The Charlie Kirk Show - Ban Tiktok, Empower Biden?

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00:00:00.000 Should we ban TikTok?

00:00:01.000 We talked to one of the top TikTokers about why we should not give more power to Joe Biden. 0.86

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00:01:25.000 I've never really been a fan of TikTok.

00:01:27.000 We've started to use it more.

00:01:28.000 We're getting millions and millions of views.

00:01:30.000 But I'll tell you what, the fact that the Washington, D.C. machine, the regime, they can't secure the border.

00:01:37.000 They keep on financing Ukraine.

00:01:38.000 They can't balance the budget.

00:01:40.000 But the one thing that they can agree on is that we need to give more censorship powers to Joe Biden to ban TikTok.

00:01:49.000 I don't think so.

00:01:50.000 Joining us now is Johnny McIntye.

00:01:52.000 I've known Johnny for quite some time.

00:01:54.000 He's a big-time TikToker, also founder of the right stuff, former Trump administration.

00:02:00.000 He was Trump's guy for years.

00:02:02.000 He's a great patriot.

00:02:03.000 Johnny, welcome back to the program.

00:02:05.000 Johnny, what do you think of DC trying to now ban TikTok and them giving more censorship powers to Joe Biden?

00:02:14.000 I mean, look at TikTok's enemy list.

00:02:16.000 It's the Uniparty, the mainstream media, Mark Zuckerberg, and Biden's DOJ.

00:02:23.000 If that's not a red flag to all conservatives, I don't know what is.

00:02:27.000 When you look at the bill, it was literally written by Biden's DOJ.

00:02:31.000 The same one trying to throw Donald Trump in prison.

00:02:35.000 They wrote the bill, handed it to House Republicans, and then in the biggest self-own we've ever witnessed, decided to pass it.

00:02:43.000 And like you said, give the government and Joe Biden new censorship power.

00:02:48.000 So after all we've learned the last four years about the government colluding with social media companies to censor speech, to censor truthful information about COVID, to suppress legitimate news stories, to ban the sitting president of the United States, after all we've learned, House Republicans decided to give the government new censorship power.

00:03:10.000 So Johnny, talk about TikTok's influence.

00:03:13.000 You have a huge TikTok following, and I believe that TikTok, if we're able to give a fair hearing, which they've been terribly censoring of us in the past, that's changing.

00:03:23.000 They're actually giving us more and more of an opportunity to speak, which we appreciate.

00:03:27.000 And our TikTok is growing like crazy.

00:03:30.000 I mean, our last couple of videos, 3 million views, 6 million views, 5 million views.

00:03:34.000 And I mean, nothing like Johnny McIntyre numbers, but we're doing fine.

00:03:38.000 But do you think that there's an opportunity?

00:03:40.000 Because I'm told that right-wing content does very, very well on TikTok.

00:03:45.000 Do you see that as well?

00:03:47.000 I do.

00:03:48.000 I also love that TikTok doesn't take into account how big your following is.

00:03:52.000 So if you have no following, but you come up with something creative or informative, it can take off and go viral.

00:03:58.000 So we started out a year ago with no following and now have several million followers and right-wing content does extremely well there, which is good because what TikTok does is just reflect American public opinion, especially with the younger generation.

00:04:13.000 So I'm taking that as a very, very good sign.

00:04:16.000 I wish more Republicans would use it.

00:04:19.000 Do you see that there's a kind of this online culture war is unfolding on TikTok?

00:04:26.000 And so how does if Joe Biden ends up banning TikTok, will that be a political liability for him?

00:04:33.000 I think it would make him very unpopular, but to say, oh, we should let him do it for that reason, I don't think is good because what we're doing is letting the DC uniparty come up with basically a fake national security concern to just usher in these new powers.

00:04:48.000 I think if we give them this, what happens next?

00:04:51.000 And the bill is so broad.

