The Charlie Kirk Show - Liberation Day for the J6 Patriots

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we go through the January 6th pardons and why it was the right move by President Trump.

00:00:05.000 Then Cain recaps the last couple of years, the triumph that we are experiencing, and more.

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00:01:22.000 I won't go into too much of the details here, but I think I'll just mention this.

00:01:27.000 Julie Kelly and I were on the phone together with the president last week about this topic of January 6th.

00:01:35.000 We won't say any more than that, but we got Julie and I reconnected.

00:01:39.000 She has the president's respect.

00:01:40.000 She knows this topic better than anybody else.

00:01:43.000 Julie, welcome back to the program.

00:01:44.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:01:45.000 What an amazing day yesterday.

00:01:47.000 And thank you for your help with this historic decision, courageous decision that the president made.

00:01:55.000 It's really amazing to see the videos on acts of people being released from federal prison after all these years.

00:02:03.000 So thank you and thank you to the president for including me in that process.

00:02:07.000 And I hope we can toast in person one of these days, Charlie.

00:02:11.000 Yes, and Julie, you deserve a lot of credit.

00:02:14.000 The president was making his whole final decisions, and you were very persuasive for him.

00:02:21.000 Let's just put it that way.

00:02:23.000 So, Julie, let's recap for the audience.

00:02:26.000 What exactly was signed?

00:02:28.000 What are the details of this pardon?

00:02:30.000 Educate our audience on that, please.

00:02:32.000 So the pardon, as the president said during the signing ceremony, last night is a full pardon.

00:02:38.000 So that applies to close to now 1,600 J-6 defendants. 0.99

00:02:45.000 There was a carve out there, Charlie, for 14 individuals whose sentences have now been commuted.

00:02:51.000 And those were all members or associates of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.

00:02:58.000 And I believe that he said that those cases will be reviewed.

00:03:02.000 Also, for pardons, and I believe his final decision will be similar to what we saw yesterday, pardoning those individuals, many of whom were convicted of seditious conspiracy, which is a terrorism statute usually reserved, Charlie, for real terrorists, not political protesters.

00:03:20.000 So I'm sure the president will reach the same decision.

00:03:24.000 And then what's happening today, Charlie, there were several J6-related court proceedings in Washington scheduled for today, including one case going to the jury for a verdict.

00:03:35.000 And you have the new D.C. U.S. attorney, Ed Martin, who I believe that you know, who is a friend of mine, and he's already filing motions to dismiss those indictments.

00:03:45.000 And I know that judges were forced to do that today.

00:03:49.000 And boy, I wish...

00:03:50.000 I wish I was there to have seen those judges have to drop those cases.

00:03:53.000 That would have been another incredible moment.

00:03:56.000 And so this is so profound, and I hope everyone here understands what's going on, is that the president could have done the watered-down version, right?

00:04:06.000 He could have kind of gone halfway.

00:04:08.000 Now, the media is attacking.

00:04:10.000 They say, oh, well, President Trump even commuted or pardoned people that were violent.

00:04:14.000 This is the important thing, though.

00:04:16.000 The question is, do you believe...

00:04:18.000 If the tree is rotten, is the fruit also rotten?

00:04:22.000 Can a rotten tree produce good fruit?

00:04:24.000 No.

00:04:25.000 Talk about the due process violations.

00:04:28.000 That's really what we're getting at here, is that these defendants did not have basic constitutional guarantees.

00:04:34.000 They were guilty until proven innocent.

00:04:36.000 Pre-trial detention, solitary confinement, did not get access to adequate attorneys.

00:04:43.000 They did not get the ability to examine evidence.

00:04:46.000 Julie, it's not about that President Trump made a comment on the actions of what they did that day.

00:04:52.000 He was pardoning and commuting the process.

00:04:57.000 Explain, please.

00:04:59.000 And Charlie, that obviously was something you were very adamant about, is emphasizing the lack of due process, the constitutional rights violations at play in this prosecution.

