The Charlie Kirk Show - August 31, 2022


Debunking the DOJ 'Document Dispute' with Tom Fitton


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Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch helps us unpack the latest of the affidavit news of the raid on Mar-a-Lago. And Eva Vlader Dingerbrook joins us for some comments on what's been happening in Europe lately.

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00:00:00.000 Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch helps us unpack the latest of the affidavit news of the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
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00:01:26.000 Joining us right now is a great American patriot.
00:01:29.000 He runs one of the most important organizations.
00:01:31.000 That's right, one of the most important organizations on the planet, Judicial Watch.
00:01:37.000 And he has been on the front lines of the affidavit fight.
00:01:40.000 It's so funny.
00:01:40.000 Tom, welcome to the program.
00:01:42.000 As soon as I saw all this stuff happening with the corrupt judge, and I said, Oh, I bet I really hope Judicial Watch is on it.
00:01:48.000 Before I could even, you know, think to text you, I got an alert.
00:01:52.000 Judicial Watch files a lawsuit and all this.
00:01:54.000 So I want you to spike the football on the affidavit.
00:01:56.000 Get your take.
00:01:57.000 I want your take on what's contained in there.
00:01:59.000 And then we'll go from there.
00:02:00.000 And just, again, phenomenal work on Judicial Watch.
00:02:03.000 Tom, the floor is yours.
00:02:04.000 Hey, thank you, Charlie.
00:02:05.000 I appreciate the good word there.
00:02:07.000 And, you know, we've been litigating federal records laws and fights about them for nearly 30 years.
00:02:14.000 So, I mean, we saw that this whole fight with Trump and, you know, which culminated in this outrageous raid on his home, was a sham.
00:02:24.000 We had litigated this issue 10, 12 years ago over Clinton records.
00:02:30.000 He had tapes he kept in his sock drawer, tapes that depicted him talking to foreign leaders and members of Congress.
00:02:37.000 And we took the position the Justice Department's taking now.
00:02:39.000 Those are presidential records.
00:02:41.000 They're potentially classified.
00:02:42.000 Get them.
00:02:44.000 And they told us to go jump in a lake.
00:02:46.000 They said that presumably, if the president has them after he leaves office, they're his.
00:02:51.000 The court said no one can second-guess his decision to keep records like that versus personal versus presidential.
00:02:58.000 And then, of course, they changed their legal position when it came to targeting Trump.
00:03:03.000 And so we knew it was a sham.
00:03:05.000 And sure enough, as soon as we saw this outrageous, abusive political raid, we asked the court to unseal the records.
00:03:13.000 The media followed our lead, and we won.
00:03:17.000 You know, A, we forced the release of the warrant.
00:03:20.000 And then B, we forced the release of the affidavit that the Justice Department wanted to release not one iota of.
00:03:28.000 And the affidavit shows there was no good faith basis for the raid, that the archives asserted authority and power over former President Trump it didn't have, which means their legal position under the law is they're supposed to take care of presidential records they have.
00:03:46.000 They're not allowed to, and the law gives them no power to go after a president and say those records should be presidential, give them to us.
00:03:56.000 And so if I were President Trump, certainly this affidavit confirms they don't have a leg to stand on.
00:04:02.000 I go back to the court and I say, look, you know, this material was turned over.
00:04:08.000 You know, I tried to play nice here.
00:04:11.000 But in the end, these are my records personally and I want them all back.
00:04:16.000 And I want court recognition that what they did here was an abuse of power that hasn't been seen in American history before.
00:04:25.000 There's so many different questions I have here.
00:04:27.000 The first of which is, Tom, you're not the first one to say Kash Patel came on this program.
00:04:31.000 And Mike Davis said this as well on Steve Bannon's program.
00:04:34.000 It was very clear.
00:04:35.000 The president has the ability to declassify whatever he wants to declassify.
00:04:41.000 Why is this even debated, Tom?
00:04:42.000 What do you mean they changed their mind or changed the law?
00:04:45.000 Did Congress change a law that we are unaware of?
00:04:48.000 This seems so unbelievably transparently cut and dry.
00:04:51.000 Again, I'm just the layman here looking at this, but I keep on hearing people say that like you, okay, you could declass whatever he wants.
00:04:58.000 Then what's the controversy here, really, Tom?
00:05:00.000 Help me explain that.
00:05:01.000 Well, the controversy is about what the nature of these documents are.