00:04:52.000 It's like, well, if a media company is acting at the direction of a foreign adversary, well, how long before they say Charlie Kirk is acting at the direction of Russia for being against the war in Ukraine?

00:05:04.000 Goodbye turning point.

00:05:06.000 So I think we got to be very careful with giving them this power and just letting them use fake national security concerns.

00:05:15.000 It just never works out.

00:05:16.000 And like you said, the consensus for this is bipartisan.

00:05:19.000 We haven't seen them agree on anything this much since the Iraq war or something.

00:05:26.000 I mean, it's just, it's crazy.

00:05:28.000 It's all about control.

00:05:29.000 I think the fact that they don't control TikTok is a reason why they want to ban it.

00:05:33.000 I think the mainstream media is going along with this narrative because TikTok's made them less and less relevant.

00:05:39.000 And anytime you just see, you know, Democrats and Republicans in DC doing something like this, just, you know, it's a cause for concern.

00:05:47.000 Let's play Johnny McIntyre's art.

00:05:51.000 He's like professionally good looking.

00:05:52.000 Let's play Cut 73.

00:05:54.000 Call me old fashioned, but I'm glad my mother was a woman.

00:06:00.000 Now, that might seem silly, but that's been seen, what, 15 or 20 million times?

00:06:04.000 Let's play another one here.

00:06:06.000 Let's go to Cut 72.

00:06:08.000 I can't afford a home.

00:06:10.000 I don't feel safe.

00:06:11.000 Groceries are way too expensive.

00:06:14.000 My entire neighborhood is filled with homeless people.

00:06:20.000 Best I can do is ban TikTok.

00:06:24.000 So there's data to show that Gen Z is becoming more and more conservative.

00:06:30.000 I think Turning Point USA is partially to credit for that.

00:06:33.000 Do you think that TikTok actually, the content on TikTok is also part of that?

00:06:39.000 Yeah, I think whenever free speech is allowed to flourish, I think our ideas win because they're based in truth.

00:06:46.000 So I hate to see Republicans trying to pretend that they're tough on big tech by going after TikTok, which is big tech's competitor.

00:06:55.000 Leave TikTok alone.

00:06:57.000 When Jim Jordan's report came out about Biden's government working with every social media company to censor truthful information about COVID, the only thing that wasn't mentioned was TikTok.

00:07:09.000 That's the only company that didn't collude with Biden's government.

00:07:12.000 So I think the fact that it's the free flow of information, our ideas went out.

00:07:16.000 And I hope the government just leaves it alone and lets conservative ideas win.

00:07:21.000 So can you talk more about the big tech companies that are pushing for this?

00:07:27.000 That this kind of came out of allegedly out of nowhere, but there was a major lobbying spree.

00:07:31.000 Tell us about it, Johnny.

00:07:33.000 Yeah, so in 2019, when the heat was coming down on Mark Zuckerberg, he gave a speech and he kind of said, you know, everyone's concerned about Facebook.

00:07:42.000 Your real concern should be TikTok and China. 0.84

00:07:46.000 And everyone kind of pivoted to that.

00:07:48.000 And then millions of dollars have been spent lobbying ever since to knock off big tech's biggest competitor.

00:07:55.000 If Republicans wanted to be tough on big tech, they would take on the biggest issue for conservatives, which is the censoring of conservatives and deplatforming of them.

00:08:05.000 What have they done on that issue?

00:08:06.000 Not a single thing.

00:08:08.000 So instead, they're doing Mark Zuckerberg's bidding, the mainstream media's bidding, the deep state's bidding, trying to knock off this platform where people have a voice.

00:08:19.000 And sometimes, a lot of times, the opinions expressed on there are not shared by the establishment or the mainstream media, especially when you look at all the anti-war sentiment on TikTok.

00:08:31.000 I think that might be a reason why they want to ban it too.

00:08:34.000 Well, so talk about Mike Gallagher.

