The Charlie Kirk Show - Big Fani Willis’s Big Fall From Grace

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00:00:01.000 Big news out of Georgia.

00:00:02.000 The Fannie Willis case is collapsing and falling apart.

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00:01:24.000 There is a lot going on right now.

00:01:26.000 It's just a very, very busy morning.

00:01:28.000 We'll be able to share more.

00:01:30.000 There's some good things happening behind the scenes, some really, really good stuff.

00:01:33.000 But let's talk about Georgia.

00:01:35.000 Georgia was supposed to be the big one.

00:01:37.000 Georgia was supposed to be the big one.

00:01:41.000 Of all the indictments that Donald Trump has been battling, Georgia had a different wrinkle.

00:01:47.000 Number one, it was one, as Rachel Maddow would remind us time and time again, Donald Trump could not pardon himself because it was a state crime, not a federal crime.

00:01:58.000 It also involved Rico.

00:02:00.000 It was going to be right before the election.

00:02:01.000 And you have this wild woman, Fannie Willis, down in Fulton County, who seems to just be an unguided missile for the Democrat Party. 0.99

00:02:14.000 Now, as the great Rush Limbaugh taught us, you could tell a lot based on how things are going of whether or not the heroes the media builds, whether or not they still treat them as heroes.

00:02:26.000 Have you noticed, as I read the New York Times every morning, so you don't have to, they haven't been doing big puff pieces on Big Fanny Willis recently.

00:02:34.000 Have you noticed that?

00:02:36.000 Where's the big defense of Big Fanny? 0.87

00:02:39.000 Where is it?

00:02:41.000 I don't see it.

00:02:42.000 No, in fact, they're ignoring it.

00:02:44.000 Fannie Willis is kind of put off to the side.

00:02:46.000 It's not a priority because the smart Democrats and the smart oligarchs, they realize Fulton County is not going in a favorable direction.

00:02:58.000 So this is one of the clear and present lawfare dangers.

00:03:02.000 One of the things I want to remind you is that Donald Trump has pretty much ended the Republican primary.

00:03:08.000 The latest poll shows that Donald Trump is enjoying a nearly 50-point lead on Nikki Haley.

00:03:14.000 That's right, a 50-point lead.

00:03:16.000 Now, we're going to get to this later in the hour.

00:03:19.000 How Nikki Haley has now just been endorsed by Liz Cheney.

00:03:22.000 How Nikki Haley serves the purpose of the Democrat regime to try to weaken center-right Republican support and to introduce different narratives to try to make it harder for Donald Trump to win in November.

00:03:34.000 We're going to hit that.

00:03:35.000 But let me reiterate something.

00:03:38.000 Georgia was supposed to be the most damaging, immediate legal threat to Donald Trump.

00:03:46.000 Now, one of the co-defendants, Michael Roman, has been focusing on this guy, Nathan Wade.

00:03:54.000 And we covered this extensively.

00:03:56.000 We're going to learn a lot in the coming days and weeks.

00:04:00.000 We're going to learn a lot because there's this alleged romantic relationship that Fannie Willis had or has currently with Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor who is not by any objective measurement qualified to be a special prosecutor.

00:04:20.000 She hired him to work on the case.

00:04:22.000 Now, we discovered that Wade had been paid over $600,000 for his efforts, far more than any other special attorney on the case, even though he is the least qualified.

00:04:32.000 They found him billing for 24-hour days and for undescribed strange and mysterious meetings with personnel from the Biden White House counsel's office.

00:04:42.000 And we're not going to forget that because I really believe my gut instinct is that Nathan Wade leads us to Biden knowing Biden orchestrating Biden designing the lawfare operation against Donald Trump.

00:04:58.000 So what's new in the last couple of days?

00:05:00.000 Well, a lot.

00:05:00.000 For starters, Nathan Wade's ex-wife, Joycelyn Wade, who he filed for divorce form literally one day after joining Fannie's team, has come forward with receipts and credit card statements indicating that Nathan bought airplane tickets to Miami in California on behalf of Fannie Willis.

00:05:19.000 According to the complaint, they went on multiple lavish vacations together.

