The Charlie Kirk Show - The Bulletproof Donald J. Trump

Jack Posopuk and Joshua Lysick join the show to discuss their new book, Bulletproof, and why you should vote early in the mid-term election. They also discuss why it's so important to vote early and why we should all vote early. They also talk about why they think Trump is going to win North Carolina and why they believe he's going to take the state in 2020. And they give their thoughts on the latest in the Trump vs. Hillary Clinton race and why it could be the most important election in the history of our nation's history. And they also give their best Daily Wire impression of Jeremy Boring, the host of the Daily Wire show on CBS Radio's "The Daily Wire" in the South. You won't want to miss it! Thanks to our sponsor, Noble Gold Investments. Noble Gold is the official gold sponsor of The Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold and precious metals. Learn how you can protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at NobleGoldInvestments.com. That's where I buy all of my gold. That is noblegoldinvestments. I buy a copy of the book Bulletproof here. You get 20% off the first issue of Bulletproof and I can't wait to read it on the next episode of the Charlie Kirker Show! FREE PRICING HERE! If you like the show, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and become a patron! Subscribe to Freedom at CharlieKirk.co/theCharlieKirk to get 10% off your first month of the year! and receive 20% of the entire year for the rest of the month, plus an additional 3 months off the year, plus a FREE shipping discount when you buy the book and get an ad discount, and a FREE VIP membership when you become a member of the show becomes available for the first month, and get a discount of $50 or two months get $25 or more. FREE Mentioned in-app betwee and more! Learn more about your ad-free version of The Weekly Standard begins shipping starts in the show starts next month! Thanks, Charlie Kirk is giving you an ad-only version of Charlie Kirk's new book "Bulletproof: Bulletproofing the book " Bulletproof! Click here to get 15% off my book "The Bulletproof Book" starts on Nov. 1st and more than $50,000 in the second month.

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, here on The Charlie Kirk Show.

00:00:01.000 Joshua Lysick and Jack Posopuk with a new book, Bulletproof.

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00:00:16.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:17.000 Here we go.

00:00:18.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:16.000 Okay, everybody, let me tell you one of the reasons why we vote early.

00:01:18.000 By the way, Andrew, my co-pilot and producer is here.

00:01:21.000 I'm getting reports in North Carolina that Democrats are kind of throwing up their hands like volunteers.

00:01:27.000 And they're saying there's just so much Trump surge, they don't think they can win North Carolina, and they're just starting to kind of give up in the mountains.

00:01:33.000 Now, that's just anecdotal.

00:01:34.000 That doesn't mean that we're going to win.

00:01:36.000 What I'm saying, though, is one of the reasons you vote early is that you kind of punch the enemy in the face a little bit, metaphorically.

00:01:41.000 You see what I'm saying, Andrew?

00:01:42.000 You kind of come in strong, and all of a sudden the bad guys are like, oh my goodness, we don't have the margins.

00:01:47.000 You see, the Democrats, they tend to be kind of lazy.

00:01:50.000 And not all of them, but they're very much on vibes.

00:01:54.000 I was going to say, I don't know if it's lazy so much as...

00:01:57.000 It's a better word for it.

00:01:58.000 Because actually, I would say, historically, they've been more active than we have.

00:02:02.000 Of course.

00:02:03.000 Because that's their God, that's their church.

00:02:05.000 Conservatives build their families, build their businesses.

00:02:08.000 Democrats like to meddle in national politics.

00:02:11.000 That's their pastime.

00:02:12.000 That's their religion.

00:02:13.000 But what I would say is...

00:02:16.000 Going back to our dichotomy between conservatives and progressives, conservatives thrive off optimism and progressives thrive off being their backs against the wall.

00:02:28.000 But that is different than being dejected, right?

00:02:32.000 Feeling hopeless.

00:02:33.000 And again, I'm not saying we're going to win, but there is a dejection that's happening.

