Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we have the first ever TV appearance of Citizen Kane, the founder of Citizen Free Press. He joins us to talk about how he got started in journalism, how he built one of the most powerful youth organizations in the country, and how he became a media sensation.
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00:03:59.000It was funny actually planning this with you, Kane.
00:04:01.000I mean, you were like four months out.
00:04:02.000You're like, hey, so I've got the hotel and I've got coverage already on the Friday and the Saturday on the stack from these.
00:04:09.000I mean, you had it all, you had to map your life out that much because you're that dedicated to tracking the news, updating the stack, keeping your readers informed.
00:04:19.000It was telling to me just to kind of work with you through the process of planning to be here.
00:04:24.000It's, you know, it's an unfortunate thing when you're dedicated to news and there are, you know, we've got 500,000 people or so who read these site every day, but they visit about six times each.
00:05:50.000I don't know if you caught it, but in that Texas special election, Gonzalez Brandon Herrera, that Herrera lost by 400 points, there were only 30,000 votes, and there's 500,000 registered voters.
00:07:14.000But between Ohio and that Brandon Herrera race, I think there's some troubling signs that we need to be aware of, and people need to get to work.
00:10:18.000The stuff that Turning Point has been able to put together in the last, well, I've been watching with admiration the last two or three years of these events that I haven't been able to attend.
00:10:31.000But this is, you know, there's 10,000 people here.
00:12:30.000Mark Elias went around in the six months before 2020, and he got laws changed in 30 states that allowed sort of this unlimited absentee ballot.
00:12:39.000And one of the big lessons that we learned is they don't do signature verification anymore.
00:12:45.000Now that everybody's getting absentee ballots, they stop doing signature.
00:12:49.000People may remember from the Kerry Lake lawsuit in Arizona.
00:12:53.000They showed that video clip of the person on the computer.
00:13:17.000And what everybody in this audience needs to understand is the low propensity, though.
00:13:21.000What everybody in this audience needs to understand is that Trump right now, according to polls, is up 11% on Biden with people that have only voted once in the last four elections.
00:13:56.000They like our ideas, but they're not engaged.
00:13:58.000You would be surprised and amazed at how many people like Donald Trump, like this movement, are drawn to it, but they're not in the process yet.
00:14:20.000And so we need to engage in every legal way we possibly can to make it too big to rig.
00:14:25.000And Kane, if our elections were actually honest and secure, what would the result end up being?
00:14:31.000Well, that's an incredibly difficult question to answer, but I think it would be, you know, it would be dominant.
00:14:36.000We don't know how many fake absentee ballots there were last time.
00:14:40.000Chris Kobach gave us an idea, a few hundred thousand.
00:14:44.000But what these guys are saying, I want people to understand what Turning Point Action, Turning Point USA has been doing over the last six months regarding chasing the vote.
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00:17:58.000What's your name and where are you from?
00:18:00.000Lisa Kreiser from Green Bay, Wisconsin.
00:18:03.000My husband and I drove through Manaseeek, Michigan, and went to a small coffee shop where somebody behind me was a Korean War veteran, 94 years old.
00:22:57.000How old were you when you first got exposed to the trans ideology?
00:23:01.000I was 10 years old and I had just started sixth grade in a new district that I'd never been to before.
00:23:07.000And so you were 10 years old and the whole adults outside of your parents, what did they want you to do?
00:23:16.000I had an art teacher who wanted me to draw sexually explicit things and he encouraged me to cut my hair short and wear wigs to school and told me that I looked better as a boy.
00:23:28.000And did certain adults want you to take hormones and irreversible type surgery or damage to yourself?
00:23:36.000My therapist at the time was trying to get me testosterone behind my parents' backs.
00:23:41.000But luckily before I, like right around when I turned 13, my parents pulled me out of therapy when they found out.
00:23:48.000And at 13 years old, there was a therapist that was trying to give you hormone blockers or testosterone.
00:23:55.000That therapist should be in prison, everybody.
00:24:12.000A lot of the times these kids are scared themselves and they're confused and they don't know what they're doing, especially if they're at the age that I was when they were being told that they should transition.
00:24:22.000So hold these adults accountable and like get them those prison sentences because like what are they doing?
00:25:25.000They actually had me on a waiting list for a couple weeks before I was pulled out of therapy.