00:05:11.000 So that is, of course, something that we added to the consideration.

00:05:14.000 And I know that the president himself is fully aware of what these prosecutors and judges have been doing for more than four years.

00:05:22.000 But I think the most egregious violation is that judges systematically, for three years, Charlie, as we discussed, denied every single change of venue motion filed by every J6 defendant, arguing that they could still get a fair trial in a city most entirely populated by Democrats, and not just Democrats, Trump-loathing radical left-wing Democrats who view the events of January 6th as they do compare it to 9-11.

00:05:52.000 I have sat in some of those jury selections.

00:05:54.000 You cannot believe what the residents of Washington, D.C. think about January 6th.

00:06:00.000 So the judges would claim, okay, well, we'll go through this Wadir process.

00:06:04.000 We'll really, you know, drill down into their political views about Donald Trump in January 6th.

00:06:10.000 No, they didn't.

00:06:11.000 They didn't do that.

00:06:12.000 And so it resulted in the DOJ having this perfect conviction rate after now almost three years of trials.

00:06:18.000 So that right there is an indication that these J6s did not have their constitutional rights of an impartial jury going before an impartial jury. 1.00

00:06:28.000 And certainly the judges were a big part of that, but also withholding discovery, Brady materials, exculpatory evidence, concealing the use of not just FBI informants, but other undercover agents from numerous law enforcement agencies.

00:06:44.000 So there were so many things just systematically happening there that resulted in more than a thousand going to federal prison.

00:06:53.000 So I know that that was part of your strong argument, not that we needed to.

00:06:58.000 Again, the president was on board, but I think just developing the argument and the record for this extraordinary measure that he took yesterday.

00:07:06.000 There were people not on his team.

00:07:08.000 His team has been excellent, but in his orbit.

00:07:11.000 That we're saying, do not do the widespread pardons.

00:07:13.000 Is that fair, Julie?

00:07:15.000 Yes, absolutely.

00:07:17.000 Because to your point, the easy one, the low-hanging fruit, and I think what a lot of people thought was going to happen, and CNN and the Washington Post actually erroneously reported this a few hours before he issued that pardon, is, okay, we'll just...

00:07:32.000 Just dismiss the counts, pardon those who were convicted or accused of the four or five common misdemeanors, which is still hundreds of people.

00:07:41.000 And then we'll go case by case for the 300 or so with those federal, it's 111 charges, assault interfering, impeding certain officers.

00:07:52.000 I think that's what everyone was sort of suggesting, and you know this, Charlie, pressure from Republicans in Congress.

00:07:57.000 We had U.S. senators very strongly come out during Pam Bondi's confirmation hearing. 0.50

00:08:03.000 Tom Tillis and Lindsey Graham very unequivocally saying.

00:08:07.000 There should not be pardons for anyone accused of assaulting police.

00:08:11.000 So this was such a courageous decision by President Trump.

00:08:14.000 I really want to emphasize that.

00:08:16.000 This was not an easy thing for him to do, but he did it because it's the right thing, and he feels personally passionate about restoring justice and making these people whole.

00:08:27.000 It was a phenomenal act of courage, a breathtaking act of courage.

00:08:34.000 The other element of J6 News is that in the morning, every member of the J6 committee and their staff received a preemptive pardon from the scum of the earth, Joe Biden.

00:08:48.000 This one even took me by surprise.

00:08:51.000 What is going on here?

00:08:53.000 So he issued pardons for not just the members, so Benny Thompson and Adam Kinzinger, of course, Liz Cheney, but the staffers.

00:09:00.000 So this would be the investigators.

00:09:02.000 I think they hired a dozen federal former prosecutors, Charlie, to interrogate 1,000-plus witnesses, mostly Trump White House employees.

00:09:10.000 They're all pardoned.

00:09:11.000 But the real outrage, Charlie, is pardoning what I call the four J6 celebrity cops, Mike Fanone.

