The Charlie Kirk Show - June 01, 2021


When the Mob Comes Knocking at Your Door with Mark McCloskey


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Mark McCloskey is running for the U.S. Senate in Missouri. He was shot and wounded by a Black Lives Matter rioting mob in his own yard last summer, but he never fired a gun. Now, he s running for office.

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00:00:26.000 Hey, everybody, today on my show, you remember the McCloskeys from Missouri that went to go out and defend their property, never fired a bullet. 0.88
00:00:35.000 They're being criminalized for simply waving their weapon. 0.67
00:00:40.000 This is unacceptable, inexcusable, but he's running for Senate to do something about it.
00:00:44.000 Mark McCloskey from St. Louis.
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00:02:37.000 Hey, everybody, welcome to this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:02:40.000 Honored to have with us today a brave man and a courageous man running for the Senate in Missouri, Mark McCloskey.
00:02:47.000 Mark, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:02:49.000 Thanks for having me on.
00:02:52.000 So Mark, I don't know if you ever planned to get into politics.
00:02:55.000 I don't know if you ever planned to run for office, but something happened to you and your wife last summer.
00:03:02.000 I have a lot of questions about this. 0.60
00:03:04.000 And it was probably the number one news story in the country for probably a week and a half, where an angry BLM Incorporated mob stormed your house, at least your yard. 0.91
00:03:16.000 They tore down a gate, and then you came out with your firearm, never discharged the firearm, and then faced criminal charges because of that. 0.94
00:03:25.000 I know that saga is still unfolding.
00:03:27.000 Walk us through what happened that day from your perspective.
00:03:31.000 Okay, and it takes a little background too, because particularly since yesterday was the anniversary of George Floyd's death in St. Louis on the evening and morning of June the 1st and 2nd of last year, the folks that have the high ground, the moral superiority over us, decided that the best way to show their love and compassion was to burn down downtown St. Louis.
00:03:53.000 And they set fire to lots of buildings that did millions of dollars worth of damage.
00:03:57.000 They shot four police officers and killed retired police captain David Doran, who about a half a mile from where I'm sitting right here in his secondary employment.
00:04:07.000 And the most impressive thing that Patty, my wife, and I were we were watching from a live helicopter feed while the 7-Eleven in downtown St. Louis, two blocks from the police headquarters, from the first time a rock comes through and breaks out the window, looters come in, looted empty, throw fire in the building becomes fully and go through the flames.
00:04:28.000 10, 20, 30, 40 minutes we watched this.
00:04:32.000 How many police showed up?
00:04:33.000 Zero.
00:04:34.000 How many firemen showed up?
00:04:35.000 Zero.
00:04:36.000 We looked at each other and said, you know, when the foot hits the sham, you're out there in your wildlands.
00:04:40.000 All right.
00:04:41.000 And then in the ensuing nearly a month, more and more businesses in our neighborhood got boarded up.
00:04:48.000 A little pharmacy around the street for me.
00:04:50.000 I went over there and the roll-up steel doors have been torn off.
00:04:54.000 The windows are all boarded up.
00:04:55.000 So I asked the owner, what happened?
00:04:57.000 He said, when the alarms went off, I said, did you come down to see what's going on?
00:05:01.000 I didn't want to get killed.
00:05:03.000 Make a long story short, the guys were in there for six hours stealing everything that could be stolen, breaking everything that could be broken.
00:05:09.000 And the cop showed up 10 hours after the alarm round.
00:05:12.000 So once again, self-reliance is your only resort at that time.
00:05:17.000 So now it's June 28th.
00:05:20.000 It's a Sunday afternoon.
00:05:21.000 Our daughter, who's 31, was coming in from Chicago to have dinner with us.
00:05:25.000 We were setting up on the porch.
00:05:27.000 I put a pork loin on barbecue, and my daughter shows up.
00:05:32.000 All of a sudden, we start hearing noise coming down Kings Highway.
00:05:36.000 Now, we know that there was going to be an event that day because in the city of St. Louis, where there's no police enforcement, where the police have been told to stand down, there's no prosecution, you get to advertise your riots.
00:05:48.000 And so this organization called Expect Us St. Louis put out a fire, saying they're going to have a riot when and where.
00:05:54.000 So we put fire extinguishers and weapons around the house.
00:05:57.000 And then this mob comes down Kings Highway.
00:06:01.000 Now we're right on Kings Highway at the end of a private neighborhood, gated private neighborhood.
00:06:05.000 Everything inside the gates private property.