00:25:32.000Everybody, this is one of the biggest issues happening in the country today.
00:25:36.000President Trump has come out and he said he wants to end all medical mutilations of children in this country.
00:25:44.000Ari, as someone who almost had to go under that surgery, how does that make you feel that President Trump is drawing that line and then Joe Biden says it's the loving thing to do to chop off 13 year olds' private parts?
00:25:56.000I think that the loving, the real loving thing to do would be to keep these children from doing those things.
00:26:02.000So it makes me really happy that Trump is going to prevent these things from happening because it's going to prevent a lot of pain from kids who would otherwise be transitioned and then regret it later.
00:26:13.000And I think Biden, honestly, we all know Biden.
00:26:17.000So, and Ari, there's parents out there that aren't sure what to do when it comes to this issue.
00:26:24.000What advice do you have to parents that are raising young boys and young girls how to prevent them from being captured by this trans ideology?
00:26:33.000Take them to church, pray over them, take them to prayer groups.
00:26:37.000I mean, if you have kids that are going through this, honestly, give them as much support as you can, but don't give in to their demands.
00:26:43.000My parents were firm on not, they didn't accept my pronouns that I wanted to be.
00:26:49.000Like they didn't accept the fact that I wanted to be a guy.
00:26:52.000Don't give in to it because then you're just furthering their delusion.
00:26:56.000Ari, so what you just said is that your parents did not accept your delusion.
00:27:02.000Do you know that in the state of California, Oregon, and Washington, if parents do not accept their kids' delusion, the state can take your kids from you?
00:27:11.000So what your parents did because they loved you, which saved your life, is illegal in the state of California, Washington, and Oregon.
00:27:20.000Ari, you are an amazing person and your willingness to speak out about this.
00:27:24.000And you have such courage as a detransitioner.
00:28:47.000The fact that we are doing an event in Detroit, Michigan, with nearly 10,000 people from all across the country and the Midwest, that is a statement and just a little bit of a coming attraction of what is coming in November.
00:29:00.000It's, I think, Steve Bannon called it the Bronx 2.0.
00:29:05.000We're going into the Lion's Den, into their territory, because we're going to take it back.
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00:37:53.000You know, we're sitting right now with him standing against the system, not allowing the justice system to, you know, curtail our vote in our opinion.
00:38:00.000Because to me, like Taryn said, I'm still going to vote for a felon.
00:38:03.000Because if you think about it, some of the people that we look up to, they had felonies.
00:38:06.000Just because when the people in power don't want you to be who you want to be and keep you from being in office, they will do what they can to keep you out of it because they know they can't beat them at the ballot box and they can't beat them in the streets.
00:38:17.000That's why we are here today at the People's Convention to let people know that people like me and Blexit and my whole family, we are 1,000% behind Donald J. Trump.
00:38:47.000But I've been called everything but a child of God.
00:38:49.000And what's funny is if you were a child of God, then you would see the truth in everything that someone's saying.
00:38:54.000Right now, the left is a master of manipulation and marketing, and they deceive us with the lies that have continually to peddle to the black community to keep us behind.
00:39:03.000We are victors, not victims, and I would never be a victim because that's not going to get you where the true freedom comes from.
00:39:10.000Where God says, and the Bible says, you know, if you love me, you keep my commandments, then you'll be my disciples.
00:39:16.000And then you would know the truth and the truth to set you free.
00:39:19.000So only the truth is going to set us free.
00:39:22.000And that's why we're here to talk about today.
00:39:24.000So Pierre, I want to get your thoughts on this.
00:39:26.000Talk about the importance of that victor versus victim mindset.
00:39:30.000Why the left focuses so much on victim and why that's something at Blexit you really hone in on?
00:39:34.000You know, I always say it's emotional manipulation.
00:39:36.000What we've learned through Blexit is that when we're on the ground, people actually, our message resonates with black Americans.
00:39:42.000We understand why the left has worked so hard to keep us out of these spaces because they didn't want us to have this conversation with them because they just might agree with us.
00:39:49.000And that's what we're finding out on the ground, right?
00:39:51.000So we go to HBCUs, we go into black churches, these places that we are going to, we are realizing more than ever that they are on our side.
00:40:00.000It's just they don't know that they're for Trump.
00:40:02.000And it takes groups like us to explain these things to them to get them to understand it.