00:05:24.000 The Daily Caller reported yesterday, meanwhile, that Fannie Willis failed to disclose these plane tickets from Wade on her annual financial disclosure reports.

00:05:32.000 Richard Painter, former White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush administration, said the caller, this is definitely an ethics violation and potentially illegal.

00:05:40.000 Fountain Filton County Commissioner Bob Ellis has demanded documents from Fannie Willis to investigate whether funds paid to Wade were misused for personal gain.

00:05:50.000 This morning, Georgia Republicans in the legislature introduced a bill to impeach Fannie Willis. 0.94

00:05:55.000 Now, don't get too excited.

00:05:56.000 Even if they do, it takes two-thirds of the Georgia Senate to convict, and the Republicans don't have the votes unless at least five Democrats join them.

00:06:04.000 Still, they have a Senate majority, and Georgia's Senate is considering an entire special investigation of Fannie Willis, which the focus of that investigation should also involve what did the Biden White House know?

00:06:16.000 What did the White House counsel office know?

00:06:18.000 Why was that in an invoice that said public corruption investigation and referencing the White House Counsel's office?

00:06:26.000 Fanny has said she will respond in a court filing of her own by February 2nd, a week from today.

00:06:31.000 And there will be a court hearing regarding this filing on February 15th.

00:06:35.000 Now, this person, Anoush Kadori, a former federal prosecutor, just wrote a big piece for Politico.com: quote, a reality check on the Fannie Willis scandal.

00:06:45.000 This piece is seriously critical of Miss Fanny's behavior. 0.55

00:06:49.000 Now, let me say this: this is now the third or fourth piece written by Democrat or center-left Democrats that are saying this Fannie Willis thing is a disaster.

00:06:59.000 We saw one in the Daily Beast.

00:07:00.000 We saw that by that Ellie race hustler on MSNBC with the hair. 1.00

00:07:04.000 When a criminal defendant lodges a serious allegation of impropriety against a prosecutor, the best approach is for the government to address it quickly and directly, even if the allegation is irrelevant, overblown, or otherwise.

00:07:18.000 Willis has almost certainly done the exact opposite.

00:07:23.000 That has had the wholly foreseeable effect of making it look like she had something very serious to hide.

00:07:30.000 In fact, her recent speech in a church was evasive on pretty much every material factual question.

00:07:35.000 Do we have that?

00:07:36.000 That church speech is incredible.

00:07:38.000 Even Norm Eisen, who is one of the most radical left-wing activists in the legal community, says at a minimum, Nathan Wade has to recuse himself.

00:07:47.000 He's advocating that, of course, because Wade is expendable without derailing the case and Fanny isn't.

00:07:52.000 Now, a lot of people, not just in the conservative world, can sense that things are falling apart for Fanny very, very fast.

00:08:00.000 She could very easily be disqualified from this case, or at a minimum, be forced to recuse her whole office. 0.99

00:08:06.000 That could easily completely blow up the case.

00:08:09.000 But if it doesn't, it'll almost certainly delay proceedings for months past the November election.

00:08:15.000 You are now entering the new primary.

00:08:18.000 There are three primary, there's two primaries and one general election that Donald Trump needs to win this year.

00:08:24.000 The Republican primary, the lawfare primary, and the general election.

00:08:29.000 You are now in the lawfare primary.

00:08:32.000 Now, Alvin Bragg's is popping up soon in New York.

00:08:35.000 According to Alan Dershowitz and any legal advisor, you know, spectator, the New York one is not nearly as serious as Georgia.

00:08:45.000 It's a joke.

00:08:45.000 The penalty will almost certainly not result in prison time, even if it's not dismissed.

00:08:51.000 So, but Georgia was the one that had people understandably worried.

00:08:57.000 It's not pardonable.

00:08:58.000 It has mandatory prison time.

00:09:00.000 You have all these co-defendants that she's doing this RICO operation that are trying to save their own tail, people that are signing agreements that very well might not be rooted in truth, but for self-preservation, the Georgia one was building as the most serious. 0.67

00:09:14.000 So, for example, if Jack Smith were to get a court date before the election, which looks less and less likely, potentially Donald Trump could pardon himself.