00:02:37.000 Well, no, in North Carolina.

00:02:40.000 They were expecting to lose that.

00:02:41.000 Let's get to our terrific guests here.

00:02:43.000 Okay, everyone, I want you to listen carefully.

00:02:44.000 You've got to go buy this book.

00:02:45.000 Jack is doing amazing work.

00:02:47.000 The turnaround on this is just terrific.

00:02:50.000 Jack is a great friend, a super patriot.

00:02:52.000 He's been all in on all the good stuff.

00:02:54.000 We do a lot of things together.

00:02:56.000 It's Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lysick.

00:02:58.000 Did I say that right?

00:02:59.000 Yes, you did.

00:03:00.000 Guys, welcome to the program.

00:03:01.000 Jack, how on earth did you turn around a book this fast and introduce our audience to it?

00:03:04.000 It's called Bulletproof.

00:03:05.000 Tell the audience about it.

00:03:06.000 Yeah, Charlie, thanks so much.

00:03:07.000 By the way, is that an Airbnb or what, guys?

00:03:09.000 You look great over there.

00:03:10.000 This is like, of all the road shows that we've been doing this year, it's like the best one.

00:03:16.000 It's our best Daily Wire impression.

00:03:18.000 Yeah, we're trying our best to look like the Daily Wire.

00:03:25.000 We've got Jeremy Boring in the corner.

00:03:27.000 We mean this as positively as possible.

00:03:30.000 We love the Daily Wire.

00:03:31.000 Since we're in the South, how can we look as if we're hosting a Michael Moore show?

00:03:36.000 We're in Georgia, but we want it to feel like Tennessee.

00:03:38.000 You need the hanging light bulbs now, like Glenn Beck.

00:03:42.000 Like the little incandescent.

00:03:46.000 Oh, man.

00:03:47.000 Yeah, so no.

00:03:48.000 So, yeah, no, honestly, we had the earlier book this year, and thank you for having us on and the great intro there.

00:03:55.000 And by the way, I have my I Voted sticker because, yes, even in the great state of Pennsylvania, just like all the swing states, you can vote early.

00:04:04.000 So make sure you do that.

00:04:05.000 It's never been as easy as it is right now.

00:04:07.000 So you go vote right now.

00:04:09.000 Pause on that thought really quick.

00:04:10.000 So explain that for Pennsylvania.

00:04:12.000 I know we want to talk about your book, but it's county by county in Pennsylvania, correct?

00:04:16.000 Or is it statewide?

00:04:17.000 So each county, it's county by county.

00:04:19.000 So each of the 67 counties are slightly different on this.

00:04:24.000 And they have their own different hours and times on this.

00:04:28.000 But generally what they have is a situation where it's not early voting, but what it is is de facto early voting.

00:04:37.000 What do I mean by this?

00:04:38.000 What I mean is you can go even on the weekend to the county board of elections or to various, they have like mobile election centers that are set up around the counties in some areas.

00:04:48.000 They'll do events and like parks.

00:04:49.000 They were doing an event in a park.

00:04:50.000 We were in McKee's Rocks with Elon Musk on Sunday and they were doing one down the street.

00:04:55.000 Yeah, in the Pittsburgh area.

00:04:57.000 And what you do is you request an absentee ballot.

00:05:00.000 So you request a mail-in ballot in person.

00:05:02.000 They hand it to you.

00:05:04.000 You fill it out.

00:05:05.000 You put it in the envelope.

00:05:06.000 You hand it right back.

00:05:07.000 So there's no post office involved.

00:05:10.000 There's no Dropbox involved.

00:05:11.000 You don't even put a stamp on it.

00:05:13.000 You literally just hand it right back to them.

00:05:15.000 And so you can do this in person.

00:05:16.000 My mom actually is the I don't like it.

00:05:38.000 I, you know, maybe I'll bring my, you know, they'll say, I'll bring my, I'll bring my mail-in ballot to the polls on election day.

