Robbie Starbuck joins the program to talk about the War on Children, Tractor Supply, and James Clyburn. We have Mark Paoletta to discuss all the Supreme Court news, and more. Become a Member today! That is Memberscharliekirk.org/Member_CharlieKirk. You can also become a Friend of The Charlie Kirk Show by becoming a Patron today! It s where I buy all of my gold. That is Noble Gold Investments. That is a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you can protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments. Go to NobleGoldInvestments.com/TheCharlieKirkShow. Learn how to protect your gold investments at NobleGold.investments. That s Noble Gold, Inc. and Physical Delivery of Precious Metals. In this episode, we discuss: 1. The Supreme Court's ruling on the President's immunity from prosecution. 2. Why President Trump should be treated as a King. 3. Why the President should have the same immunity as any other president. 4. How the Constitution provides for checks and balances. 5. What makes a strong president? 6. Why a strong President is not a weak President. 7. Who needs to be strong? 8. What does the Constitution mean? And so much more! 9. What are we fighting for? 10. What do we need in the Constitution? 11. What is the Constitution for us to do? And what does it mean for us? 12. What can we need? 13. What s the Constitution do we have to have a strong country? 14. And what are we need a strong government? 15. And so on and so on? We need a Constitution that s a Constitution to make us a strong and a good government, and a strong Constitution, etc. And we can we have a Constitution with a Constitution and a Constitution in a strong system of checks and a system that s not a good thing? etc. And we need to be a president that s an American citizen ? We also get it all of this in a charter, right to a charter and a law that s got it all right to have it all so that he can be a good and a right to be treated like that? & so on, etc., etc. etc.
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00:01:25.000Joining us now is Mark Paoletta, who's an amazing senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America, personal friend of Justice Thomas, and—doesn't have to say anything—I think he'd be a great Attorney General of the United States if we get a second Trump term.
00:01:52.000The Supreme Court decided what everyone in America has known for many, many years, and the Supreme Court has essentially held for many years, which is that the President of the United States has immunity for his official acts.
00:02:07.000The Supreme Court touched on that in 1981 in the Fitzgerald case.
00:02:14.000As John Roberts points out, the whole structure of our government, the separation of powers, requires that the president has immunity.
00:02:21.000It's only because the left, in this unprecedented lawfare to go after President Trump on every conceivable, despicable level, did they indict him to try and take him out as the opponent in 2024.
00:02:39.000So the Supreme Court says, we've never dealt with this before.
00:02:42.000The reason why that is, is because no other party, no other administration has tried to attack a former president like the Democrats are doing now.
00:02:51.000So what they did was they said, look, Um, you know, the President needs this protection.
00:02:58.000It's written into the Constitution in the sense that our separation of powers makes it clear that the President and the responsibilities that are entrusted to him by the Constitution to be our chief executive requires him to have that immunity.
00:03:13.000And if you didn't, right, when you have these crazy scenarios that Sotomayor and then dissent, right, President's ordering assassination Only Democrats would think about that and presidents doing that, right?
00:03:25.000But what John Roberts says is like, those are ridiculous examples.
00:03:28.000What the dissent is, is, is like encouraging with their view is the cannibalization of the executive branch, that the president would be basically enfeebled by the fact that, you know, anything he does As Robert points out, by any creative prosecutor, you can go after the president for anything.
00:03:49.000And so it would really disable, harm the president.
00:04:19.000And the idea of Joe Biden coming out last night to sign on to this opinion was just unbelievable.
00:04:28.000You know, this lawfare on the Supreme Court goes right up to, he's been going that direction, but to come out and give a nationwide address to attack the Supreme Court is just unheard of.
00:04:39.000Yeah, part of the reason he gave the speech is he wanted to remind people that I guess you can read off a teleprompter or something.
00:04:45.000And just so everyone is clear, I mean, this protects former Democrat presidents too.
00:04:49.000Barack Obama drone struck an American citizen without due process.
00:04:55.000And so this whole idea of like assassination, it's a very bizarre thing.
00:06:46.000The Democrats have been encouraging this.
00:06:51.000Somebody out there with a lot of followers, unhinged and disturbed.