00:09:22.000 So, there was a way out.

00:09:24.000 There was always just kind of a way that he could navigate it.

00:09:26.000 Plus, federal court is a long, exhaustive process, not to mention the federal court system has a much better appellate system than what they have in Fulton County.

00:09:38.000 So, there's all these things that we were thinking about when it comes to the federal system that isn't as simple, that isn't as serious.

00:09:45.000 The Georgia case is collapsing.

00:09:48.000 Donald Trump has just achieved a major win in the lawfare primary.

00:09:55.000 It is imploding in real time.

00:09:58.000 And we're going to play this piece of news of Fannie Willis, who broke her scandal on the scandalous affair and improper use of taxpayer funds on MLK Day.

00:10:08.000 Did Fannie Willis defend her behavior?

00:10:11.000 Did she say that Nathan Wade was the most qualified person ever?

00:10:14.000 No. 0.91

00:10:15.000 She said, you are a racist if you dare attack Fanny Willis. 1.00

00:10:21.000 You are a racist if you criticize her alleged unethical and probably criminal behavior. 0.97

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00:11:43.000 This is why we push back against the use of the race card.

00:11:46.000 That if you allow the race card to be used, then what is the extent of it?

00:11:57.000 Let's play a piece of tape here.

00:11:59.000 Let's play cut 182. 1.00

00:12:00.000 You cannot expect black women to be perfect and save the world.

00:12:07.000 The Lord is completing us.

00:12:09.000 We are not perfect.

00:12:11.000 We need your prayers.

00:12:13.000 We need to be allowed to stumble.

00:12:16.000 We need grace.

00:12:17.000 With that kind of support, we will move mountains and do Jesus' will.

00:12:23.000 Stumbling all the way.

00:12:28.000 The race card.

00:12:30.000 The situation unfolding in Georgia is serious and it's imploding in real time.

00:12:41.000 Let's get to another piece of tape here.

00:12:43.000 Let's play Cut 181.

00:12:45.000 I'm a little confused.

00:12:48.000 I appointed three special counselors.

00:12:50.000 Is my right to do?

00:12:52.000 Paid them all the same hourly rate. 0.71

00:12:55.000 I hired one white woman, a good personal friend and great lawyer. 1.00

00:13:00.000 I hired one white man, brilliant, my friend, and a great lawyer.

00:13:07.000 And I hired one black man, another superstar, a great friend, and a great lawyer. 0.98

00:13:16.000 Oh, Lord, they gonna be mad when I call them on this nonsense. 1.00

00:13:20.000 So first of all, fact check, false.

00:13:24.000 Fanny Willis got caught, ran to a church, and lied from the pulpit. 1.00

00:13:29.000 Fanny allegedly paid her unqualified secret boyfriend, who has never tried a felony case, $250 per hour. 0.95

00:13:37.000 That's $100 more per hour than Fanny paid one of her actually qualified special prosecutors. 1.00

00:13:43.000 Fanny then allegedly paid her secret boyfriend nearly $700,000 in Fulton County and federal COVID funds.

00:13:50.000 And I just want to point out how weird this is.

00:13:52.000 You're getting a statement in a church.

00:13:54.000 It looks like she has something to hide.

00:13:57.000 Politico says the technical legal phrase for the situation is a mess, and Willis' handling of it is making it much, much worse.

00:14:07.000 Democrats in the legal community are starting to turn against Fannie Willis.

00:14:12.000 This was supposed to be the big one.

00:14:13.000 They were hyping her up as the savior.

00:14:20.000 She was supposed to save the 2024 election. 0.93

00:14:24.000 And we should just pause for a moment and appreciate how funny this is.

00:14:28.000 That the prosecutor who's supposed to be in charge is actually the one that ends up backfiring in real time.

00:14:39.000 My favorite article, though, is thenation.com.

00:14:43.000 The Fannie Willis scandal is bad, but it doesn't change her case against Trump.

00:14:47.000 While the allegations that Willis had a romantic relationship with prosecutor Nathan Willis, Nathan Wade, are serious, they don't affect the merits of the charges against the former president.

00:14:57.000 Quote, I can't really defend Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis.

