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| Hey everybody, fan to Charlie Kirk Show. | |
| Reflections and some breaking news from our Turning Point Action Conference, how the Secret Service threw us a curveball. | |
| Same Secret Service that can't find the cocaine in the White House or whose cocaine it is. | |
| Whose cocaine is it anyway? | |
| And we also talk about straw poll results and more. | |
| Email me, freedom at charliekirk.com. | |
| Get involved with Turning Point USA. | |
| Make sure you listen to the end of this episode for a giveaway opportunity and get involved with Turning PointUSA, TPUSA.com. | |
| That is tpusa.com. | |
| Buckle up, everybody. | |
| Here we go. | |
| Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. | |
| Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. | |
| I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. | |
| Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. | |
| I want to thank Charlie. | |
| He's an incredible guy. | |
| His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. | |
| 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. | |
| That's why we are here. | |
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| I want to say thank you, thank you, thank you to our amazing Turning Point Action staff. | |
| We had our chapter leadership summit brought to you by Turning Point USA in the days before it. | |
| No other team could have pulled off what we pulled off and what we had to overcome. | |
| And I'm going to share that in great detail. | |
| For those of you that watched at home, I hope you enjoyed it. | |
| It was the largest event of the summer and honestly, one of the largest of the year. | |
| We had over 6,000 people, actually had 7,000 people try to attend. | |
| Here's a little lesson. | |
| When you do events, usually you'll have, and we have an algorithm for this that we've, or the formula we've developed, algorithms, not the right word, formula. | |
| You'll have 80 to 85% people show up, and depending on the speaker, 70, 75% people show up. | |
| When you have Megan Kelly, you have Tucker, and you have Donald Trump, all one after the other. | |
| We had something like 96.5% of people show up. | |
| And all at once. | |
| It was absolutely, it was unheard. | |
| It was the highest turnout we've ever had as far as ticketing in there. | |
| And the Turning Point staff handled it amazingly. | |
| There was definitely some frustration with getting into the event. | |
| I'm going to tell you all about it because some people were definitely upset and they should be. | |
| It was a three-hour wait to get in, and it involved the Secret Service. | |
| Interestingly, you know, there was no wait on Sunday when the Secret Service wasn't around. | |
| The same Secret Service, by the way, that can't tell you who's cocaine. | |
| It is in the White House. | |
| But first, I want to talk about all the good news, and I wanted to say thank you for you guys that had the patience, that supported the event, that prayed for the event. | |
| We were really, really blown away by the people that stopped us in the hall, people that said thank you. | |
| Charlie, listen to the show. | |
| I watch you on Real America's Voice. | |
| Charlie, I listen to you on the Salem Radio Network. | |
| Charlie, I listened to the podcast. | |
| It really touched us. | |
| And you guys were patient, and you guys were amazing, and it was an amazingly successful event. | |
| So let's get to the recap here. | |
| President Donald Trump gave a 110-minute speech. | |
| I got to tell you, President Trump, he goes all in. | |
| So he arrives there, and he does like 50 pictures with every police officer that he could find. | |
| You want a picture? | |
| It was like Oprah. | |
| Do you want a picture? | |
| And you want a picture? | |
| And you want a picture? | |
| And you want a picture. | |
| And then Tucker's there. | |
| He talks to Tucker for 20 minutes. | |
| Megan Kelly's there backstage, talks to Megan Kelly for 20, 30 minutes. | |
| Guy's a machine. | |
| Then he goes up and gives a 110-minute speech. | |
| He's 77 years old. | |
| We receive thousands of emails criticizing Trump. | |
| The energy level of this guy is incredible. | |
| Incredible. | |
| And then he goes on and has a three-hour dinner afterwards. | |
| It's just something else. | |
| Biden's State of the Union was 72 minutes, and it felt like a marathon. | |
| You're kind of like, is this guy going to make it? | |
| Is he going to make it? | |
| Is he going to make it? | |
| And Trump, I think, gains in energy the more he does this stuff. | |
| It's remarkable. | |
| Opening night at the Turning Point Action Conference, standing room only. | |
| We had just people all over the place. | |
| It was incredible. | |
| Fire Marshal had to close us down and say, yeah, enough. | |
| And we can't fight the fire marshal. | |
| It is what it is. | |
| And so we had great attendance. | |
| It was incredible. | |