00:08:35.000 He's retiring on Friday.

00:08:36.000 This was like his magnum opus, his whole deal.

00:08:39.000 Who is he?

00:08:40.000 Is this a Google thing, a Facebook thing?

00:08:43.000 Because they've been losing market share because of TikTok.

00:08:45.000 Is that correct?

00:08:46.000 Yeah, TikTok has decimated their profits.

00:08:49.000 They've taken all of their young user base.

00:08:52.000 Mike Gallagher voted against impeaching the DHS secretary.

00:08:56.000 He voted for every Ukraine spending bill.

00:09:01.000 He voted to restrict Trump's tariff powers, which would have been tough on China.

00:09:05.000 But all these Republicans were nowhere to be found when Trump wanted to take hard action against China.

00:09:11.000 But now they're tough on China by using TikTok as a scapegoat.

00:09:16.000 And conveniently, Mike Gallagher resigned from Congress, but did it in a way where Republicans, his own party, are unable to fill his seat.

00:09:23.000 So I think he was acting in his own self-interest.

00:09:26.000 I think he's a highly paranoid individual.

00:09:29.000 When they wanted to send a delegation of congressmen to China, Mike Gallagher said, no, I will get kidnapped if I go.

00:09:36.000 I mean, this is just a paranoid person.

00:09:39.000 I don't exactly know why he's doing it, but it seems to have a, you know, Facebook's definitely had a lot of influence.

00:09:45.000 I think just the fact that the Uniparty and Deep State want it, it's just something they think it's easy.

00:09:50.000 Republicans think it's easy to go along with, and then they can tell their constituents they're being tough on big tech and tough on China when really they're tough on neither.

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00:11:07.000 So, Johnny, can you explain to the audience why it's better to fight on platforms like TikTok rather than let the left saturate our kids' minds with total trash?

00:11:14.000 Yeah, I think it's important to find out where everyone is and speak to them there.

00:11:20.000 TikTok is the number one platform for a reason.

00:11:23.000 It's very easy to go viral.

00:11:24.000 It's where all the young people are. 0.85

00:11:26.000 It's fun.

00:11:26.000 It's cool.

00:11:27.000 It's creative.

00:11:28.000 And I think we should use it.

00:11:29.000 It's been incredibly valuable to our company.

00:11:32.000 It's brought people to our app that would have found it no other way.

00:11:36.000 And yeah, I just think it's a shame that Republicans are falling for this and going along with this, like I call the TikTok hoax.

00:11:44.000 So what is your app?

00:11:45.000 The right stuff?

00:11:46.000 You're trying to create a place where young conservatives can date. 0.99

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00:11:51.000 Yeah, the right stuff.

00:11:52.000 I mean, there's a dating app for almost every group, right?

00:11:55.000 If you're Jewish or a single parent, a music lover, a dog owner.

00:11:59.000 But until now, there wasn't one for the thing most important to people, which is political affiliation.

00:12:04.000 So our app, The Right Stuff, is a dating app for conservatives.

00:12:10.000 And it's live in the app store.

00:12:12.000 It's free to use.

00:12:12.000 We have a large social media following, which you've hinted at.

00:12:17.000 Date right stuff on Instagram and TikTok.

00:12:19.000 And yeah, people are finding love, meeting each other, going out.

00:12:22.000 It's for people that want a normal dating experience, a little bit more traditional.

00:12:27.000 And yeah, we're excited about it.

00:12:29.000 It's going well.

00:12:30.000 So again, everyone should check it out.

00:12:32.000 Date right stuff.

00:12:34.000 And the ability to go viral is really important.

00:12:37.000 And you see, Johnny, I'm sure people in your comments, minds start to get changed and persuasion.

00:12:43.000 If we're serious about winning the culture war, we have to engage on these platforms.

00:12:47.000 Final thoughts, Johnny.

00:12:48.000 Yeah, I agree 100%.