00:15:00.000 I want to because her prosecution of Donald Trump cronies involved in the conspiracy to overturn the election in Georgia is critical.

00:15:06.000 I want to because the Republican push to turn her personal missteps into a reason to dismiss her case is both wrong and infuriating.

00:15:12.000 I want to because like Isa Ray, I'm rooting for everybody black, but I can't or won't defend her from the salacious allegations leveled against her because if true, they represent a textbook case of public corruption, even if they shouldn't affect the case against Trump.

00:15:27.000 Continues by saying, the story begins with Willis hiring of a lawyer named Nathan Wade as one of the special prosecutors in the Trump election case.

00:15:35.000 According to Michael Roman, one of the 19 people Willis is prosecuting.

00:15:40.000 Willis and Wade are romantically involved.

00:15:42.000 Wade was, of course, paid for by, paid for his work on the case.

00:15:45.000 And Roman alleges that Wade spent some of the money on Willis in the form of vacations and dinners and whatever else couples who don't have children together do with massive amounts of time.

00:15:55.000 Willis denies that there was any impropriety, but has assiduously avoided denying the underlying charge.

00:16:00.000 Now, mind you, this is one of the most radical people.

00:16:02.000 You've probably seen him on MSNBC, a hyper-partisan individual.

00:16:07.000 Continues by saying at the end of his piece, All that's left for now is the very long fall.

00:16:12.000 Let's hope she doesn't drag the case with her on the way down. 0.99

00:16:17.000 Well, when you start to build up something this big, when you start to build up something this massive, then don't be surprised when it starts collapsing.

00:16:26.000 Don't be surprised when it starts falling apart.

00:16:34.000 Traditional media is crumbling.

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00:16:36.000 Because they're hiding something, something big.

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00:17:33.000 All right, I want to talk about Nikki Haley.

00:17:37.000 We have our restoring national confidence event coming up on Monday.

00:17:40.000 It's going to be positive.

00:17:41.000 It's going to be about building a better RNC.

00:17:43.000 You know, some people say, oh my goodness, are you trying to destroy the RNC?

00:17:46.000 To the opposite.

00:17:47.000 We need a strong RNC.

00:17:48.000 We need a strong opposition party.

00:17:49.000 The country is with us with a public attitude, with public sentiment.

00:17:53.000 We are here to make the RNC the best version of themselves.

00:17:57.000 And they have gone largely unchallenged through my 11 years of doing this.

00:18:02.000 We want to embolden them.

00:18:03.000 We want to have them get that winning attitude.

00:18:06.000 We want the RNC to represent the voters with the technology, the sophistication, the effort, the grit, the hustle.

00:18:14.000 That winning is the only option.

00:18:16.000 Now, one of the things that is occurring, and the RNC kind of played around with this yesterday, Tyler Boyer submitted a resolution to make Donald Trump the presumptive nominee, is why is Nikki Haley still running?

00:18:27.000 Why are we putting up with this?

00:18:29.000 Is a better question.

00:18:31.000 The media loves this.

00:18:32.000 They want to just keep this alive, that Donald Trump has to spend necessary time going to more of these states that are not going to be critical into November.

00:18:41.000 And don't get me wrong, I love the state of South Carolina.

00:18:44.000 And if it means that we get to end the political career of Nikki Haley by a double-digit margin, then terrific.

00:18:52.000 But that time is much better spent for Donald Trump campaigning in Georgia, Donald Trump campaigning in Wisconsin.

00:19:01.000 Is Nikki Haley keeping her brand alive to be the new labels candidate? 0.88

00:19:06.000 What does success look like for Nikki Haley?

00:19:08.000 What does success look like?

00:19:10.000 Does she actually think she's going to be the nominee?

00:19:12.000 No.

00:19:13.000 Now, one of her biggest fans is Liz Cheney. 0.99

00:19:16.000 That tells you everything you need to know.

00:19:18.000 Nikki Haley and Liz Cheney are one and the same.

00:19:23.000 Now, if you're in the Nikki Haley camp, they probably said, oh, boy, why did Liz Cheney say the quiet part out loud?

