The Charlie Kirk Show - Trump for Congress 2022

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, Trump for Congress.

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00:00:04.000 This episode, we explore a provocative and unique idea that might help save the Republic.

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00:01:48.000 Welcome back, everybody.

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00:01:52.000 I love creative, off-the-wall, positive ideas.

00:01:55.000 I love history.

00:01:56.000 So I like things that have happened before.

00:01:58.000 If they work and if they show a blueprint to be able to defend freedom and this beautiful constitutional republic.

00:02:05.000 So I have a provocative idea, and other people are posing this in one way or the other.

00:02:10.000 I actually came up with it independent of other people, but I think it's important to share.

00:02:16.000 Steve Bannon has said something similar to this, other people as well.

00:02:18.000 I would love to hear your thoughts on this, though.

00:02:21.000 The midterm elections here are going to be some of the most important midterm elections in American history.

00:02:27.000 Republicans are in a very favorable position to take back the House of Representatives.

00:02:33.000 Midterms traditionally have very low voter turnout.

00:02:36.000 President Trump got the most votes of any sitting U.S. president in American history.

00:02:41.000 President Trump has activated tens of millions of new first-time voters into the voting process.

00:02:48.000 Republicans like Kevin McCarthy and Lindsey Graham know that if they are going to take back the House of Representatives and the Senate in 2022, Donald Trump is the key to do that.

00:02:58.000 His base is motivated.

00:03:01.000 They're angry.

00:03:04.000 And they are not willing to support just any establishment Republican unless President Trump gives them a reason to do it.

00:03:13.000 And even then, you are going to see some tapering off effect.

00:03:17.000 That is, unless, what if Donald Trump was on the ballot?

00:03:23.000 You might say, well, why would Donald Trump be on the ballot in 2022?

00:03:30.000 One of my favorite presidents to study is John Quincy Adams.

00:03:36.000 He's called by many historians that I respect.

00:03:38.000 There's historians I respect and historians I don't respect.

00:03:41.000 But the historians I respect because they're very wise and they're very fair in their historical writings.

00:03:49.000 They call him the smartest president ever, the wisest president.

00:03:54.000 That may or may not be true.

00:03:56.000 Son of John Adams, John Quincy Adams, is one of the only presidents to lose a reelection.

00:04:04.000 He was the second to do so.

00:04:06.000 The first was his father, the second U.S. president, John Adams.

00:04:10.000 Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and then Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, who lost re-election to Andrew Jackson.

00:04:19.000 So Adams considered permanently retiring from public life after his 1828 defeat.

00:04:26.000 And he was very, very hurt by the suicide of his son, John Washington Adams.

00:04:34.000 But he was so taken back by many of Andrew Jackson's actions, he ran for Congress and he won.

00:04:42.000 John Quincy Adams, a former president, became a member of Congress.

00:04:47.000 He grew bored of his retirement and still felt that his career was unfinished.

00:04:52.000 So he ran for a U.S. House of Representatives seat in 1830 and he won.

00:04:58.000 John Quincy Adams had a lot of power over the legislative direction of Congress in the 1830s when America was still in its infancy and we were still figuring out who we were as a country.

00:05:09.000 Donald Trump should run for Congress in 2022 and become Speaker of the House.

00:05:16.000 Trump for Congress. 0.91

00:05:19.000 Laura Trump, by the way, should run for Senate in North Carolina.

00:05:21.000 I think she will.

00:05:23.000 This will activate the 75 million people that voted.

00:05:27.000 If you get 75 million people to turn out nationwide in a midterm election, you will win 80 House seats.

00:05:34.000 That Trump base that people are worrying about how to mobilize and how to activate, this is how you do it.

00:05:41.000 You might say, well, where will he run?

00:05:43.000 Well, they're redrawing all the maps in Florida.

00:05:45.000 They're about to draw a very conservative district right near Mar-a-Lago.

00:05:49.000 You don't have to live in the district that you run in.

00:05:51.000 Donald Trump wins by 30 points.

00:05:53.000 And with it, Donald Trump will raise about $600 to a million dollars, $800 million to help other House candidates across the country.

00:06:01.000 The Democrats will have a slow-moving, unpopular administration to defend with Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.