00:05:44.000 And it's like, guys, why not?

00:05:46.000 Why not even just do it right now?

00:05:48.000 Literally, you can just drive down to the election board.

00:05:51.000 But I always tell people, just check with your county because each county, as you say, does have slight differences in terms of the times.

00:05:57.000 In terms of the ways that you do it, but in all of the big counties that I've been traveling around in, going up to Scranton, going down to the Philadelphia area, going out to the Pittsburgh area, going into the Harrisburg area, State College, etc., where Charlie and I were, that's basically been the same, that system.

00:06:13.000 So Jack, thank you for that.

00:06:15.000 And everyone needs to go vote now.

00:06:17.000 And so tell us about your book, Jack.

00:06:18.000 Look, you know, getting this out so quickly because we had the early one with the anti-communism book.

00:06:24.000 And we talked about essentially, we put out this thesis that America is in an irregular communist revolution.

00:06:28.000 It was very successful.

00:06:29.000 We were very blessed to have a good run on that.

00:06:32.000 And people said, yeah, it does look like we're in a communist irregular revolution.

00:06:37.000 It was called Unhumans. 0.98

00:06:39.000 And we went through the history of that.

00:06:41.000 And then as that book was coming out, two things happened.

00:06:44.000 Number one, Steve Bannon, who wrote the forward to that book, was sent to jail as a political prisoner.

00:06:49.000 And then number two, just about two weeks after that book came out, Donald Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania.

00:06:57.000 And as we were in the course of basically doing the press for the previous book, my co-author Joshua, who's here, he came to me and said, Jack, we need to write a book about this.

00:07:07.000 And I said, there's no way.

00:07:08.000 There's no way we can possibly get it out in time.

00:07:10.000 We'll never be able to do it.

00:07:11.000 And he said, we can do it.

00:07:12.000 And then I said, well, there's no way our publisher would want to do this.

00:07:15.000 And then, of course, the publisher hits us up from Skyhorse and says, you guys need to write a book about this.

00:07:19.000 Because this is something that, unfortunately, we had actually predicted in the prior book, is that if we were in a regular communist revolution, what are some of the things we would see?

00:07:28.000 We would see political prisoners, we would see lawfare, and we would see political assassination attempts.

00:07:33.000 And then all three of those things happen within two weeks of the book coming out.

00:07:37.000 And so we put it together and just a huge labor of love, a lot of late nights, a lot of deep research as much as possible.

00:07:46.000 And then as we're putting the final touches on it, they try it again.

00:07:51.000 And this was September 15th.

00:07:53.000 Well, of course, a manuscript had actually been due on September 12th.

00:07:56.000 So I got to make that fun phone call and use that great Hollywood phrase, stop the presses.

00:08:02.000 But Charlie, I know you know that I also got to learn that in real life when you say stop the presses, it's actually very expensive to stop the presses because you've obviously been printing and so you have to scrap and pulp everything that's been printed up to that point.

00:08:15.000 But I said, guys, They just try to do this again, and we need to get that information in there because this second one has direct ties to Ukraine, direct ties to the Azov Battalion, direct ties to a lot of the shady stuff that this election is all about.

00:08:30.000 But most importantly, the idea is that no one's talking about this.

00:08:35.000 It's just not been part of the zeitgeist.

00:08:37.000 We all saw a miracle happen on July 13th.

00:08:39.000 It needs to be out there.

00:08:41.000 And I think most importantly, just on a personal level, I think the We're good to go.

00:09:00.000 That's his father.

00:09:02.000 That is the grandfather of his kids.

00:09:05.000 And so it was just very special that he was able to do that for us.

00:09:09.000 And that's just the kind of people the Trumps are.

00:09:11.000 That if you ask them for help with something, they will come in and help you as much as they can.

00:09:16.000 And it was just an incredible experience.

00:09:18.000 And yeah, we've got the book out and it comes out today.