00:09:19.000 Aquilina Ganel, Harry Dunn, and Daniel Hodges, who not only committed perjury under their sworn testimony during that first hearing in July of 2021, they have showed up as victims and witnesses in J6 hearings and trials and sentencing, begging judges to throw the book at J6ers based on the lies about... 0.67

00:09:43.000 Their injuries or what they saw or what they endured.

00:09:46.000 All four of them committed perjury multiple times.

00:09:49.000 And that is proven by the fact that Joe Biden has had to issue a pardon to exonerate them.

00:09:55.000 They caused arguably more damage to J6ers than Liz Cheney and that committee. 1.00

00:10:01.000 Really a despicable move by Joe Biden on top of so many.

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00:11:01.000 Go to magbreakthrough.com, promo code CHARLIE. Julie, last question here before we bring on a released hostage, John Strand, who had the whole government thrown against him.

00:11:12.000 Have we ever seen anything like the January 6th show trials and, let's just say, blitzkrieg in American history?

00:11:20.000 Has there ever been an equivalent to this?

00:11:22.000 There has not.

00:11:23.000 And the criminal defense attorneys have said this to me.

00:11:26.000 They've said it in court motions.

00:11:27.000 There is nothing comparable.

00:11:29.000 And I think one big indication is having that reversal, Charlie, of the 1512C2 count.

00:11:35.000 John Strand can talk to that.

00:11:36.000 That post-Enron obstruction that was overturned by the Supreme Court in June, saying that the DOJ wrongfully applied that statute in 300-plus cases.

00:11:46.000 Nonetheless, the DOJ, DCUS Attorney Matthew Graves at the time, pushing forward with trying to make that charge stick, even after the Supreme Court overturned them.

00:11:58.000 This was a rogue, reckless, destructive political persecution.

00:12:02.000 And Charlie, people have to pay for what they have done.

00:12:06.000 This cannot be the last word on the travesty of the J6 defendants. 1.00

00:12:11.000 Those in charge, Matthew Graves, Lisa Monaco, even Merrick Garland, have to be held accountable for the lives that they have destroyed or tried to destroy.

00:12:22.000 Julie, you're the best.

00:12:27.000 Thank you so much.

00:12:28.000 Congratulations.

00:12:29.000 You played a big part in this.

00:12:30.000 The president credited you multiple times privately for helping shape his thinking.

00:12:36.000 So great work.

00:12:36.000 Thank you.

00:12:37.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:12:38.000 We are just getting amazing testimonies.

00:12:40.000 I mean, one in particular, let me just read this to you from my pastor, Pastor Rob McCoy.

00:12:45.000 A very disturbing one was Mark Ibrahim.

00:12:50.000 So Mark Ibrahim was a J6-er who was an active DEA agent who never stepped foot in the Capitol, but publicly testified that he knew that they were undercover FBI agents there because his brother was an FBI agent who was there and he trained with others. 0.55

00:13:05.000 He was an active DEA agent, therefore legally allowed to possess a weapon in Washington, D.C., allowed to possess a firearm.

00:13:13.000 Despite that...

00:13:14.000 He was arrested for carrying a weapon with the intent to support an overthrow of the U.S. government and was facing 16 years in prison and lost his job.

00:13:23.000 Well, Mark Ibrahim is now completely pardoned and he has his life back.

00:13:27.000 How amazing is that?

00:13:29.000 It's a total reversal of fortune.

00:13:31.000 16 years on completely BS, made-up stuff.

00:13:35.000 Totally made-up.

00:13:36.000 The other one that we're going to have on the program later this week is Siaka Masakwai. 0.63

00:13:40.000 Siaka Masakwai was hunted by the federal government.

00:13:44.000 For years, an actor, a supporter of President Trump, and was found eventually at an airport with his pregnant wife and was shook down as if he is El Chapo or some sort of child sex trafficker or drug smuggler.

00:14:01.000 He was actually facing trial last week.

00:14:05.000 His trial started last week.

00:14:08.000 Charges dropped.

