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Feb. 26, 2026 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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The Epstein Panic Distraction
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All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
It is February 26th.
Had a great time in our nation's capital, but in the tradition of Charlie, I was all too eager to get the heck out.
Because, you know, you don't want to stay there too long.
Rot your brain.
Evil City.
Yeah.
Well, you know, it's weird.
I went to this Capitol Hill Club where, you know, It's like all the lobbyists hang out and stuff.
I got invited there as a.
It's the Republican lobbyists, at least.
I think that's the.
But it was like a zoo trip.
It was like going to the zoo.
You see them in their caged habitat.
And it was very, very illuminating.
Anyways, so we got to hit this.
There's lots of stories going on.
We've got our eyes on what's going on in Geneva because there was a report from Jennifer Griffin at Fox News saying that, I think her quote was, let's be clear.
If talks fail in Geneva, we will be at war.
America will be at war sometime next week.
We're.
Watching that very, very closely.
Let's pray for peace.
Let's pray for diplomacy.
We don't want wars in the Middle East.
We just don't.
You know, Charlie learned to trust President Trump's decision making process and to make hard decisions.
These are difficult decisions, but we're watching that.
So we got to get, though, and there's an FBI story.
There's a Minneapolis fraud story.
That's going to be a big one.
That's going to be a big one.
And we're going to get to it.
We're going to get to it.
Maybe we'll ask Ron Johnson, who's coming up in the half hour, hour one here.
So we can ask him about that.
But We got to tackle this Epstein thing.
I had a revelation last night.
So I'm flying home and I get into a debate via text because I'm on a plane with a very prominent left wing TV host.
All right.
So we're having this debate and it becomes very clear to me while we were paying attention to the State of the Union, while we were paying attention to this epic speech from President Trump, this tent enlarging speech where I think he hit so many of the right notes and he.
Completely seemed to hit Mark Halperin's tweet, the Tony Fabrizio presentation, you know, banning stock trading for Congress, etc. etc.
He did what he needed to do.
That being said, the other side of the aisle is fixated on this Epstein bombshell from NPR.
I didn't realize the depth of it because I live in the real world and they live in the get Trump at all costs world.
But here's where it gets really interesting.
So there you go.
NPR, Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump.
So that's the allegation.
That the statute said that President Trump was supposed to release all of these documents.
He did not.
That's the claim.
So I didn't realize how in depth this was.
But then you find out, you know, Gen Z TikTok is all about blackmail and Trump.
And I mean, they're not buying that Trump has been exonerated.
People who primarily get their news through this program or similar programs, I think they need to understand there is a pretty large chunk of America that is substantially on TikTok, substantially on.
X substantially on Instagram, YouTube, where like this is the number one and arguably only story in the entire world is various things around emanating from Epstein.
Epstein.
It is tapped into, and a lot of you in this audience care about it a great deal.
I care about it a great deal.
And let's just start with brass tacks.
If you are a pedophile, I think you should be arrested, held accountable, death penalty.
Simple as that.
If you touched a little child, underage girl, you should be thrown into jail.
Probably killed, executed, and then into the depths of hell.
No problem there.
But what we also have to be clear about is we have to follow facts.
We have to actually follow what is provable.
And one of the reasons that we don't, as a country, historically just release grand jury testimony is because it's not definitive all the time.
It can be conclusory if it's conclusory, but it could also just be a lot of random facts.
Grand jury, as it was pointed out, I believe, by the President, even last summer, a grand jury is the rare situation where you can say stuff that would otherwise be totally defamatory if you uttered it in other contexts because it's to a grand jury and they can weigh whether it is actually true, likely to be true or not.
Right.
And now we've just taken that and blasted it out and given it to the internet to do what the internet does.
Now, some of that can be really good and we keep asking questions, we keep asking questions, and that can be really good.
But when it turns into like, you know, this government official is eating little babies and whatever, because Some rando email came through and it's in these three million documents, it can literally cause the internet brain rot that you're seeing right now.
And so, this is why I want to address it because it's young people, especially, that are buying into some of the more ridiculous claims.
Now, Jeffrey Epstein is evil.
He was a pedophile, he was a sexual predator, he was using prostitution and soliciting young women in Palm Beach.
President Trump in 2006 called, was one of the first people that called.
That's according to the files.
The first people that called, prominent people that called, was President Trump saying, Thank you, finally getting this monster.
Yeah, that's a document from the FBI.
This is 2006.
This is before Jeffrey Epstein was even indicted as a sexual predator.
Okay, but here's the deal.
So the salacious allegations that NPR reported about President Trump are ridiculous.
And let me explain why.
This is what they left out of the story.
The woman who was interviewed for the first time by the FBI in 2019 claimed that she was 13 in 1983 when her mother put her out for an ad to be a babysitter and that Jeffrey Epstein lured her to her house in South Carolina.
On the promise of a babysitting job.
Here's the problem.
Even Jeffrey Epstein's brother, Mark, who seems to be a pretty straight shooter on this stuff, he wants to find out who killed his brother.