00:12:50.000 I think, like I said earlier, our ideas are based in truth.

00:12:54.000 That's why people find humor in them too.

00:12:56.000 Our jokes have a little bit of truth to them always.

00:12:59.000 And I think speaking to the younger generation rather than ignoring them or ridiculing them, just speaking to them in a creative, light, fun way actually will change hearts and minds.

00:13:09.000 Check it out, Johnny.

00:13:10.000 Thanks so much.

00:13:10.000 Appreciate it.

00:13:11.000 Talk to you soon.

00:13:12.000 Thank you.

00:13:13.000 The latest House bill to send more American dollars overseas is somehow even more bloated than the one the Senate passed in February.

00:13:20.000 There's still $60 billion for Ukraine, $8 billion for Taiwan.

00:13:25.000 Meanwhile, aid to Israel has now gone up from $14 billion to $26 billion.

00:13:31.000 For comparison, the GDP of Vermont is $43 billion.

00:13:35.000 As you know, I stand with Israel and in their war against Hamas, but we should not dedicate half the GDP of an entire U.S. state towards funding them when our border is in a meltdown and foreign threats are pouring into America, pouring into America with impunity.

00:13:50.000 At the very least, every cent needs to be offset with cuts and border security must be passed first.

00:13:55.000 We need a Congress that stops putting America last.

00:13:58.000 And it is a psychological phenomenon.

00:14:01.000 It's a psychological phenomenon as to why our leaders de-emphasize the homeland and prioritize the foreign.

00:14:10.000 Why is it that foreign conflicts are given such greater preference than what's happening on the United States southern border?

00:14:18.000 I think part of it is that there is contempt for the homeland.

00:14:23.000 That the kingdom of Washington, D.C. cares far more about how they are viewed in Brussels and Paris and Rome than McAllen, Texas or Tucson, Arizona. 0.90

00:14:34.000 Those are the dirty people of the colonies of the country. 1.00

00:14:38.000 The oligarchy cares deeply about the foreign conflicts.

00:14:44.000 So between 60 billion at Ukraine, 8 billion from Taiwan, 26 billion for Israel.

00:14:53.000 That's nearly another $100 billion that is about to be spent by the House on foreign conflicts.

00:15:03.000 And I'm all for the Israel thing. 0.79

00:15:05.000 Just got to find cuts.

00:15:06.000 You got to make it, you have to make it neutral.

00:15:07.000 You have to make it spending neutral.

00:15:10.000 But another $60 billion for Ukraine, even Mitt Romney has come out and he has said that Ukraine is not going to win this war.

00:15:16.000 Meanwhile, we have a trillion dollars adding to our debt every 100 days.

00:15:22.000 And we are just throwing money overseas.

00:15:25.000 Your purchasing power is being decreased and diminished.

00:15:29.000 Do they want to see the response from the American people, this populist grassroots uprising?

00:15:36.000 They have complete contempt for you.

00:15:38.000 And why is Speaker Johnson doing this?

00:15:41.000 Mr. Wartime Speaker, start fighting for America.

00:15:46.000 You know what you should say about the Ukraine aid?

00:15:48.000 No, not coming up for a vote.

00:15:50.000 Vacate me. 0.67

00:15:51.000 Make the moderates vacate me.

00:15:52.000 Ukraine gets nothing. 0.87

00:15:54.000 And yes, sir, you are at war.

00:15:58.000 It's at the border.

00:16:00.000 It's inside America. 0.64

00:16:02.000 Do something about it, or else you'll get vacated.

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00:18:03.000 Julie Kelly joins the program.

00:18:05.000 Julie, there was a major Supreme Court case yesterday.

00:18:09.000 Tell us about it and the implications it has for Trump and January 6th defendants.

00:18:13.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:18:14.000 So this was oral arguments in a case called Joseph Fisher versus the United States.

00:18:20.000 Joseph Fisher, one of 350 January 6th defendants charged with 1512 C2, commonly known as obstruction of an official proceeding.