00:14:10.000 Game over.

00:14:11.000 Thanks for playing.

00:14:12.000 They went all in on January 6th.

00:14:14.000 The regime went all in as a way to try to break our will.

00:14:17.000 They thought that they could break our spirit, break our gusto, break our will.

00:14:22.000 Joining us now is John Strand.

00:14:24.000 John, congratulations.

00:14:25.000 You are a free and cleared man.

00:14:27.000 What does this day mean for you?

00:14:29.000 Charlie, thank you for having me on, and thank you for acknowledging the enormity of this moment.

00:14:35.000 Myself and every J6er have... 0.99

00:14:39.000 Truthfully been exonerated as the innocent, brave citizens that we were that day, showing up when it was unpopular and uncomfortable to do so, to stand up for constitutional integrity and our constitutional rights.

00:14:53.000 This is a day of incredible victory, vindication, and a recommitment to The reality of truth.

00:15:02.000 I thought it was incredibly beautiful and incredibly important what President Trump acknowledged in his historic inauguration speech, that there is a God and in him we trust.

00:15:13.000 That is what this republic is built on.

00:15:15.000 That there are only two sexes, male and female, that God has created. 0.94

00:15:20.000 And this truth about January 6th is also incredibly important, that we no longer live in the lunatic left paradigm of a false reality about January 6th being an insurrection or any of this other rhetoric that was clearly not only false but deeply malicious.

00:15:37.000 Julie Kelly was spot on in her comments about the malicious An unprecedented nature of a weaponized DOJ that waged what was tantamount to a kinetic war against its own citizens. 0.89

00:15:50.000 The carnage is that catastrophic.

00:15:53.000 And we must have a national reckoning with what has been done to these citizens and their families, myself included and many others.

00:16:01.000 Some who lost their lives, who lost babies, who lost families, fortunes and sacred honor.

00:16:06.000 It was all obliterated.

00:16:07.000 That's terrible.

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00:17:12.000 John, we don't have a ton of time, so let's do this quick.

00:17:15.000 But John, I need to make sure I mention the January 6th defendants who killed themselves in this process.

00:17:21.000 Matthew Perna, Jord Meacham, Chris Stanton, Mark August.

00:17:25.000 Can we put this up on screen?

00:17:26.000 These are just some.

00:17:28.000 I think there's a fifth somebody mentioned, but I want to verify that.

00:17:31.000 We know that these are some of the January 6th defenders who've taken their lives after they lost everything over the protests.

00:17:37.000 They're up on screen right now.

00:17:38.000 The Department of Justice, FBI, and media in the entire January 6th committee has blood on its hands.

00:17:43.000 John, your reaction?

00:17:45.000 Restorative justice is essential.

00:17:48.000 We're gathering J6 defenders and as well as the entire country and the world as advocates.

00:17:54.000 Movement for restorative justice.

00:17:56.000 Please join us at WeAreJ6.com.

00:17:59.000 And what that means is we need a national reckoning with the truth of what happened, with the weaponized government, with the corruption of the DOJ and the prosecutors, and with the harms and catastrophe inflicted on these folks.

00:18:12.000 So we need to make them whole.

00:18:14.000 We're talking historic civil damages.

00:18:16.000 We want to work in cooperation with the incoming Trump administration to make sure this happens in the right fashion.

00:18:20.000 And also that there is serious accountability, as Julie Kelly mentioned.

00:18:24.000 We must hold these government officials to account and make sure that as a prosecutor and as a judge that you are upholding the Constitution and you are not willfully participating in a collusion to violate civil rights.

00:18:37.000 Title 18. Code 242, under color of law, violating civil rights.

00:18:43.000 There is strong law in place that must be enforced, and we need a reckoning with these institutions.

00:18:48.000 Really quick, recount for our audience, you were in solitary confinement in federal prison.

00:18:53.000 That's right.

00:18:54.000 And now you have a full pardon from the President of the United States.