00:05:05.000 And I'm highlighting for you that there's significant court precedent, the prior Justice Department legal position, prior archives legal position.
00:05:15.000 Remember, we sued the archives over this very issue.
00:05:18.000 And so their prior position had been, if he has it after he leaves office, any records, including potentially classified information, they're presumptively personal.
00:05:28.000 And so I saw when back in February, this issue first popped up, my first response was, heck, we lost on this very issue.
00:05:37.000 And now the Justice Department all of a sudden is saying that these records are presidential or potentially should be turned over to them under the law.
00:05:46.000 That's completely at odds with their prior position.
00:05:49.000 And when you have lawyers and when you have the Justice Department or federal deep state agencies change their position, you know, it's not about the law.
00:05:58.000 It's about politics.
00:06:00.000 I mean, of course it is.
00:06:01.000 I just, I find it extraordinary that we are raiding homes of a former president over paperwork.
00:06:09.000 And I mean, so someone said the other day on television some low IQ talking head on MSDNC.
00:06:17.000 They said, well, you know, the documents weren't secure there at Mar-a-Lago.
00:06:20.000 Mar-a-Lago's under secret service protection at all times.
00:06:23.000 Have you tried going into Mar-a-Lago?
00:06:25.000 How exactly are those documents not secure?
00:06:28.000 You don't know, Tom.
00:06:30.000 Go ahead.
00:06:31.000 Charlie, they're not classified.
00:06:34.000 You know, they may not like the idea that the president has the ability to declassify records when he's president or take them with him as part of his constitutional prerogatives as president under the Presidential Records Act.
00:06:47.000 So, I mean, they may be nervous about that, but the reality is the law didn't allow them to go and grab them back like that.
00:06:55.000 And, you know, to tell a court otherwise and to suggest that the law did was fundamentally dishonest.
00:07:03.000 And frankly, I don't understand why the court signed on to this because he had before him, because at least they had the, you know, they couldn't completely hide the debate from the court.
00:07:14.000 And if I were to court and I saw that there was this dispute about the fundamental nature of the records, I would have told the Justice Department, you go back and you litigate this and you figure out whose records these are and then come back to me because I'm not going to let you rate the president's, a former president's home based on, as you highlight, a records dispute.
00:07:37.000 Now, if a court found they're classified, you know, that's one thing.
00:07:43.000 You know, and the other solution could have been the president could have said to President Trump could have said to them all, take the records.
00:07:50.000 You know, you're concerned about them.
00:07:52.000 I understand.
00:07:54.000 By the way, they're mine, but I'm going to give them to you.
00:07:57.000 And he should have and still should, and he still can preserve his rights there.
00:08:02.000 That these are personal records.
00:08:05.000 And now they want to change the game and change the rules and change the law, but they're personal records.
00:08:10.000 And my whole point is there was never a basis to launch a criminal inquiry here.
00:08:15.000 At best, there was a debate civilly that could have been had, but they weren't interested in doing that because the rule is not to enforce the law, but it is to destroy Trump.
00:08:26.000 I mean, and so, but Tom, you know, the kind of mantra of judicial watch is no one is above the law.
00:08:31.000 And I don't know if you noticed that the New York Times kind of ran with that one-liner calling for the indictment of Donald Trump.
00:08:38.000 And I mean, just if we talk about records and we talk about the preservation of information, what did Hillary Clinton do exactly? 0.95
00:08:44.000 You were on the front lines of exposing all of that.
00:08:46.000 I mean, this is outrageous.
00:08:47.000 This is even being remotely entertained while Hillary Clinton goes and bleach bits emails and starts smashing things with hammers. 0.99
00:08:54.000 Your thoughts?
00:08:55.000 Yeah, but she didn't have a right to any of those records she had, unlike President Trump's prerogatives as president.
00:09:00.000 She had classified information stored on an unsecure server while she was a government official, then stole those records, tried to hide and destroy them. 1.00
00:09:09.000 And the Justice Department and the State Department, we've essentially had to force them into figuring out what went on here.
00:09:16.000 And they didn't want to take the strong legal action that would be necessary according to their new theory of the law here.
00:09:23.000 And on top of that, still Bill Clinton has those tapes we talked about that include presumptively classified information.
00:09:30.000 Are they going to raid his home still?
00:09:32.000 This is all bunk.
00:09:34.000 Let's not, you know, I know we have to talk a little bit about and should focus on the legal insufficiency of what they've done and the lawlessness, but that just highlights this.