00:06:58.000The Supreme Court, again, 6-3 decision, absolutely in line with what has been the Supreme Court's—that's what Roberts does.
00:07:07.000He goes back and says, this is what we're following our prior precedents, extending it, because it's the first time they've tried to prosecute a president.
00:07:17.000But it's all in line with The court in our history and traditions has had, so it's not a surprise.
00:07:25.000It's just like the 14th Amendment case, right?
00:07:28.000The delusion of the left when they come up with these crazy ideas that they're going to win at the Supreme Court.
00:07:33.000Remember, everyone thought Trump would be disqualified off these ballots.
00:08:02.000So again, what's going on, okay, a little bit back is that the left is furious, unhinged, that for the first time in 80 years, they don't control the Supreme Court.
00:08:12.000And that all happened with President Trump's three appointments, right?
00:08:15.000And you saw it coming with the first two, so that You know, in March of 2020, before Amy Barrett is appointed and confirmed, Schumer goes to the Supreme Court during an abortion argument, actually, that Mike Johnson had actually argued or been involved with at the district court level, but he basically stands outside the Supreme Court with a press conference type setting and tells Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, by name, you better vote this way
00:08:47.000Or you will release the whirlwind and you won't know what hit you.
00:08:52.000Now, I take that as a physical threat.
00:08:54.000I take that as, you know, you need to vote.
00:09:10.000An abortion case, Dobbs, an assassin, comes to Brett Kavanaugh's home right outside of it and wants to murder his family, his wife and kids, his daughters, and Justice Kavanaugh.
00:09:27.000And so I think that's a through line that Schumer and the Democrats have unleashed Physical violence towards the Supreme Court.
00:09:35.000That's why you see all of these, you know, these protesters, or, you know, I call them violators, outside of justices' homes, nonstop to this day.
00:10:45.000A black conservative, a guy, again, and I put this up yesterday, 33 years ago yesterday, President Bush announced Clarence Thomas, nominated him to the Supreme Court.
00:10:57.000So this amazing Supreme Court, in my view, the greatest Supreme Court in generations, started with Clarence Thomas in 1991.
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00:12:23.000Mark, I want you to break down the Thomas concurrence and why you think that deserves more attention.
00:12:29.000Yeah, Charlie, I think this could be the sleeper issue in this case.
00:12:32.000Justice Thomas, in his concurrence, agreed with the majority's ruling, but he raised the idea that Jack Smith, the special prosecutor in this case, is unconstitutionally appointed.
00:12:46.000He was appointed by the Attorney General, okay?
00:12:48.000As Justice Thomas points out, It goes back to our founding.
00:12:52.000The King had appointed all these officers to harass people.
00:12:57.000So in the Constitution, they said that Congress will establish the offices, okay?
00:13:03.000So there is no special counsel office established by Congress.
00:13:08.000And so the Attorney General appointed a private citizen, Jack Smith, to exercise the powers of a prosecutor.
00:13:24.000Attorney, appointed by the President, confirmed by the Senate as an officer of the United States.
00:13:29.000So he got sort of an additional responsibility to look into the Hunter Biden stuff here.
00:13:34.000With the Jack Smith case, with the Jack Smith appointment, there is no office that was created.
00:13:39.000He was holding no office when he was appointed.
00:13:41.000And so the Attorney General does not have the power There are these Department of Justice regulations that set this office up, but it's unconstitutional.
00:15:42.000This came out of the Independent Counsel Statute, right?
00:15:45.000Which they allowed to, which was a congressionally authorized statute, unconstitutional, because judges appointed those prosecutors.
00:15:51.000But when that lapsed, and the DOJ, I think under Reno, came up with these regulations for a special counsel, it's always been fatally flawed.
00:16:01.000And again, with this, what I'll consider this more originalist court, looking at these types of structural, you know, setups, and not violating them.
00:16:12.000The founders wrote into our Constitution that Congress is the one who establishes these offices, and you just can't willy-nilly make up a new officer to go prosecute anybody, let alone the President of the United States.
00:16:28.000You can't just give Joy Reid as a special counsel because you like what she says on television.
00:16:34.000You have to go through the process of vetting in front of the US Senate and to be confirmed, and Jack Smith is a deranged lunatic Who also is disgraced.
