The Charlie Kirk Show - TPUSA Turns 11 + the Billion Dollar GOP Barricade

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:00:01.000 11 years ago, Turning Point USA was born.

00:00:04.000 Tell you a little bit of the story and also share a pretty personal story about the Turning Point USA logo creation.

00:00:10.000 And then we also talk about the $1 billion barricade being built.

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00:00:32.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:34.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.

00:00:36.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:39.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:42.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:44.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:45.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.

00:00:52.000 Turning Point USA.

00:00:53.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

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00:01:14.000 So much news to get to, but we want to celebrate a very important milestone, one that most people thought would never happen.

00:01:24.000 11 years ago, I was 18 years old.

00:01:28.000 I was involved in some local efforts in the suburbs of Chicago.

00:01:34.000 And I saw the generation that I was raised in, millennials, the Obama generation, it was supposed to be the most liberal generation in history, embracing ideas of Marxism, what would soon eventually materialize in critical race theory, what we now call wokeism.

00:01:49.000 And I was very concerned.

00:01:50.000 I was concerned for our republic.

00:01:52.000 I was concerned for our fiscal solvency.

00:01:54.000 I was concerned for all of it.

00:01:56.000 And I was not convinced that the typical Washington, D.C. groups were doing what was needed to be done to reach young people.

00:02:04.000 So on June 5th of 2012, Turning Point USA was born.

00:02:10.000 The name actually came from my father, who's, I said, you know, I want to start this group.

00:02:14.000 And he came up with like 10 names.

00:02:15.000 I said, that's it.

00:02:16.000 Turning point.

00:02:17.000 And Turning Point USA was birthed into existence.

00:02:21.000 Bill Montgomery, may he rest in peace, was a relentless cheerleader for our efforts.

00:02:27.000 Foster Freeze, may he also rest in peace, which actually two years ago was his funeral, wrote us our first check, and we were off to the races, traveling the country, trying to convince people that this Obama generation, millennials, did not have to be the most liberal generation in American history.

00:02:44.000 We were scoffed at, laughed at, told that the work was already being done by traditional DC groups.

00:02:49.000 Just tell them to go join a drinking club, is what we were told.

00:02:53.000 We were told by several kind of snobbish, entitled people in the center-right world and the conservative world that this is impossible.

00:03:02.000 There's no way you can rally young people around these ideas.

00:03:05.000 It's a waste of time.

00:03:06.000 But not everybody had that attitude.

00:03:09.000 There were donors that stepped up and saw the vision, or at least they said, hey, this kid is crazy enough to try to do this.

00:03:15.000 Maybe I'll write him a check.

00:03:18.000 Over the course of 2013, 14, 15, crisscrossing the country, spending 330 days on the road routinely, visiting every single state you could imagine, speaking at tea party meetings and Republican meetings and just trying to raise and grow support.

00:03:34.000 Tyler Boyer, who was just on Steve Bannon's program, joined our team in January of 2015.

00:03:40.000 He's been with us for eight years now, brought a wrinkle of expertise and accelerant to our growth to operationalize our chapter program and to grow West and to help us with student leadership.

00:03:53.000 And we were starting to attract talent, but boy, the attacks were relentless.

00:03:57.000 And the attacks, not just from the left, that came later.

00:03:59.000 The attacks from the people in Washington, D.C. that were allegedly in the conservative world, that were a little bit uneasy, that there was this disruptor, that there was this entrepreneurial approach to an otherwise very boring nonprofit arena with really high standards that was willing to shoot from the hip and try new things and to take risks and to be bold and to say, you know what?

00:04:24.000 This generation does not have to be the most liberal generation in history.

00:04:29.000 And we went to work and we went to work and we kept on traveling and we kept on trying to grow support.

00:04:35.000 And the Lord blessed us beyond our wildest imagination.

00:04:39.000 But it did not just happen.

00:04:42.000 We were faithful with our work.

00:04:44.000 And I will say this, I do not say this braggadociously, but it's factual.

00:04:49.000 Nobody worked harder than Turning Point USA over the last 11 years towards a desired outcome or objective.

00:04:56.000 Nobody.

00:04:57.000 2.5 million air miles that I have now with United Airlines and American and Delta.

00:05:04.000 I always joke around with friends.