00:18:57.000 Put that in the words the best you possibly can, John.

00:19:00.000 I mean, what I am so grateful for is that by exercising what I call uncomfortable courage, knowing what's right and wrong, and choosing right, fighting against evil, I actually refused the plea deal, and therefore it was vindicated at the U.S. Supreme Court, and I am about ready to be vindicated and exonerated legally even before the pardon comes.

00:19:20.000 So, that's a representation of the fact that we were innocent, betrayed by a corrupt government.

00:19:26.000 We stood strong.

00:19:28.000 The pardons cleared the decks and reset the narrative that we have been exonerated and we must examine what the government has done wrong.

00:19:34.000 John, congratulations.

00:19:35.000 Thank you so much.

00:19:36.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:19:37.000 God bless you.

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00:19:45.000 Mr. Kane, we did it!

00:19:47.000 Kane, we did it!

00:19:49.000 Cain, I have it right here.

00:19:50.000 I just want to go through this really quick for the audience.

00:19:54.000 The headlines.

00:19:55.000 Donald Trump regains power.

00:19:57.000 Front page of the Washington Post.

00:19:59.000 Trump's stark vision.

00:20:02.000 Washington Times.

00:20:04.000 Trump's vows golden age.

00:20:06.000 Cain, the floor is yours.

00:20:08.000 Yes, sir.

00:20:09.000 So Trump was dead, Charlie.

00:20:11.000 That's the thing we need to remember, you know.

00:20:13.000 These last three days were eat and drink and celebrate, and now we go to work.

00:20:20.000 Today we go to work.

00:20:21.000 And it's important to remember with the new golden age and all the joy and excitement from the past 72 hours that Trump was dead in the water.

00:20:34.000 Murdoch had banned him from Fox News.

00:20:36.000 Any live appearances on Fox News weren't allowed because he might dare mention the steal.

00:20:41.000 This all happened after January 6th.

00:20:44.000 As you and I know, because we talked about it all the time on your show, he was tied in the polls with DeSantis, right?

00:20:51.000 The billionaire donors had turned their back on Trump two years ago.

00:20:55.000 The Davos crowd declared that populism was dead, Charlie.

00:20:59.000 They said it was dead and gone, and Trump with it.

00:21:03.000 So this guy rose from the grave.

00:21:05.000 He never stopped fighting.

00:21:07.000 I personally, I view Trump as an athlete, okay?

00:21:11.000 I view him as a guy who doesn't like to lose.

00:21:14.000 He never likes to come in second.

00:21:16.000 So it never even occurred to me that he wouldn't run again to sort of clear his name.

00:21:22.000 But no one else thought he was going to do it or thought he could do it.

00:21:25.000 So that sort of needs to be the backdrop for those amazing headlines that you just showed.

00:21:31.000 And you've been chronicling it every single day.

00:21:35.000 And I know you remember that stuff two years ago.

00:21:38.000 There was serious doubt about President Trump.

00:21:41.000 So it's a testament to, you know, to MAGA Nation.

00:21:46.000 It's a testament to the viewers.

00:21:47.000 It's a testament to, you know, populism is about the people.

00:21:50.000 It's about the people pushing and forcing action.

00:21:55.000 It's not sort of a typical political philosophy.

00:21:58.000 And I really feel like it was the people.

00:22:01.000 That made this happen and made it happen for President Trump.

00:22:05.000 So it's just a great day.

00:22:06.000 Cain, let's go back in time.

00:22:08.000 You and I really grew close during the kind of dark night of the soul.

00:22:12.000 Before what we see here on screen, President Trump dancing at the ball.

00:22:16.000 He wasn't dancing a year and a half ago, Cain, when you and I were chatting.

00:22:20.000 Talk about how dark things looked.

00:22:22.000 Yeah, I sent you a 3 a.m.

00:22:24.000 text.

00:22:24.000 I think that's sort of famous.

00:22:26.000 We talk about it sometimes.