00:06:07.000 There's no streets, the sidewalks, the streetlights, everything owned by the members.
00:06:12.000 All right.
00:06:13.000 All of a sudden, Kings Highway, six lanes wide, fills with people as far as you can see, screaming, shouting, beating on drums, hammering the street with sticks.
00:06:25.000 The police have closed down Kings Highway to let the mob use it, but then abandoned the street.
00:06:30.000 No police anywhere to be seen.
00:06:32.000 We're looking over at the gate and we say, God, I hope they don't come in here. 0.98
00:06:36.000 Right then, the gate bursts open and the one half opens like a batwing door. 1.00
00:06:40.000 The other half is staked to the ground and does not open. 1.00
00:06:42.000 They just folded it to the ground and started coming in, falling over each other like lemmings getting in.
00:06:48.000 I stood up on the porch and I said the two most racist white supremacist words known in the English language. 0.99
00:06:55.000 I said, private property.
00:06:57.000 And as soon as I said private property, since they're communists, that inflamed them and they started pouring in every much more so.
00:07:04.000 Well, Patty and my daughter went in to call 911.
00:07:07.000 I reached in, I grabbed my AR-15 and went back out in the porch.
00:07:11.000 Started saying some really unpleasant things to them, like, get out, private property.
00:07:16.000 And I actually probably swore at him once.
00:07:17.000 I said, get the hell out of my neighborhood.
00:07:19.000 You would think they might do that, right?
00:07:21.000 You know, seeing kind of a grumpy looking 64-year-old man carrying a semi-automatic rifle, barefoot, and rumble.
00:07:27.000 But no, they just kept pouring in, screaming death threats at us. 1.00
00:07:30.000 You're going to rape your wife, burn down your house. 1.00
00:07:33.000 You got a business. 1.00
00:07:34.000 Your business is gone. 1.00
00:07:36.000 We're going to kill you. 1.00
00:07:37.000 That's where I'm going to take my bath. 1.00
00:07:38.000 That's where I'm going to go to bed. 1.00
00:07:40.000 That's where I'm going to have my breakfast after we kill you and take over the house. 0.98
00:07:44.000 And the best part was a couple of these peaceful protesters were standing right in front of me on the porch. 0.99
00:07:50.000 And one of the guys had ammo pockets in his body army.
00:07:55.000 He pulled out two loaded magazines, pointed them at me so I could see they're loaded with shelves, clicks them together and says, You are next.
00:08:01.000 Guy standing next to him is wearing light-colored body armor, wearing a sidearm.
00:08:05.000 He turns around so I can see on the back it says human shield.
00:08:09.000 And then he comes, he turns around back towards us and starts inching closer and closer and closer. 0.98
00:08:14.000 And if you've seen that one still from that day where I'm leaning over and talking to Patty and I've got the AR in my hand, what I'm saying to her is, if that guy comes any closer, I'm going to have to kill him.
00:08:25.000 And because he's very threatening and armed, at which point Patty says to me, you're not killing anybody today, the voice of a reason.
00:08:32.000 But we held him on, and the crowd eventually dissipated.
00:08:35.000 That 32-second clip that plays endlessly on the news was the last 32 seconds of about a 15 to 18-minute event.
00:08:42.000 But that was the easier of the two times.
00:08:44.000 That's what made the news. 0.60
00:08:46.000 Then we got a tip that they were coming back that Friday, July the 3rd, and they were coming back specifically to kill us and burn down the house.
00:08:53.000 We'd gotten that from a black client of ours who was in the organization and brainwashed by lady that we'd represented for years, nice young lady.
00:09:00.000 We knew her family real well, went to her graduation, went to her husband's funeral. 0.77
00:09:05.000 We were felt like family with him.
00:09:06.000 But she called up to tell us that what we did was inexcusable.
00:09:10.000 We were going to have to die for it.
00:09:11.000 And they came back that Friday now with twice the manpower.
00:09:16.000 Now, the FBI estimate was up to a thousand people with the intent to kill us and burn us out.
00:09:22.000 And we had a hard time getting security.
00:09:25.000 But earlier in the week, making a short story out of this, a long version was about 40 minutes.
00:09:30.000 But I'd gotten a call from the White House saying the president supported us.
00:09:34.000 And if there's ever anything that he can do to help, let us know.
00:09:37.000 Well, when that Thursday evening happened, and we still were facing death and could not hire any private security, I called that guy back and I said, it's a pretty gosh darn good time now, right?