00:05:06.000 I'm like, if you guys need miles, just let me know.

00:05:08.000 I've earned plenty of those.

00:05:10.000 Over 3,000 days on the road.

00:05:14.000 And praise God, we are now a sizable ecosystem.

00:05:18.000 Turning point action, Turning Point USA.

00:05:20.000 We have Turning Point Academy, TPUSA Faith, high school chapters, college chapters.

00:05:25.000 It is this full force machine.

00:05:27.000 And the left-wing activist press, they now all of a sudden realize that because we've worked our tail off, because we've rejected the Washington, D.C. way of doing things, just sit on your hands, complain about it, raise more money, lie to you guys about what's going on.

00:05:42.000 No, no, no, we are clipboard and tennis shoes.

00:05:44.000 We got into this.

00:05:45.000 I got into this.

00:05:46.000 Foster Freeze supported us.

00:05:47.000 Bill Montgomery supported us.

00:05:49.000 Tyler Boyer got into this.

00:05:50.000 Our entire team, and Lauren and Amy, and I could go through the whole list, Andrew, they got into this because we felt like our republic was falling apart.

00:06:00.000 We're headquartered in Arizona, not D.C., and we keep on building and we keep on building.

00:06:07.000 Well, over 1,500 to 1,600 chartered chapters across the country.

00:06:11.000 I get the exact number.

00:06:12.000 Thousands and thousands of students attending our events.

00:06:15.000 You see Amfest, our campus tours.

00:06:17.000 Voices that make a massive difference in our country have come through the ranks of Turning Point USA.

00:06:24.000 Ana Paulina Luna, Turning Point graduate.

00:06:27.000 Candace Owens started as our communications director. 0.95

00:06:29.000 What a powerhouse she is.

00:06:31.000 Brandon Tatum, Will Witt, Isabel Brown.

00:06:36.000 I could go, and I celebrate with the amount of people.

00:06:39.000 Benny Johnson, Jack Pasobic.

00:06:42.000 You look at the roster of voices and courage.

00:06:45.000 And wow, praise the Lord.

00:06:48.000 And so somebody says, Charlie, what is your big lesson?

00:06:50.000 What is your big takeaway?

00:06:52.000 A couple of things.

00:06:53.000 Number one is that there is so much to be hopeful for for the future of America after doing this for 11 years.

00:06:59.000 Number two is you have to work.

00:07:02.000 You can't just stay on the sidelines.

00:07:03.000 You just can't be a spectator.

00:07:04.000 You have to do what you are called to do.

00:07:06.000 And for us at Turning Point USA and our team, we were called to drop everything, put our lives basically aside and say, for 11 years, we are going to give everything we possibly can.

00:07:17.000 And look at the beautiful thing we have built.

00:07:20.000 We have over 250,000 grassroots donors, over 500,000 volunteers and millions of fans on digital and social media.

00:07:30.000 Now, you might say, Charlie, that's all fine, but what can you show me that actually shows you made a difference?

00:07:35.000 Most DC groups are never challenged like that because they cower away and they do insider deals with lobbyists and they don't work hard.

00:07:42.000 They have happy hour at 4 p.m.

00:07:45.000 At 4 p.m., we're just getting our work started at Turning Point USA.

00:07:48.000 The New York Times shows the work of the Turning Point model, the education model of Turning Point USA, the Turning Point Action Social Advocacy Model.

00:08:00.000 New York Times, millennials are not an exception.

00:08:03.000 They've moved to the right. 0.60

00:08:06.000 11 years later, on the 11th birthday of Turning Point USA, 11 years today, 11 years ago, I called Bill Montgomery.

00:08:16.000 I said, let's do it.

00:08:18.000 I put college on hold.

00:08:19.000 I took a gap year.

00:08:21.000 It's been 11 gap years.

00:08:22.000 I wrote a whole book about not going to college.

00:08:24.000 But more importantly, have we been able to say, hey, was the 11 years well spent?

00:08:32.000 And I could say with an immense amount of gratitude that not only did we make a difference, the New York Times is freaking out that millennials, the Obama generation, you could call it Project Millennials, is far less liberal.

00:08:48.000 In fact, it's almost 50-50 conservative and liberal worldview.

00:08:52.000 And by the way, at Turning Point USA, our focus is always on education.

00:08:55.000 It's on values.