00:22:27.000 I saw, you know, it was six months or so before the...

00:22:30.000 The first indictment, and we saw it coming, and we didn't know exactly how to react.

00:22:37.000 That probably was part of the reason that Trump wasn't doing especially well in the polls, that he was tied with DeSantis, in addition to the donors turning their backs on him, is people didn't know how the base would respond when the indictments came.

00:22:52.000 So you and I, we got nitty-gritty into the polls.

00:22:56.000 And we were trying to analyze all of this stuff ahead of time.

00:22:59.000 What is the first indictment going to do to him, right?

00:23:02.000 So that cleared.

00:23:03.000 We looked at the polls two or three weeks later, and he was still fine.

00:23:06.000 In fact, he was a little bit stronger.

00:23:08.000 So you and I got a little bit more optimistic.

00:23:10.000 The second indictment, the third indictment, it was the same thing.

00:23:13.000 Trump seemed to grow strength.

00:23:15.000 I remember Vivek being the only candidate who showed up in the Florida indictment.

00:23:20.000 Vivek went down to Florida.

00:23:22.000 And gave a little press conference there, an impromptu press conference.

00:23:25.000 We didn't know how the other candidates were going to react.

00:23:28.000 We didn't know how the voting public.

00:23:30.000 And we started to see that Mandela effect, as you coined it.

00:23:35.000 That Trump was getting more popular.

00:23:37.000 That even the never-Trumpers were starting to see that, and independents included in that, were starting to see that this was lawfare.

00:23:45.000 This was...

00:23:47.000 They're attempting to keep the candidate, the people's candidate, out.

00:23:51.000 So we watched him gain strength.

00:23:52.000 And you and I know, we were guessing the whole way, Charlie.

00:23:55.000 We were looking at tea leaves.

00:23:57.000 We were reading these polls, trying to figure out if Trump was going to lose strength, how this was playing out, these indictments with the independents, right?

00:24:06.000 That was really what we worried about, was the independent voters.

00:24:09.000 And so for all of it to turn out well, and I started to say at the beginning of this broadcast, there's a great tweet that Charlie put up, you know.

00:24:16.000 Charlie never stops working, and he never stops worrying.

00:24:20.000 That's something people don't know, and it's a good thing to never stop worrying.

00:24:24.000 And I think Charlie finally took, you finally took a deep breath as the inauguration happened, and you put that tweet up, and people really, really loved it.

00:24:32.000 That's very sweet, Cain.

00:24:33.000 You know, on screen we had some B-roll of Elon Musk.

00:24:36.000 Cain, you and I both agreed that with the purchase of Twitter, that was almost the cause set in motion that got us here.

00:24:42.000 It was the beginning where all these other tech companies started to reconsider.

00:24:46.000 Elon Musk was the tipping point.

00:24:48.000 I cannot emphasize enough the role that Elon Musk played in all this.

00:24:52.000 By the way, that also should get in the Smithsonian of President Trump with the sword.

00:24:56.000 How should we think about Elon Musk's role in saving Western civilization?

00:25:00.000 I'm 100% on Team Elon for what he did for Twitter.

00:25:04.000 And you're right about it, getting the ball rolling.

00:25:06.000 He made it easy for all of Silicon Valley.

00:25:08.000 You know, Marc Andreessen, David Sachs.

00:25:11.000 Jason Kalkanis, other big names in Silicon Valley.

00:25:15.000 And he made it easy for, you know, young people tend to identify with that and with sort of that cohort.

00:25:22.000 And in addition to the work that TP was doing on all the college campuses, there was sort of, you know, there was a meshing underneath it all that sort of young men, young women, Silicon Valley.

00:25:37.000 All sort of turning and making it okay to talk about your support for Trump.

00:25:42.000 Okay to admit that you plan to vote for him.

00:25:44.000 I put it in the stack yesterday.

00:25:46.000 We had the CEO of Uber writing a pretty hilarious explanation of how he went from never-Trumper to pro-Trump.