00:18:31.000 This is the key felony used in DOJ's ongoing prosecution of January 6th defendants.

00:18:40.000 And finally, the DOJ and government's use of this post-Enron Arthur Anderson records-destroying statute that the DOJ has weaponized to turn Trump supporters into lifelong felons finally got its day in court before the Supreme Court yesterday.

00:19:00.000 And so the debate really centered on this vague language in the statute, and admittedly it is, but this is how the DOJ precisely has weaponized that vague language to say that because these individuals interrupted an official proceeding, meaning a function of Congress, that now they can be charged with 1512C2.

00:19:24.000 They can have their lives destroyed.

00:19:25.000 They could be bankrupted, bankrupted, thrown into prison for years, which has happened to many of them.

00:19:32.000 And the Supreme Court, luckily, Charlie sounded very skeptical yesterday as to how the DOJ has intentionally misinterpreted this language to criminalize political protest.

00:19:43.000 I want to play a tape here.

00:19:44.000 This is Neil Gorsuch, who is ribbing the Department of Justice.

00:19:50.000 I think it was the DOJ that was the ones that were doing oral arguments.

00:19:52.000 Is that correct?

00:19:53.000 Or it is U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Preligar.

00:19:58.000 Effectively, yeah.

00:19:58.000 So an attaché for the Biden regime.

00:20:01.000 This is an amazing piece of tape.

00:20:04.000 It is Neil Gorsuch who just slides in there.

00:20:08.000 Would pulling a fire alarm before a vote qualify for 20 years in federal prison?

00:20:13.000 This is awesome.

00:20:14.000 Play cut 58.

00:20:15.000 Would a sit-in that disrupts a trial or access to a federal courthouse qualify?

00:20:22.000 Would a heckler in today's audience qualify or at the State of the Union address?

00:20:28.000 Would pulling a fire alarm before a vote qualify for 20 years in federal prison?

00:20:37.000 There are multiple elements of the statute that I think might not be satisfied by those hypotheticals.

00:20:42.000 And it relates to the point I was going to make to the Chief Justice about the breadth of this statute.

00:20:46.000 Well, hold on a second.

00:20:47.000 Wait.

00:20:48.000 Jamal, we know why Jamal did it.

00:20:50.000 He did it to interfere with a vote.

00:20:52.000 We know exactly what was occurring.

00:20:55.000 So we had motive and intent.

00:20:57.000 I think it was a perfect point by Neil Gorsuch and one that is going to, I think, significantly neuter this aggressive lawfare from the Biden regime.

00:21:08.000 Your thoughts, Julie Kelly.

00:21:09.000 I hope so, Charlie.

00:21:10.000 I think you're exactly right.

00:21:11.000 And I was listening, of course, I was live tweeting it.

00:21:13.000 And when you heard Neil Gorsuch saying that, of course, you're laughing out loud because you know, and everyone in the room knew.

00:21:20.000 And of course, Elizabeth Pellegar, the Solicitor General, knew exactly what he was referring to as well.

00:21:25.000 But look, what she continued to argue, and there were other hypotheticals raised as well, is that for some reason, this four-hour disturbance that delayed the electoral college certification proceedings for only six hours, they act like it was delayed for weeks and never happened.

00:21:43.000 That somehow that rises to the statutory elements of 1512 C2, but no other protest does.

00:21:53.000 And that is where the government really stepped on its own toes.

00:21:57.000 Because if you're going to apply this and you're going to say that you need intent, you did it corruptly, you obstructed, impeded, influenced an official proceeding, then it should apply broadly.

00:22:10.000 And quite frankly, Charlie, I emailed the DC U.S. attorney last week and asked if any other demonstrators, the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel demonstrators, have been charged with any federal crimes over the past six months for unlawfully entering the Capitol building, disrupting Senate and House hearings.