| Vivek Ramaswamy spoke earlier in the evening. | |
| Now, for those that remember, Chris Christie declined our invitation. | |
| Nikki Healy declined our invitation. | |
| Mike Pence declined our invitation. | |
| And Ron DeSantis declined our invitation. | |
| Ron DeSantis is a terrific governor of Florida. | |
| I don't like people that are rewriting the history. | |
| He has been and remains a great governor of Florida. | |
| He's done some amazing things, banning critical race theory, what he's done with the new college, what he did with Disney, I fully support. | |
| He's not been running a good presidential campaign, and he made a major mistake to not show up at this event. | |
| We'll dive into that in great detail. | |
| Vivek Ramaswamy gave a barn burner speech. | |
| And so we had a question of, okay, who do you want to be president of the United States? | |
| Donald Trump with 85%. | |
| The more interesting question, though, is: okay, who is your second choice? | |
| Vivek Ramaswamy won with 51% as the second choice. | |
| And the obvious lesson is: if you show up, you're going to win. | |
| Vivek showed up. | |
| He did press. | |
| He did media. | |
| He was on like no sleep. | |
| He did an after-party. | |
| He did an influencer meetup. | |
| And Ron DeSantis, I think, received 4% in his home state. | |
| If Ron DeSantis would have showed up, he would have done very well. | |
| Ron DeSantis could have won over a lot of our audience. | |
| He would have been treated very respectfully, obviously. | |
| In fact, I said this privately. | |
| I'll say it again. | |
| We're going to play a piece of paper. | |
| I said this. | |
| Ron DeSantis should have showed up and he should have done an open mic and say, if you disagree with me, go to the front of the line. | |
| If you don't like what I'm doing, go to the front of the line. | |
| That's what I do on college campuses. | |
| Governor DeSantis would have earned people's respect by doing that. | |
| Dodging voters you need to win over is not a path to victory. | |
| Just a little taste here. | |
| You know that they love Donald Trump, but I think it's more interesting, at least in this sense, is how Vivek Ramaswamy is ascendant. | |
| In fact, I believe Vivek is going to overtake Ron DeSantis very soon as second place in the Republican primary. | |
| I see it. | |
| We know the base very well. | |
| Almost every prediction we've made. | |
| And I'll tell you, when I think Vivek's turning point in his campaign was when Vivek took our public advice, which was to go down to Miami and to say it's outrageous that Donald Trump was being charged federally. | |
| I was mocked by Ron DeSantis consultants and influencers. | |
| I was mocked by people in many presidential campaigns because that tweet went totally viral. | |
| Vivek Ramaswamy went from sixth place to now second place. | |
| No one heard of it. | |
| No, that's not totally true. | |
| Some people had heard of him six months ago, but only if you watch Fox News, especially Tucker, but he was not a household name. | |
| Vivek Ramaswamy went down to Miami, Florida, and he benefited from the 600 different media outlets that were there. | |
| So you have President Trump, obviously he wins 85%. | |
| That was my prediction. | |
| And by the way, the poll was done by Trafalgar. | |
| We had no access to the poll. | |
| We had no inside information about the poll. | |
| We had no updates about the poll. | |
| It was literally, we got a report at the end, and that was it. | |
| It was that simple. | |
| I swear to you, people say, oh, Charlie, you manipulated. | |
| Okay. | |
| If you think we manipulated, you should have just walked in the room. | |
| Do you support Trump? | |
| You don't need to manipulate what you can see with your own knife. | |
| And so we get the results. | |
| And I said, boy, I think Vivek is going to do very well. | |
| And I do want to ruminate on this because Vivek Ramaswamy is running the campaign that Ron DeSantis should have run, which is he refuses to attack Donald Trump. | |
| He refuses to attack his voters. | |
| He's reading the room and he's making principled, clear, wise statements. | |
| And it goes to show that, yeah, you can actually ascend in the Republican primary if you understand the Republican base. | |
| So 85.7% selected Donald Trump for president, 51.2% as their second choice for president. | |
| Kerry Lake won our vice presidential straw poll with 30.8%. | |
| And there are some other top-line, really important takeaways here. | |
| And I just want to make sure I'm making this clear. | |
| Had Ron DeSantis attended, people would have been way more positive on him. | |
| Ron DeSantis could have worked media row. | |
| He could have done an influencer reception. | |
| He could have gone and taken selfies and pictures. | |
| He could have put his hand around people. | |
| In fact, you know, because of just, let's say, less than desirable, the waiting lines that we had to come into turning point made Maricopa County look like an expedited thing. | |
