Charlie Kirk was an advocate of free speech, free enterprise, capitalism, and free speech. He was a father, a husband, a son, a brother, a friend, and an advocate for a full and unconditional pardon for Donald Trump.
00:00:10.060On Wednesday, the MAGA movement lost one of its most influential and admirable leaders,
00:00:16.060my friend, the happy warrior, Charlie Kirk.
00:00:19.660Back when I was framed in the Russian collusion hoax, but many Republicans were cowering,
00:00:26.900and Charlie Kirk was both a public and private advocate for a full and unconditional presidential pardon for me,
00:00:35.080proven to be right, of course, when Robert Mueller's final report was ultimately unsealed by the Department of Justice.
00:00:42.120It became very clear that I was guilty of no crime whatsoever, not Russian collusion, not WikiLeaks collaboration, no crime whatsoever.
00:00:51.860Charlie Kirk did more to convert young minds to the cause of free enterprise, capitalism, free speech, and yes, God, than anyone of his era.
00:01:03.540My friend, the conservative rapper, yes, there is such a thing, Tom McDonald, had a terrific tribute today.
00:03:10.760Really extraordinarily powerful tribute to Charlie Kirk by my friend Tom McDonald.
00:03:39.540Charlie Kirk was assassinated in broad daylight during an open air discussion at Utah Valley University yesterday.
00:03:46.180He regularly did these campus tours going right into the belly of the beast to dispel myths and address concerns from students being aggressively indoctrinated by Marxist professors and organizers.
00:03:58.220Charlie Kirk was an exemplar of free speech, understanding that rights fade when they are not boldly exercised.
00:04:05.520And for that very reason, he's no longer with us today.
00:04:08.560He will be remembered among the greatest patriots this nation has ever known.
00:04:12.560I told the president late yesterday that I thought he should be awarded posthumously the Medal of Freedom.
00:04:20.720The anger and disentrenchment being experimentized by the conservatives in this country today is ubiquitous and aided by the cavalier and even celebratory response from some on the left.
00:04:31.460Some, like California Governor Gavin Newsom, have offered their perfunctory and completely disingenuous condolences.
00:04:39.760But many do not hide their true feelings of joy.
00:04:42.900They're actually ecstatic that Kirk is dead.
00:04:46.280They actually hope that others who share his ideology, like yours truly, will join him sooner rather than later.
00:04:56.540Those who refer to the individual or individuals who assassinated Kirk and cheer the behavior on as radical leftists are sorely misguided, in my opinion.
00:05:07.080To refer to them as radical implies that there's some kind of movement when that is not the case.
00:05:13.720This is the core of the movement, the new normal among Democrats who've gotten high on their own supply.
00:05:20.520They bought their own propaganda about President Trump so thoroughly that they now believe that anyone to his right or to the right of Karl Marx is a threat who must be eliminated.
00:05:32.380When Democrats claim earnestly that President Trump and his supporters like me are Nazis, fascists, or white supremacists, they are implying that he's not only permissible, but actually laudable.
00:05:47.020When they boast about making racists afraid or punching a Nazi, they do not mean the buffoon wearing the Ku Klux Klan robe or the morbidly obese Hitler-enthusiast goose-stepping in the street.
00:05:58.960They're deadly serious about their intentions to impose their violence upon Christians, Jews, or anyone with traditional patriotic values.
00:06:07.420The sort who have been the overwhelming majority in America from its founding until recently.
00:06:14.740Their ideology is breaking down the social order of pillar to post, targeting religion, gender, the market, the rule of law, the nuclear family, and so on.
00:06:24.340The left has been wildly successful in their aims.
00:06:28.140Faith in God has waned considerably in recent years, with LGBT becoming the new national religion as toddlers are encouraged to exercise gender creativity.
00:06:38.780The family unit is decaying with the rise of single-parent households subsidized by the government with careerism presented as the highest of goals.
00:06:49.520Criminal scum like George Floyd, Luigi Mangione, and Michael Brown are made into false idols, while entire cities burn in effigy to honor them, as the pagans once did.
00:07:02.700Until President Trump came down that golden escalator, the public was demoralized and conditioned full-heartedly to accept that they would merely be the spectators, not the victims, of the drama that was to come.
00:07:14.780As Russian White Army Commander Pyotr Rangel eloquently wrote in his memoirs, Always Without Honor, President Trump's rise galvanized the forgotten men and women of America, dubbed the silent majority by my mentor, Richard Nixon, and gave them the means to fight back.
00:07:32.160Not to take the rights away from women or minorities, or to go back to the 1950s, as the crude character created by the left infers, but to allow the regular common people of this country to be able to live their lives free from this cavalcade of degeneracy that was so close to completely devouring us entirely.
00:07:52.500With Charlie Kirk's murder, we are forced to come to the stark realization that we'll never be able to turn the dial back.
00:08:00.560The comforting libertarian fantasy that we can live out our lives in a bubble, isolated from cultural factors, is a ruse.
00:08:08.680The ephemeral notion of America that we have loved and held dear is phantom.
00:08:13.500Now, we are locked into a war for our very civilization, one that we cannot turn away and hide from.
00:08:24.280He was never overly abrasive or offensive.
00:08:27.100He did not wish to impose his beliefs on others through coercion.
00:08:30.740Charlie believed earnestly, perhaps naively, that conservatives would win the debate by argument, by honest discussion, by dialogue.
00:08:41.960But the left has set the terms of the battlefield, and the free exchange of ideas is not part of their agenda.
00:08:48.860The modern left dwarfs any Islamic terrorist, Latin American drug cartel, or Chinese interloper as an existential threat to the tattered remains of our nation.
00:09:00.300Believing that sense can be talked into the left will mean Americans inevitably suffer the same fate as the Bolshevik and Russians,
00:09:08.320that Maoist China, or any of the worst communist despotisms that have inflicted misery and damnation upon the entire world.
00:09:16.580The rot, in my opinion, is just too deep.
00:09:19.760And to reverse our course with mere rhetoric, September 10, 2025, was the day we crossed the Rubicon,
00:09:26.260lost our innocence, and realized that only one path remains to ensure humanity's survival.
00:09:31.420The time for American renewal is at hand, and the tree of liberty shall be germinate in warp speed with Charlie Kirk serving as a martyr for our glorious national rebound.
00:09:43.320I must tell you, as someone who has written a New York Times best-selling book on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy,
00:09:52.080as someone who has just finished writing a book on the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan,
00:09:58.080that will be published somewhere around Christmas of this year,
00:10:02.000as someone who has studied the thinly reported attempts to assassinate President Harry Truman,
00:10:10.080President Gerald Ford, and yes, an attempt on the life of Richard Nixon in Miami,
00:10:16.100as reported by FBI informant Gerald Hemmings,
00:10:19.880as someone who has looked very closely at the two assassination attempts against President Donald Trump.
00:10:28.240I examined the events of yesterday, and I see that Charlie Kirk was killed by a professional gunman.
00:10:36.480This was a professional hit, a skilled shooter, one shot.