00:19:28.000 They're probably freaking out because they're trying to do everything they can to make themselves seem more conservative, to try to navigate the primary.

00:19:35.000 But now, Liz Cheney says that Nikki Haley should stay in the race through Super Tuesday. 1.00

00:19:41.000 Play cut 173.

00:19:43.000 What do you make of Nikki Haley's decision to stay in the race?

00:19:47.000 And do you see a path for her?

00:19:48.000 Yeah, look, I mean, I hope she stays in the race, you know, as long as she has to.

00:19:55.000 I think certainly, you know, through Super Tuesday, I think that we're in a situation where only two states have voted.

00:20:04.000 And even more important than that is where you began, which is the threat that he poses.

00:20:10.000 What we watched him do in the lead up to January 6th, his attempt to seize power presents an existential threat.

00:20:18.000 And so we need to make sure that we're challenging him and working to defeat him at every step of the way.

00:20:24.000 And right now, Nikki Haley is in this fight, and I think she ought to stay in it.

00:20:29.000 Liz Cheney got primaried as a sitting congresswoman in Wyoming and lost historically. 0.65

00:20:37.000 And she is now the one that is saying that Nikki Haley needs to remain in the race.

00:20:40.000 Liz Cheney is the one who said she will do everything in her power to defeat Kerry Lake. 0.92

00:20:46.000 Turns out that Liz Cheney had a lot of power to deploy. 1.00

00:20:48.000 Do not underestimate this, everybody.

00:20:49.000 That's my one lesson here.

00:20:51.000 Is that it's easy to dismiss Liz Cheney as being without power or on the fringe. 0.96

00:20:56.000 But did we not learn our lesson in the 2020 midterms when Liz Cheney was at this Texas-Austin statesman?

00:21:04.000 They do some sort of symposium.

00:21:06.000 I remember it was in Austin, Texas.

00:21:08.000 And Liz Cheney said, I'm going to dedicate my full-time work to making sure that Kerry Lake does not become governor of Arizona. 0.72

00:21:13.000 It was super bizarre, wasn't it?

00:21:14.000 You remember that clip?

00:21:16.000 Liz Cheney, a former congresswoman from Wyoming who's doing a panel in Texas, is super concerned about who the governor of Arizona is going to be.

00:21:24.000 It was because in Arizona, Cheney and McCain and Romney, they have reigned supreme over Arizona and taken advantage of the very conservative voters of the state as the state has now become far less conservative.

00:21:36.000 So Liz Cheney was obviously very invested because Kerry Lake would have secured the border. 0.99

00:21:40.000 Kerry Lake would have mobilized the National Guard day one.

00:21:43.000 Kerry Lake would have declared it an invasion. 0.99

00:21:45.000 She would have been way ahead of what Greg Abbott is now doing.

00:21:47.000 Kerry Lake would have done that in the first couple of days. 1.00

00:21:50.000 And they cannot have that.

00:21:51.000 Kerry Lake would have forced the issue. 1.00

00:21:54.000 And so it's easy to underestimate this, but what Liz Cheney did, again, there were so many shenanigans around the Kerry Lake race, but one of the reasons why it was even competitive, and I remember I started to see these billboards pop up in Phoenix, and I will fully acknowledge I thought they'd be ineffective.

00:22:10.000 It turns out they were somewhat effective, which was Republicans against Kerry Lake. 0.99

00:22:15.000 Liz Cheney being an ambassador of the Unit Party, they were running all these ads, and I was like, oh, that's such a stupid ad. 0.99

00:22:20.000 I don't think it's going to work. 0.96

00:22:20.000 And it ended up splintering 5% of center-right Republican voters who thought Kerry Lake was too extreme. 0.96

00:22:28.000 So don't underestimate the lethality that Liz Cheney can present towards a unified party. 0.90

00:22:36.000 She might be the uniparty, but she does not want a unified Republican party. 1.00

00:22:42.000 Let's go to Cut 178, Joe Scarborough, play cut 178.

00:22:48.000 No option?

00:22:49.000 There is no reason for her to get out of this race, whether she takes him head on in South Carolina and very competitive, or whether she fights a war of attrition.

00:23:00.000 But again, he's scared.

