00:01:00.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:09.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:51.000So, you know, last week was a week that changed my life.
00:01:57.000And, you know, in a world where everything is put on social media, where everything is constantly being posted and being talked about, we made a decision, my wife and I, to keep one thing rather private.
00:02:13.000This was one of the more difficult things I think I've ever had to do.
00:02:18.000Not just keep it private and keep it something secret, but also just kind of go through, you know, the process of all of that.
00:02:25.000And so outside of some close family and friends, my wife, Erica, and I, we decided not to tell the world that she was pregnant.
00:02:32.000And we did that for a variety of reasons, some being security and also just being that, you know, it's not about social media.
00:02:40.000It's not about the millions of people that might talk about it and to get likes and to get shares and all of that.
00:02:46.000And so last week, we welcomed our beautiful daughter into the world.
00:02:50.000And I could tell you, I mean, many of you are in the audience and your parents and grandparents.
00:02:56.000Everyone who says it's life-changing, exactly, I mean, it's beyond transformational.
00:03:01.000It's when you look down in your arms and you see your child, all of a sudden, everything you're fighting for, everything that you care about, everything that you are pushing forward gets into absolute clarity almost instantaneously and immediately.
00:03:19.000It puts the entire fight of what we're doing here on the Charlie Kirk show and at Turning Point USA in an entirely new perspective.
00:03:27.000And it was without a doubt the most transformational moment of my life.
00:03:32.000And boy, does it make you want to defeat the bad guys more than ever and to continue to fight for what is beautiful and what is good and what is true.
00:03:43.000And, you know, again, we looking back at this, and I'm not one to give advice to people on this.
00:03:50.000I do say, though, there was something so special about in a world where almost everything I do is public.
00:04:20.000And we'll tell that story in due time.
00:04:22.000But it's been the most incredible week in more ways than one.
00:04:26.000And, you know, just beyond transformational.
00:04:29.000I didn't get a lot of sleep for a couple days.
00:04:32.000Sleep deprivation is a very real thing.
00:04:36.000If I ever wanted to confuse somebody and get them not exactly sure which way is up or down, sleep deprivation is definitely a way to do that.
00:04:47.000And I just want to thank all of you in the audience for your prayers and for your remarkable backing of this program and our movement.
00:04:57.000And again, it's just something for those of you out there that are saying, oh, I don't know if I'm going to wait before I have kids, you should just go right into it.
00:05:06.000It's just something that will make your life enhanced in such a beautiful and a profound way.
00:05:13.000And the work that we're doing at Turning Point USA, the work we're doing at Turning Point Action, the work we're doing on the front lines matters more than ever before.
00:05:21.000So thank you guys for allowing us to take a week off.
00:05:24.000I could tell you, I know some of you were emailing me at freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:05:27.000Charlie, I hope you're getting a very restful week off.
00:05:30.000I can tell you this: it was not a restful week off, but it was the most transformational week of my life.
00:05:37.000And it is a stimulus and a shot in the arm where you say, We're going to defeat these bad guys.
00:05:47.000And I'm going to have more commentary on that because there is an interesting through line that the bad guys that we are fighting have a disproportionate amount of them that are childless.
00:05:59.000That's a separate issue for a different time.
00:06:25.000So there's so much news to get to here.
00:06:28.000And it's interesting when you take a week off, and again, it wasn't exactly a week off, and you get a chance to look at all the news at a 35,000-foot view.
00:06:38.000You get to see kind of what people are saying about the specific news and what you think is missing.
00:06:44.000And so I want to start with the piece of news that broke in the last couple of days, which is we are living through a preemptive coup, a preemptive palace coup, preemptive palace revolution.
00:06:55.000A palace revolution is where a group of people in the ruling class make a deliberate and concerted campaign to try and remove somebody that's either duly elected or had a position of power or authority.
00:07:12.000We saw this with the abuse of the FISA court.