00:06:10.000 And Donald Trump then can be Speaker of the House against President Joe Biden, controlling a legislative branch against the executive.

00:06:20.000 And in the line of succession, it would go Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump.

00:06:25.000 And then Donald Trump can launch his presidential campaign, if he so chooses, for 2024.

00:06:30.000 Or he could say a kingmaker and control Speaker of the House, and he would be the first president in American history to be impeached twice, acquitted twice, won an election, lost an election, became Speaker of the House.

00:06:41.000 That's a pretty cool thing to say.

00:06:43.000 And what is he going to do?

00:06:44.000 Golf for the next couple of years?

00:06:46.000 I'm saying this 100% serious, but I'm saying it with levity, obviously, because this idea is new, and some of you might think it's a good idea, some of you might not.

00:06:56.000 And I want you to email me your thoughts on this idea, Trump for Congress, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:07:01.000 And for some of you who say, I need him to run for president, well, this would actually not restrict that either.

00:07:06.000 He could run for Congress and he could run for president.

00:07:09.000 The Democrats will be running for the Hills if Trump were to run again in 2022 in the midterms.

00:07:19.000 So Kevin McCarthy has embraced Donald Trump.

00:07:22.000 Mitch McConnell has dumped Trump.

00:07:27.000 There's still 70 to 75 million people that will go and vote in a midterm election.

00:07:34.000 Let's pretend it's only 55 million people.

00:07:37.000 20 million sit out.

00:07:38.000 That's an extraordinary amount of people to vote in a midterm election.

00:07:43.000 We're talking about governor's races, Senate races.

00:07:45.000 You take back legislative control.

00:07:48.000 And then you have Donald Trump as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

00:07:55.000 Where then all the people in Congress that he's had to deal with for so long will have to deal with him.

00:08:01.000 Now, the other option is that Trump can go and help a lot of these House candidates, and the Speaker of the House does not have to be a member of Congress.

00:08:09.000 So he could become Speaker of the House as a non-member of Congress.

00:08:14.000 But the point is this: it's time to play offense against the Democrats.

00:08:21.000 And what a Trump for Congress idea would do is in the interim here, where we're trying to find who's in charge, where the leader is, let's go raise hundreds of millions of dollars quickly to go take back the House and keep this movement going.

00:08:37.000 You want to clarify the record.

00:08:39.000 You want to make sure that the Democrats are not able to miscategorize those of us that believe in conservative values as being domestic terrorists.

00:08:48.000 Let's go out and advocate for our ideas publicly and win public office.

00:08:53.000 Democrats are already slated to have a very bad midterm.

00:08:58.000 The incumbent party does very poorly on midterm elections.

00:09:04.000 That is one of the things that manifests itself repeatedly in American political history.

00:09:17.000 Our production team said, did you just say the Speaker of the House doesn't have to be a member of Congress?

00:09:21.000 That's correct.

00:09:22.000 You do not have to be a member of Congress to become Speaker of the House.

00:09:25.000 You do not.

00:09:26.000 They can elect any private citizen that they choose.

00:09:29.000 It is a very little-known provision in the rules of the House of Representatives.

00:09:36.000 You could be a non-House of Representative member.

00:09:39.000 I don't think it's ever happened before.

00:09:41.000 So Trump could still become Speaker of the House if he bargains a deal and he says, look, we're going to take back the majority.

00:09:46.000 I'm going to go raise a billion dollars and campaign for all these candidates, but you're going to go elect me for Speaker.

00:09:51.000 So he could do it as a non-member, too.

00:09:53.000 I just think it would be cooler if he was a member.

00:09:55.000 It would be more likely.

00:09:57.000 They'd elect him as Speaker of the House in an instant.

00:10:00.000 There's some very interesting creative ideas.

00:10:02.000 Because here's the long and short of it.

00:10:05.000 Donald Trump is just as popular today as he was before January the 6th.

00:10:10.000 He's sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars that could be deployed politically.

00:10:13.000 He has a grassroots machine that is ready to be deployed at any moment.

00:10:19.000 It'd be a mistake not to use it.

00:10:21.000 It would be the ultimate way to play offense right now in this era where they are trying every way they possibly can to dominate American politics.