| You know, people, I think, appreciate when you go and you look at them in the eyes and you shake their hands and you take pictures. | |
| I did it for an hour and a half. | |
| And I think Ron DeSantis would have really benefited from doing that. | |
| It's a missed opportunity, but it seems as if those missed opportunities are building. | |
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| So let's go deeper into the poll. | |
| Okay. | |
| So we had 7,000 people show up, some of which were unannounced buying day of tickets on the first night. | |
| But we had, again, 7,000, I think we've had a total, 7,700 total people pass through the convention center. | |
| Amazing. | |
| Largest ever turning point action event. | |
| I want to just emphasize because, you know, there's these really lazy, overweight people that just tweet, turning point doesn't do anything except events. | |
| Like, really? | |
| Okay, let me tell you something beyond the obvious. | |
| You have to be really, you have to be a really bitter person. | |
| I hate bitterness to say something like that. | |
| But let me just kind of give you one number. | |
| Over 700 people signed up to become precinct committeemen just at this event. | |
| 700. | |
| Has the RNC done that recently? | |
| 700 people. | |
| In fact, my advice to the Trump campaign is every single time you do a rally, you should be signing people up to become precinct committeemen. | |
| My number one call to action was go to tpaction.com or go to the turning point action booth and sign up. | |
| 700 people signed up who were otherwise not precinct committeemen. | |
| These are the grassroots workers. | |
| These are precinct captains. | |
| We will not win if we don't fill these positions. | |
| And that's just one of many. | |
| We have over 100 new turning point USA high school or college chapters that are going to be started from this event this last weekend. | |
| So yeah, there was the pizzazz, there was all that stuff. | |
| But we're about grassroots action. | |
| Grassroots action. | |
| The event was just a starting point for taking back America, taking that energy and taking that enthusiasm and directing it towards a specific output. | |
| We had all 50 states represented. | |
| People say, I'm going to run for a school board. | |
| I'm going to run for Congress. | |
| I'm going to hold my elected officials accountable. | |
| Let the big oligarchs waste their money on the primary. | |
| The best money you could spend is: let's build a grassroots party. | |
| Let's fill up all our precinct committee positions. | |
| And we made a big step in that direction. | |
| In fact, we're trying to get people that were watching online sign up at tpaction.com to take back your state party. | |
| One of many really just awesome takeaways from this weekend. | |
| And by the way, if you had not had a chance to watch some of the speeches, I encourage you to do so. | |
| We're going to be posting them on Rumble and playing them all throughout. | |
| So let me just give you a little bit of taste. | |
| Tucker Carlson gave an incredible speech. | |
| I have so much respect for Tucker Carlson. | |
| Tucker Carlson's a good man. | |
| He's gracious with his time. | |
| He's just outright hilarious. | |
| He's humble. | |
| He's kind. | |
| He's a clear thinker. | |
| He's wise. | |
| You know, when you have these speakers at these events, some speakers are like, I want to arrive, I want to speak, and I want to leave. | |
| Right, Mikey, it's very clear. | |
| Tucker shows up. | |
| He's like, whatever you need. | |
| Hanging out with Turning Point USA chapter leaders, taking selfies with people. | |
| So generous, so gracious, so down-to-earth. | |
| And I have dealt with, I think, almost everybody in the entire movement. | |
| I don't think that there's anybody that we have not hosted at this point. | |
| Everyone from Jordan Peterson to Tucker Carlson, right? | |
| Basically, all across. | |
| And I wanted to say most speakers are wonderful to deal with. | |
| Not all of them, but most speakers are fine. | |
| No one comes even close, though, to Tucker Carlson and just his grassroots humility. | |
| Whatever you need. | |
| I'm here. | |
| I love you guys. | |
| I love the students. | |
| I love the movement. | |
| I have immense respect for that. | |
| And honestly, I have a lot to learn. | |
| One of the most insightful things that Tucker Carlson shared is Cut Eight. | |
| Listen carefully. | |
| Very, very deep point here. | |
| Play Cut Eight. | |
| If you want to know what they care about, if you want to know what's important, listen to how they respond when you say something unapproved. | |
| But the point is, when something is clearly or very likely untrue, it poses no threat to anyone. | |
| What's scary and what will elicit a response are true things? | |
| No one is punished for lying. | |
| People are only punished for telling the truth. | |