00:09:20.000 And we've even got, in fact, more information than is in the public record.

00:09:25.000 Because I said, I don't want to just run around and like, You know, pull a bunch of the articles together.

00:09:29.000 I need to produce something new so we even have new information in this that has not yet been revealed.

00:09:34.000 I mean, as you were talking about that, Jack, I just kept thinking to myself, like, you know, of all the times I wish Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lysak were not right, this would be the time.

00:09:45.000 And what a tragedy that you were right, frankly, and that you were, you know, I think a lot of people with these types of topics think, oh, you're being hyperbolic, you're being, you know, you're intentionally provocative, like, actually, you were spot on and what a tragedy.

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00:11:07.000 Joshua, how did you guys turn around this book so quickly?

00:11:10.000 Tell us.

00:11:11.000 Yes, so the moment that I had heard that Donald Trump had survived an assassination attempt, I was sitting in a Thai restaurant and one of the Moms for Liberty ladies texts me.

00:11:24.000 And she texted me, this one text, She said, referencing my book, So Good They Call You a Fake.

00:11:30.000 And I have like a little shtick about that. 0.98

00:11:31.000 She said, so good they tried to kill you.

00:11:34.000 That was just her one text message. 0.98

00:11:36.000 And I see that and I thought, someone just tried to shoot Trump.

00:11:40.000 But they failed.

00:11:41.000 That was my first thought.

00:11:43.000 My first thought when I saw it.

00:11:44.000 And of course, I opened up my my ex and a telegram and there's 50 messages waiting for me about this.

00:11:50.000 And I'm sitting there watching the video.

00:11:54.000 And My mind flashes back immediately to when I turned on the television at 10 years old and I saw the first tower fall on September 11th.

00:12:04.000 It was that sort of a moment.

00:12:07.000 And being a youngster at that time, I was an observer.

00:12:13.000 But this time, I realized that this story, I would find myself a participant in.

00:12:21.000 And I had had a chat with Jack.

00:12:23.000 And immediately that very same day, I began writing about this.

00:12:28.000 And the way I started the writing was I asked myself if this was written as if it were a novel with that sort of story element and the narrative and the emotion and the vibe and the feel that was compelling in that way versus a Wikipedia-style recitation of facts, true and false.

00:12:50.000 I began writing the first chapter, which is now the first chapter, the opening chapter, The seconds leading up to the seconds of and the seconds following the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt.

00:13:02.000 I began writing it that very night, July 13th, that Saturday.

00:13:07.000 It was in the following days that we began working on this more.

00:13:11.000 And we looked at some of the best-selling books that cover the JFK assassination and how those were structured.

00:13:19.000 We looked at Roger Stone.

00:13:20.000 We looked at others that have been successful.

00:13:22.000 And we began structuring an outline for this book based on that.

00:13:25.000 And my process with books is I like to do the hard stuff first.

00:13:29.000 And the most difficult part of any book is the structure.

00:13:32.000 What goes where in what order and how deep do you get into the material?

00:13:35.000 And so that was the process is laying out those nine days in July, how everything changed, how this shot meant for Donald Trump took out Joe Biden.

00:13:45.000 And then after that failed, they tried again.

00:13:50.000 They tried again.

00:13:51.000 And so the process of first getting the outline and then going from outline to opening hook for each chapter.

00:14:00.000 And then Jack, meanwhile, is Sending me every five minutes, three or four links or PDFs or reports or interview transcripts that he's had.

00:14:10.000 All of the above he is getting me and it's a compilation process and is turning facts and figures and tweets and interview transcripts and all that into narrative so that the final product, the bulletproof book, it reads like a whodunit mystery, but it's nonfiction.

00:14:29.000 And furthermore, What Jack spearheaded was this private investigation into the life and times of the butler shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks and did his deep dive digging into Ryan Wesley Routh and his background.