00:10:33.000 Why not elect the man who got the most votes of any sitting president in American history to Congress and with it, Speaker of the House?

00:10:44.000 And so Donald Trump, in a very interesting way, has been, I think he was listening to a Simon and Garfunkel song recently.

00:10:53.000 The sound of silence.

00:10:56.000 The silence from Trump the last couple of weeks has been deafening.

00:10:59.000 No Twitter, no Instagram, no Facebook, no YouTube.

00:11:03.000 We have a press release here and there, but his lack of commentary and everything that's been happening has been very loud.

00:11:12.000 I just love that song from Simon and Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence. 0.53

00:11:18.000 And the people bowed and prayed to the neon God they made.

00:11:21.000 And the words of the prophet are written on the subway halls and tenement halls.

00:11:25.000 It's beautiful poetry.

00:11:27.000 And more importantly, it's an obvious contradiction.

00:11:30.000 It's an irony because silence has no sound, but it's perfect because when there is no sound, sometimes that sound is deafening.

00:11:39.000 And so the globalist himself, who's worth, I don't know, $130, $140 billion, Bill Gates, he's come out and said something very surprising.

00:11:49.000 But he said it for a reason that is different than why you might think he's saying it.

00:11:56.000 So Donald Trump's been kicked off of all social media.

00:12:01.000 And so Donald Trump has made a strategic decision to just go completely radio silent.

00:12:05.000 He says, fine, you want to kick me off all these platforms?

00:12:08.000 I'm not going to give any of your activist media networks any sort of monetization on my comments.

00:12:14.000 We're done.

00:12:16.000 I'm going to allow the sound of silence to blanket the airwaves.

00:12:26.000 Now, I'm not going to lie, I would have loved his windmill commentary this week.

00:12:30.000 I missed the tweet at 5 a.m. two days ago in all caps that would have been sent.

00:12:37.000 All caps.

00:12:38.000 Windmills are the worst.

00:12:43.000 We need fracking.

00:12:44.000 Hashtag MAGA.

00:12:47.000 Or the tweet after that at 5.03 a.m. that would have came in all caps.

00:12:52.000 Joe Biden, call me if you need help with windmills.

00:13:01.000 And so Donald Trump has decided to use the sound of silence as an offensive weapon.

00:13:10.000 And it's been working.

00:13:12.000 So the Democrats and the ruling class, they're realizing, wait a second, when Trump is not talking, it's very hard to attack him.

00:13:21.000 So let's get him talking again.

00:13:27.000 And let me be very clear.

00:13:29.000 Donald Trump voluntarily not saying something, which I support the strategy because I think it's been brilliant, is not the same as me saying I want him not to have access to social media.

00:13:40.000 It's a completely different thing.

00:13:41.000 And nor am I saying that him not having access to social media has been a good thing.

00:13:45.000 That's not my argument.

00:13:47.000 The nuance is Donald Trump shutting himself up.

00:13:50.000 That's probably a little brutal way to say it.

00:13:52.000 Donald Trump stopping discussion voluntarily has been a chess move that the media can't figure out.

00:14:01.000 And this is why Bill Gates, the globalist, is saying, well, maybe we should allow him back on social media, Cut 56.

00:14:09.000 Well, I think at some point he probably will be allowed back on and probably should be allowed back on.

00:14:19.000 You know, it's weird when you're, you know, saying that the election was stolen without any facts there and how corrosive that is.

00:14:32.000 But I'll bet they'll find a way to let him back on.

00:14:37.000 I think Bill Gates misses Donald Trump.

00:14:40.000 I think Bill Gates can get his globalist borderless trillionaire pandering agenda passed when there is Donald Trump in the American narrative.

00:14:53.000 I think they're wrong about this, but I think that also that the chattering class and the people that made millions and hundreds of millions of dollars off of Donald Trump, I think they miss him.

00:15:06.000 I think at CNN, they want nothing more than for Trump to come back on social media, not because they believe in freedom of speech, but because without him involved in the daily conversation, they're irrelevant. 0.64

00:15:24.000 They basically became a Donald Trump reporting mechanism.

00:15:28.000 That's why Bill Gates is saying that.

00:15:30.000 Bill Gates is not an ambassador of free speech.