00:40:05.000We're never saying don't learn what the left is saying until you learn everything, understand everything, and then make a decision for yourself.
00:44:46.000No one would have ever thought in a million years that Trump could pull that type of crowd in one of the bluest counties in New York City.
00:45:00.00030,000 people, poor minorities, white people, black people, Hispanic people, Asian people, Jewish people, all showed up and showed out for President Trump on that day.
00:45:15.000It was absolute magic that happened in the park that day.
00:45:20.000People didn't think that he could possibly pull those type of people or that type of crowd, but everyone was there and they loved him.
00:45:28.000Do you think that five years ago, Trump could have drew that kind of crowd?
00:45:42.000Those votes are ripe to be picked right now.
00:45:45.000They just need somebody to come in there like Trump did, all right, and show that he cares and that he's listening, that he's paying attention to the people.
00:46:32.000The issue is that people are so, have been so, allowed us to be so marginalized now that you feel like you don't have a voice because it's not other people around you speaking to the issues.
00:46:43.000So you stay quiet and you stay hidden and you stay behind the foreground.
00:48:40.000The reason that you have all of these people here and the reason why you have more people that look like us backing you is because you were unapologetic when you ran the first time.
00:48:48.000And there are those of us who remember that that culture used to love you.
00:48:52.000We remember who Trump was before the media started telling everybody that you was racist.
00:49:24.000When I say only, trust me, they are the only one.
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00:50:58.000I cannot express how excited I am to have this kind of energy, this kind of support and the movement coming out to my home state.
00:51:06.000I know the Great Lakes region in general, all of our field reps are incredible, and they've been working really hard to make sure that this thing is going to be top-notch, just like it is in Phoenix or in Florida when we have it.
00:51:16.000So yeah, we've got a great movement going on.
00:51:19.000Well, Charlie, we're really excited because we're showcasing the coalitions that are being built here in Michigan.
00:51:24.000So here we're going to be registering thousands of voters, sending people out to register thousands of voters, tens of thousands of voters, hopefully a multiplier effect, the force multiplier effect that we're going to see come out of this, and then building coalitions to ignite the moms, the Latinos in the state, the black community in the state.
00:52:02.000So like, for example, in the faith community alone, like our faith coalition is so important because in Michigan alone the past two elections, we've averaged only 8% of registered voters are actually showing up from the faith community and voting.
00:52:46.000You see, we have multiple individuals like Hassan, Nimi, and Ali.
00:52:51.000We have individuals that are now in our executive committee in the Michigan GOP because the community, they approached us, the Michigan Republican Party, just with such concern for what's happening and what they're forcing down on their kids and what the propaganda is that they're pushing onto them.
00:53:05.000They're coming out in droves and they're wanting to join and they're joining our faith coalitions here at Turning Point Action.
00:53:31.000That's like the hub around the entire U.S. for the Muslim Arab community.
00:53:35.000And they are coming and approaching us and wanting to get engaged because the left makes it so obvious what they're doing and pushing down on everybody else.
00:53:42.000So it's no question to them that they're going to at least have to deal with it.
00:53:47.000No, and Charlie, in addition to the Muslim community in Michigan, we have a really strong Christian Arab community.
00:53:54.000So the Chaldean community here in Michigan is huge.
00:53:58.000We're talking 60,000, 70, 80,000 voters who are leaving the Democrat Party in droves, realizing that being a Christian, being from Middle Eastern descent, there is no, makes no sense.
00:54:38.000That is a massive vote here in Wayne County, in Macomb County.
00:54:42.000That's at least 400 to 500,000 votes, right?
00:54:45.000If you count all the small businesses, the UAW, do you think Trump can win the muscular class UAW vote?
00:54:53.000There's no question in my mind that he can.
00:54:55.000If you go to every single one of his Trump rallies here in Michigan, you have the autoworkers that literally travel in droves to go to these Trump rallies.
00:55:04.000They're registering voters with us at Turning Point Action.
00:55:06.000They're literally going up there and speaking with President Trump at there and talking up and speaking up against their leadership and that they are not happy.
00:56:13.000I used to live in downtown Detroit with my cousin Larry for a couple of years, actually.
00:56:17.000And it was prior to the 2020 election.