00:08:56.000 It's on ideas.

00:08:57.000 Turning point action focuses more on the political side of things.

00:09:01.000 The worldview of the generation that was supposed to bring forth the cultural revolution is about 50-50.

00:09:09.000 People said, oh, it's a waste of time.

00:09:10.000 What are you doing?

00:09:11.000 Why are you raising all that money?

00:09:12.000 What do you even do with that money?

00:09:14.000 I could tell you what we do with all the resources the Lord has blessed us with.

00:09:18.000 We have turned not just us, but so many other people deserve credit.

00:09:22.000 Matt Walsh deserves credit.

00:09:23.000 Ben Shapiro deserves credit.

00:09:24.000 There's some great people.

00:09:25.000 Daily Wire deserves a ton of credit.

00:09:28.000 But we've definitely played a role.

00:09:29.000 Turning Point has played a big role in turning the Obama generation that was supposed to be the most liberal generation in history to be about 50-50.

00:09:43.000 11 years of hard work.

00:09:45.000 I am overwhelmed with gratitude and motivation to keep on fighting on this now 11th birthday of the largest conservative organization in the country, Turning Point USA.

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00:10:40.000 Okay, everybody, yeah, that New York Times article is really important.

00:10:42.000 Millennials are not an exception.

00:10:44.000 They move to the right.

00:10:45.000 I mean, some of you remember the picture I sent last week, which is the millennial generation at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

00:10:53.000 You saw this.

00:10:54.000 I mean, there was like 80,000 people, not that many, but 30,000, 40, 50,000 people that would show up when Barack Obama would attend.

00:11:01.000 That generation was supposed to bring forth Mao's cultural revolution.

00:11:05.000 And then we went to work. 0.99

00:11:06.000 We went to work.

00:11:10.000 And we have results to show for it.

00:11:12.000 Okay, I want to play a piece of tape here.

00:11:13.000 I want to talk about this barricade that's being built.

00:11:15.000 We'll talk more about the Turning Point USA birthday later.

00:11:18.000 And I'm going to tell you a story that has never been made public about the logo of Turning Point USA and remembering the whole story behind that.

00:11:25.000 It's very important.

00:11:26.000 So last night, Nikki Haley had a town hall on CNN.

00:11:31.000 Now, many of you are emailing me, Charlie, why are all these people running for the presidency?

00:11:37.000 Now, I'm not totally clear on what Nikki Haley is running for.

00:11:43.000 I don't know if Nikki Haley is running for the presidency or she wants to be the chairman of the board of Raytheon.

00:11:47.000 It's not totally clear.

00:11:49.000 But Nikki Haley, totally tone deaf on where the base is on the Ukrainian war.

00:11:55.000 Play cut 15.

00:11:57.000 President Trump has refused to say whether he believes Russia should win the war.

00:12:01.000 Ron DeSantis referred to Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a quote territorial dispute.

00:12:06.000 What do you think of that?

00:12:08.000 I think that that's a mistake that too many have made.

00:12:10.000 That's exactly what got the Europeans in this position with Russia in the first place.

00:12:14.000 And for them to sit there and say that this is a territorial dispute, that's just not the case.

00:12:19.000 To say that we should stay neutral.

00:12:21.000 It is in the best interest of America. 1.00

00:12:23.000 It's in the best interest of our national security for Ukraine to win. 0.87

00:12:27.000 Is it in the best interest of our national security while we're being invaded every single day? 0.74

00:12:32.000 It was illuminating to watch Nikki Haley in this town hall because she is representing a Republican Party that is totally out of lockstep with you, the voters.

00:12:42.000 But there's Nikki Haley, you have Asa Hutchinson, you got Chris Christie who's going to run.

00:12:47.000 Mike Pence this last weekend spoke at some sort of an Iowa event riding as Harley Davidson.

00:12:55.000 You got Doug Bergham who's going to announce what exactly is going on here.

00:12:59.000 Well, it's easy to believe that they kind of sense that Ron DeSantis did not have as strong of a launch.

00:13:06.000 Ron DeSantis announced that he had 40,000 donors since his launch in May.

00:13:13.000 40,000.

00:13:13.000 Now, that might sound like a lot, but I actually would have expected somewhere between 200, 250,000, giving all the lead up, all the preparation, all the national media.