00:07:14.000And we've talked in great detail here on this program about the power of the fourth branch of government, the unelected, unknown, unchecked power of the bureaucracies.
00:07:25.000And if the bureaucracies are not given proper oversight, they create almost a shadow government within itself.
00:07:34.000That is something we call the deep state.
00:07:36.000We call it all of these different sorts of terms, but it's been very clear in the last couple of days.
00:07:41.000Knew this on this program, but now we have in transparent with transparent evidence that this shadow government, this fourth branch of government, they are now embarking on a very risky campaign to displace a president, a candidate, a former president from being in the conversation or the ability to run for office at all in any way, shape, or form.
00:08:11.000So, post-January 6th, we have to take a step back here.
00:08:15.000Post-January 6th, the American ruling class, the FBI, the CIA, Brennan, Liz Cheney, they thought they had our movement dead to rights.
00:08:24.000Post-January 6th, they thought that we were going to surrender, we were going to fracture, that Donald Trump's support was going to evaporate and erode.
00:08:34.000Post-January 6th, they thought they had control of the House, the Senate, the presidency, that there was not going to be this incredibly energetic, grassroots-focused movement.
00:08:49.000We've been covering this in great detail on our program from the school boards, the moms and dads, the curriculum fights, the rise of the Parents' Party, Glenn Youngkin's victory in Virginia, the displacing of the San Francisco district attorney, that the ruling class actually created a counter movement bigger than anything they could have ever possibly imagined.
00:09:09.000The 18-month blitzkrieg from January to now has boomeranged, and they know that.
00:09:18.000You see, they tried their infrastructure plan.
00:09:20.000They tried using the FBI and the DOJ to spy on moms and dads going to school board meetings, and all of it only fed the fire.
00:09:33.000And so the people have never been more focused.
00:09:37.000They've never been more determined, all of us together to get the bad guys out of power, to have a check on the fourth branch of government.
00:09:44.000And the ruling regime, the people that actually run our country from Facebook, we're going to get to that, Google, FBI, the CIA, they know that their time is up.
00:10:52.000It means that if you have all of these laws on the books and you control the administration and the enforcement of the laws, I can put anyone I don't like in prison.
00:11:03.000So Donald Trump is the figurehead of this nationalist, bottom-up parents' party movement.
00:11:11.000And the machine is now getting into a desperate mode of operation.
00:11:18.000It's a very, very, very risky thing they're embarking on.
00:11:22.000But it's transparently clear what they're doing, which is, again, the affidavit was a complete joke.
00:11:27.000And we're going to get into that and my take on it.
00:11:30.000But they are now focused on taking Donald Trump off the chess table.
00:11:34.000Now, you might say, well, Charlie, they've been focused on that for quite some time.
00:11:37.000You know, they've wanted to, no, this is different.
00:11:42.000They think they have a window of opportunity, and they believe that if they don't do this, that our movement is going to take over everything for a long period of time.
00:11:54.000Now, they have a very low percentage chance of pulling this off.
00:11:59.000In order to pull this off, they will have to successfully and convincingly indict Donald Trump, convict him, start a MAGA civil war, and then have us all of a sudden completely and totally give up.
00:12:12.000But we must understand, they are running out of tools at their disposal to be able to stop our movement.
00:12:19.000They've tried everything: social media banning, smearing, shadow banning.
00:12:54.000But their strategy now is a two-step move.
00:12:56.000The regime now has a two-step move, which is displace and remove Donald Trump, take him off the chess table, indict him on some sort of paperwork crime, which we're going to talk about what I think their path forward is because it was articulated.
00:13:11.000They put forward the entire indictment in the New York Times this weekend.
00:13:14.000The entire indictment was right there in the New York Times.
00:13:18.000And then the second one is then to try to sow and foment a MAGA civil war where the warring tribes are not able to find a consensus of how to move forward and they're able to dominate elections, not because they're popular, but because they have sowed rancor and division in our ranks.
00:13:36.000It is a two-step move that we're seeing in front of us right now.
