The Ben Shapiro Show - September 12, 2025


BREAKING: CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSIN IN CUSTODY 2025-09-12 18:01

Topics
Turning Point
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Ben Shapiro
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Charlie Curran Erica Kirk Charlie Kirk Turning Point Trump
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Length

9 minutes

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148.62

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1,402

Sentence count

107

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Misogyny

2

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Toxicity

3

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Hate speech

2

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Charlie Kirk was a father of two, a husband, a friend, and an avid supporter of Israel. He was a devoted husband, father, and friend to many people, including the President of the United States, Donald Trump.

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00:00:00.000 There is no question that that is the case.
00:00:03.000 And all the people who've been playing FTSE with these folks, all the people who have been promoting it, in the name of just asking questions or or trying to unmask the great conspiracy that will suddenly change the world forever.
00:00:18.000 All those people have elevated precisely the kinds of scavenger movements that I'm talking about that end with violence.
00:00:25.000 Everyone knows where the violent death threats are coming from.
00:00:28.000 Everyone knows it.
00:00:29.000 It is a variety of movements.
00:00:30.000 It is not just one, but it is also not a mystery. 1.00
00:00:35.000 And it is worth calling all of that nonsense, disgusting, awful trash out. 0.99
00:00:44.000 And by the way, I should mention that the number, the number of Jews who have who have expressed to me their absolute heartbreak at the murder of Charlie Kirk is extraordinary. 0.99
00:00:55.000 extraordinary.
00:00:56.000 It was the Prime Minister of Israel who put up a full statement lamenting the death of Charlie Cranston.
00:01:02.000 Anything from Qatar or Saudi Arabia.
00:01:05.000 Like this is Charlie.
00:01:10.000 Charlie was an Israel supporter.
00:01:12.000 Charlie supported a lot of things that a lot of people didn't like.
00:01:17.000 The people who have created the permission structures for this sort of violence, those permission structures need to be called out wherever they are, right and left.
00:01:31.000 I do not think that they are equally distributed right and left.
00:01:32.000 I think they are significantly more common, significantly more deeply embedded on the left.
00:01:36.000 They need to be called out.
00:01:38.000 It is imperative to do that.
00:01:42.000 It is imperative.
00:01:46.000 Well, Charlie is a real human being with a real life.
00:01:54.000 He was a married father of two.
00:01:57.000 They had to ship his body.
00:01:58.000 It's unthinkable.
00:02:00.000 It's just inexpressible.
00:02:03.000 Yesterday, his body was shipped back from Utah to Arizona, where he lived with his wife and his two children.
00:02:14.000 He was escorted by the vice president of the United States on Air Force II, which of course is a tremendous posthumous honor.
00:02:21.000 Here's the video of the Vice President escorting Charlie's casket.
00:02:26.000 *Royal music*
00:02:52.000 *Royal music* *Sigh* The Plain D board in Arizona.
00:03:10.000 Here's video of Usha Vance, the second lady of the United States.
00:03:14.000 And Erica Kirk, Charlie's young wife, deboarding the plane, holding hands.
00:03:19.000 And Erica Kirk, Charlie's young wife, of course, is a new man.
00:03:29.000 I can't even imagine.
00:03:36.000 The movements that make a woman like this the widow make children like Charlie's two little kids, orphans. 1.00
00:03:46.000 They put them, there are no words.
00:03:51.000 There are legitimately no words.
00:03:53.000 It's a fairly moving picture of Charlie's wife, Erica, raising her rosary outside the window.
00:03:59.000 One of the things that Charlie relied upon in his life, as we saw over and over, was faith.
00:04:05.000 His wife Erica was Catholic, Charlie was Protestant.
00:04:09.000 It's Charlie will leave an extraordinary legacy for all people of faith, for people who believe in a better country, of community and family, of traditional biblical values and free speech, and aggressive and interesting debate and discussion about the key issues that matter.
00:04:34.000 Charlie's legacy will never die.
00:04:36.000 The president of the United States yesterday talked about TP USA, of course, as turning point USA, Charlie's massive and powerful organization, and talked about keeping TP USA going, which we hope to help in any way that we can here at Daily Wire.
00:04:51.000 I spoke to his wife yesterday.
00:04:52.000 She's like devastated.
00:04:54.000 Of course.
00:04:55.000 But in between the devastation, they want to keep turning point going.
00:05:00.000 Because so many people called in to me with donations.