00:09:45.000 It's not about the records.
00:09:47.000 It's about Trump.
00:09:49.000 And in theory, to a degree, it's about the records, as we can talk about a little bit later.
00:09:55.000 It was more about not what Trump had per se, but what Trump had on them.
00:10:01.000 Unbelievable.
00:10:03.000 It's just, it's just, it's so extraordinary.
00:10:04.000 It's so third world.
00:10:06.000 So, Tom, what is a special master?
00:10:07.000 And do you think we're going to get one in this situation?
00:10:10.000 I don't know whether the court's going to grant this request.
00:10:12.000 The fact that this request has gotten so far in the federal court system is remarkable and is a positive sign for the Trump team.
00:10:22.000 You know, first we beat them.
00:10:25.000 Frankly, it was not just Judicial Watch.
00:10:27.000 It was the New York Times.
00:10:28.000 You know, they supported this transparency too and other big media companies.
00:10:33.000 And the Justice Department didn't want to release anything.
00:10:35.000 So they lost there.
00:10:37.000 And then they lost against President Trump over the special master fight.
00:10:41.000 Whether one gets appointed, I don't know.
00:10:44.000 There should be a thorough examination by an independent judicial appointed official of these records that not only seriously protects the president's prerogatives in terms of attorney-client privilege, which isn't the only issue here, as I've highlighted.
00:11:00.000 If the theory is all these records are personal, that issue needs to be adjudicated because if it turns out that there was no basis to suggest that these records were government records that were in the purview of the archives, the FBI or the Justice Department, every single one of those documents should be turned back to Trump.
00:11:18.000 And in the least, he should be given apologies.
00:11:20.000 We'll see what else in terms of accountability, which is a whole other matter.
00:11:25.000 But so in closing here, Tom, what sort of, you know, what sort of grievance can Donald Trump put forward now?
00:11:32.000 I mean, what's to prevent this from just rating them raiding every single political opponent now?
00:11:36.000 The precedent here is just it's hard to even wrap our heads around.
00:11:41.000 Tom, what can possibly be done to stop this?
00:11:44.000 Is there anything that could be done?
00:11:47.000 Well, he may have civil rights claims.
00:11:49.000 I'm no lawyer, but The fact is, the civil rights were violated, and typically, you know, you can sue when that happens, and there's an egregious violation of your rights, as I believe has already happened with Trump, not only here, but in other situations was the FBI.
00:12:06.000 And of course, to the degree, there was a criminal misuse of government resources for political purposes to target him.
00:12:13.000 There should be criminal investigations into what went on here.
00:12:17.000 You know, I don't know how much more evidence that we need to share that the FBI is fundamentally corrupt, that the Justice Department is happily willing to use and abuse the use of force to target its political enemies.
00:12:33.000 People who do that shouldn't be in power.
00:12:37.000 They should not be in power.
00:12:39.000 They should be the opposite of not in power.
00:12:40.000 They should be held accountable and potentially criminally.
00:12:43.000 Tom Fitton, thank you so much for joining us.
00:12:44.000 Phenomenal as always.
00:12:46.000 Thank you, Charon.
00:12:46.000 You're welcome.
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00:13:51.000 Look, we've been a huge critic of what's happening of the Western involvement in Ukraine.
00:13:57.000 Of course, we're no fan of Vladimir Putin. 0.96
00:13:58.000 He's a thug, he's a war criminal, all those different things.
00:14:01.000 But the West involving ourselves in the continuation of the war in Ukraine is making European life more expensive and is making Western life really, it's putting into jeopardy.
00:14:14.000 And there's been one journalist that's really been on top of this brilliantly.
00:14:18.000 And I'm going to do my best to pronounce her last name, but it's Eva Vladimir Dingerbrook.
00:14:23.000 Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:14:23.000 Did I say that, Eva?
00:14:25.000 Thank you.
00:14:26.000 That's all good.
00:14:26.000 Yeah, you got it.
00:14:28.000 All right, good.
00:14:28.000 Well, welcome to the program.
00:14:30.000 You've been doing some phenomenal journalism and some terrific coverage of this.
00:14:34.000 I want to play Cut 26 and then get your reaction.
00:14:36.000 Play Cut 26.
00:14:38.000 So, how is all that spending working out?
00:14:39.000 Are we winning the war in Ukraine?
00:14:41.000 Have we bankrupted Vladimir Putin like Joe Biden claimed we would?