00:13:53.000Look, let me tell you, the worldwide food crisis is making headlines again.
00:13:57.000Just recently, Business Insider said we're in a global food crisis that will wreak havoc on local economies and possibly trigger civil unrest.
00:14:06.000They also said food shortages have led to civil unrest in the past with deadly consequences.
00:14:10.000Remember, you are nine meals away from anarchy.
00:14:13.000That's right, nine meals away from anarchy.
00:14:16.000If not now, to get prepared, then when?
00:14:18.000Well, it's time to get emergency food with preparewithkirk.com.
00:15:17.000And you could see it very clearly in the New York Times.
00:15:21.000The New York Times, they wrote this long piece over the weekend, basically laying out the intellectual case, their supposed pseudo-intellectual case for an indictment.
00:15:37.000And The New York Times, they're very, they love I Told You Sos.
00:15:45.000They love being able to write something and being able to say, look, as we said a couple months ago, we were right about this.
00:15:51.000We were very clear about why Donald Trump needs to be indicted, all this nonsense.
00:15:58.000And again, I don't make a habit out of covering the New York Times too much, but this piece is not a mistake.
00:16:04.000Donald Trump is not above the law by the editorial board.
00:16:08.000Now, the New York Times wrote this piece probably in collusion and in coordination with the FBI, with the Justice Department, with people, prosecutors.
00:16:20.000The New York Times can be best compared to metaphorically to a fullback or to a snowplow or to kind of a force forward to try to pave the way for a coming or a looming indictment.
00:16:35.000You see, the New York Times operates to move the Overton window.
00:16:40.000Remember, the Overton window is a spectrum of what is once deemed unthinkable to eventually what is acceptable to then what is popular.
00:16:47.000The Overton window moved on issues like marijuana, moved on issues such as defund the police, which was once considered to be unthinkable, is even popular in certain communities, not that many.
00:16:59.000So the New York Times writes this article to try to move the Overton window to try to prime the pump for a grand jury they're trying to impanel.
00:17:08.000Now, I know some of you might say, Charlie, none of this is new.
00:17:12.000No, this is very important because we're going to go a step deeper because this impacts the midterms right now.
00:17:18.000I think Republicans are mishandling this.
00:17:20.000And I think it is so transparent what's happening in front of us.
00:17:23.000And then if we do not make certain moves and countermoves right in the next couple of days, we're going to be dealing from a deficit and what should be a red wave will become a red ripple.
00:17:35.000And I'm going to tell you what I think Donald Trump needs to do.
00:17:38.000So the New York Times writes this article, Donald Trump is not above the law.
00:17:58.000The New York Times writes, over the course of the summer, the nation has been transfixed by the House Select Committees on the events of January 6th, 2021.
00:18:34.000Over the course of the summer, the nation has been transfixed by the House Select Committee hearings on the events of January 6th and how or whether Donald Trump might face accountability for what happened that day.
00:18:48.000The Justice Department remained largely silent about its investigations of the former president until this month when the FBI searched his home.
00:19:03.000In a case related to the handling of classified documents, the spectacle of a former president facing criminal investigation raises profound questions about American democracy.
00:19:24.000They say Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to Mr. Trump's last chief of staff, Mark Meadows, provided powerful evidence that could be used to charge Mr. Trump with seditious conspiracy.
00:19:37.000Did we watch the same thing as Cassidy Hutchinson?
00:19:40.000No, it's so outrageous what they're writing in the New York Times.
00:19:47.000Seditious conspiracy is a crime which is conspiring against the authority of the legitimacy of the state, punishable potentially by death.
00:19:57.000Cassidy Hutchinson, who said completely and totally baselessly, that Donald Trump grabbed the steering wheel of the beast, that he might be able to be charged with seditious conspiracy.
00:20:12.000No, the New York Times is very, very careful what they're doing here.
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00:21:14.000I want to give a shout out to our entire team on the Charlie Kirk show and just kind of at Turning Point USA for the very few of them that knew Erica was pregnant.