He doesn't believe he committed suicide, so that's his motivation.
He's never been accused of any wrongdoing or being involved in his brother's crimes.
He said he never had a house in South Carolina, never summered in South Carolina.
She says that Epstein then gave her cocaine and alcohol before forcing her into oral sex.
It was in a later FBI interview that she even mentioned allegations against President Trump.
This is incredible.
For many reasons.
Epstein never had a residence in South Carolina, like I said.
Epstein was known to never do alcohol or drugs.
And every other allegation against him starts with a massage, not drug fueled sexual acts.
There was also another bizarre moment when this woman identified Epstein using a photo that she claimed needed a crop in order to not implicate additional individuals.
Well, this was a well known photo that was a picture of President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
So she already had this picture of Trump.
And, anyways, on top of that, the woman's lawyer who set this whole interview up is Lisa Bloom, who was also responsible for a very bogus Katie Johnson allegation that was laughed out of court in 2016.
Of the exculpatory evidence for President Trump.
They don't include the fact that he was the first person to speak out against Jeffrey Epstein.
Sorry, I can tell you're ready to jump in here.
Well, I think it's helpful to zoom out because it's such a suffocatingly complex story.
Three million documents, it's been going on for years.
The big picture you need to know here is the president was vindicated on something very important that he warned last summer, which is a lot of people are going to just get recklessly accused of things that there's not evidence for if we go all in on this, which Congress did.
And as a result, all these documents have come out.
They're filled with a lot of them completely salacious or mentally ill or anonymous allegations that there's no evidence for.
And what this NPR article shows is how this is going to end up, which is they'll try to get the House next fall and they'll try to impeach President Trump on process.
They'll have no evidence he committed any real crimes, but they'll say he sabotaged the Epstein files.
Time to impeach him.
And it's going to be a big joke.
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Epstein.
So NPR releases a bombshell on the day of the State of the Union.
We don't talk about it because we're talking about the State of the Union.
Meanwhile, lefty TikTok, lefty Twitter, blue sky, all this stuff, they're fixated on it.
I get into an argument with this prominent TV host, he's left leaning.
Good person, good person, but, you know, left.
So, anyways, have this revelation.
This is all they care about.
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein.
Trump, Trump, Trump.
So they claim again, just to reiterate, that Trump left this.
Stuff out the DOJ on purpose to protect President Trump.
Here's what they're not telling you.
So let's deal again with the allegations of these women that they claim are removed from the Epstein files.
One is a woman who called the FBI with a crop photo of a widely distributed photograph of Epstein and Trump.
Okay.
A woman who sued the Epstein estate and dismissed her claims in 2021.
A woman, and then the third, a woman who claimed she was abused by Trump but refused to cooperate.
In other words, total nothing burger from a rag outlet, NPR, who's probably just upset that the feds pulled their funding.
Okay?
So none of this is actually problematic from a legal standpoint for President Trump.
Okay, but the allegation is he removed these documents or his DOJ was doing his bidding to protect him.
Well, here's the thing there is massive issues, and this is even admitted in the NPR article, with the timeline that the DOJ was given under statute from Congress on this Transparency Act.
To get out the 3 million documents, okay?
3 million documents had to get out.
And there have been thousands and thousands of documents that were published and then pulled down from the site and then republished a week or two later.
Because what's happening is all of the victims' legal teams and some of the victims directly are saying, hey, you put in personally identifiable information in these documents, you were supposed to redact them.
And the DOJ is saying, we're working around the clock in good faith to pull down any documents that identify victims.
Okay, so if we made a mistake, we're sorry.
We were trying to, in good faith, meet the statute deadline to release these documents.
It was impossible to do this perfectly.
So we're pulling these documents down and putting them back up.
Okay, so here, let me give you a couple examples.
One of these interviews that they're saying was removed to protect Trump was removed from the DOJ's public files sometime after initial publication on January 30th.
So they didn't keep them out originally, they just removed them after the fact.
And it was republished on February 19th, according to document metadata.
The Justice Department told NPR the only reason any file has been temporarily removed is that it has been flagged by a victim or their counsel for additional review.
Multiple FBI interviews with other people refer to the second woman's meeting with Trump while she was a minor and being abused by Epstein.
One interview with a fleeting mention of Trump was removed from the public database and subsequently restored last week.
So they're even admitting that the FBI is pulling things down, putting it back up when they get complaints about personally identifiable information.
This is so.
Let me just give you an insight.
This is a lawyer of one of the victims that is quoted in the NPR pieces.
His name's Robert Glassman.
He says the whole thing is ridiculous, he told NPR.
The DOJ was ordered to release information to the public to be transparent about Epstein and Maxwell's criminal enterprise network.
Instead, they released the names of courageous victims who have fought hard for decades to remain anonymous and out of the limelight.
Whether the disclosures were inadvertent or not, they had one job to do here and they didn't do it.
A DOJ spokesman replied to this and told NPR that the department is working around the Clock to address concerns from victims and handle additional redactions of personally identifiable information that have been flagged.