00:13:23.000 As someone who works very, very hard to try and expand a donor base, 40,000 is underwhelming.

00:13:30.000 I'm just being totally factual.

00:13:32.000 At Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action, we have about 260,000 donors.

00:13:37.000 Now, it took a lot of work to get there, but we're also not running for the presidency.

00:13:40.000 And we also are not governor of one of the largest states in the country.

00:13:44.000 And so Ron DeSantis will increase that donor total.

00:13:47.000 But by comparison, Donald Trump has had well over 1.6 million people give him grassroots donations.

00:13:57.000 So it could be that Nikki Haley and Tim Scott and Asa Hutchinson and all these people, they sense an opportunity, or this is what I think is more likely that is really most people are missing.

00:14:12.000 That they're running with the understanding that they have to do whatever they can to build a barricade to prevent Donald Trump from easily winning the nomination.

00:14:30.000 We are seeing the building right now of a dark money, outside money, super PAC-driven blockade to try and damage and injure Donald Trump going into the general election.

00:14:44.000 Throw as much money as possible at the leader, have Haley, Scott, Christie, Pence.

00:14:51.000 Yeah, they might insult each other here or there, but they're going to keep the main target as Donald Trump.

00:14:57.000 Do not be surprised if the donors Donors that are funding some of these campaigns begin to demand via the super PACs a harmonization that, yeah, they might have their own little flavor of Chris Christie, own little flavor of Tim Scott, own little flavor of whomever, but do not be surprised if there isn't a deliberate attempt soon in the next five or six months to throw all of that ad spending, to throw all of that money against Donald Trump.

00:15:25.000 What you are seeing, and this is going to happen, is a minimum $1 billion barricade that Donald Trump is going to have to run through before he goes to the general election to run up against either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or John Fetterman or whoever the Mark Elias George Soros machine appoints to be the vessel for their operation.

00:15:51.000 A $1 billion barricade.

00:15:53.000 That's really what's going on here.

00:15:54.000 That's why all these people are running.

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00:17:02.000 More of Nikki Haley.

00:17:04.000 Is this where you are on the Ukraine issue?

00:17:07.000 I just wish that people running for the presidency, people in elected office, were this fired up about our southern border being overrun.

00:17:16.000 Play Cut 16. 0.95

00:17:17.000 This is bigger than Ukraine.

00:17:19.000 This is a war about freedom, and it's one we have to win.

00:17:23.000 That's what we have to do.

00:17:24.000 And keep in mind, everybody wants to know: well, how does this war end?

00:17:28.000 It would end in a day if Russia would pull out.

00:17:31.000 If Ukraine pulls out, then we're all looking at a world war. 0.61

00:17:34.000 Hold on a second.

00:17:35.000 So why aren't you talking about a peace plan, Nikki Haley?

00:17:37.000 And Nikki Haley, why is this in the immediate essential interest of the United States?

00:17:41.000 You understand the saber rattling and overinvolvement in this border dispute between two bad actors.

00:17:47.000 Russia never should have invaded, but Ukraine is not, they are not sinless in this equation.

00:17:51.000 They're not.

00:17:53.000 Is now threatening the dollar as the global world reserve currency.

00:17:57.000 Do you know that the BRIC nations in St. Petersburg in the coming weeks are going to be talking about removing the dollar and putting in a gold standard because of our overinvolvement in eastern Ukraine?

00:18:09.000 What does success look like exactly?

00:18:10.000 How much money is too many?

00:18:11.000 These are very simple questions that you, the voters, care about.

00:18:15.000 So what is she talking about here?

00:18:17.000 Why is she doing this?

00:18:18.000 Is there some sort of interest behind Nikki Haley that is pushing this?

00:18:21.000 Is there some donor community that really wants a hot war in Ukraine or Russia?

00:18:29.000 How about the community of people that are being overrun by fentanyl and drug addiction and human smuggling and illegals taking jobs and overflowing our communities of 10 to 15,000 a day?

00:18:40.000 And of course, CNN does what the intel agencies want them to do.

00:18:43.000 Ask the question of Nikki Haley on Ukraine.

00:18:46.000 Ask the question on Ukraine.

00:18:47.000 And of course, he frames it as, oh, you know, Donald Trump refuses to say, look, Putin's not a good guy.

