a core group of loyal Trump supporters that make excuses for the events of January 6th.
00:15:20.000The numbers will shrink as he leaves office.
00:15:24.000And enthusiasm for his ongoing leadership of the Republican Party will decline, Liz Peek writes.
00:15:30.000There are plenty of GOP legislators eager to fill his shoes.
00:15:34.000Those folks will do their best to hasten Trump's decline.
00:15:39.000This is the intelligentsia by which he's a Republican.
00:15:41.000This was the intelligentsia of the Republican Party being taken seriously by the Wall Street Journal.
00:15:45.000And what happened next was a deep state attempt to intimidate and demoralize our movement.
00:15:53.000Office was going to be filled with dark-looking SUVs and a bunch of people with purple hair with FBI vests coming in and taking all of our devices.
00:16:27.000In fact, I gave the first speech about antifragility back in February of 2021. The doctrine of antifragility, as authored by Nassim Taleb in his book Antifragile, is that there are fragile institutions, those that shatter.
00:16:41.000There are tough institutions, those that do not shatter.
00:16:43.000And then there are antifragile institutions, those that get stronger the more you attack them.
00:16:53.000They get tougher the more that you throw at them, the more that you punch them, the more that you criticize them, the more that you smear them, the more that you slander.
00:17:01.000And Donald Trump was up against the wall, the likes of which no political canon ever would, indicted in four different jurisdictions facing 700 years in federal prison, and many of your friends and my friends were in federal prison or facing federal prison time.
00:17:12.000The whole regime was just surrounding us, and we beat them.
00:17:17.000It's one of the most remarkable comeback stories ever.
00:17:20.000This January 6, 2025, we're in charge and the regime lost.
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00:18:31.000Congress is going to certify the Trump election, which is huge.
00:18:34.000That is then, once it's certified, it is done, absent an inauguration, which is just awesome.
00:18:40.000Now, why we have a two-week waiting period between certification and inauguration, I mean, I am an admirer of the Founding Fathers.
00:18:47.000I would love for them to explain why we have that.
00:18:51.000Maybe Blake can read it in one of the Federalist Papers why we have that kind of gap.
00:18:55.000There is a widespread Western revolt against beta male open border liberalism.
00:19:02.000There is a widespread revolt in the West to close our borders, kick out the invaders, shrink inflation, and to restore national sovereignty.
00:19:20.000Breaking news today, Justin Trudeau is resigning as Prime Minister of Canada.
00:19:28.000Joining us now is Ezra Levant, a Canadian journalist and rebelnews.com.
00:19:34.000Ezra, I kind of want to say congratulations because you guys have been investigating and criticizing this maniac and this lunatic for quite some time.
00:19:47.000I have a couple different questions I want to talk about as regards to how this all works.
00:19:52.000But first, walk us through this breaking news, Ezra.
00:20:10.000But he's doing a sneaky move, Charlie, in a parliamentary system like Canada has.
00:20:16.000In Parliament, that's our version of Congress, the ordinary MPs, members of Parliament, can vote no confidence and bring the government down and force an election.
00:20:26.000So Trudeau has asked the Governor-General, that's the King's representative in Canada, to dissolve Parliament.
00:20:48.000No question period where people scrutinize the government.
00:20:52.000But mainly, Charlie, he's not letting MPs have a vote of no confidence.
00:20:58.000So in a way, he's suspended democracy just to give himself three more months of power and perks.
00:21:05.000So I guess one cheer, not two cheers for three cheers for what happened today.
00:21:12.000So, just walk through the process of why this took so long, and do you believe one of the reasons he is stepping down is this Western trend that is rejecting leaders like Trudeau, Harris, Biden, and that are going towards leaders like Maroney, Malay, that are going towards leaders like Bukele?
00:22:25.000He has promised to defund our state broadcaster called the CBC.
00:22:31.000So I'm quite encouraged about Pierre Polyev.
00:22:34.000I think the fact that he's strong and you know, you could say the phrase alpha male, that's sort of part of it.
00:22:42.000But I think Trudeau has had so many scandals and so much corruption and he's been so badly behaved over the last months that his time was coming up.
00:22:51.000I mean, Trudeau has been polling so low.
00:22:57.000And his party MPs are worried they're going to be wiped out.
00:23:01.000So they were going to vote to kick him out on Wednesday, Charlie.