| What are the crimes that are punished? | |
| Thought crimes, thinking the wrong thing, having the wrong beliefs, saying unapproved words. | |
| It's the truth tellers that are penalized. | |
| We'll get to it. | |
| It's not the top thing, but there's this article in the Arizona Republic. | |
| Charlie Kirk, literally, the title is Charlie Kirk Says Racist Things. | |
| That's the title in the Arizona Republic. | |
| I don't, never have, never will. | |
| We say true things and we defend the promise of meritocracy. | |
| But it's the truth tellers that are criticized. | |
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| Does Anthony Fauci, John Brennan, James Comey, Merrick Garland, do they get negative articles in the Arizona Republic? | |
| No, because lying is rewarded and truth-telling is punished. | |
| That's an unbelievably profound point by, in my opinion, the current king of conservative media, Tucker Carlson. | |
| All right, you've probably heard me. | |
| It's actually now 25 pounds that I have lost. | |
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| That was me. | |
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| Okay, I want to focus on some of these other poll results, and then I'm going to tell you about the, let's just say, curveball that we were throwing on Saturday that our team did an amazing job adapting to. | |
| We asked some other questions. | |
| We said, do you plan to donate to the RNC? | |
| Do you plan to make the RNC part of your giving strategy? | |
| 77.3% of the most active, most vocal attendees in the country, activists, say no. | |
| 77.3% say they have no plan to donate to the Republican National Committee. | |
| Now, Harmet Dylan was there. | |
| Scott Pressler was there. | |
| Wouldn't it have been smart for the RNC to show up and maybe win over these people? | |
| I'm very concerned. | |
| Actually, I don't know if I'm concerned because I don't know how much I care about that. | |
| I do want a strong party, honestly. | |
| I do. | |
| I'm a registered independent for this exact reason. | |
| I've lost trust in the Republican Party. | |
| But there is a pattern that is manifesting, which is if I just avoid our voters and our grassroots and activists, things will get better. | |
| In life, when you avoid your problems, they rarely go away. | |
| That's a truism in almost every part of life. | |
| Now, sometimes you do get lucky. | |
| Sometimes problems solve themselves. | |
| One out of a thousand times. | |
| What I've learned, 11 years of doing this, is that when you have a problem, doing the difficult but necessary and sometimes messy thing of confrontation, maybe apology and taking responsibility is almost always the right choice. | |
| So the RNC knows that they are not well liked by their voters, by grassroots folks. | |
| Why not show up and talk to them? | |
| They're going to say, oh, we weren't invited. | |
| Correct. | |
| You weren't invited. | |
| But you could have reached out. | |
| You are the Republican National Committee. | |
| By the way, every presidential candidate was invited. | |
| Harmee Dillon came, Mike Lindell was there. | |
| Scott Pressler was there. | |
| Roger Stone was there. | |
| Patrick Byrne was there. | |
| Asa Hutchinson was there. | |
| You will not find a more diverse group of speakers. | |
| I don't care about skin color. | |
| It's irrelevant to me. | |
| A more diverse mixture of speakers than at the Turning Point Action Conference. | |
| And I love Roger Stone. | |
| I've known Roger for years. | |
| I argued for his pardon. | |
| Donald Trump, Asa Hutchinson, Mayor Suarez, Jack Pissot. | |
| I mean, it's all over the place. | |
| But the point is the grassroots need to be in charge. | |
| My immediate mission, our mission at Turning Point Action has been to change who runs the party. | |
| The oligarchs, the consultants, the mob bosses, get out of the way. | |
| The grassroots are informed. | |
| You guys in the audience are the smartest, flipping people. | |
| You guys are stopping me and you're talking about, Charlie, have you read all the details of the Green New Deal and there's this thing and you got it like highlighted. | |
| Mikey, I think, has 2,000 pieces of paper that people gave me at the Turning Point Action Conference. | |
| And I plan to go through it. | |
| And some of it's a little wacky. | |
| Some of it is unbelievably wise. | |
| I get some of the ideas for our show of you, the audience. | |
| You guys know it better than the mob bosses. | |
| One person comes up to me, Charlie, I've mapped all of the finances of the homes and the villas that Zelensky is buying. | |
| I don't know if it's true or not, but it certainly seemed compelling, and it's like a big stack of paper. | |
| Somebody else comes up to me, Charlie, you don't understand all the adverse events that vaccines could be, and they give me a book and all this. | |
| The point is the audience is gaining in their knowledge, gaining in their expertise. | |