00:56:19.000And you'd never see any support for President Trump in downtown Detroit or anything among the black community.
00:56:24.000But now you literally will be walking down Woodward and you'll have African Americans openly wearing Trump hats and saying, I'm going to elect that convicted felon.
00:57:26.000We can do even better in West Michigan.
00:57:28.000Tyler, I want to throw this one to you.
00:57:29.000There's this belief that we've kind of run up the score enough in West Michigan, that we can't squeeze that orange anymore.
00:57:36.000Can you talk about how if we're able to chase another 10 or 20,000 votes in Grand Rapids, in Holland, in Kalamazoo, in Sault Ste. Marie, in Patoski, in Traverse City?
01:00:14.000So at the end of the day, it's just about seeking truth and having that as our motivation to go back to Canada, go back to our corrupt universities, wear this hat, and see the reactions.
01:00:37.000She immigrated from Pakistan years ago, and she has a message, I believe, on our current immigration policies under Mr. Joe Biden.
01:00:47.000Well, I'm a Middle Eastern Christian that immigrated to the United States back in 2015, and I became a U.S. citizen back in 2022.
01:00:55.000I think we need to run the biggest deportation plan or Jenna program, whatever you guys want to call it, this year when President Trump gets into the office.
01:01:05.000And the reason why these people don't respect our flag.
01:01:08.000These people don't respect our country.
01:01:10.000And if they don't respect our country, how are we expecting them to be here and respect our laws because they just broke the first law entering the country legally?
01:01:38.000And then as soon as they get into the border, the left side Biden administration, they're handing them this paperwork to go vote for Biden.
01:01:48.000And if you don't know how this country is run, if you're not going through the proper procedure, then how are we expecting them to again respect everything that we do here?
01:01:58.000And because they don't, they just support that left agenda.
01:02:02.000They go out, they protest, they break the windows and destroy our colleges are destroying the country.
01:02:07.000We really need to stop everything that's happening here right now because it's time to save America.
01:02:21.000We had last month saving babies with pre-born by providing ultrasounds.
01:02:25.000And we're doing again this year what we did last year.
01:02:28.000We're going to stand for life because remaining silent in the face of the most radically pro-death administration is not an option.
01:02:33.000As Sir Edmund Burke said, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing, and we're not going to do nothing.
01:02:39.000Your gift to pre-born will give a girl the truth about what's happening in her body so that she can make the right choice.
01:04:12.000So was she saying you were partly responsible for her loss?
01:04:16.000Now, what did you do to contribute to such a prestigious accomplishment?
01:04:20.000I just simply pointed out the hypocrisy of what the Democratic Party has always been.
01:04:26.000This is the same party, Andrew, that fought against the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendment, same party that gave you the KKK, same party that gave you the Jim Crow laws, and it's the same party that cannot identify gender.
01:04:41.000Right, but they're not biologists, most of them.
01:04:44.000So, let me ask you this: you know, you made a really important point there, and I don't want to gloss over it.
01:04:49.000We don't have a ton of time here, but Bishop, I was told the party switched.
01:06:23.000So, what do you hope to see at this event?
01:06:26.000What do you think needs to be done from a, you know, we're seeing that the black, and I respect that.
01:06:32.000I respect your answer so much, but we're seeing that the black community specifically might be 20, 23, 25% in favor of Trump.
01:06:39.000What message do we need to be sending to the black community here at a place like Detroit?
01:06:43.000I look at this as sort of Bronx 2.0, right?
01:06:46.000Where you go into a place where you're not welcome, where at least they tell you you're not welcome, and then you see all the support, right?
01:06:56.000I think Donald Trump is really already doing that.
01:06:59.000And I'm on the side, not just because I traveled within candidate Trump, but I believe the election was stolen.
01:07:05.000I think that there were more blacks and brown people that voted for Donald Trump in 2020 than that, obviously, that we know.
01:07:12.000So I think if his message just keeps registering and he really doesn't have to do a whole lot other than amplify the horrific inept ability of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.
01:07:43.000And by the way, that is such a image of our country right now where you see working men and women, the muscular class, the people that shower before work and after work, they're behind Trump.
01:08:02.000They want to make sure that their agendas push forward and they can continue to collect dollars from the average guy and girl, but people are not buying into the lie anymore.
01:08:12.000That's why we're here to support what we're doing.