00:21:24.000The ability to maneuver with vagueness and abstractions in the last couple of weeks to give excuses that I couldn't do things was rather remarkable.
00:21:34.000We want this to be private and to be secret.
00:21:36.000And in a world where everything you do is publicized for where you tweet and what happens, to have one little corner of something that was just our own was very, very special.
00:21:46.000So thank you to all of you and thank you to the wonderful tech team.
00:21:48.000Okay, so the entire New York Times article was written and crafted to try to sway a grand jury.
00:22:04.000So we must understand that when they sit around a conference table, you have Merrick Garland, you have the FBI, Christopher Wray, you have all the Democrat operatives, they see finally what we have been forecasting, what we have been predicting, and what we have been hoping for.
00:22:25.000They see a once-in-a-generation realignment.
00:22:33.000I'd say some of them are pretty unbelievably ignorant, but in some sense, it's almost as if the architects of the 2020 election scheme are now back in charge.
00:22:44.000So this is our working theory here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:22:47.000Our working theory is that there was a cabal of pseudo-criminals that orchestrated a perfectly precise plan in the 2020 election.
00:22:58.000Lockdowns, fear, death counts on television, blaming Trump, mass mail in ballots, mules, drop boxes.
00:23:07.0002020 was planned perfectly from their perspective.
00:23:13.000And the people behind that were Mark Elias and many others, as Miss Ball wrote in Time magazine, the shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election.
00:23:24.000And it seemed as if that kind of cabal, they worked very hard at it.
00:25:44.000To give you an idea, for those of you that watch Fox News, but I'll give you an even better example.
00:25:50.000Remember when Rush Limbaugh, for example, put forward Operation Chaos?
00:25:56.000I think that's what it was called, where he said we should switch over in the Democrat Party and we should vote in the Democrat Party for Hillary so that we could stop Barack Obama.
00:26:06.000When Rush Limbaugh or when Tucker Carlson looks to the camera and gives you a well-scripted argument that is a little bit out there, our base listens.
00:26:17.000We stop what we're doing and say, oh, wow, that's the power of the New York Times.
00:26:22.000The New York Times is that to the left as Rush Limbaugh was for 30 years to the right.
00:26:26.000When Rush Limbaugh talks, you stop your car and pull over to the side of the street.
00:26:30.000At least for me, when Rush Limbaugh was on, I would delay appointments.
00:26:36.000When Rush Limbaugh was on, I would design my schedule, especially when there was some breaking news.
00:26:42.000When Bob Mueller, I would listen to Rush every single day during the Mueller investigation, during the 2016 election, every day, because we kind of needed that North Star.
00:27:03.000They orient their direction, their compass, based on what the New York Times tells them is considerable and acceptable, especially when it's the editorial board.
00:27:16.000So the editorial board, the people that run the entire New York Times philosophical direction, says, quote, no one should revel in the prospect of this or any former president facing criminal prosecution.
00:27:30.000Mr. Trump's actions have brought shame on one of the world's oldest democracies.
00:27:36.000Do you see how important it is to define our terms?
00:27:38.000Because then you allow these charlatans to just get out of control and destabilize its future.
00:27:45.000Even justice before the law will not erase that stain, nor will prosecuting Mr. Trump fix the structural problems that led to the greatest crisis in American democracy since the Civil War.
00:27:59.000To give you an idea of the argument they're making, they're making that our elections are going through a greater crisis than poll taxes and Jim Crow segregation.
00:29:38.000And if they think for a second that indicting Donald Trump is going to all of a sudden make us give up or surrender, I think it will have the opposite effect.
00:29:53.000But I will say that doesn't mean we should be hoping for it.
00:29:57.000Because for some of you out there, we just got an email here: freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:30:05.000I think we can make it a good thing, but there's also a layer of risk within them indicting Trump that I think could unnecessarily create a power struggle on the right.