00:14:42.000 He broke some stories related to both of those through his show and through his reporting and we have even more material on both of that that is exclusive reporting and it's inside of the private investigative report that appears inside the Bulletproof book.

00:14:57.000 The unfortunate aspect of this is yes, We do believe that it was a miracle that Donald J. Trump survived.

00:15:05.000 But our reality seems to be one that has two sides.

00:15:09.000 There's a give and there's a take.

00:15:11.000 And Charlie, you would appreciate this as well.

00:15:14.000 In order for there to be redemption, there must be sacrifice.

00:15:17.000 We don't live in a get-out-of-jail-free-card reality.

00:15:20.000 There's no free lunch.

00:15:21.000 And a life was spared that day, we believe, and a life was taken.

00:15:28.000 It was given up that day, Cori Compertori.

00:15:31.000 And when Jack and I returned to the Butler, Pennsylvania rally, that was the famous return to Butler.

00:15:37.000 We were in the front row.

00:15:39.000 There was Elon and JD over there.

00:15:41.000 And it was a remarkable moment.

00:15:43.000 But Cori Compertori's widow and daughters were near us.

00:15:47.000 And they passed by us and we were near them.

00:15:50.000 And you could tell they were not having a good day.

00:15:53.000 Not a good day for them.

00:15:55.000 The consolation though, of course, was that What they witnessed was 100,000 people surrounding them in grieving with him and celebrating the life of this great American hero.

00:16:09.000 And of course, when Lee Greenwood is up there singing God Bless the USA, and there's that line about remembering those men who died to give that right to me as an American, all of us are thinking that's Cori Compertori.

00:16:25.000 All of us are thinking that.

00:16:27.000 It was a beautiful, profound moment, memorable moment.

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00:17:31.000 The book is called Bulletproof.

00:17:32.000 Jack, let me ask you, in your research of this book, what did you learn about Trump almost dying a couple millimeters away that you want our audience to know?

00:17:40.000 What was the most shocking piece of information that you learned?

00:17:44.000 And did the shooter act alone?

00:17:46.000 Well, that's exactly what I was going to say, Charlie.

00:17:49.000 So look, I don't trust the federal government.

00:17:51.000 I think that's something that probably all of us in the MAGA and MAHA and just libertarian and whatever you want to call it sphere all share is that we don't trust the feds or the crypto guys, etc.

00:18:03.000 And the idea being here that we should just trust the FBI and the CIA and the Secret Service, and they're going to put out all the information that we want, especially when the House is coming out saying that the Female lead agent on this only had four years on the job at the Secret Service, four years out of Fletzi, which is their academy down in Brunswick, Georgia.

00:18:25.000 Or the fact that the guy who was operating the drone only had done one online course in drone work before this and spent most of the day on customer service and customer support.

00:18:34.000 No.

00:18:36.000 We don't trust them, and we hired our own private investigators who are licensed in the state of Pennsylvania.

00:18:42.000 They're operating, and by the way, continue to operate in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania and Butler, Pennsylvania and thereabouts, because we want to find out through the shoe leather reporting, knocking on doors, going to the gun range, going to various places associated with Thomas Matthew Crooks and being a little cagey about that, but it all will be explained in due time to find out really what was going on.

00:19:09.000 And look, knocking on the doors of his neighbors and finding out that there were cars and vehicles going to visit that home in days and weeks leading up to the shooting.

00:19:21.000 device analysis.

00:19:22.000 We actually did device analysis that goes beyond what Heritage Action put out or Heritage Oversight put out.

00:19:28.000 Yeah, Jack, so you're getting at something that is kind of one of those long running rumors online that you're not going to hear about from official sources.

00:19:37.000 You're talking about he had devices that were encrypted, had overseas connections.

00:19:45.000 I don't know much about it because, you know, a lot of the details that I've seen have not been reliably sourced.

00:19:51.000 What can you tell us?