00:16:44.000He got overturned 9-0 in the Supreme Court.
00:17:08.000That's why Senate confirmation is necessary.
00:17:11.000So this is not just a technical thing.
00:17:13.000This is the essence of the entire project.
00:17:16.000If you can now get a special counsel that does not go through Senate vetting, that does not actually get the approval of the legislative branch, because at its core, this is a separation of powers issue.
00:17:27.000The executive branch does not get to appoint their own attack dogs to especially go to look into former presidents without the approval of the U.S.
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00:18:46.000Okay, we have some breaking news here.
00:18:48.000First, we have Robbie Starbuck, who is amazing.
00:18:52.000Robbie, I want to talk all about tractor supply and your amazing win there.
00:18:56.000But first, I want to get your reaction to this viral clip that is really growing.
00:19:01.000It is Clyburn, who is definitely part of the aristocracy of the Democrat Party.
00:19:06.000Remember, Clyburn was the vessel of which all things ran through in the 2020 Fake primary the Democrats had in that selection.
00:19:17.000Remember, Joe Biden finished sixth in Iowa.
00:19:19.000He finished fifth in New Hampshire, and they had the South Carolina reset because Clyburn did this huge rally with Joe Biden in the midst of COVID, and he essentially christened Biden as the chosen one.
00:19:30.000Go to your basement, young man, and you shall become president.
00:19:58.000How would you feel if they worked around and tried to go around Kamala Harris because of her lack of high poll numbers and popularity is broadly based?
00:20:08.000Do you think it's hers to have if it is not his?
00:20:10.000I will support her if he were to step aside.
00:20:16.000But I want to support her going forward at some time in the future.
00:20:21.000I want this ticket to continue to be Biden-Harris, and then we'll see what happens after the next election.
00:20:29.000No, this party should not, in any way, do anything to work around Ms.
00:20:48.000What's going on here, Robbie Starbuck?
00:20:50.000Yeah, you know, this happens at the same time that this morning Nancy Pelosi went on the news and said, hey, it's a legitimate question to ask whether this was just a one-time thing or whether this is a condition that Joe Biden has in reference to the debate.
00:21:04.000So, I think that there's very clearly an internal civil war happening.
00:21:09.000And I think that no matter what, they've got a big problem here because if they try to get rid of Joe Biden, which clearly many of them want to do, and I think everybody understands why, because it was an absolute train wreck the other night.
00:21:21.000But if they do that, you're stuck with Kamala or you're stuck with everybody realizing that everything that you've preached for the past few years, this whole embrace of DEI and all this stuff, it was all a farce.
00:21:31.000It was all just a naked grab of power.
00:21:35.000Because if you go over her and you pick, say, New Semo, you went for the white guy instead of the black lady who was vice president.
00:21:42.000They're going to have to explain that to people.
00:21:44.000And I think everybody understands what's really going on.
00:21:47.000Remember, the Democrat Party is built on oppression Olympics and you get different points based on your criteria.
00:21:52.000That means nothing in the real world or in the conservative movement, but being a black female puts you as a high priestess of the entire thing.
00:22:00.000Now, if she was a black lesbian female in a wheelchair, I mean, this thing would not even be close.
00:22:18.000He's a terrible transportation secretary, which obviously gets them extra points.
00:22:23.000The less competent and the more gay or diverse you are, the more points you get in the Democrat Party.
00:22:29.000Diversity, equity, inclusion is a great segue.
00:22:31.000Tell us about your successful campaign against tractor supply.
00:22:37.000This is a amazing story that deserves more attention.
00:22:40.000Yeah, you know, I think this is our biggest boycott win that we've had in our lifetime.
00:22:44.000And it's because we got actual changes and it sets sort of a new mood in corporate America where CEOs are starting to have to ask themselves questions.
00:22:51.000Because first thing I did is I went out there and we had a three week long expose of Tractor Supply, where we explained to people the policies that had sort of infected corporate in many different levels.
00:23:02.000And this was something that was wholly out of alignment with the customer base.
00:23:06.000And, you know, long story short, Tractor Supply came out with the most complete reversal that anybody's ever seen from a boycott, where they said, we're getting rid of DEI entirely.
00:23:17.000We will no longer fund gay pride anything.