00:25:55.000 And now back to Elon.

00:25:56.000 When I talk about being on Team Elon, you know, I don't want to have...

00:26:00.000 I want people to understand that there are shades of gray in everything.

00:26:03.000 We're not always all going to agree on every issue.

00:26:07.000 And the H-1B issue is one of those.

00:26:09.000 But Elon showed some ability to compromise there.

00:26:13.000 And the bigger point, if we didn't have Twitter, Charlie, we didn't have anything.

00:26:18.000 I mean, you've got an army.

00:26:21.000 I mean, there's a Charlie Kirk army.

00:26:23.000 There's a Benny Johnson army.

00:26:24.000 There's an Elon army.

00:26:26.000 And these armies went to work.

00:26:29.000 You know, in the final three months leading up to November, and I'm convinced, you know, I really believe that there's social pressure involved in voting, and people talk to their friends, and I'm convinced that that social pressure had finally sort of abated, that you weren't allowed to talk about voting for Trump and weren't allowed to support President Trump publicly.

00:26:52.000 So I agree with you that, you know, the day that he first mentioned, hey, maybe I should buy Twitter.

00:26:58.000 You and I both know what that meant.

00:27:00.000 We could sort of see ahead and it turned out better than we could have imagined.

00:27:05.000 And, you know, and I'll throw it back by saying, you know, it's correct.

00:27:09.000 Other than, I can't think of his name now.

00:27:12.000 Oh, Reid Hoffman at LinkedIn.

00:27:14.000 Other than Reid Hoffman, we had Zuckerberg, we've had Bezos, all led by Elon Musk.

00:27:21.000 And it's just a fantastic feeling.

00:27:23.000 You know, last thing I'll say is it gives me hope.

00:27:26.000 What it makes me really feel is that we can grow this coalition for J.D. Vance, assuming he's our nominee, we can grow this coalition over the next 12 years.

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00:28:38.000 Mr. Kane, J.D. Vance, what does that mean for our movement moving forward?

00:28:45.000 Well, sorry.

00:28:46.000 I was just making vacation plans with my travel agent for a trip to Gulf of America, Charlie.

00:28:53.000 So hopefully I'll see you there.

00:28:55.000 I love it.

00:28:56.000 Yeah.

00:28:56.000 So, J.D. Vance, you remember – you're a junkie like you.

00:29:00.000 You remember all this.

00:29:00.000 You remember when J.D. was running third in the Ohio Senate Republican primary about two months before that primary?

00:29:09.000 So when, you know, you mentioned sort of believing in him first for the Senate, like there were dark days.

00:29:13.000 It's an amazing four or five years for J.D. and what's happened.

00:29:18.000 Here's the thing that people don't remember.

00:29:21.000 How did, you know, how did it sort of come about that J.D. became the vice presidential nominee?

00:29:27.000 People think back.

00:29:28.000 It all happened.

00:29:30.000 At the People's Convention in June of last summer.

00:29:34.000 If people remember, that was around June 13th, June 14th, I believe.

00:29:38.000 And there were a lot of names being thrown around at that point.

00:29:42.000 No one had sort of solidified on anything, even through the convention.

00:29:46.000 And Charlie and Andrew ran a straw poll.

00:29:50.000 TPUSA ran a big straw poll at the People's Convention in Detroit.

00:29:54.000 And that was the first time that J.D. sort of had started to rise.

00:29:59.000 Above the other candidates.

00:30:00.000 And I remember I get a call.

00:30:02.000 I got a call or a text from Charlie.

00:30:04.000 I'm driving home from Detroit.

00:30:06.000 And I pull over to the, he's like, he's like, you got to get this straw poll out, Ken.

00:30:11.000 You got it, you know, and it was, I think it was a Daily Mail had gotten that exclusive.

00:30:15.000 And I pulled over the highway and I got that published in bright red at the top of the stack that J.D. Vance was the overwhelming.

00:30:22.000 I remember the number.