00:09:46.000 And so he gave me Mark Meadows' cell phone number.
00:09:49.000 And I called up Mark Meadows and told him the longer version of the story I just told you.
00:09:54.000 And when that Friday happened, a miracle happened.
00:09:57.000 The riot was supposed to start at about 6:30 or 7.
00:10:00.000 We started getting Navy SEALs showing up.
00:10:03.000 One ex-Navy SEAL, fourth-generation cattle farmer from Kansas, threw his gear in the back of his pickup truck and drove on in.
00:10:11.000 One of the things I did was right after I talked to Mark Meadows, I called up Tucker Pearls.
00:10:16.000 And Tucker, I'm talking, and I'm sitting on the bench in the kitchen.
00:10:20.000 He can hear Patty crying in the background. 0.80
00:10:22.000 And he says, you know, longer version of what I just said here, that McCloskeys are going to die on Friday, that they can't get any private security to help them.
00:10:30.000 I hear Mrs. McCloskey sobbing in the background.
00:10:33.000 The police have been ordered to stand down.
00:10:35.000 And thanks to that, we got about 10 secondary employment cops from rural jurisdiction that weren't afraid to get dirty if the job required.
00:10:44.000 So we had on that Friday afternoon by the time the mob showed up.
00:10:48.000 What we used to call in the Reagan administration peace through superior firepower.
00:10:52.000 And it kept the crowd at bay.
00:10:55.000 Once again, second time, nobody got shot.
00:10:58.000 Nobody got hurt except our psyche and that 130-year-old gate that got smashed on Sunday night on the 28th. 0.55
00:11:05.000 But it shouldn't take having the president's chief of staff on your speed dial be safe from a mob in Mississippi.
00:11:12.000 You know, we ought to have something called a government that we pay taxes to that protects us from the mob, not supporting it and encouraging the mob.
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00:12:18.000 I'm just stunned by the whole story.
00:12:20.000 So, did any of the people that stormed the gates or harassed you have any of them been charged for anything?
00:12:27.000 Well, a few months later, nine of them got charged with trespass, and then about an hour later, those charges were dropped.
00:12:34.000 This is who charges them then.
00:12:37.000 This was we have two levels of prosecution of the city of St. Louis.
00:12:41.000 One is a circuit attorney's office, which is who's charged us.
00:12:44.000 That's like the regular DA in another city.
00:12:46.000 And then there's the city counselor's office, which is a lower level of prosecution for misdemeanors and that sort of thing.
00:12:54.000 And that was the city counselor's office charged these nine people and then dismissed them immediately, as opposed to the what 36 people still sitting in solitary confinement for trespassing on the Capitol ground.
00:13:07.000 That's a good point.
00:13:08.000 So then, but you guys have been charged for you didn't fire a weapon.
00:13:13.000 So, what exactly is the law that was broken?
00:13:16.000 It was your own private property.
00:13:18.000 You didn't discharge it.
00:13:22.000 You're allowed to guard and wave a weapon if you want to, right?
00:13:25.000 Well, and here's the irony that I find.
00:13:29.000 You know, on the 3rd of July, that next Friday, when they came back, now I had a small army here and they were heavily armed, right?
00:13:35.000 Nobody got arrested for that.
00:13:38.000 Nobody checked anybody's ID to see, hey, are you really an APCO? 0.62
00:13:42.000 Do you really have a right to have that M4 on you, right?
00:13:45.000 But we got charged for violating the most profound law in the city of St. Louis, and that's standing up to BLM.
00:13:55.000 And the technical charge was flourishing a weapon.
00:13:59.000 But I was on my own property with my own legally owned weapons, and I never hurt anybody.
00:14:05.000 And yet, we got a charge that could land us four years in prison.
00:14:08.000 Has a judge heard this from the state yet?
00:14:12.000 No, no, we just got set for trial about a week ago.
00:14:15.000 We got the Soros-funded prosecutor tossed off the case.
00:14:19.000 No, when you were indicted, a judge usually has to hear the preliminary.
00:14:27.000 I can't imagine a judge doesn't throw this out.
00:14:30.000 Well, you know, and we've got a hearing coming up, and we've got a new prosecutor.
00:14:34.000 We've got an independent prosecutor now who's taking a fresh look at it.
00:14:38.000 But, you know, it went up in front of a grand jury, but you know, grand juries, as my wife always says, they'll indict a person.
00:14:46.000 The prosecutor says so.
00:14:48.000 So that's our current situation.