00:15:32.000 Bill Gates wants Trump so that he can have a foil to justify his globalist schemes.

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00:16:52.000 It's been the longest 15 days of my life, 15 days to slow the spread as we're still talking about the Chinese coronavirus and the lockdowns.

00:16:59.000 You notice how we never actually had a full conversation about therapeutics in our country.

00:17:04.000 It was always about vaccinations and lockdowns.

00:17:07.000 Not about hydroxychloroquine or preventative measures.

00:17:12.000 That very well might have helped vitamin D, zinc, exercise, outside.

00:17:16.000 It was always just the two things.

00:17:17.000 And then masks, of course.

00:17:18.000 That was the big thing that they were talking about.

00:17:21.000 And so I'm going to get into some sound here that helps build this out.

00:17:24.000 The White House Chinese coronavirus advisor Slabitz has asked why California doesn't have better numbers despite them being locked down perpetually.

00:17:35.000 Cut 60.

00:17:36.000 Asked states like Florida and California, California basically in lockdown, and their numbers aren't that different from Florida.

00:17:46.000 Well, good morning, Stephanie.

00:17:48.000 Look, there's so much of this virus that we think we understand, that we think we can predict.

00:17:53.000 That just beyond a little bit beyond our explanation, what we do know is that the more careful people are, the more they mask and social distance, and the quicker we vaccinate, the quicker it goes away and the less it spreads.

00:18:05.000 That's a lie.

00:18:06.000 It's not true.

00:18:08.000 There's not evidence to show that when you open up the economy and people that are not at risk of dying from the virus disproportionately of other populations, early 20s-somethings, teenagers, the virus will spread and you will have natural herd immunity.

00:18:22.000 I'm not talking about people over the age of 60 or 70 that are legitimately at risk if you have preexisting health conditions and if a respiratory virus very well might put your health at risk and with it your life.

00:18:35.000 But this argument he's making, if you listen very carefully, he says, first, there's so much of this virus.

00:18:42.000 Okay, there's not any more of the virus in California than Florida.

00:18:45.000 It's a virus.

00:18:46.000 It transmits through healthy, active, living carriers.

00:18:51.000 That's the whole idea of a virus.

00:18:53.000 But he says, what we do know is that when people stay in their homes, the virus goes away.

00:19:01.000 That sounds good, but it's not necessarily true because the data doesn't reflect that.

00:19:09.000 The data reflects something a lot more nuanced and something a lot more detailed than that.

00:19:17.000 That when you trust people to make good decisions at certain parts of the population that didn't need to be locked down for their welfare or their safety, they actually might get the virus, and then they'll be able to proceed with their life.

00:19:32.000 Why are Florida's numbers the best in the country per capita, putting into context the fact that it's an open state?

00:19:40.000 Maybe it's because every portion of the American population, I should say, every part of the Florida population, that's a better way to say it, handled it differently.

00:19:51.000 That's what liberty allows you to do.

00:19:55.000 I know people in Florida that have still not gone to a gathering, have not left their house or their neighborhood outside of going for a walk with a mask on since last March.

00:20:09.000 There are people in their 80s.

00:20:12.000 They have asthma, and they're very afraid of the virus, and they probably have a good reason to be.

00:20:19.000 But they made the voluntary choice, and they worked hard so they didn't have to go to work for their life.

00:20:24.000 And they also were very anti-lockdown.

00:20:28.000 They were anti-lockdown because they said, I'll stay at home.

00:20:31.000 I'm going to make my own decision about the virus.

00:20:35.000 But I'm not going to try to make that decision for somebody else.

00:20:39.000 Whereas the opposite of that, I know 16-year-olds in Illinois where their schools are still closed.

00:20:46.000 Their sports have been canceled.

00:20:50.000 They've left their home every so often, but their livelihood has been completely and totally destroyed.

00:21:02.000 And the Biden administration now has a lot of explaining to do.

00:21:08.000 Joe Biden propagandized to the American public, the one thing he ran on, the one thing is that I'm going to crush and handle the virus.

00:21:15.000 None of that was ever true.

00:21:16.000 We knew that.

00:21:17.000 People bought it and believed it just because they were told that Donald Trump was somehow to blame for all of this.