00:18:52.000 Zelensky's not a good guy.

00:18:53.000 Why is this in America's national interest?

00:18:56.000 We're nearly $30 trillion in debt.

00:18:58.000 We do not have a border.

00:18:59.000 We have runaway inflation.

00:19:01.000 We send money abroad to secure the borders of other countries.

00:19:05.000 We have 110,000 people a year that are dying of drug overdoses.

00:19:10.000 Kids can't read in our inner cities.

00:19:13.000 We have a corporate oligarchy that is quickly setting in. 1.00

00:19:16.000 We have this trans tyranny that is running the entire country. 1.00

00:19:19.000 And I have to be worried about Ukraine and Russia's borders. 1.00

00:19:23.000 Meanwhile, that involvement, the cause set in motion that that has caused, that that has triggered, very well might result in the dollar being lost as the World Reserve currency status.

00:19:33.000 Is it worth it?

00:19:34.000 Is it worth it?

00:19:37.000 Why is Zelensky treated as if he's a governor of the United States?

00:19:41.000 We're paying for the whole government, pure cash transfers, unaccountable, unaudited.

00:19:46.000 Why is that in our interest?

00:19:48.000 So Nikki Haley's running.

00:19:49.000 Mike Pence is likely going to announce.

00:19:51.000 I'm curious, anybody in the audience, will you guys vote for Mike Pence?

00:19:54.000 Email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:19:57.000 I've known Vice President Pence for a while.

00:20:00.000 We obviously have some big disagreements, especially recently.

00:20:03.000 I think he's a faithful Christian.

00:20:05.000 I think he would do better, honestly, to go become a pastor in Indiana than to go run for the presidency.

00:20:10.000 I think his reputation would remain better.

00:20:12.000 I think he'd be excellent at it.

00:20:13.000 He is a God-fearing, loyal husband, and a faithful man.

00:20:18.000 I do not think he's cut out for running for the presidency for such a time as this at all.

00:20:24.000 Mike Pence was largely elevated by Trump and running against him.

00:20:28.000 I'm sorry, it's just going to ruin his reputation even further when I think that he could do a lot in the ministry. 0.73

00:20:34.000 I mean that non-sarcastically.

00:20:36.000 Politics is not the arena for Mike Pence.

00:20:39.000 Play cut 20.

00:20:40.000 And I'm here in Iowa today, and I'll be back a little bit later next week.

00:20:47.000 Because Iowa.

00:20:51.000 Iowa's the place that we shape principled conservative leadership.

00:20:54.000 Iowa's the place that's shaped the standard bearer of this party.

00:20:57.000 And I don't have anything to announce today, but I can tell you, when I got time to announce, come this Wednesday, I'm announcing in Iowa.

00:21:06.000 So Mike Pence is going to run for the presidency.

00:21:09.000 And his voice sounds a little bit different, but that's a separate issue.

00:21:13.000 There's building right now, and this is the buried lead, because it looks as if it seems as if Haley and Scott and Asa and Christie and Pence and Bergham are all on different pages.

00:21:26.000 It seems as if that they're all just kind of running against each other.

00:21:28.000 What if there's actually more harmonization to their efforts than meets the eye?

00:21:36.000 What if the anti-Trump bloc is going to be dispersed into multiple super PACs with all a very similar mission?

00:21:46.000 The eventual endorsement of an opposition candidate to Donald Trump and the nonstop blitzkrieg of money being spent against Trump in Iowa, in South Carolina.

00:21:58.000 Now, this very well could all help Trump, but is it macro helpful to have to have Donald Trump overcome a $1 billion barricade?

00:22:09.000 You know, we're talking at turning point action, building a ballot chasing operation and voter registration operation on the front lines to help us make a deciding marginal impact in Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia.

00:22:27.000 But $1 billion to now be spent on this?

00:22:32.000 You see, this blockade that is rising up is just trying to weaken and damage Trump.

00:22:38.000 Now, you might say, well, this makes him stronger.

00:22:40.000 Yes, but it's going to make him overly focused, Donald Trump, on the primary.

00:22:47.000 You want to go through a $1 billion primary?

00:22:50.000 This would be a dream for a Democrat operative.

00:22:55.000 This is a fantasy for Mark Elias.

00:23:02.000 And Trump's political instincts are largely personal.