00:19:53.000 I mean, I don't want to give away the book.

00:19:54.000 People should all go buy it.

00:19:55.000 But, I mean, give us a little granularity on this because it's super fascinating and I think we're all curious.

00:20:02.000 Yeah, so two things.

00:20:03.000 First of all, yes, regarding the foreign encrypted email accounts, it does look like he used those to procure some of the weapons or at least the ammo that he used, maybe not the gun itself, which he bought from his father, which, by the way, we broke the story in the course of researching this, that Eric Olshan, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, has opened a grand jury investigation into this and more than likely is looking at the father.

00:20:27.000 You can see that based on the Defense firm that he's hired.

00:20:30.000 And we've also been able to see just through our own reporting that it does look like he was in communication with some devices that have, I will just say they have the profile of burner phones, phones that were active for periods of time.

00:20:44.000 They go dormant for long periods of time, come active again late at night in locations that are quite remote, not like, you know, a work or a home, but, you know, these remote locations, they become active, then go dormant again, both leading up to on the day before, on the day of the shooting.

00:21:02.000 And then after the shooting, even these devices, these burner like devices stay active.

00:21:08.000 So that's something that we're following up on.

00:21:10.000 And again, the information about the grand jury investigation, which I guess Politico and the Washington Post and the New York Times just really weren't interested in.

00:21:17.000 But, you know, Joshua Lysak and I found that out just doing basic document requests in the area.

00:21:22.000 And one of the document requests that we did came back and said, hey, we can't give you that from the Allegheny Community College said we can't do that because those are subject to a grand jury subpoena.

00:21:30.000 And we're like...

00:21:31.000 What grand jury subpoena are you talking about there, guys?

00:21:35.000 So we pulled on that thread and we're able to figure that out.

00:21:39.000 And again, as a public university, they have to put that information out unless there's an investigation.

00:21:44.000 Jack, I have a question for you.

00:21:45.000 If you were to psychologically profile the two assassination attempts, the would-be assassins, Do you see commonalities between the two?

00:21:57.000 Are they completely distinct and different?

00:21:59.000 Or are you seeing through lines that connect them?

00:22:03.000 You know, some, perhaps.

00:22:05.000 You know, I actually had a conversation with Noah Formica of Turning Point Action, who, as it turns out, interacted with Thomas Matthew Crooks.

00:22:14.000 You can see him in that sort of TikTok video where Crooks was walking around the vendor area and Turning Point had the, you know, had the sign-up sheet and Noah, just doing his job, is saying, hey, are you registered to vote?

00:22:25.000 Would you like to register?

00:22:26.000 You registered your current address, absentee ballot, all that, like we were talking about earlier.

00:22:30.000 And he said Crooks was It was very arrogant to him and sort of stuck his nose up in the air, wouldn't respond, but he said he almost scoffed.

00:22:40.000 He said he almost scoffed with an arrogance of some sort, or as if he had some sort of secret knowledge about something that was about to happen, as if almost, you know, looking back through it, In hindsight, almost if he knew that he would be able to get up on the building.

00:22:56.000 And by the way, he was not walking around with his backpacks.

00:22:59.000 We still don't know to this point where exactly the gun was when he was walking around.

00:23:03.000 I'm sure that Noah Formica and probably everybody would have stopped him if they saw him with a gun walking around.

00:23:09.000 And then to compare that.

00:23:11.000 But by the way, something that people don't understand about Crooks as well, extremely high intelligence.

00:23:15.000 This is a guy who was involved with robotics, was involved with programming, and had scored a 1,500 on his SATs.

00:23:22.000 But he only had an associate's degree, and he was working at a nursing home as a dietary aide.

00:23:26.000 So, question, you know, why do that?

00:23:29.000 Then, Ryan Wesley Ruth, this guy, Ruth was more...

00:23:34.000 Prone, I would say, to flights of fancy.