00:23:02.000 Like everybody take note in the Republican Party, Donald Trump is scared to debate Nikki Haley.

00:23:10.000 And in Magaland, let me put it to you this way.

00:23:13.000 You're a big boy, you're a big man, he's afraid of a woman.

00:23:19.000 Joe, I think you're afraid of Mika.

00:23:21.000 To be honest, I think we all would waking up with that terror every day.

00:23:27.000 The essence of this is now that we enter the lawfare primary, Nikki Haley is doing everything she possibly can to erode and deteriorate and diminish support on the margins. 1.00

00:23:42.000 Polsters are showing that Donald Trump in some states like Pennsylvania, and this is to be expected, so it's not a cause for alarm yet.

00:23:49.000 It's not alarm.

00:23:51.000 But Donald Trump in Pennsylvania is enjoying 77% of registered Republican support.

00:23:56.000 Now, that's somewhat normal.

00:23:58.000 Donald Trump's numbers amongst registered Republicans were even lower back in 2016.

00:24:02.000 So there is a kind of come home effect eventually.

00:24:05.000 But don't underestimate if Nimerata and Nikki Haley, Nimerata Nikki Haley, runs as third-party candidate, no labels.

00:24:13.000 What if all of a sudden there is a revolt of the suburban voters?

00:24:16.000 And we need some of them.

00:24:17.000 We don't need all of them.

00:24:18.000 We need some of them.

00:24:21.000 You have to take this Liz Cheney thing very seriously for no other reason than Liz Cheney and Nikki Haley, they have access to the capital flows, to the cheap Wall Street money.

00:24:31.000 They could raise $250 million at an instant.

00:24:34.000 You might say, oh, what's the big difference?

00:24:35.000 Trump has spent a lot of money.

00:24:37.000 I saw it with the Kerry Lake thing. 0.94

00:24:39.000 Again, they did such ridiculous shenanigans and nonsense and sabotage against Kerry Lake. 0.93

00:24:44.000 But I underestimated it. 0.97

00:24:46.000 I completely and totally underestimated it.

00:24:49.000 And whether we like it or not, there are people that are swayed by saying, I want the more sensible, reasonable candidate.

00:24:56.000 And their goal is to try to make Donald Trump seem unreasonable.

00:25:01.000 The sooner we can end this primary, the better.

00:25:05.000 Let me read this email we got here from one of our great listeners.

00:25:08.000 You guys are the best.

00:25:08.000 John, Charlie, I live near Myrtle Beach, and the media is so far up the tail of Nikki Haley, she's drawing decent-sized crowds.

00:25:16.000 This weekend, she goes to local colleges, which I'm sure you're aware of, and her attendees are mostly younger women.

00:25:23.000 So she's going all in on South Carolina.

00:25:26.000 Now, here's the way we have to frame, first of all, it's a month out. 0.98

00:25:31.000 So she gets a whole nother month of political relevancy, which is just nauseating that we have to deal with this garbage. 0.99

00:25:36.000 And just, let's just be very, let's not take the bait. 0.97

00:25:39.000 Let's not take the bait.

00:25:40.000 Excuse me.

00:25:41.000 We've Nevada.

00:25:43.000 Okay.

00:25:43.000 The great people, Nevada, are we supposed to act like they don't exist?

00:25:46.000 I mean, how insulting.

00:25:48.000 If I was a voter that got in contact with Nikki Haley and I had, I mean, producer's Andrew's from Nevada.

00:25:54.000 He's a proud Nevada.

00:25:55.000 And I have faith and hope that Nevada can become a red state once again.

00:25:58.000 It's not nearly as blue as people think.

00:25:59.000 It is not near, it is not Colorado.

00:26:01.000 It is not.

00:26:02.000 In fact, it's showing signs of life.

00:26:03.000 It's actually becoming more conservative, not more liberal in recent elections.

00:26:07.000 Let me say that again.

00:26:08.000 Nevada is becoming more conservative, not more liberal in general election.

00:26:12.000 Why are we putting up with this?

00:26:14.000 Nikki Haley just gets to pick and choose what states he participates in, just for a media narrative?