00:30:23.000 I don't remember you.

00:30:24.000 I'll pause here.

00:30:25.000 What were those numbers on that straw poll?

00:30:27.000 It was overwhelming.

00:30:28.000 It was well over like 60 to 70 percent.

00:30:30.000 I mean, it was it was triumphant.

00:30:32.000 Yeah.

00:30:33.000 And that was it, though.

00:30:34.000 If you remember a week before that, J.D. Vance was sort of just in the mix with the other candidates polling equally.

00:30:40.000 So something happened and, you know, not exactly sure what that was.

00:30:45.000 It was probably a big some big influence from from from.

00:30:50.000 The base, as we all finally got together, right?

00:30:53.000 There had been no convention to that point.

00:30:55.000 That's another reason that was a great convention.

00:30:57.000 It brought the base and the people together in June.

00:31:02.000 And J.D. Vance was a favorite.

00:31:04.000 And he emerged out of there, and it was smooth sailing from there.

00:31:07.000 I think it wasn't any more than two or three weeks after that.

00:31:11.000 Maybe it was all the way at the convention that Trump, I don't remember when he announced that he had chosen J.D. But it's really interesting.

00:31:19.000 That he goes from third in the Senate primary in Ohio on the Republican side to winning that thing, to raising his profile for a couple of years in the Senate, and then really exploding last summer.

00:31:31.000 And I think what you said is correct about J.D. just being a really, really nice person.

00:31:37.000 You know him, so you're able to confirm that, but it comes across.

00:31:41.000 Correct, the best.

00:31:42.000 And the kids.

00:31:43.000 You know, the way his sons and daughter, they're just, they're great kids and the way they parent them is so relaxed and like the Thanksgiving video when I think JD was cooking with his son, no, his daughter, he was cooking with his daughter.

00:31:57.000 It's just sweet stuff.

00:31:59.000 These are real American people.

00:32:00.000 They're perfect populists.

00:32:02.000 So I'm super excited and I'll close it with just saying we really have a chance, Charlie.

00:32:08.000 You know, let's get Scott Pressler turning New Jersey into the next Pennsylvania.

00:32:13.000 Let's grow this working-class coalition, and let's win 60% for the next 12 years.

00:32:19.000 What do you think?

00:32:20.000 I love it.

00:32:21.000 I just think it's spectacular.

00:32:23.000 Kane, you are the greatest.

00:32:25.000 Seriously, you have been an uplifting, cheerful, consistent, based voice on this program for a couple years.

00:32:34.000 And we were in dark spots together, but we were always rallying.

00:32:38.000 We were talking about how we were going to get through it.

00:32:39.000 We were strategizing live on air.

00:32:42.000 And this is your victory, Cain.

00:32:43.000 You're the new Drudge.

00:32:44.000 You're bigger than Drudge.

00:32:45.000 How are the numbers, Cain?

00:32:47.000 Yesterday, Charlie, is the biggest day since the day after the election.

00:32:51.000 19 million page views in the last 24 hours.

00:32:54.000 And you're right.

00:32:55.000 It's not me, man.

00:32:56.000 All I do is work, yeah, but it's the people.

00:32:59.000 It's the people spreading the word, and yeah, we passed Drudge probably in November was the last time he's beaten us.

00:33:07.000 We're right about 500 million page views a month now, so it's outstanding.

00:33:11.000 That's unbelievable.

00:33:12.000 I've got to text you more links.

00:33:14.000 You're the greatest.

00:33:15.000 Kane, thanks so much.

00:33:17.000 God bless you.

00:33:18.000 This is your victory.

00:33:19.000 This is CFP's audience victory, citizenfreepress.com.

00:33:23.000 Kane, talk to you soon.

00:33:24.000 Thank you.

00:33:24.000 Talk to you soon.

00:33:25.000 Thank you.

00:33:26.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:33:27.000 Email us, as always, at freedom at charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - January 21, 2025

Liberation Day for the J6 Patriots

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