| And I truly believe that the guardians of the Republican Party don't like that. | |
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Six Thousand Conservative MAVINs
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| I don't think they want to have to walk through an expo hall like that we had and had to be asked tough questions or have to be given material that they have to read about issues that they're bought and paid for. | |
| And I kid you not, this is what I think Ron DeSantis miscalculated, is that these grassroots people, they don't just like attend and then they go away. | |
| They talk and they organize. | |
| This actually just came to be, and this is the best way I can describe it. | |
| I'm so glad I came up with this. | |
| Malcolm Gladwell is a mediocre author, but he said some smart things. | |
| I'm actually curious what Blake thinks about Malcolm Gladwell. | |
| Some of his books are great. | |
| Some of his books are just complete rubbish. | |
| There is a book called Outliers, which I think is his best book. | |
| And I think it's his most quoted book. | |
| Blink by Malcolm Gladwell's Trash. | |
| David and Goliath is not good. | |
| Blake says he's a midwit. | |
| What does that mean? | |
| That's not a word that I use. | |
| Someone who is around average intelligence. | |
| Okay, I'll take that. | |
| Fine. | |
| Malcolm Gladwell in the book Outliers has a term called a maven. | |
| So Malcolm Gladwell is a social psychologist and social scientist, and he wants to find out and just observe the world. | |
| He's become super lefty. | |
| But in the book Outliers, he was trying to find out why hush puppies became so popular. | |
| What is it? | |
| How do trends and fashion or how do certain recipes become popular? | |
| I don't know if it was hush puppies, actually. | |
| It was something of that. | |
| The point is this. | |
| He was trying to figure out what makes something go viral. | |
| It's a really interesting question, isn't it? | |
| Why do some things catch on? | |
| For example, that stupid ice bath thing that we did in the summer, like five or six years ago, right? | |
| Like ice bath challenge for autism or something, right? | |
| It was something like that. | |
| Was it autism? | |
| I think it was. | |
| ALS. | |
| Okay, I apologize. | |
| Or what are some other fads? | |
| Like, remember Kony 2012? | |
| Like, what made that go viral? | |
| Or any of these things. | |
| What Malcolm Gladwell argued in the book Outliers, the Harlem Shake is a great example. | |
| That's a great example. | |
| Is that there's a community of people that if you're able to find them, they can make something go from an unknown to popularity. | |
| And it's called a MAVEN. | |
| He uses the term a MAVEN as a way of somebody who works hard and is well connected in their community that reaches thousands of people and they make it go viral, make it go popular. | |
| What Ron DeSantis missed out was on 6,000 MAVENs at the Turning Point Action Conference. | |
| These are 6,000 people that independently help make something get into the mainstream, into the Zeitgeist. | |
| There are 6,000 conservative MAVINs. | |
| And you can read it. | |
| You type in MAVEN Malcolm Gladwell. | |
| He's written extensively about it. | |
| You'll see it. | |
| Rutgers University has a whole piece on it. | |
| Are you a connector, a MAVEN, or a salesman? | |
| It's an early adopter strategy. | |
| And so if you want to win the thing, actually, the book is tipping point, actually. | |
| He wrote about this in the tipping point or outliers? | |
| I get it all confused. | |
| I've read all this stuff. | |
| I'm doing this live here. | |
| I think it is the tipping point, actually. | |
| Not the most important point. | |
| The point is that this was not just your average, quote-unquote, average audience. | |
| These are people that will make or break your entire presidential campaign, period. | |
| Make or break your entire career. | |
| And they felt scorned. | |
| They were very unhappy that certain candidates ignored them and they said they had more important stuff to do. | |
| I had some sharp but honest comments on this. | |
| Play cut 14. | |
| Charlie, I know it is a delicate subject. | |
| I wanted to ask, you guys had a great relationship with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. | |
| Oh, I think he's a great governor. | |
| It's not delicate. | |
| I'm happy to talk about it. | |
| I mean, I think he's a great governor of Florida. | |
| I think it's an unbelievable stake for him not to be here. | |
| I don't take it personally. | |
| It's politics. | |
| You just kind of get over things and every day is a new day. | |
| It's really a tragedy for the conservative movement because he is a great governor. | |
| I mean, I'm on Team Trump, so whatever, who am I to give advice? | |
| But like Ron DeSantis could have come here, said, you know what? | |
| I'm just going to take questions from the audience and I'm going to tell you about what I've done. | |