00:26:19.000 And I'll be honest, if South Carolina wasn't her home state, she would just avoid South Carolina.

00:26:23.000 She'd say, yeah, you know, up next is the May 5th Montana primary.

00:26:28.000 Like, what?

00:26:30.000 Excuse me?

00:26:31.000 You have to go through Nevada.

00:26:35.000 You have to go through Nevada.

00:26:38.000 And Donald Trump's going to win Nevada.

00:26:39.000 Of course it's over.

00:26:41.000 The point is that she's just skipping it.

00:26:43.000 And I think that's insulting.

00:26:45.000 It's insulting to the great people, Nevada.

00:26:46.000 She gets to pick and choose what states. 0.92

00:26:48.000 The way you have to frame it is this.

00:26:49.000 South Carolina is the end of the ballgame.

00:26:51.000 There has to be such an overwhelming chorus of demands that if this thing goes on beyond South Carolina, this is her home turf.

00:27:01.000 And by the way, Nikki Haley, you think very highly of yourself.

00:27:04.000 We've been putting up with your BS for a couple of weeks and months now.

00:27:07.000 You think you're the greatest.

00:27:08.000 You think you are like the heir.

00:27:09.000 It's like Hillary Clinton.

00:27:11.000 Her whole life, Nikki Haley has dreamed of becoming president.

00:27:14.000 I don't think that's ever going to happen.

00:27:16.000 Nikki Haley, your entire political career, you will not be able to have a presence on another stage politically in the conservative movement without being booed.

00:27:27.000 I just hope she knows that.

00:27:29.000 She's starting to lose big donors. 1.00

00:27:30.000 We just had an amazing call with over 200 of our donors yesterday at Turning Point, and they are so ticked at Nikki Haley.

00:27:36.000 She is losing support, institutional support.

00:27:38.000 The grassroots already can't stand her. 1.00

00:27:41.000 It's time to end her political career once and for all. 0.99

00:27:46.000 It's all about the infrastructure.

00:27:48.000 It's about ballot chasing, election integrity, election security.

00:27:52.000 These are things the RNC needs to be doing.

00:27:54.000 We have to stop looking at the polls.

00:27:56.000 People say, oh, Donald Trump's up six points.

00:27:57.000 Donald Trump's up five points.

00:28:00.000 Enough.

00:28:01.000 Do we have the plumbing of the elections, the infrastructure and the machinery to compete going into November?

00:28:07.000 We have a great candidate.

00:28:08.000 We have a one-man turnout machine.

00:28:10.000 There will be more attention on this race than any other election in American history.

00:28:17.000 This is a civilizational survival election.

00:28:20.000 We have an opportunity to consolidate all these different tribes together.

00:28:26.000 Nikki is standing in the way of it. 0.98

00:28:28.000 Now, what is the positive out of this?

00:28:30.000 What is the seed of the equivalent benefit?

00:28:33.000 What is the potential good wrinkle here?

00:28:36.000 The positive wrinkle is that we can end Nikki Haleyism once and for all, that we can end this whole Bush-era Republicanism.

00:28:45.000 And I want to highlight a really great piece, very, very good piece, and I agree with it.

00:28:52.000 And I've been saying this.

00:28:54.000 In fact, if you listen carefully to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast and you listen to Thought Crime, we've been saying this Trump campaign has been incredibly disciplined.

00:29:02.000 That the people around Trump, they've done a wonderful job.

00:29:05.000 They did a great job in Iowa, a great job in New Hampshire.

00:29:09.000 And there's an Axios piece that is really powerful.

00:29:11.000 Behind the curtain, Trump's exponential power surge.

00:29:14.000 Something shocking and telling has unfolded beyond Donald Trump's onstage, online, and courtroom theatrics.

00:29:20.000 He's running a professional, well-managed, and disciplined presidential campaign.

00:29:24.000 His 2024 operation is more sophisticated, dare we say more traditional, than the slap-dash improvisation of his White House and two previous runs.

00:29:32.000 I want to brag on this.

00:29:33.000 Susie Wiles is doing a great job running the campaign, and I'm a tough grader.

00:29:38.000 She has done a great job, 10 out of 10.