00:14:45.000 The ruble just hit a seven-year high against the U.S. dollar in June.
00:14:49.000 Take a look at this chart comparing the Russian ruble against the Euro.
00:14:52.000 Russia's doing well.
00:14:54.000 Europe is not doing well at all.
00:14:56.000 Now, Joe Biden is calling for an unconditional surrender from Vladimir Putin.
00:15:02.000 Here's the weird thing: by any actual reality-based measure, Vladimir Putin is not losing the war in Ukraine.
00:15:09.000 He is winning the war in Ukraine.
00:15:11.000 Eva, your reaction.
00:15:13.000 Well, he's obviously right.
00:15:15.000 He's winning the war in Ukraine, and the Dutch people, the European people in general, were the ones that are paying the price for the choices that our establishment have made.
00:15:23.000 So instead of sanctioning Russia, they're basically sanctioning their own people. 0.75
00:15:28.000 And, you know, when you talk about the life in Europe becoming more expensive, energy prices becoming more expensive, that's not a little bit.
00:15:37.000 So, in my home country, in the Netherlands, energy prices are up by 300%, meaning that ordinary households, people who usually spend about 120 to 200 euros per month on their energy bills, are facing energy bills up to 1,000 euros.
00:15:53.000 Sometimes, you know, if they have a big family, even more than that.
00:15:57.000 And then, let alone other businesses, you know, small to medium businesses, the energy bills that they are going to have to be paying.
00:16:04.000 It's just not something that's fathomable, not something that's doable.
00:16:07.000 And this is going to break a lot of people, quite literally.
00:16:12.000 Yeah, so I just kind of speaking from a European standpoint, not so much American.
00:16:17.000 I mean, is the average person in the Netherlands are they upset about this?
00:16:21.000 I mean, energy rates are skyrocketing and the governments are just lying to them.
00:16:26.000 What is the reaction to the everyday middle-class person that just runs their life and they're not necessarily a political activist?
00:16:35.000 What's the reaction in Europe?
00:16:37.000 So, people are definitely nervous.
00:16:39.000 Obviously, it's a little bit of a silence before the storm situation because it's still summer now.
00:16:44.000 But people are getting their new energy bills and their energy suppliers are writing them and telling them, hey, this is the new monthly rate that you're going to be paying.
00:16:52.000 And people are definitely worried.
00:16:54.000 But what they don't seem to recognize, which is something that I noticed Tucker was a little too optimistic about in his segment, actually, is that they fail to see that this is all a direct result of the choices that our establishment has made willfully.
00:17:10.000 So, this is something that could have and should have been avoided and doesn't have just to do with the fact that there is a war in Ukraine.
00:17:18.000 It also has to do with the fact that our government obviously has been pushing this Green New Deal, has been pushing climate agendas, and they want to get rid of fossil fuel altogether.
00:17:28.000 So, this is not a natural disaster that is suddenly hitting our governments and our people hard.
00:17:35.000 This is by choice.
00:17:37.000 And that is something that I notice Europeans don't want to think about.
00:17:41.000 They don't want to see that.
00:17:43.000 And that is what worries me about the future.
00:17:45.000 So, when they are in fact going to face dark and cold winter, dark and cold winter, which they will, are they going to see that that is a direct result of our establishment's actions?
00:17:57.000 Or are they going to beg them for help?
00:18:00.000 And are they going to be willing to give up their freedom and give up basically their wealth again to the state in order to basically survive?
00:18:09.000 That's what I'm afraid of.
00:18:10.000 And I think that that's what the establishment is actually hoping for.
00:18:15.000 Yeah, I just where is the breaking point between this insane environmental green ideology and just the reality of living in a decent place?
00:18:26.000 I mean, the Netherlands is a beautiful country, and it's not just the Netherlands, it's all these Western European countries that, of course, are a little bit more heavy-handed with kind of government programs, but they're decent and nice places to live.
00:18:38.000 And I mean, the quality of life will plummet in these countries.
00:18:42.000 I mean, Eva, explain to me how on earth these leaders are justifying the suicidal actions to turn a vibrant, decent society into a second or third world country.
00:18:55.000 I do not understand that.
00:18:57.000 So, it's ultimately it is emotional blackmail.
00:19:00.000 So, there's definitely a part where our leaders quite literally will say, we just have to do this because we have to stand with Ukraine and we have to fight against the evils of Putin.