00:30:17.000Having a clear person in charge, for the time being, of the MAGA movement is very important.
00:30:26.000The MAGA movement has not yet finished settling in.
00:30:31.000It takes at least a decade for a movement to become permanent.
00:30:42.000For a political movement to become permanent, it has to finish kind of settling in to the roots and it has to metastasize both vertically and horizontally throughout the entire culture.
00:30:59.000And so we need a little bit more time.
00:31:01.000Otherwise, if they indict Trump, it will give oxygen, it will give basis for the McConnells and the establishment Republicans of the world to say, I told you so, time to move on.
00:31:46.000Well, according to guidelines by the DOJ, active presidential candidates or active candidates are treated at a different threshold and standard because they don't want to act as if they're doing election interference.
00:31:57.000And of course, again, one of the most extraordinary clips is Mark Zuckerberg coming out and admitting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation back channels with major social media companies to be able to manipulate the spread of information.
00:32:13.000So the question is, do you think it's good for the movement right now if Donald Trump announces for president?
00:32:19.000Just gets out of the gate, says, if you're going to indict me, you have to indict the entire movement.
00:32:23.000I got to be honest, I'm coming around to this argument.
00:32:27.000The only card, in my opinion, Donald Trump has left to play, the only card he has left to play for the sake of our movement, before the decade comes in, the decade comes and it settles in.
00:32:37.000If you study American history, if you study political history, it takes a decade for a political movement to have permanence.
00:33:51.000I disagree with him on a wide variety of issues.
00:33:54.000But he literally said to Aaron Rodgers, reigning MVP of the National Football League yesterday, the way that we need to send a message to the COVID-19 lockdown people is vote Republican.
00:34:06.000So you're going to have to agree with everybody to understand that Joe Rogan has talent.
00:34:14.000And Joe Rogan has an unbelievable skill.
00:34:17.000I have to say, Joe Rogan's skill is to get very powerful people to forget they're on camera.
00:34:25.000Cut 13, Joe Rogan interviewing Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook, censoring the Hunter Biden story, play cut 13.
00:34:32.000I mean, basically, the background here is the FBI, I think, basically came to us, some folks on our team, and was like, hey, just so you know, like you should be on high alert.
00:34:43.000We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election.
00:34:47.000We have it on notice that basically there's about to be some kind of dump of that's similar to that.
00:35:19.000We're talking about in clear terms that the Federal Bureau of Investigation showed up to Facebook and said, hey, there's all this Russian disinformation out there.
00:35:35.000There's all of this nonsense happening out there.
00:35:38.000You should probably censor this Hunter Biden laptop story.
00:35:43.000The FBI visits the channels of social media, the places where decisions are made about politics, where information is spread, and the FBI back channeled to social media companies so significantly that Mark Zuckerberg was made aware of it and said, you should probably suppress this story.
00:36:05.000If that is not direct election interference, what is?
00:36:08.000The FBI has now been, it has now transparently been revealed that they go and visit the channels of communication and manipulate what should be spread and what should not be spread.
00:37:03.000Because there's, and by the way, the other question is, that's the first question.
00:37:06.000The second question, which is less important, but it's more important, it's more, it's critical for just a broader perspective, which is, how long have they been doing this?
00:37:15.000How many other stories has the FBI showed up to Facebook and said, hey, you got to censor this?
00:37:22.000That the FBI has basically created a backdoor pass to control Facebook.
00:37:30.000That's what was just revealed right there.
00:37:32.000That if the Bureau doesn't like a story, if something is not trending the way they like it, then the FBI becomes the Federal Bureau of Election Interference.
00:37:42.000The New York Times article is very, very clear.
00:37:47.000The New York Times article says that they need to indict Donald Trump, but they have a two-step move.
00:37:53.000We're now living through a two-step move.
00:37:54.000Take out the leader, create a mega civil war.
00:38:00.000The only move Donald Trump has left, for those of you that want to see Donald Trump become president again, he needs to announce for president right now.