00:29:40.000 Chris LaSavita, great job.

00:29:41.000 Steve Chung, great job.

00:29:43.000 Now think about it.

00:29:44.000 It hasn't been a boring campaign in the sense of they didn't let Trump beat Trump.

00:29:47.000 They went to East Palestine.

00:29:48.000 They deployed him to McDonald's and Burger Kings.

00:29:51.000 How many times has Trump went to UFC and gone viral?

00:29:53.000 He's done all these different podcasts, Nelk Boys, all these different kinds of one-off when there's more risk and there's more openness.

00:29:59.000 They let Trump beat Trump in that way. 0.99

00:30:01.000 But also, to Susie Wiles and Chris Lasavita's credit, they didn't take the bait and do this stupid debate. 1.00

00:30:07.000 They didn't do, you know how much pressure they were under to have Donald Trump on a debate stage with these clowns, except Vivek, the clown show? 1.00

00:30:14.000 And they resisted that temptation. 0.97

00:30:16.000 They resisted the temptation.

00:30:17.000 They were under huge pressure.

00:30:19.000 Every person that ever knew Susie Wiles and Chris Lasaviti was calling them, you got to do the debate.

00:30:23.000 You got to get Trump to the debate.

00:30:24.000 Remember, Fox News came and did this whole dinner at Bedminster?

00:30:27.000 And Trump resisted.

00:30:29.000 From the mugshot, the way that they flipped the indictments to the positive, I think this is an underappreciated story.

00:30:35.000 And we've been covering it.

00:30:36.000 The Iowa operation was a spectacular display in grassroots organizing.

00:30:41.000 In fact, it highlights this here in the piece.

00:30:46.000 It says, in Iowa, the campaign sent Iowa GOP suggestions for caucus locations, installed heavy-hitter surrogates across the state to speak on Trump's behalf, precinct captains in gold embroidered hats with a suggested three-minute speech in hand were at every single precinct.

00:31:00.000 The once mighty Reagan Bush GOP establishment, committed to a muscular foreign policy, that's a way to say it, unfettered free trade, has given way to a Trump republicanism that's skeptical of large companies and institutions, hawkish on trade, and modest in foreign policy.

00:31:13.000 Says here, maybe the biggest shocker is Trump took indictments on 91 felonies in four criminal cases.

00:31:18.000 He says, I've been indicted more than Al Capone, Trump said to a crowd in his final New Hampshire rally.

00:31:24.000 I love this.

00:31:25.000 There is a really, really amazing line here in the Axios piece, which is that if this is how he's running his campaign, he could change America permanently if he runs the government this way.

00:31:40.000 His advisors see this as a template for governing if he were to win.

00:31:44.000 And by the way, this is freaking out the left.

00:31:46.000 It's the exact opposite of what they thought.

00:31:48.000 They thought they had Donald Trump psychologically mapped.

00:31:51.000 The Democrats are too cute by half.

00:31:54.000 They said if we indict him, put him in a corner, and put a nasty primary, he's going to be undisciplined.

00:31:59.000 He's going to be unhinged.

00:32:00.000 His whole campaign is going to collapse.

00:32:02.000 We're going to indict everybody around him.

00:32:04.000 It's been the exact opposite.

00:32:05.000 There's been a consolidation effect.

00:32:07.000 In fact, Donald Trump has used the post-January 6 nonsense, him getting blamed for January 6th.

00:32:13.000 It's almost focused him even more.

00:32:15.000 It's because the stakes are higher.

00:32:17.000 It's as if Donald Trump is playing at a much higher game because the stakes are actually higher.

00:32:21.000 They're going to try to throw him in federal prison if he doesn't win.

00:32:24.000 And his team is operating with that urgency, that specificity.

00:32:28.000 It's not like a ball game.

00:32:29.000 It's not like the champagne is flowing.

00:32:31.000 The message discipline, the grassroots discipline is excellent.

00:32:34.000 Trump campaign is a force to be reckoned with.

00:32:38.000 More so than anything many people would have expected.

00:32:43.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:32:44.000 Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:32:47.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:32:49.000 God bless.

00:32:52.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - January 26, 2024

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