00:21:26.000 And now the Biden administration has to explain why states that are completely locked down are doing far worse than the states that are opening up.

00:21:39.000 I want to get to Cut 59 of Governor Ron DeSantis in the great state of Florida reacting to the scandal that is now encircling Andrew Cuomo.

00:21:50.000 Cut 59.

00:21:51.000 To March, I was getting criticized for not closing the beaches, which you don't close beaches for a respiratory virus, so I was right on that.

00:21:59.000 But the media totally ignored how the governors were handling the nursing homes.

00:22:03.000 We did an order right at the beginning saying hospitals cannot discharge COVID-positive nursing home residents back to nursing homes.

00:22:12.000 By doing that, we saved hundreds, if not thousands of lives. 0.93

00:22:16.000 And so we made the right decision at the outset.

00:22:19.000 And again, the facts have borne us out over these many months.

00:22:22.000 And the media totally ignored how the governors were handling the nursing homes.

00:22:27.000 Andrew Cuomo is now under federal criminal investigation for putting infected elderly patients into nursing homes.

00:22:37.000 And he said, oh, that's just a statistical error.

00:22:40.000 He pulled the Hillary Clinton and said, what difference does it make?

00:22:42.000 Makes a very big difference how you categorized it.

00:22:45.000 Because you put the infected patients into the nursing homes.

00:22:49.000 We've known this for months, by the way.

00:22:51.000 There was an amazing caller almost a year ago on Mark Levin's program who blew the whistle on this.

00:22:57.000 And the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, Reuters, AP, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, all of these groups didn't care to investigate any of this.

00:23:06.000 You would have won a Pulitzer Prize.

00:23:08.000 If it was a Republican, they would have resigned immediately.

00:23:12.000 But Andrew Cuomo, who gets cover fire from Fredo on CNN.com, by the way, we have written about this extensively on charliekirk.com.

00:23:20.000 So I encourage you guys to go right now to charliekirk.com and check it out, was never asked a critical question about this.

00:23:28.000 And it wasn't until Letitia James, who, by the way, is not my favorite person, she gone after Donald Trump, she's gone after the NRA.

00:23:35.000 She probably wants to be governor, which is exactly what's happening.

00:23:37.000 She wants to take out Andrew Cuomo, and I'm not sure how it works in New York.

00:23:41.000 I think they have a lieutenant governor, or it could be in New York where the attorney general becomes governor. 1.00

00:23:45.000 Anyway, Letitia James wants to take out the Cuomo political family, no different than Elliot Spitzer got taken out for a very different scandal, but still a scandal nevertheless, using taxpayer funding dollars to hire prostitutes. 0.68

00:23:56.000 I think that was the scandal.

00:23:58.000 If you guys don't remember Elliot Spitzer, you missed a very interesting chapter in American political history, not to mention Schneiderman, who is the old Attorney General of New York, who resigned recently and Letitia James then won election because Eric Schneiderman was credibly accused of sexually abusing the women he was with and punching them in the jaw for sport.

00:24:20.000 That was the former attorney general of New York.

00:24:22.000 Anyway, so Letitia James comes out with this report, which legitimizes all of what we've been talking about for the last nine months.

00:24:31.000 And our team just looked it up.

00:24:33.000 There's a long line of succession before the Attorney General becomes governor of New York. 0.64

00:24:39.000 However, that's not to say Letitia James couldn't possibly run for governor of New York, which she probably will. 0.90

00:24:44.000 But she wants Cuomo out.

00:24:46.000 So a lot of people that want Cuomo to step down all about him.

00:24:49.000 Meanwhile, he wrote a book in the midst of all of this.

00:24:52.000 Man, just the self-righteousness it takes to write a book about how well you're doing while you put infected Chinese coronavirus patients into a nursing home.

00:25:03.000 Just stunning.

00:25:05.000 And the media didn't care about any of it.

00:25:07.000 The activist media was so uninterested in covering this story, they were despicable.

00:25:17.000 And so Andrew Cuomo is now under serious fire for this.

00:25:23.000 Can you show me one Democrat that has handled this virus correctly?

00:25:30.000 One, J.B. Pritzker, disaster.

00:25:33.000 Gavin Newsom, disaster.