00:23:06.000This is Trudeau just buying himself three more months and leaving on his own terms.
00:23:11.000He was going to be fired on Wednesday.
00:23:14.000Okay, so Ezra, I want to go back in time because we're recollecting on January 6th and how far we have come.
00:23:23.000I think there's a similar type of moment that deserves recollection where you guys had your dark winter of the soul, which was the Canadian trucker incident, which if I'm not mistaken was three years ago or four years ago.
00:25:06.000And people came out just to view it with their own eyes.
00:25:09.000It was the first real thing they saw in a year because of all the propaganda.
00:25:14.000And because it was sort of leaderless and it was self-funded and organic, people thought this is the first real thing and it started to embarrass Trudeau because they went to Ottawa.
00:26:05.000We didn't even have that on 9-11, Charlie.
00:26:07.000This is the first time the law has ever been used.
00:26:10.000And it put Canada under a form of martial law.
00:26:14.000And he and his deputy, without any legal process, started seizing and freezing private bank accounts of anyone who they could find at this protest.
00:26:26.000Hundreds and hundreds of families, suddenly when they went to the grocery store, their credit cards, their banks were frozen.
00:26:33.000It was an outrageous violation of civil liberties.
00:26:36.000And who knows how far he would have gone.
00:26:42.000And I think Canadians looked into the abyss and said, whoa, what has happened to us, the true north, strong and free?
00:26:51.000And Charlie, if you look at the polls, that was when Trudeau started to fall.
00:26:56.000And the two and a half, three years since then.
00:26:59.000And so that was the most terrible and wonderful moment in my lifetime in Canada when ordinary grassroots people stood up to Trudeau and stood up to the regime media.
00:27:12.000Charlie, all the media in Canada agreed with Trudeau on martial law.
00:27:17.000They agreed with demonizing these ordinary truckers.
00:27:23.000They were happy to write the script the same way the Democrats did on Jan 6. So it was a moment where ordinary people, I would use the word the proletariat, because these were grassroots, ordinary, unfancy people.
00:27:40.000Trudeau blinked and we are freer now because of it.
00:27:44.000By the way, last point, I mentioned that back then Canada had a conservative in-name only leader.
00:27:51.000of the Conservative Party, and he told his MPs, you're not allowed to even meet with the truckers.
00:27:57.000Well, his MPs had a revolt, sacked him as leader, went to hang out with the truckers, and that's when the Conservative Party of Canada chose the real Conservative, Pierre Polyev.
00:28:09.000So the truckers not only saved Canada from Trudeau, The truckers helped renovate and rejuvenate the Conservative Party, Pierre Polyev, who is set to have the biggest election win in Canadian history if polls hold up.
00:28:24.000He is the party leader because of the truckers, Charlie.
00:28:30.000So, Ezra, do you believe that this can be the beginning of a more robust, conservative, common-sense realignment?
00:28:47.000And that would be bad for both countries, especially bad for Canada because we're the smaller partner in the partnership.
00:28:54.000But you put a thoughtful, Canada-first, freedom-loving, conservative in office in Canada and have him and Donald Trump have a heart-to-heart, you're going to get things done for both countries on trade.
00:29:07.000On border control, on national defense, on foreign policy.
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00:32:40.000I don't know how that could possibly be hit with a tariff.
00:32:43.000I mean, that would be bad for America.
00:32:45.000We sell most of our oil exports, in fact, almost all our oil exports to America.
00:32:51.000And that displaces conflict oil from OPEC regimes.
00:32:57.000We actually have a role to play in American energy security, which is why the Premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith, is going To Washington for the inauguration.
00:33:06.000I don't know if you know that, Charlie.
00:33:07.000But Trudeau has been AWOL on this whole cross-border tariff thing.
00:33:11.000I think he wants to fight with Trump because he hates Trump.
00:33:13.000But the premier of Alberta, that's the most conservative oil province, has been doing her best to keep the two countries friendly.
00:34:40.000We're looking at our clocks and calendars, waiting till Trudeau leaves and we can get on with a freedom-oriented government under Pierre Poliev.
00:34:47.000We'll keep you posted, Charlie, because, you know, Canada can be a laboratory for bad ideas, national health care, wokeism, but I think we can also be an inspiration for good ideas, and I hope we get back on that track.
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