00:22:30.000 And she told me no.

00:22:33.000 This is extraordinary.

00:22:34.000 And so the Department of Justice or the Solicitor General, what argument are they making here that they were able to find the intent statute with every single one of these January 6th defendants?

00:22:45.000 Is that correct?

00:22:47.000 That's exactly right.

00:22:48.000 So there are 350 who have been charged.

00:22:50.000 And they did say that, yes, we found the intent, that they did it corruptly, that they knew they were going to be interfering in this official proceeding, and that they did so corruptly.

00:23:02.000 And so that is really what her argument is.

00:23:05.000 And this is what the DOJ has been arguing now for three years in all of these cases and sending these people to prison on an obstruction statute.

00:23:13.000 So Julie, how do you think the court is going to rule them?

00:23:18.000 Hopefully it will be tight.

00:23:20.000 I think it could be 6354 in defense or supporting Joseph Fisher.

00:23:28.000 This count was dropped in his case.

00:23:31.000 There was only one DC judge who dropped this count against Joseph, against any J6 defendant.

00:23:37.000 And so I think that hopefully, I think it'll be tight, but I think that the J6 defendants will prevail. 1.00

00:23:44.000 So now shifting gears to the lawfare against Trump with the Alvin Bragg selection, I want to get your thoughts on the jury selection.

00:23:50.000 I believe we have some tape here that MSNBC was reporting that a member of the jury was allowed to stay on the jury despite posting on social media celebratory videos of Trump's or Biden's win or Trump's loss.

00:24:05.000 Your reaction, Julie Kelly?

00:24:07.000 To that video.

00:24:08.000 Well, just your reaction to the jury selection to just how the whole process in New York is unfolding.

00:24:13.000 I mean, as far as I can tell, and I'm sorry, I've been covering the SCOTIS hearings, but look, this has been happening in Washington, D.C., too.

00:24:21.000 You have these biased juries who, jurors in a city that voted in this instance, Manhattan, 85% for Joe Biden, 93% for Joe Biden in Washington, D.C.

00:24:31.000 It's almost impossible to find a fair-minded jurors, but they have to cobble something together, even though you know that their news digestion is far left and you know that they live in a very left-wing portion, you know, part of New York City or in Washington, D.C.

00:24:51.000 So this just continues, Charlie, to delegitimize in the eyes of the American people that this is anything but a fair trial.

00:24:59.000 And of course, it's not, but it will keep Donald Trump in this courtroom now for six to eight weeks.

00:25:06.000 And it's just astonishing to see this really unravel, but to see Alvin Bragg and the media so bent on making this somehow appear legitimate, which of course it's not.

00:25:19.000 No, it isn't.

00:25:20.000 Any updates since we've last chatted, Julie, on timeline with these federal cases, or we've kind of just hit a little bit of a lull.

00:25:27.000 So it looks like, I mean, really, the only thing that's happening right now is the classified documents case in southern Florida.

00:25:34.000 Now, Donald Trump's team, because he is going to be in this courthouse for the next, in New York, for the next six to eight weeks, is asking for, you know, a delay or suspension in some of the deadlines that are now pending in southern Florida.

00:25:47.000 Now, Judge Cannon has already said that she will be very tough in making sure that Donald Trump is there to help prepare his own defense, to look at these classified documents in secure settings, and of course, to attend any hearings.

00:26:02.000 So she might very well delay some, if not all, of the pending deadlines until this trial in New York is over.

00:26:09.000 Now, next week, Charlie, will be the oral arguments for presidential immunity, and that is next Thursday, the 25th.

00:26:18.000 That then, whenever that decision is handed down, will then impact the January 6th trial in Washington, which has been on hold as the appellate court and now Supreme Court figure out this question if Donald Trump is immune or any president from criminal prosecution.

00:26:35.000 It is monumental here.

00:26:36.000 All right.