00:23:37.000 He had a lot of main character syndrome, I guess, is what you would call it psychologically.

00:23:43.000 You know, he believes he's this dashing figure who's going off to Ukraine to fight evil and save the world.

00:23:49.000 He wrote a manifesto of sorts and uploaded the entire thing to Amazon, which You know, we have where he's talking about trying to get foreign fighters from Afghanistan and bring them to Ukraine and going on and on and on about how Donald Trump needs to support Ukraine more and how this is the fight for freedom and the fight for heroes.

00:24:09.000 So I would say there's a contrast because while one has these delusions of grandeur, but Perhaps where the similarity lies is one has delusions of grandeur in that they think that they are the main character of these great epochs of history and that by perhaps taking out Donald Trump, and again, he even wrote this dead man's letter that he gave to his neighbor talking about a bounty on Trump that Trump needs to be taken out, and the DOJ, of course, puts that out without any redactions.

00:24:37.000 We go, thanks so much, DOJ, really appreciate that.

00:24:40.000 Talk about intent.

00:24:41.000 And then second, whereas with Crooks, again, that arrogance, that belief that perhaps he was superior, that belief that I'm going to take this guy out.

00:24:52.000 Remember, Crooks is an ActBlue donor to do so in order to achieve notoriety.

00:24:59.000 And, you know, people have tried to put him more in a school shooter type of vein where, you know, he'd been looking up Ethan Crumbly and some of the other school shooters.

00:25:09.000 And so, you know, it does seem, though, that both did so looking for fame, looking for celebrity, looking for doing something where they'd be able to make their mark on the world stage.

00:25:20.000 And both of them viewed taking out Donald Trump as the best way that they would be celebrated by The media is celebrated by history, and I think that it really is an indictment of our times to thinking that killing a man, a father, and a grandfather, and of course, by the way, Cory Campatore was also killed in all of this, was murdered, and his family deserves answers on this.

00:25:42.000 That psychologically, we live in a society where half of the country kind of thought it would be good.

00:25:49.000 And I think there's a polling that 32% of the country wished that the assassin's bullet on July 13th had found purchase.

00:25:57.000 Joshua, let me ask you, in your research of this, we only have about two and a half minutes remaining.

00:26:02.000 Do you believe that the United States Secret Service was at any point compromised?

00:26:07.000 This is an interesting question because it's one that has been largely ignored in both the mainstream and alternative spaces where we see the phrase security failures, multiple security failures, unprecedented security failures.

00:26:20.000 We believe that that's going in the wrong direction.

00:26:23.000 And in fact, what if these security failures were in fact tactical successes?

00:26:29.000 So when we went to Butler, Jack's been there a couple of times now, and we scooped this whole place out.

00:26:33.000 What we noticed is how deep in the pocket of presidential security, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was we noticed his behavior on video and in images and from multiple bystanders and eyewitnesses.

00:26:46.000 He's acting calm, cool, collected, confident, and as Jack pointed out, cocky.

00:26:51.000 This is not somebody who's acting like he needs to hide or is concerned about getting caught.

00:26:57.000 And with all the security failures that just so happened to all happen on that same day, we did a little social experiment.

00:27:03.000 We ran the probability and we found That there is a one in one septillion chance that Thomas Matthew Crooks was 140 yards away with a firearm at the same time on the same day that all these other security failures are all happening all at once.

00:27:21.000 The odds of that happening all by chance probability is one in one septillion, which is the equivalent of flipping a coin and it lands on heads 93 times in a row.

00:27:33.000 That's the probability.

00:27:35.000 Andrew?

00:27:36.000 I mean, I'm laughing because I am not a conspiracy theorist, but of course.

00:27:44.000 And Jack, you kind of started out this whole interview by saying, I don't trust the federal government.

00:27:48.000 And the Democrats will tell you that that's terrible and our side is corrosive on the institutions of America, whatever.

00:27:56.000 It's like, no guys, you didn't earn it.