00:23:19.000We are going to get rid of the roles that we had that were DEI based.
00:23:26.000We're going to stop giving any data to the human rights campaign, which is a huge reason why so many corporations have gone woke.
00:23:32.000And I think all in all, it was a total, you know, sort of a Understanding that that we were right that this is out of alignment with the customer base.
00:23:40.000And you can see here, this is the Washington or I'm sorry, the Wall Street Journal.
00:23:45.000You can see this is front page Wall Street Journal.
00:23:47.000Okay, so that that makes a difference.
00:23:51.000This is hitting every Every corporation, every CEO, every executive's desk this morning and yesterday in the Washington Post, and they're seeing, okay, there's something here.
00:24:01.000There's a real sort of pullback on these DEI efforts.
00:24:05.000And at the same time, on the heels of this, Wall Street Journal also did another story.
00:24:10.000And that story was that the entire McKinsey study that DEI has been pushed from, which was essentially a study that said, hey, DEI is going to make you a ton of money.
00:24:24.000And Wall Street Journal is now admitting that the DEI does not make companies money.
00:24:28.000And in fact, the diversity DEI fund that was formed on the London Stock Exchange has underperformed every company that is not on it.
00:24:36.000So You know, there's sort of an awakening, I think that's happening here.
00:24:40.000And this proved a model, you know, if we start from the right and work our way left, and we say, okay, what companies have a more right wing, you know, customer base?
00:24:49.000And have they fallen out of alignment with the values of their customers?
00:24:52.000Well, I think there's room for a public awareness campaign to bring the news of that to the customers, the customers can make new choices, and we can do the same thing.
00:25:00.000And the more we normalize it on our side that, hey, it's unacceptable if you have mostly conservative customers go this direction.
00:25:06.000Well, then after we've completed that, you can go sort of to the right leaning.
00:25:10.000Then you can go to the center and you work your way leftward until this becomes the norm.
00:25:15.000And this is the more normal thing for a company to do.
00:25:17.000And you prove that you can be successful while rejecting this stuff.
00:25:21.000And I think an interesting point to this is Tractor Supply has done well in the stock market since they released that statement, reversing on all these policies.
00:25:29.000Yeah, so, I mean, talk more about that criteria.
00:25:31.000I mean, Tractor Supply, for example, here in Phoenix, the nearest Tractor Supply is up in Cave Creek.
00:25:39.000I mean, the customer base is as MAGA as it gets.
00:25:43.000Remind our audience specifically of what they were doing and tell us why.
00:25:46.000Why would Tractor Supply, where their main customer base are a bunch of wingers, why would they involve themselves in anything remotely DEI?
00:25:57.000Well, so this is sort of something that's affected a lot of corporate America that falls out of touch with the values of their customers.
00:26:04.000People start to forget who their customers are.
00:26:06.000You know, when BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street are in your face on a regular basis, making it seem like they're your customer, well, eventually some of these CEOs start to believe that.
00:26:15.000And the reality kind of slaps you in the face when your customers find out what you're really doing is out of alignment with their values.
00:26:19.000And then suddenly you realize, oh, BlackRock's not walking through that door to buy our farm supply products.
00:26:26.000And so, you know, I think to get back to where this all started, I had a whistleblower come to me that works at Tractor Supply, and they showed me some of the DEI policies, and I couldn't believe it.
00:26:34.000And then they started talking about the support for Gay Pride events, and I was like, there's no way.
00:26:39.000I actually thought this person was pulling my leg, because I know the customer base.
00:26:56.000They gave that money to them, $5,000, and that money went toward a Pride event where there was a drag queen performing really inappropriately for kids.
00:27:05.000And not only that, if you go to Waco Pride Network's website right now, they're currently advertising a summer camp for sixth graders in conjunction with Planned Parenthood that is excluding So I think most tractor supply customers look at that and they go, I don't want to fund that.
00:27:22.000I'm not okay with my money going to that.
00:27:24.000And so, you know, my request is like, hey, if you're going to be a company out there that takes money from people on my side, just don't give money to things that are diametrically opposed, not just to our political values, but more importantly, our faith values.