00:19:12.000 So, this is just something that we are going to collectively have to bear, which again is all a lie.
00:19:18.000 For example, in my country, the Netherlands, we have the largest natural gas bubble in the European Union under our northern soil.
00:19:26.000 But they're not touching that, they say, because, well, first of all, fossil fuel is bad.
00:19:31.000 You know, we have to get rid of it altogether, but also because it would cause, for example, minor earthquakes and that would cause cracks in houses of people who live in the north.
00:19:40.000 And instead of saying, okay, we're going to offer those people, you know, sufficient compensation for the damage that will be done to their houses, we're just not going to touch that gas at all.
00:19:48.000 And now we have the highest energy prices in Europe, and they're saying there's nothing we can do about this.
00:19:54.000 It's all because of Putin and they lay the blame with everything and anyone but themselves.
00:20:00.000 Yeah, and so I just can't imagine that is popular.
00:20:04.000 And so can you talk into some detail exactly kind of the costs here?
00:20:08.000 You sent out a couple tweets here.
00:20:10.000 You said the Dutch government claims it can't afford to lower the income tax because it would cost about $4 billion per 1%.
00:20:16.000 Yet they're spending $25 billion on a made-up nitrogen crisis to expropriate our farmers and a $17 billion on immigration. 0.91
00:20:25.000 It's all a choice.
00:20:26.000 It's all a matter of choice.
00:20:26.000 They want you to be poor.
00:20:28.000 And also, this sort of ideology is coming into America, isn't it, Eva?
00:20:32.000 Oh, absolutely.
00:20:33.000 Yeah.
00:20:34.000 What I really want people to understand from this is that this is a matter of choice.
00:20:38.000 So, first of all, you know, our governments have been doing insane things to make the cost of living incredibly high, you know, and they're not talking about those.
00:20:47.000 So we're not talking about all the lockdowns that they forced on us that absolutely wrecked our economy.
00:20:53.000 They're not talking about all of the money that they've printed, you know, that is now being used for things that do not serve the interests of the people.
00:21:01.000 Like, for example, this nitrogen crisis that they are using to expropriate our farmers.
00:21:05.000 I'm sure you've heard of that in the media.
00:21:07.000 I've talked about it a trillion times.
00:21:09.000 So it is a matter of choice.
00:21:10.000 25 billion euros for a made-up nitrogen crisis that is going to cost what?
00:21:15.000 Food shortages.
00:21:17.000 60 billion euros for a climate transition that does not need to happen.
00:21:21.000 17 billion euros a year in the Netherlands for immigration that causes all sorts of problems, amongst which housing problems, for example.
00:21:30.000 All of these crises are created.
00:21:33.000 And the only thing that I can think of is why they're doing this is because they want you to feel that chaos.
00:21:38.000 They want you to become poor so that you will accept any type of government control from them when they step in and offer a so-called solution to the problem that they have created.
00:21:50.000 I hope every American is listening to this very carefully.
00:21:53.000 This is exactly where they want to take our country.
00:21:56.000 This is all designed with the great reset, which is to break the back of vibrant, wealthy, decentralized living and make it dependent on the state.
00:22:08.000 This is a canary in the coal mine, if I've ever seen one.
00:22:11.000 And just phenomenal commentary and reporting.
00:22:14.000 Eva, thank you so much.
00:22:15.000 Great job.
00:22:15.000 Thank you.
00:22:16.000 Thank you for having me.
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00:23:20.000 I want to just talk briefly about this COVID pivot that is happening.
00:23:25.000 It's remarkable. 1.00
00:23:27.000 And you could start to see, they think you're so stupid. 1.00
00:23:31.000 They think as if you're not going to remember the people that locked you down and forced masks on you and forced vaccines on you. 0.99
00:23:37.000 But it is happening at a rapid pace of the people in charge that are now pointing fingers and blaming other people based on now the unpopularity of COVID lockdowns, speech impediments, all these different sorts of things that have happened because of mask mandates and school closures.
00:23:57.000 The biggest mistake in modern American history, the largest and biggest mistake was us locking down ourselves.
00:24:06.000 And now they're going to blame Donald Trump for all of it.
00:24:09.000 It is now overwhelmingly, it is the consensus that lockdowns were not a good idea, that it is and was a problem, and they're going to blame Trump for the vaccine and for all of it.
00:24:19.000 It is the great blame pivot that is happening in front of us.