00:05:02.000 They went, I don't know who do we give donations to her. 1.00
00:05:05.000 Do we give it to Turning Point?
00:05:07.000 Do we give it to, you know, any one of the hundreds of colleges that he worked with or universities.
00:05:12.000 And uh they want to keep turning point going.
00:05:15.000 They think they can do it.
00:05:16.000 He had a very good staff, I noticed.
00:05:18.000 You know, Charlie would call me up.
00:05:19.000 I'm president of the United States, and I get a call like a day before.
00:05:28.000 I can't just come.
00:05:29.000 He said, it's so important.
00:05:31.000 Could you play and then usually try and get there right here?
00:05:35.000 20,000.
00:05:36.000 Yeah, he was he was such a great guy that he had to end this way.
00:05:39.000 But you know, in many ways, uh he's bigger now because of what happened.
00:05:44.000 He was he was really big, important, and I guess this doesn't help his family very much when I say this, but in terms of, you know, very, very important, getting that such a good word, such a solid word.
00:05:55.000 You know, we have so many bad people, so many bad philosophies, ideologies, uh, politics.
00:06:02.000 His was basically just good.
00:06:04.000 Family, he talked about family, talked about get married, go get married, you know.
00:06:09.000 Sounds old fashioned when you think about it, but he's right. 0.87
00:06:12.000 He was just he was just on.
00:06:15.000 And it's a shame that that voice has been stopped.
00:06:22.000 Um I was going through my text with Charlie yesterday, and um he had sent me back in December a picture of his uh newborn son, because we were having some conversations about things we could do together.
00:06:33.000 That's who Charlie was.
00:06:34.000 And those values came out of him.
00:06:37.000 When you when you look at even at pictures of Charlie or videos of Charlie, he's always smiling, right?
00:06:41.000 He's always upbeat, he's always energetic, he's always optimistic.
00:06:44.000 A light went out of the world, a true light went out of the world.
00:06:48.000 And in order for that light to be rekindled in any shape, I mean, in order for that torch that he was carrying to generate the same amount of light, millions of people are gonna have to pick up a match and hold it up.
00:07:01.000 And some of those matches will become torches themselves.
00:07:04.000 But that's the only way to spread the light that Charlie Kirk really was.
00:07:07.000 And the people who are who are smearing his memory, the people who are part of movements that make the world worse, those people do need to be defeated.
00:07:18.000 They need to be defeated, and people need to speak out against that.
00:07:21.000 They need to debate it, they need to discuss it, they need to point out that these people are wrong, and those movements are bad, and those movements are horrible for America.
00:07:29.000 And what Charlie stood for more than anything else was a non-victim mentality.
00:07:33.000 He stood for the prospect that any American, even one who never went to college, could start an organization that became the most important political organization in the country and become the the confidant of the president and vice president of the United States at the age of 31.
00:07:47.000 And that's the thing that Charlie stood for.
00:07:49.000 That if you make the right decisions, you get married, you have kids, you find religion, you find God, you spend time in your relationship with God, that your life will get better.
00:07:56.000 That is the thing that Charlie stood for.
00:07:59.000 President Trump talked yesterday about this morning rather, about attending Charlie's funeral.
00:08:04.000 Again, the date has not yet been released for Charlie's funeral.
00:08:07.000 I assume it will be sometime next week.
00:08:08.000 Uh he suggests maybe next weekend.
00:08:12.000 Um talking about Charlie's funeral is just I keep using the word unthinkable because it is.
00:08:19.000 It does not compute.
00:08:20.000 Does not compute.
00:08:23.000 Here's the president.
00:08:26.000 And I also go to a funeral for a great gentleman named Charlie Kirk, who should not be having a funeral right now.
00:08:34.000 He should be out there in front of people.
00:08:36.000 He loved doing it.
00:08:37.000 He was so good at it.
00:08:39.000 And I mean, he had a big impact on the election.
00:08:41.000 You know, I won I got so many young voters that no Republicans ever gotten anything close.
00:08:47.000 I I dominated with young people, and it's never happened before.
00:08:51.000 And I give him so much credit.
00:08:57.000 Yes.
00:08:57.000 Well, that is for sure true.
00:09:00.000 You know, we will we'll obviously keep tabs as more information emerges on the shooter and the ideology that drove that shooter for the moment.
00:09:12.000 And for the rest of our lives, hug your family.
00:09:15.000 Recognize that what makes this country great, what makes this country good is the stuff that Charlie was doing, and then pick up that match or pick up a torch and carry it on.