00:14:50.000 We're still facing felony charges, and we still are facing four years in prison and the loss of our law licenses and everything else.
00:14:57.000 So, but you know, I'm encouraged now to hear free of Soros.
00:15:02.000 Yeah, and so I'm still trying to understand what the law that was broken.
00:15:07.000 And I just maybe I'm, I think you're going to win this.
00:15:11.000 And I want to talk about your candidacy, but I refuse to believe that there's not a check and balance.
00:15:16.000 And if there isn't, then I'm just, I'm living in a different country, truly.
00:15:20.000 Well, we have a very good castle doctor in Missouri, which is promoted by, amongst other things, our current Governor Mike Parson.
00:15:27.000 And Mike Parson has promised to, gosh, I can't believe I'm glitching.
00:15:34.000 I'm a lawyer.
00:15:37.000 If we get convicted, but unfortunately, under the Missouri law, we have to get convicted before we can be part.
00:15:42.000 Well, that's what I was going to ask.
00:15:44.000 Why does he just not do it?
00:15:45.000 Why does he just do it now and get this over?
00:15:47.000 I guess he can't.
00:15:48.000 Well, it's kind of, it's actually kind of humorous.
00:15:50.000 We were talking to President Trump during the convention.
00:15:53.000 Called up to thank us for appearing at the convention.
00:15:55.000 And one of the first things he says is, Well, why can't the governor pardon you right now?
00:15:59.000 Why don't we get Governor Parson on the phone and see what we can do?
00:16:03.000 And so I got a call back the next day from the general counsel for the governor's office saying, Unfortunately, the law in Missouri has been changed and we can't do it until after you're convicted.
00:16:12.000 So he has said he'll do it.
00:16:16.000 So I want to give him credit for that.
00:16:17.000 But here's what I find so fascinating about your story: in a world of fame seekers and sociopaths running our politics, you guys didn't ask for any of this.
00:16:28.000 You were living your life.
00:16:30.000 You were pursuing happiness.
00:16:33.000 You were building a family.
00:16:34.000 You were about to have a meal with your daughter.
00:16:37.000 And you own firearms for obvious reasons for moments like this.
00:16:40.000 And the trouble came to you.
00:16:42.000 You didn't go looking for the trouble.
00:16:44.000 You were not prowling the streets trying to do something.
00:16:48.000 They came into your private property, which is a fundamental belief in Western society that you're allowed to control something, whether it be land or a home or an apartment, whatever, and that you can do whatever you wish with it, right?
00:17:02.000 So that's what I find so fascinating about this is that this happened to you.
00:17:06.000 And then somehow you're the villain for daring to not, you didn't kill anyone.
00:17:10.000 You didn't discharge a weapon.
00:17:12.000 By the way, you have every right. 0.99
00:17:14.000 I would believe that as soon as they come on your property, you could kill them all. 0.98
00:17:17.000 Like, I don't quite understand how this is even a problem. 0.96
00:17:20.000 But anyway, that's, I don't, I just, I don't quite understand it.
00:17:25.000 Like, you're not allowed to trespass private property.
00:17:28.000 Three different no-trespassing signs they had to pass by, plus breaking down the gate.
00:17:33.000 And I'm the one that gets charged with a felony.
00:17:35.000 Go figure.
00:17:37.000 You know, so now you're running.
00:17:39.000 Yeah, sorry, the oldest law in English jurisprudence is breaking the clothes, the right to use deadly force to stop somebody from entering into your property.
00:17:50.000 And yet they did it, and I'm the one getting prosecuted.
00:17:55.000 Just we need to go back to Blackstone just to realize where our laws came from because all these maniacs running our country don't understand any of that.
00:18:02.000 So now you're running for Senate, which I find to be really interesting.
00:18:06.000 And again, we have all these professional politicians that always just try to climb the ladder.
00:18:10.000 Tell us about what you were doing before the mob, professionally, your worldview.
00:18:14.000 Do you have any ambitions to politics?
00:18:16.000 Let's talk about why you're running.
00:18:18.000 I can guess why you're running because your story, but tell us just a little bit about yourself.
00:18:23.000 I've been a lifelong Republican.
00:18:24.000 My folks were lifelong Republicans.
00:18:26.000 My father was a very active anti-communist from when he got back from the Philippines after World War II until the day he died.
00:18:33.000 My mother was a head of what was for a while the largest Republican club in the country, got a Republican elected in the second district of Missouri, the first time since Reconstruction, I think.