00:24:23.000 If there was a list of, let's just say, people that I was most repulsed by during the lockdowns, Dr. Liana Wen would be at the top of that list.
00:24:38.000 Dr. Wen ran Planned Parenthood for some time.
00:24:41.000 She's now a columnist for the Washington Post and a CNN medical analyst.
00:24:46.000 Throughout the entire lockdowns, she was a promoter of the most extreme, over-the-top, unnecessarily cruel measures. 0.79
00:24:57.000 And Dr. Liana Wen would, she almost had a Stalinist type attitude to herself. 0.99
00:25:04.000 And this is one of the most important things happening in front of us.
00:25:07.000 Again, there's so many different stories unfolding, but we are now living through the great rewind to try to make the great reset happen. 0.99
00:25:17.000 The great rewind basically hinges on the idea that they think you are dumb. 1.00
00:25:25.000 They think you are ignorant. 1.00
00:25:27.000 They think you are stupid. 1.00
00:25:28.000 That you're somehow going to forget that these very same people were just on television saying the exact and total and polar opposite. 1.00
00:25:38.000 So, Dr. Liana Wen just wrote this op-ed.
00:25:41.000 I'm a doctor.
00:25:42.000 Whoa.
00:25:44.000 Here's why my kids won't wear masks at school this year.
00:25:49.000 And she goes and talks on virtue signals about how she never goes outside without her N95 and all this nonsense.
00:25:54.000 But then she talks about how masks have actually begun to impede her child's linguistic and language development.
00:26:06.000 She then says this: the most extraordinary thing.
00:26:09.000 Again, she was the COVIDian lockdown architect. 0.52
00:26:13.000 If you said this two years ago, we did, you were considered to be a proliferator of hate speech.
00:26:21.000 She says, I accept the risk that my kids will probably contract COVID-19 this school year, just as they contract the flu, respiratory synthocatal virus, and other contagious diseases.
00:26:35.000 Wait a second.
00:26:36.000 You're now saying that RSV and the flu are equivalent to COVID?
00:26:41.000 If you used to say that, you used to get kicked off social media.
00:26:44.000 Now you get published in the Washington Post.
00:26:47.000 As for most Americans, COVID in our family will almost certainly be mild.
00:26:51.000 Oh, really?
00:26:53.000 Then why is it, Dr. Liana Wen, you said this, that we should treat unvaccinated people like DUIs, play CUT 25.
00:27:04.000 To start looking at the choice to remain unvaccinated, the same as we look at driving while intoxicated, that you have the option to not get vaccinated if you want, but then you can't go out in public.
00:27:16.000 Because when you go out in public, you have the potential of infecting other people with a potentially deadly disease.
00:27:23.000 Yeah, we should treat it like a DUI.
00:27:25.000 How about CUT 24 when Dr. Leanna Wen said that people should not be able to fly if they're vaccinated?
00:27:31.000 Play Cut 24.
00:27:32.000 Travel and having the right to travel interstate, it's not a constitutional right as far as I know to board a plane.
00:27:41.000 And so saying that if you want to stay unvaccinated, that's your choice.
00:27:45.000 But if you want to travel, you better go get that vaccine.
00:27:49.000 She continues by saying, masking has harmed our son's language development and has limited both kids' extracurriculars and social interactions, which would negatively affect their childhood and hinder my and Maya husband's, mine and Maya husband's ability to work.
00:28:11.000 She was the architect of having mask mandates in your child's school. 1.00
00:28:16.000 And now she's saying, oh, by the way, my child now has language development problems.
00:28:20.000 Yeah, no kidding.
00:28:22.000 Now here's the way this worked.
00:28:24.000 We, the Charlie Kirk Show and Turning Point USA at many corners were banned and penalized on social media for saying this because they said we were spreading COVID misinformation.
00:28:40.000 So you go from being labeled as spreading COVID misinformation and COVID disinformation to now publishing it in the Washington Post.
00:28:55.000 It's quite a regression, isn't it?
00:28:58.000 We were called murderers and super spreaders for now the same language that Dr. Liana Wen now says in the Washington Post is it's all a matter of trade-offs and risks.
00:29:09.000 We've been saying that the entire time.
00:29:11.000 This was never about COVID.
00:29:12.000 It was about the great reset.
00:29:14.000 Destroy the currency, open the borders, eradicate Western civilization for a broader purpose.
00:29:19.000 And COVID was a means to that end.
00:29:23.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:29:24.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:29:27.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:29:28.000 God bless.
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