00:27:38.000It's like, you're asking me as a Christian dad, as a father, to give All of this money I give to Rapture Supply, I've probably spent around $10,000 a year with our farm and our cattle and everything, somewhere around there on farm supplies.
00:27:50.000And so you want me to spend that money at a company that is going to turn around and fund people who hate me?
00:27:57.000Another one of those groups that was given money is $100,000 to Conexia Americas.
00:28:02.000That group said when Trump was president that they were, quote, working around the clock.
00:28:07.000This is what the founders said, working around the clock to stop deportations, okay?
00:28:12.000Why Tractor Supply would give money to a group like that, I can't tell you except for to say that at corporate they have really fallen out of touch with who their customers are.
00:28:20.000But I do want to say this, my goal from the beginning of this was not to just destroy Tractor Supply because the reality is this is infected so many places you have to prove a model of success for other companies to follow.
00:28:31.000So as much as I I would say I got 90% of what I wanted.
00:28:34.000The other 10% would have been firings of the CEO and board members.
00:29:07.000We want to prove that rejecting DEI, ending the pride donations, ending all of this embrace of leftism is a good healthy thing for a company to do.
00:29:17.000So as much as we kind of have to grit our teeth and go like, okay, we don't agree with CEO and ultimately it would have been better if he was gone.
00:29:23.000We do have to understand for this to be successful in the long run, we've got to keep that buying habit.
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00:30:38.000You know, I think since we last talked, we've logged another 10 million views on the movie, and soon there's going to be news about more places to watch, and we're very excited about that, so that hopefully, you know, by the end of this year, people will be able to watch really easily from any app, pretty much.
00:30:52.000And so, you know, it's just been incredible to see the effect it's had all over the world, and it's really led to a lot of child protection wins.
00:31:00.000Like, here in Tennessee, just yesterday, It is now an active law in Tennessee that you can be given the death penalty if you were a child rapist and so a convicted child rapist can be put to death here.
00:31:11.000That is a massive win and our movie was a big reason that we were able to rally support behind the law and the lawmaker who wrote it, William Lamberth, just thanked us yesterday publicly because I think that the film had a really great effect on that.
00:31:23.000And this has been happening all over the world, not just here in the U.S., but there's a multitude of states where we've had similar interactions with lawmakers to get child protection laws on the books.
00:31:32.000So ultimately, it's not just a movie that gave people awareness, but I really think in the long run, if you look like 10 years down the line, it's going to have helped and saved a lot of kids.
00:32:42.000Now the Democrat media is telling me it is happening, but it's okay, don't worry about it, it's not that many.
00:32:48.000And now they're saying any kid should be able to do this, and Parents essentially should have no say.
00:32:54.000And I think so to them, they're going, something's not right here.
00:32:56.000And then they see a movie like this and they go, okay, this is wrong.
00:33:00.000And what I'm seeing from those people is a choice to say, you know what, I can't vote in good conscience for this party anymore.
00:33:07.000Just based off of this, if they understand the magnitude of what this means, because, you know, it's not just that we're talking about thousands of kids lives here.
00:33:17.000We're talking about the sort of psychotic state of mind it takes as a party.
00:33:23.000To stand behind something like this, if you've seen sort of what this does to these kids, we're not even just talking about like straight up murdering them.
00:33:30.000We're talking about really horrific mutilation these kids live with for many years.
00:33:35.000I mean, this is a lifelong medical problem that they're having to deal with.
00:33:38.000Okay, the poor girl, Layla Jane, that we interviewed in the movie, they got a double mastectomy at the age 13.
00:34:32.000As a union member in New York, my older brother, he woke up to the BS under Obama.
00:34:37.000I want to let you know that in North Carolina here, I have flipped four lifelong Democrat voters, two in their seventies and two in their mid thirties.
00:34:46.000Even one of them with a trans family member to vote Republican and secured their votes for Donald J. Trump.
00:34:52.000I printed the forms, addressed the envelopes, walked them through how to update their voter registration.
00:34:58.000They are very concerned about being able to vote in primary elections going forward, since they want to vote for Trump in June and couldn't.
00:35:04.000If I hadn't been listening to you for so long, I never would have been able to explain the process and successfully flip these voters.
00:35:12.000Thank you for all you do to make our beautiful country a better place.