00:25:35.000 Andrew Cuomo, disaster.

00:25:38.000 Bill de Blasio's, Bill Abasio called Assemblyman Ron Kim's report of Cuomo's threatening phone calls as classic behavior from the governor.

00:25:47.000 Bill de Blasio said, quote, the bullying is nothing new.

00:25:51.000 I hope Andrew Yang becomes the next mayor of New York.

00:25:54.000 I really do.

00:25:54.000 I think he'd actually be a pretty good mayor.

00:25:56.000 You can't get any worse than Bill de Blasio, once great American city that has just been completely and totally destroyed by bad policies, self-righteous, corrupt politicians.

00:26:08.000 And so Andrew Cuomo, now being under credible investigation and accusation, has a lot of explaining to do.

00:26:19.000 He went from being the model for how to handle the Chinese coronavirus to now being under very serious accusation and investigation for doing something that was so preventable.

00:26:31.000 Why do this?

00:26:33.000 Why lie about it and why do it in the first place?

00:26:35.000 There's no political upside.

00:26:37.000 You could have been very honest.

00:26:38.000 You were blaming everyone else for everything else at the same time.

00:26:41.000 You were blaming Trump, even though President Trump brought in, literally brought in an aircraft carrier style ship into the harbor, the USS Mercy, I believe it was called.

00:26:51.000 They set up tents in Central Park.

00:26:55.000 It's as if New York was anticipating for a thermonuclear weapon to be detonated in New York.

00:27:01.000 By the way, the USS Comfort, it was the Comfort and the Mercy.

00:27:05.000 That's right.

00:27:06.000 That were never really used.

00:27:08.000 It was like 10 or 12 people, I believe, that were used.

00:27:11.000 Cuomo never thanked the Trump administration.

00:27:14.000 Well, that's not true.

00:27:14.000 He did one soundbite and he got pushback for it and then he stopped.

00:27:18.000 But that soundbite still exists.

00:27:20.000 Cuomo got all the PPE he needed.

00:27:22.000 Cuomo got all the relief funding he needed.

00:27:24.000 Cuomo got all of the support he needed.

00:27:26.000 Cuomo got all the federal assistance he needed.

00:27:29.000 And then Cuomo goes on a multi-month lecture tour across New York on all the major media networks with his slow, self-righteous, meandering way of talking, blaming Trump for the virus.

00:27:50.000 And what does Chris, what does Andrew Cuomo call it?

00:27:53.000 The European virus.

00:27:58.000 Remember, they even turned the Javits Center into a massive hospital, and they ended up not putting anyone there.

00:28:03.000 And then he blamed Trump for all the nursing home deaths.

00:28:07.000 What more help could Andrew Cuomo have received?

00:28:10.000 What else would he have needed to possibly screw this up?

00:28:13.000 Hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars, floated in New York to help Andrew Cuomo.

00:28:19.000 And that goes to a deeper point that I really want to explore with you guys.

00:28:23.000 You want to know how to divide the country?

00:28:25.000 Do exactly what Andrew Cuomo, Joe Biden, Gavin Newsom, and J.B. Pritzker are doing.

00:28:30.000 These are the most self-righteous, self-interested people I've ever seen in American politics.

00:28:41.000 If you believe that this Chinese coronavirus was a once-in-a-century event, and this was similar to the death toll, even more so, a multiple of Pearl Harbor and 9-11, but the damage it did to our country, does that mean we should be in a post-political moment?

00:28:54.000 So why is it Cuomo, Pritzker, Newsom, Brown, all these people, they don't say, you know what?

00:28:59.000 Thank you, President Trump, for delivering us a vaccine and PPE.

00:29:03.000 Instead, it's all, it's your fault.

00:29:05.000 We've done everything right.

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00:30:10.000 A Christian pastor from Edmonton, Canada has been jailed for breaking Alberta's Public Health Act by continuing to hold church services when ordered to stop.

00:30:20.000 This is on Breitbart.com by Thomas D. Williams, Dr. Thomas D. Williams.

00:30:24.000 Reverend James Coates on Grace Life Church of Edmonton turned himself into police on Tuesday, two days after officials attended his Sunday service to assess compliance with conditions issued to the pastor.