00:18:44.000 And I've always been an outspoken opponent of the life, but I've never had any interest in running for political office.
00:18:50.000 I was speaking against, well, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua back when I was in college.
00:18:56.000 We put on fundraisers for Carl North when he was going through his problems and then when he was running for Senate.
00:19:02.000 And Ali's endorsed our campaign.
00:19:04.000 We did a video with him a couple of weeks ago.
00:19:06.000 So, and I've got the biggest slur, the most insulting slur I've gotten in this since the last, you know, since June 28th of last year, was that I used to be a Democrat.
00:19:17.000 Okay.
00:19:22.000 So I've been sending out pictures to different people and accuse me of that on the media of pictures of me with Senator Blunt when I looked like I was about 18 years old and me and Carl North, and we both looked like we were too young to have positions in the world.
00:19:37.000 And with Jim Talent and Newt Gingrich when he was speaker and everybody else.
00:19:42.000 So my Republican roots go back to about halfway down the birth canal, I think.
00:19:47.000 But I've never had any reason or any interest in running for politics.
00:19:51.000 But then the mob came knocking on the door.
00:19:54.000 And if you'd asked me June 27th of last year what I wanted most in the world, I would have said for the world, leave me the heck alone.
00:20:01.000 Let me live out the rest of my life in comfort and peace.
00:20:05.000 But the world chose not to.
00:20:07.000 And that Friday night when we had the second assault, that was the night that President gave his Mount Rushmore address.
00:20:13.000 And he talked about combating Marxist extremism in the United States.
00:20:19.000 I didn't get a chance to see that speech that night because I was a little busy saving my behind.
00:20:23.000 But I listened to it the next day and I heard all the pundits and the mass media saying that that was the most divisive speech they'd ever heard.
00:20:31.000 I said to myself, if fighting Marxism in the United States is divisive, there's something seriously wrong with our country.
00:20:38.000 If we're expected to live in harmony with the people that wish to destroy us and our lifestyle and our culture, then there's something seriously wrong.
00:20:46.000 And Patty and I just made a commitment that day that we're going to just put our lives on hold and contribute what we could for the rest of our lives to saving this country.
00:20:54.000 I absolutely love it because, again, I just want to reiterate this point, which is so dip.
00:21:00.000 People say, like, some people like, okay, I can't take it anymore.
00:21:03.000 I got to get involved.
00:21:04.000 The fight literally came to your door and you were just trying to live the American promise.
00:21:09.000 And you very well could have just kind of sued for peace and run to the hills and wrote an apology and said, you know what?
00:21:16.000 Maybe we shouldn't have, you know, had the weapons and maybe we should have invited them in for some sort of a, you know, milk and cookie type session.
00:21:24.000 Or, you know, they're really angry.
00:21:26.000 They didn't really realize what they were doing.
00:21:28.000 No, you handled this perfectly, which is, you know what?
00:21:31.000 There's some things that are worth going all in for.
00:21:35.000 And I don't know, busting down a gate to go terrorize private people in a gated neighborhood because you're upset that something happened in Minneapolis that we even know the facts and circumstances about. 0.95
00:21:48.000 That's Nicaragua. 0.56
00:21:49.000 That's not us, right?
00:21:50.000 That's just.
00:21:51.000 And so tell us about your race.
00:21:54.000 You're running for the United States Senate.
00:21:55.000 It's an open seat.
00:21:57.000 It's a very competitive primary.
00:22:00.000 You obviously have kind of an upper hand in the sense that you're very well known.
00:22:04.000 So I don't think you're going to have a name ID problem.
00:22:07.000 Tell us what you hope to achieve and kind of the why you're running outside of just obviously what happened to you.
00:22:14.000 Well, why we're running is that immediately after these events, we joined the Trump campaign.
00:22:18.000 And we were on the Team Trump bus and giving, you know, when we're actively campaigning for the president, we were doing seven rallies a day, plus stopping at the business owners and supporters' properties and giving the same kind of a speech that I'd give in the full full-blown rally.
00:22:32.000 So some days I'd be doing 12, 14 presentations a day and meeting people all over the country.
00:22:38.000 And what I learned was that people are just sick and tired of what's going on in the country.
00:22:42.000 They're sick of cancel culture and the poison of critical race theory and the lie of systemic racism and the threat of mob violence. 0.99
00:22:50.000 You know, do what we want or we'll burn your cities down and we'll kill you. 1.00
00:22:54.000 And they want real change. 0.99
00:22:55.000 But all they see in DC are the same old, same old, the Republicans have just talk and never affect any change.