00:23:05.000 He's going to attack each one of these people, and he is a ferocious lion, and he's going to win.

00:23:10.000 However, is it going to be the best possible trajectory and path for him?

00:23:18.000 These people are not running for the presidency.

00:23:21.000 They're almost running as disparate parts of the same strategy.

00:23:27.000 Haley, Christy, Pence, Doug Bergham, who's going to go spend $50 million in Iowa, $50 million, $75 million?

00:23:39.000 And then who's actually going to fill this massive void that is being felt by the RNC?

00:23:46.000 We're about to go into one of the bloodiest, most expensive, brutal, and nasty primaries in political history.

00:23:58.000 It's also simultaneously one of the most unnecessary primaries in history.

00:24:04.000 It's unnecessary unless you didn't actually want Donald Trump to win.

00:24:09.000 If you do not want Donald Trump to eventually win in the primary, this is the game plan.

00:24:14.000 Just bag him.

00:24:16.000 I mean, run as many negative ads as you possibly can against him.

00:24:20.000 And Republicans will do that for you.

00:24:24.000 I guarantee you, because I've talked to some people over the weekend and I got enough information to say this with certainty, that these Republican donors that might say, okay, I like Tim Scott, I like this guy, I like that guy, even I like DeSantis, eventually they are going to coordinate their efforts from the outside via super PACs, which you can do, and focus 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700,

00:24:48.000 800 million dollars on defeating Donald Trump.

00:24:55.000 This is largely a vanity project that is being driven by consultants that are going to make tens of millions of dollars off of this whole thing so that we can then have the exact same result.

00:25:05.000 Now, I actually think it's helpful to talk about how far the Republican Party has moved for the better and Nikki Haley is going about talking about recolonizing eastern Ukraine while our own country is collapsing.

00:25:17.000 I think it's helpful to point that out and make fun of it and call it silly. 0.50

00:25:21.000 At the same time, this is destructive.

00:25:24.000 We are headed towards an apocalyptic scenario politically.

00:25:29.000 While the early infrastructure investments are not being done, let me tell you right now, in Arizona, it is not being done.

00:25:37.000 It's not being done by the RNC.

00:25:38.000 We're doing our best at turning point action.

00:25:40.000 But all the attention, all the focus is on this horse race, this barricade, this $1 billion barricade that Donald Trump will pierce through, but it's going to take more effort, more energy, more fight than should be necessary,

00:25:55.000 is again a humongous vanity project, which brings just unconscionable profits to the consultant class, while our country is on fragile footing.

00:26:11.000 That's really what's going on here, is that they're going to see which one ascends, but they're going to focus their money, their outside PAC money, which is just, you might as well burn it.

00:26:20.000 You might as well just vaporize it.

00:26:21.000 And what are the Democrats doing?

00:26:23.000 They are registering voters in Arizona.

00:26:26.000 They're suing with lawfare in Georgia.

00:26:29.000 They're hiring grassroots warriors in Wisconsin.

00:26:31.000 We're about to spend money on who gets to finish fifth in Iowa.

00:26:35.000 Democrats are spending money on things that will materially and in a guaranteed fashion get them another four years in the White House in 2024.

00:26:48.000 I want to hear from you.

00:26:49.000 Email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:26:51.000 This is a dark money blockade, this $1 billion blockade that now Donald Trump's going to have to go against.

00:27:00.000 Okay, I want to tell you the story of the Turning Point USA logo, but let me just finish the argument really quick.

00:27:04.000 This is my evidence right here.

00:27:07.000 James Comey, who of course still has friends in the FBI and is still really well respected amongst the cockroaches that run that agency, he's telling you right now, the fix is going to be in again.

00:27:17.000 They're going to do more threatening tabletop exercises, Aspen Institute meetings.

00:27:21.000 They're going to go to whatever Twitter might not take the meeting, Elon, but there's a lot happening.

00:27:26.000 There's like a deep state of Twitter, too, that Elon either knows about, doesn't want to address, is afraid of, or is unaware of.

00:27:32.000 That is a mystery, and we could build that out because the whole Daily Wire situation shows that Elon's not exactly running Twitter.

00:27:38.000 Somebody else is.

00:27:39.000 This is James Comey telling you that the intelligence agencies are going to go after Trump in 2024.