00:26:37.000 Julie, I'm trying to get this tape here of the prospective juror here and all that's involved.

00:26:44.000 I'm just kind of curious out the top of my head, is the FBI continuing with new indictments for January 6th defendants?

00:26:52.000 And if so, how many now have been prop have been convicted?

00:26:57.000 So we now, Charlie, have exceeded the 1,400 defendant mark, 1,400 defendants.

00:27:03.000 They announce new arrests almost every day.

00:27:06.000 In fact, last week, just days before the Supreme Court was going to hear oral arguments on 1512 C2, Matthew Graves, the DC U.S. attorney, indicted a man from California on 1512 C2.

00:27:20.000 So they are not being, you know, seeing any or demonstrating any self-restraint here at all.

00:27:28.000 Matthew Graves has said that he wants to reach a total caseload of over 2,000 defendants or this is all over, certainly before the statute of limitations runs out.

00:27:38.000 And this is exactly what they're taking up.

00:27:40.000 They will probably arrest and charge more people in 2024, Charlie, than they did in 2022, as this was really ratcheting up.

00:27:50.000 Now, why are they doing that?

00:27:51.000 Well, they want to juice the numbers for alleged domestic violent extremists, but also, Charlie, they want to continue to warn the Americans, especially Trump supporters.

00:28:02.000 If you engage in any sort of protest, especially in the nation's capital of this nature related to the 2024 election, this is what's coming for you.

00:28:11.000 Remarkable.

00:28:12.000 Julie, remind people how to follow your substack, all of your details.

00:28:16.000 So I'm at Declassified with Julie Kelly on Substack, also Real Clear Investigations.

00:28:20.000 I'm on Twitter, Julie underscore Kelly2.

00:28:25.000 And I was going to say X, Twitter, X, and then also Truth Social, Julie underscore Kelly.

00:28:30.000 Julie, just really quick, has Speaker Johnson released all of the January 6th tapes?

00:28:35.000 I know that they just released another batch.

00:28:38.000 I think they're up to more than 20,000 hours on Rumble.

00:28:42.000 So that's very encouraging.

00:28:44.000 There was also a hearing today on the Hill in Representative Lautermilk's committee with whistleblowers from the National Guard who explained why the deployment of National Guardsmen was so delayed and that it was not Donald Trump's fault, but actually members of military brass.

00:29:06.000 And so I'll be covering that soon as well.

00:29:08.000 Julie, thank you so much.

00:29:10.000 Appreciate it as always.

00:29:10.000 Thank you.

00:29:11.000 Thanks, Charlie.

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00:29:53.000 All right, everybody.

00:29:55.000 This is like central casting.

00:29:57.000 This woman, I think, was one of the rejected jurors that she could not be partial.

00:30:02.000 But this is exactly, you want to see like a picture of just kind of the window into why the country is collapsing.

00:30:08.000 I give you exhibit A. She's definitely a Harry Potter girl, very anxious.

00:30:13.000 From the glasses to kind of how she talks to her inflection.

00:30:18.000 This is the single woman phenomenon I've been talking about. 0.99

00:30:21.000 I guarantee you she has some cats probably at home. 1.00

00:30:24.000 Big defender of hormonal birth control, big time. 0.99

00:30:28.000 Play cut 75.

00:30:30.000 Can you share your opinion of the former president and why you felt that you could be unbiased?

00:30:37.000 I'm not a fan.

00:30:40.000 I, during COVID-19, I lived with someone who was immunocompromised, and I think his handling of COVID-19 was abysmal.

00:30:52.000 I also have a sister who's adopted from China.

00:30:56.000 And the comments he made about China when he was running for president made her very anxious and therefore made me angry.

00:31:08.000 There are policies he has supported that regard women and reproductive health that I do not agree with.

00:31:22.000 And I think all of that needs to be addressed.

00:31:28.000 She said she was unbiased.

00:31:30.000 And then you hear all this.