00:23:02.000 The Democrats have been pushing to the left for as long as I've been alive.
00:23:06.000 And we used to talk about the erosion of our civil liberties.
00:23:11.000 And that's been going on for decades and decades.
00:23:13.000 But then we've got the Biden administration that comes in.
00:23:16.000 Regardless of the legitimacy of it, they're in power now.
00:23:19.000 And then there's been a wholesale slaughter of our civil liberties.
00:23:23.000 Every day, some new offense against the Constitution, against our God-given rights.
00:23:27.000 And things like HR1, now S1, that it ever passes.
00:23:31.000 There'll never be a free election again.
00:23:33.000 If H.R. 127, the gun control bill, passes, you know, registration of weapons and ammunition.
00:23:41.000 My favorite part is having a psychological examination of people that want to purchase guns and not just the person, but their family members and even their ex-spouses.
00:23:52.000 Can you imagine all the people out there that went through bad divorces where their ex-wife or their ex-husband will be able to tell some psychologist whether or not they think their ex ought to own a gun? 0.88
00:24:02.000 It's just so ridiculous.
00:24:04.000 Anyway, so we just got to a point where something had to happen. 0.87
00:24:10.000 I had no strings attached.
00:24:12.000 I could have lived the rest of my life comfortably and peacefully.
00:24:16.000 But I wanted to do something where people would believe that they would have a politician that would go to DC, tell the truth, regardless of what it would cost them politically or economically or socially.
00:24:28.000 And what you said a minute ago is so true.
00:24:30.000 What everybody else does when they make the mistake of standing up for their rights is they go through the apology tour and then they get fired anyway.
00:24:39.000 If I had been the managing partner of the biggest law firm in St. Louis, instead of being self-employed, I'd have had to apologize until I was blue in the face and I would have been fired anyway.
00:24:50.000 And that's the problem.
00:24:51.000 The media and the swamp has such control that if you step out of line and you say anything impolite, if you go more than two points off the middle of what's currently accepted as appropriate discourse, you get destroyed.
00:25:09.000 Your career gets ended.
00:25:11.000 You get prosecuted.
00:25:13.000 And that's, you know, that's not the United States of America.
00:25:15.000 That is not a free democracy.
00:25:18.000 That's the Soviet Union or the CCP or Cuba, but it's not the United States I knew.
00:25:23.000 And it's the reason we're running to try to pull that power back.
00:25:27.000 The Declaration of Independence, after reciting our God-given right, says that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the government.
00:25:40.000 And my goal in this campaign is to remind everybody in DC that they serve at our leisure, not vice versa.
00:25:47.000 That we have rights and we've given them, the government, some privileges, not vice versa.
00:25:53.000 I love that.
00:25:54.000 What is the website where people can support you and learn more about your candidacy?
00:25:58.000 It's McCloskeyforsenate.com.
00:26:01.000 And with no brakes, it's all one word, McCloskey4FORSenate.com.
00:26:06.000 And if people think we've got a good idea, if they want to support us, donate five, $10, whatever you can, whatever you feel comfortable in.
00:26:13.000 Obviously, the left is going to come down on us like a ton of bricks.
00:26:16.000 And I suspect some of my fellow Republicans will too.
00:26:19.000 I've already heard some impolite things being said about me by others.
00:26:25.000 We're not going to do that.
00:26:26.000 We're going to run a positive campaign and just do what I can to represent the genuine wishes of the people of Missouri, not the interest of lobbyists or contributors.
00:26:35.000 And just go back to making the country what it was when we grew up, where people were free, people felt safe to walk the streets.
00:26:43.000 I don't know if you saw this video over the weekend of people dancing on top of the St. Louis police car.
00:26:49.000 But how can that happen in this country?
00:26:52.000 How can anybody feel safe in their homes if the population of the most dangerous city in the country, St. Louis, feel free to dance on top of a police car and the crowd is dancing and singing and having a great time, absolutely unafraid of any consequence.
00:27:09.000 And that's, you know, out of chaos comes tyranny, and that's the game plan.
00:27:14.000 Well, I love it.
00:27:15.000 Well, thank you so much, Mark, for what you're doing.
00:27:18.000 And stay strong.
00:27:19.000 We have your back.
00:27:21.000 We deeply appreciate it.
00:27:22.000 Thank you very much, Erin.
00:27:25.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:27:27.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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00:27:32.000 God bless you guys.
00:27:33.000 Speak to you soon.