00:27:44.000 Play Cut 11.

00:27:45.000 You were a Republican most of your life, but voted for, and you may still consider yourself one, but voted for Biden in 2020.

00:27:52.000 Do you intend to vote for him again?

00:27:54.000 Or is there anyone on the Republican side you might consider if it's not Trump?

00:27:58.000 It has to be Joe Biden.

00:28:01.000 And I'm glad he's willing to serve.

00:28:04.000 It has to be somebody committed to the rule of law, committed to the values of this country.

00:28:09.000 And the president must be someone who abides the law and our Constitution.

00:28:14.000 And there's no one else but Joe Biden.

00:28:16.000 Okay, so two things.

00:28:17.000 People say, what's the solution?

00:28:19.000 The first solution to get through the barricade is we have to invest in Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin now.

00:28:25.000 We're trying to do that turning point action.

00:28:27.000 The second solution is we have to demand that these other candidates are not taken seriously, that they are debunked, and that they are called out as trying to make Donald Trump become the nominee harder.

00:28:37.000 And it damages and injures our chance of winning in 2024.

00:28:44.000 Yeah, and James Comey saying committed to the rule of law is the greatest of all Orwellian statements.

00:28:49.000 Okay, I want to tell you a story.

00:28:51.000 11 years ago was Turning Point USA's birthday.

00:28:53.000 Put up that logo.

00:28:54.000 This logo on screen has now been seen by, no exaggeration, billions of people.

00:28:58.000 If you count social media and our events and all that, remember I sat down with our graphic designer, Paul Romanowski.

00:29:05.000 Paul Romanowski, he said, what do you want in the logo?

00:29:06.000 I said, well, we kind of want blue to shift to red and left to right and all of it to point forward.

00:29:12.000 And that's the logo right there.

00:29:14.000 Now, when we first created it, as soon as I saw it, I said, that is just so beautiful.

00:29:19.000 It is crisp.

00:29:19.000 It's clean.

00:29:21.000 Paul Romanowski was a very talented, unbelievably talented artist.

00:29:26.000 And I don't think I've ever properly and publicly remembered him.

00:29:30.000 Paul Romanowski, like so many people, was dealing and dealt with mental torment his entire life.

00:29:36.000 And Paul Romanowski had a very tough situation that happened in his own personal struggle.

00:29:42.000 And Paul Romanowski killed himself.

00:29:44.000 And Paul was convinced that his life really meant nothing and is an unbelievable, unspeakable tragedy.

00:29:51.000 Paul was always the kind of creative, artistic driving force of Turning Point USA.

00:29:58.000 And so much of the design and the logo and the art that you see come out of Turning Point USA was driven by Paul.

00:30:05.000 But Paul was convinced by a lie that his life had no meaning and that what he was doing made no difference.

00:30:15.000 So 11 years later, we're celebrating a birthday, but I'm also remembering Paul's impact.

00:30:19.000 And also, if this message impacts one person in this audience, then it's a segment worth doing, which is, yes, you are making a difference.

00:30:26.000 You might not see it.

00:30:27.000 You might not know it.

00:30:29.000 But if Paul could have just saw the hundreds of people that were queued outside of his funeral home, the impact 11 years later, the logo has now actually become a reality.

00:30:43.000 New York Times, millennials are not an exception.

00:30:45.000 They move to the right.

00:30:46.000 Show that logo again.

00:30:48.000 That logo is more than just a fun thing to put on the wall.

00:30:51.000 We manifested it with the grace of God into something provable from the left to the right.

00:31:01.000 So, Paul is no longer with us.

00:31:03.000 Paul made a tragic mistake to end his life, but his legacy lives on.

00:31:08.000 And for those of you that might say, oh, there is no point in continuing and all that, I hope that you stop short and you recognize and hear my story closely because there is.

00:31:18.000 There's a beautiful life that waits ahead of you.

00:31:20.000 And for Paul and for Bill Montgomery and Foster Freeze and the people that are no longer here, the legacy of Turning Point USA lives on.

00:31:30.000 In fact, on this 11th birthday, our work is just beginning.

00:31:37.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:31:38.000 Everybody, email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:31:41.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

00:31:46.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - June 05, 2023

TPUSA Turns 11 + the Billion Dollar GOP Barricade

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