| And he has done some things that are noteworthy, banning critical race theory, the crime stuff's been good. | |
| Instead, he's running a Chamber of Commerce campaign where he thinks dollars mean votes. | |
| Like, no, that's not how it works, actually. | |
| You need people. | |
| And he turned his back on 6,000 of the most important people in the Republican primary. | |
| 6,000 of the most important people in the Republican primary. | |
| That is exactly right. | |
| So you have 6,000 MAVENs. | |
| They don't want to talk to him. | |
| Let me also highlight some other poll findings. | |
| 89% of attendees support the Republican Party embracing early voting and vote chasing. | |
| 89.7% support the Republican Party embracing early voting and vote chasing. | |
| This is telling. | |
| And the most lopsided question we asked, I'm going to tease and tell you about in the next segment. | |
| I want to see, though, is this is this parallel to what you believe? | |
| Do you plan to donate to the RNC? | |
| Email us, freedom at charliekirk.com. | |
| Do you plan to support the Republican establishment? | |
| If you want to win back your base, you have to speak to them. | |
| I'm going to tell you how I know this is true based on a let I have two things I want to finish in this hour because we have a lot to cover. | |
| I need to tell you about the most lopsided piece of information from our polling, and then I need to tell you a story of how big government truly does suck. | |
| And I could prove it to you because we have that mantra at Turning Point USA, big gov sucks. | |
| And we saw it in real time, but we overcame and our attendees are awesome. | |
| Our attendees wanted to be there so bad, they waited three hours in a 98-degree parking garage. | |
| You might say, Charlie, why'd you put him in a parking garage? | |
| We didn't. | |
| I'm going to tell you that full story. | |
| The honest, and I haven't told this story publicly yet. | |
| And wait till you hear it. | |
| It's something, but you guys deserve great credit for overcoming that. | |
| Our staff, too. | |
| It's really something. | |
| 95.8% of turning point action attendees oppose United States involvement in Ukraine. | |
| 95.8%. | |
| Yet 99% of your elected officials are cheerleading for a war against Russia or funding it or supportive of it. | |
| What a major disconnect. | |
| That is unsustainable, everybody. | |
| If 95.8% of your voters don't want something and 99% of your elected officials are still jamming it through and not listening and basically force-feeding a neoliberal internationalist agenda, that is a recipe for a political revolution. | |
| Listen to your voters or be honest with them. | |
| Try to persuade them. | |
| Not a single speaker, well, that's not true. | |
| The couple speakers came and they was not exactly well received. | |
| But none of the speakers that were well received were defending the war in Ukraine. | |
| Why are so many of your elected officials trying to get us in a war with Russia? | |
| You are smarter than your politicians on this, or you're not bought and paid for. | |
| Mixture of both. | |
| Okay, story time. | |
| Night before the event, we did our typical walkthrough with the Secret Service. | |
| When you have President Trump, a former president, or the Secret Service, they take over everything. | |
| Every nook or cranny, every door, every closet, every chair is regulated by the federal government. | |
| We've worked with the Secret Service for years. | |
| They are traditionally wonderful, terrific, transparent, engaging. | |
| Give us what we want. | |
| Yes, they are focused on security, but they've always been excellent. | |
| Traditionally, just awesome. | |
| So when you try to go into an event, we made all these recommendations and they shot them down, like, hey, why don't you have the check-in in air conditioning, not outside? | |
| And they gave us assurances. | |
| And assurances based on past events. | |
| By the way, this is our 12th event with the Secret Service between former Vice President and President Trump, not our first rodeo, not our first circus, not even close. | |
| And so we were promised, there's a thing called MAGs, not getting too technical. | |
| You guys go through them when you go to airport security. | |
| We were promised at least seven MAGs. | |
| We show up, all of a sudden in the morning, there are three. | |
| Traditionally, they're able to process 1,300 people per hour to come into an event. | |
| They were going in at a rate of 180 people an hour. | |
| We were getting texts, Charlie, why are they going through everything in my bag? | |
| Why are they going so slow? | |
| So it was 90% slower. | |
| And we were literally screaming at some of these Secret Services. | |
| Like, why can't you speed it up? | |
| And they said, the smugness and the arrogance. | |
| Now, I don't think that's a picture of the entire Secret Service. | |