00:30:36.000 Police said in a news release Wednesday.

00:30:38.000 Grace Life has held worship services for three consecutive weeks.

00:30:43.000 And after it was ordered to close at the end of January because of restrictions related to the Chinese coronavirus, his lawyer said, quote, his first obedience is to the Lord, is to his God.

00:30:55.000 And normally obeying Jesus and obeying the government go right hand in hand.

00:30:58.000 The government's forcing him into a position where he has to choose between disobeying God and obeying governments or obeying God and disobeying government.

00:31:09.000 The government has come out and said the pastor's actions and subsequent effects those actions could have on the healthy and safety of our citizens dictated our response to the situation.

00:31:18.000 They were already fined and now he's being put in solitary confinement for hosting church.

00:31:25.000 This is Canada, North America, our neighbor.

00:31:29.000 This pastor should be released immediately.

00:31:32.000 Joe Biden should call Trust in Trudeau and say, if you do not release this pastor from prison, I'm putting sanctions and tariffs on Canada.

00:31:38.000 He'd be out within five seconds.

00:31:41.000 But they don't have religious liberty in Canada.

00:31:45.000 They do not have a First Amendment like we do.

00:31:48.000 The First Amendment, like we do, is a document that has the Establishment Clause and the Free Expression Clause.

00:31:55.000 The Founding Fathers knew that if you do not have the liberty to religiously assemble, to recognize where your rights come from, to have a connection to your Creator, then you cannot have a decent and civil society.

00:32:06.000 You go back to the documents of the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact.

00:32:10.000 The people who built this country understood that.

00:32:13.000 The Canadians have always been a different form of government, obviously with French roots, much more social, democratic, soft, socialist style of government.

00:32:25.000 It's a different culture.

00:32:27.000 It's a different lifestyle.

00:32:28.000 It's a different way of living.

00:32:30.000 I'm not saying it's necessarily bad.

00:32:32.000 It's not my style.

00:32:33.000 It's a lot slower moving.

00:32:35.000 It's a lot less rewarding of ambition and risk-taking.

00:32:39.000 It's a lot more likely to imprison a pastor that is preaching the word of God.

00:32:49.000 Now, this guy is not an existential threat to anyone.

00:32:51.000 Anyone that shows up to his church service made the voluntary choice to go there.

00:32:55.000 It's not like he's walking into people's homes and exposing himself to them.

00:33:01.000 The virus, that is.

00:33:02.000 Instead, he's just allowing voluntary assembly to occur.

00:33:07.000 This is already happening in many different ways in our country, where my friend, Mike McClure from Calvary Chapel, San Jose, is being criminalized for doing this exact same thing.

00:33:17.000 Where are the rest of the pastors in the churches rising up against this? 0.61

00:33:22.000 Most of the big Christian incorporated pastors across the country, Rick Warren, the skinny gene people that do all these different YouTube live streams, they are silent on this issue because they probably think he deserves it.

00:33:39.000 They actually think that we are called to be always and repeatedly subservient to government.

00:33:44.000 It's a misreading of the text of Romans 13.

00:33:46.000 I don't have to get into that right now.

00:33:48.000 That's a deeper podcast, a different radio show for a different time.

00:33:50.000 I encourage you to check out the Charlie Kirk Show podcast for that analysis.

00:33:56.000 But now a peaceful, courageous pastor is in jail, Reverend James Coates, in solitary confinement because he decided to host a church service for a virus that we know how it operates, we know how it travels, we know its mortality rate, we know all of that.

00:34:23.000 And it's coming all across this continent, and it's coming to our country very soon.

00:34:27.000 And until pastors, until churches get very serious about the threat of government tyranny and the government and the state's willingness to use that force against peaceful assembly, they will not stop.

00:34:48.000 So if you want to do something for freedom and liberty this weekend, do something for this pastor, Reverend Coates, in Canada.

00:34:56.000 All he wanted to do was obey God and have a church service.

00:35:00.000 And the Canadian government has deemed that to be enough to put you in solitary confinement.

00:35:04.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:06.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

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00:35:12.000 God bless you.

00:35:13.000 Speak to you, sir.

The Charlie Kirk Show - February 19, 2021

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