00:27:58.000 We've been through this so many times, whether it be COVID, whether it be laptop from hell, whether it be any number of things.

00:28:05.000 And we just don't trust these people anymore.

00:28:08.000 And I laugh because, you know, you either laugh or cry at this state of things because I want to trust our authorities and I just, you know, I think it's terrible for our country that we can't and that we don't.

00:28:19.000 Any thinking person wouldn't.

00:28:21.000 And that's the truth, an unfortunate truth at that.

00:28:27.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

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00:29:32.000 Look, we chose the cover of the book as the image that was not the sort of iconic Trump with his arm up in the air.

00:29:42.000 We chose a different image.

00:29:44.000 And this is the moment just before that moment.

00:29:47.000 This is Trump as you've never seen him before.

00:29:49.000 We've seen Trump raise his hand before.

00:29:51.000 We've seen him lead the great crowds.

00:29:52.000 We've seen him do everything.

00:29:54.000 We've seen him at McDonald's this weekend, for example, in Philly.

00:29:57.000 But something you've never seen Donald Trump do prior to that moment was get on his knees and pray and humble himself in public.

00:30:10.000 You've never seen this before.

00:30:12.000 And Charlie, you know that we see this throughout the Bible, that God uses the lesson of humility and becoming humble when he wants to raise up a great leader.

00:30:25.000 And for all of the incredible attributes and qualities that Donald Trump has, I don't know that humility is something that I'd put on the top of the list.

00:30:32.000 But there seems to have been since this moment, in this very moment where it looks as though he's in prayer.

00:30:39.000 I'm just going to say it.

00:30:40.000 I believe that he spoke to his creator in that moment.

00:30:44.000 And that's what gave him the strength to then raise himself up on his feet.

00:30:52.000 As bullets were flying, something you've never seen and talked to anybody, SEAL Team 6, Delta Force, whatever, that you don't get up when there's bullets flying, when the snipers come out.

00:31:02.000 No, you stay down and you get to your SUV, you get to your Humvee, whatever it is, you get out of there, get off the X.

00:31:08.000 That's what you're taught.

00:31:09.000 He didn't do that.

00:31:10.000 He got back up.

00:31:11.000 And I argue that the only way that that could have happened was through the aid of supernatural help.

00:31:17.000 And that's why we put that on the cover.

00:31:20.000 And then Donald Trump actually just last night really at this...

00:31:24.000 Yeah, let's play that really quick.

00:31:26.000 We got to play it, then we got to say goodbye.

00:31:28.000 Oh, you have it.

00:31:28.000 Let's play Cut 50.

00:31:30.000 And my faith took on new meaning on July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania, where I was...

00:31:39.000 Knocked to the ground, essentially, by what seemed like a supernatural hand.

00:31:48.000 And I would like to think that God saved me for a purpose, and that's to make our country greater than ever before.

00:31:59.000 Final thoughts, Jack.

00:32:00.000 30 seconds.

00:32:01.000 Look, we've seen this.

00:32:02.000 This is Donald Trump getting out.

00:32:05.000 And invoking Christianity in a way that we've never seen.

00:32:08.000 And this story needs to get out there.

00:32:10.000 And that's why I want to say thank you, Charlie, for everything that you're doing and for giving us the opportunity to get this book out.

00:32:15.000 Because people need to remember, we saw a miracle.

00:32:18.000 And don't let the media cover this up.

00:32:20.000 Jack, thank you so much.

00:32:21.000 Really appreciate it.

00:32:22.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:32:23.000 And Joshua as well.

00:32:24.000 Check out the book Bulletproof right now.

00:32:25.000 That is Bulletproof.

00:32:26.000 Check it out.

00:32:27.000 Purchase it and get it right now.

00:32:29.000 Great job, guys.

00:32:29.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:32:31.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:32:33.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - October 22, 2024

The Bulletproof Donald J. Trump

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