00:31:32.000 So now we have a little bit of a picture of who is on Trump's jury.

00:31:36.000 I'll get to jury number one last because juror number one might save the country.

00:31:40.000 Juror number seven lives in the Upper East Side, corporate lawyer.

00:31:44.000 Gonna vote against Trump no matter what.

00:31:46.000 Juror number six, female, lives in Chelsea, software engineer, works for Disney.

00:31:50.000 Sorry, Trump.

00:31:51.000 That's gonna be a bad one for you.

00:31:53.000 Juror number five, female, lives in Harlem, teacher, gets her news from Google and TikTok.

00:31:58.000 Forget that.

00:31:59.000 Juror number four, male, lives in Lower East Side, IT consultant.

00:32:02.000 I literally have no spare time.

00:32:03.000 He's gonna try to get this thing over as quickly as possible.

00:32:06.000 Juror number three, male, lives in Chelsea, corporate lawyer, reads the New York Times.

00:32:11.000 Juror number two, female lives in the Upper East Side, oncology nurse, here for civic duty.

00:32:17.000 Woof. 0.99

00:32:18.000 And then number one, number one might save the country.

00:32:21.000 Male lives in West Harlem, works in sales, no kids, reads thedailymail.com.

00:32:26.000 Daily Mail, there we go.

00:32:28.000 The Daily Mail.

00:32:29.000 Now, we have a leaked picture of the jury, by the way.

00:32:31.000 This is exclusive.

00:32:32.000 Can we show the picture?

00:32:34.000 There you go.

00:32:35.000 This is MSNBC talking about the bias within this jury.

00:32:42.000 This is how republics collapse.

00:32:43.000 Play Cut 76.

00:32:45.000 They had things on their social media posts that Donald Trump and his lawyers found troubling.

00:32:51.000 And one of the videos happened to be the juror, juror number one, had taken a video at a distance of what looked like a celebration in the streets of New York for when Trump lost in 2020.

00:33:03.000 I think that was it.

00:33:04.000 And it showed that she was biased and there was some language that suggested that she might have a bias.

00:33:10.000 But the judge there was some back and forth between the lawyers and then the judge actually admonished the former president because he was huffing and puffing and gesturing towards the juror.

00:33:22.000 He said it was, the judge said it was completely inappropriate.

00:33:24.000 And he said, I won't tolerate it.

00:33:26.000 I won't have any jurors intimidated in this courtroom.

00:33:29.000 Jurors intimidated?

00:33:30.000 That's someone who could determine the future of whether or not you go to jail or not.

00:33:34.000 And that person is saying that they're happy that Trump didn't become president again.

00:33:42.000 This is a judge who donated to Joe Biden.

00:33:45.000 My entire life, I've had reverence for the American justice system.

00:33:52.000 Now I believe it is corrupt to the bone.

00:33:55.000 I do not believe that America's justice system is any longer the greatest on the planet.

00:34:00.000 In fact, I think it is a great flaming disgrace to our country.

00:34:07.000 The daughter of this judge makes millions of dollars off raising money for Adam Schiff and the Senate Majority PAC.

00:34:13.000 And Trump has to sit there and sit there for what?

00:34:15.000 Because of business records in the midst of a political campaign.

00:34:18.000 The first former president in American history to have to sit through such a trial.

00:34:23.000 It's outrageous.

00:34:24.000 And then that got the Harry Potter girl out there.

00:34:26.000 Well, Donald Trump made me very anxious because he wanted to deport my sister.

00:34:31.000 What are you talking about?

00:34:32.000 Oh, he mishandled COVID-19 because I'm immunocompromised.

00:34:35.000 Where's your mask?

00:34:36.000 Oh, but I'm unbiased.

00:34:38.000 That is like the perfect.

00:34:40.000 You want to know why New York politics are all messed up? 0.99

00:34:42.000 You just have a picture of her.

00:34:46.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:47.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:50.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.

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