| Whatever happened there, and I'm not saying it was intentional sabotage or whatnot, resulted, somebody could have died, and the federal government could not have cared less. | |
| We were telling them, like, guys, can we get these people in the building? | |
| We had 4,000 people in 98-degree heat in a parking garage. | |
| Totally unacceptable. | |
| To say I was pissed is an understatement. | |
| And I went out there and I shook as many hands as I possibly could, apologizing. | |
| Three-hour hot garage wait. | |
| And were people safer? | |
| Well, let me show you the contrast, and I'll prove it to you. | |
| Because you might say, oh, Charlie, you're just spinning it. | |
| Oh, yeah? | |
| Look at the contrast. | |
| Put this up on screen. | |
| On the left side of the screen is what happened on Sunday. | |
| On Sunday, our team was able to take over security at Turning Point USA because the Secret Service got out of the way and the TSA, literally, the TSA came and they got out of the way. | |
| You see those? | |
| Those are modern technological mags that are able to detect weapons. | |
| On the right, you see what happens when the Secret Service takes over. | |
| We processed 3,800 people in one hour. | |
| And guess what? | |
| We picked up weapons that the Secret Service missed. | |
| Yeah. | |
| You know, we detected 50 knives and weapons. | |
| They said, well, the Secret Service didn't make me take it out the other day. | |
| So the Secret Service slowed down our entire event and missed 50 weapons that we were able to detect instantaneously. | |
| So they slowed down the event. | |
| They put 4,000 people in a parking garage. | |
| 50 people passed out. | |
| They couldn't care less to administer medical assistance. | |
| Our staff is coming there. | |
| We have people coming in. | |
| We had to call five ambulances. | |
| People are passing out from heat stroke, and the Secret Service is moving at a molasses pace. | |
| We are screaming at them. | |
| Like, can we speed this up? | |
| Can we get people in? | |
| They said, well, safety is safety. | |
| We know what we're doing, sir. | |
| No, you don't. | |
| And it is a disgrace because most Secret Service agents are awesome. | |
| And, you know, we talked to the President Trump's team and they said, oh, they sent in a team from D.C., it was a direct order from D.C. Again, I don't want to get too into the speculative of the motives. | |
| I'm getting into the facts. | |
| And on Sunday, everyone was like, wow, this is so much better. | |
| Did you guys get rid of the security? | |
| No. | |
| And we actually caught weapons the Secret Service missed. | |
| By the way, we handed out water to the fans. | |
| We found people that were struggling with the heat and got them to the front. | |
| And I went there and I shook every hand. | |
| Lynn says, Charlie, the three-hour garage rate was brutal. | |
| The fact you acknowledged it, apologized, and even paid for the parking showed your courage and speaks to the wonderful man you are. | |
| Okay, whatever. | |
| Thank you. | |
| By the way, it was worth the wait. | |
| Even without paying for parking, I enjoyed every minute. | |
| The conference next time, I'm bringing at least 10 people with me. | |
| Lynn, thank you. | |
| And for the people that just got so mad and they said, I can't take it, I said, fine, we'll refund it. | |
| We will take ownership and responsibility for something that is not our responsibility. | |
| It's totally on the federal government. | |
| It's completely unacceptable. | |
| We have a reputation at Turning Point for hosting the best events. | |
| That reputation, I believe, has been earned. | |
| And I'll just tell you, Sunday was beautiful. | |
| Zero issues of security, zero issues through the line. | |
| You know how people passed out? | |
| Zero. | |
| Put that picture back up, please. | |
| Choose your future. | |
| Federal government, big government sucks, regime, Leviathan, deep state on the right. | |
| On the left, that's private free enterprise. | |
| Turning point USA. | |
| Choose your future. | |
| It should be on the other way, left or right, but whatever. | |
| It's a little inverted. | |
| So to say I'm upset is a little bit. | |
| For all of you guys that had to wait and all that, it's unacceptable. | |
| I'm not one to shift blame, but I am to say that we did everything we could to fix it. | |
| All's well that ends well. | |
| It did end well, but it is what it is. | |
| And that's the truth of the story. | |
| And now you heard it. | |
| Thanks so much for listening, everybody. | |
| Email us your thoughts. | |
| As always, freedom at charliekirk.com. | |
| Also, email me, freedom at charliekirk.com. | |
| Who you think Donald Trump should pick as the vice president for a chance to win a signed copy of the college scam? | |
| Email me, freedom at charliekirk.com. | |
| It's a debt in the running. | |
| Thank you so much for listening, and God bless. | |
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