What does this mean?
It means that the DOJ is treating this as a work in progress.
They released the 3 million documents.
People are going through it, combing through it.
The internet's combing through it.
There's a lot of crazy stuff in there.
Some of it's about bodies buried at the New Mexico ranch that never been corroborated.
The FBI looks into it, but the internet takes that email and assumes that it's true.
They don't see that the FBI actually investigated and debunked it.
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Okay, so.
But there's lots of this kind of stuff.
Some of it has victim information and they've pulled it down and then they republish it with proper redactions to protect the victims because the lawyers are on their butts to do it.
That doesn't mean that they pulled, you know, evidence from the files to protect Donald Trump.
It means that they have done this with literally, NPR admits this, thousands and thousands and thousands of documents from the new release on January 30th.
So they're claiming that President Trump is engaged in a legal cover up of allegations against him to protect the presidency.
Meanwhile, the DOJ is saying we're doing this on a daily basis, thousands upon thousands of documents.
That doesn't even mention the fact that NPR left out all the exculpatory evidence for President Trump.
Bigger point this has been turned all upside down.
There is one party that released the files.
There's one president that released the files.
And there's a party that did not.
And there's a president who did not.
Even though they were sitting on them, President Trump and the Republicans are now getting smeared for releasing the files.
I'm not saying they handled it perfectly, but they did release the files.
Guess who didn't?
The Democrats, Joe Biden.
Do you not think for a moment that they would have released those files had there been anything in there that they could have nailed Donald Trump on?
Absolutely, they would have.
But they chose not to.
They sat on them.
They didn't do anything, they didn't raise a flag.
Rohanna didn't get up with a supposed victim who may or may not have been luring underage women in.
He's right after the State of the Union.
That's what he did.
Stood up alongside a supposed victim who actually has a lot of allegations that she was part of the problem, that she was luring underage women in and telling them to lie about their age.
Rohanna didn't make a fuss about this.
Not until it became a political football that they could weaponize against President Trump.
Now, all that being said, this hit job, this hatchet piece, which is going viral on the left, which is going viral on social media, especially with Gen Z, was intentionally timed to derail the State of the Union.
Now, we didn't make a huge mess about it here because we were focused on all the good news from the State of the Union, but it has to be addressed.
And here's what else I'll say final word.
Blake, I don't know if you agree.
We do need prosecutions.
And we talked about this with Mike Davis.
Reed Hoffman, Bill Gates, Les Wexner, anybody else that was conceivably involved in some nefarious activity.
And if it can be proved, we are a nation of laws.
They have to be provable offenses.
That's just it.
It has to be proven.
I don't, even with that, I would say Bill Gates, you have a lot of evidence that he was hanging out with this gross guy.
It should probably damage his reputation.
Yeah, he admitted to having affairs with two Russian girls.
Okay.
It's not illegal to have affairs.
It's embarrassing to have affairs.
Prostitution is illegal.
So.
If they can get them on that, they should.
But if they can't, they can't.
Because we are a nation of law and order.
We are a nation of rules.
You have to be able to prove somebody's guilt.
And by the way, that might be frustrating when you want to get the people that you think did bad things.
But it's really, really helpful when innocent people are getting accused of wrongdoing and have not done so.
So we have to keep these two ideas in our head.
We cannot give in to the brain rot that is infesting the internet space.
You have to.
Follow the law.
You have to go by the facts and you have to only pursue that which can be proved.
And listen, I'm all for what the UK is doing to some of their people.
They're getting people on process crimes.
Fine, sure, do that.
Did anybody leak sensitive information?
Get them on that.
Did they solicit prostitution?
Get them on that.
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Joining us now is the great senator from the North.
That is, of course, Ron Johnson.
Wonderful, wonderful senator.
Charlie loved him.
Senator, welcome back to the show.
I wanted to just give you the opportunity to respond.
There was this NPR bombshell article.
All the allegations against President Trump have been debunked and they're uncredible and all this stuff.
But more broadly, Senator, what do you want to see take place in the Epstein stuff?
The whole saga.
Well, guys, well, listen, I'd like to get justice for the victims.
I want to have those individuals who preyed on these young women held accountable.
I think what's really missing from most of the people who are exploring this, and I'm not, I mean, there are plenty of people looking into this.
I've got other fish to fry, basically, as chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation.
So I'll let the House do this.
I'll let the media.
But what really is not being explored much is who was Jeffrey Epstein?
How did he get his funding?
Who is he working for and with?
I mean, the more we see of these things, you know, his involvement with Bill Gates and vaccines and the World Health Organization and the World Economic Forum and all those types of things.
I mean, this guy was connected to everybody, which is really bizarre.
I mean, there aren't many people that made the kind of connections he made.
What was that all about?
So, again, I'm as curious as anybody, but I'll let other people do the investigation.
I'll just read the executive summary and reports.
Well, and, you know, we're reporting suggests that this Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, you know, meeting that's going on, this hearing right now up in New York, they're going to deny any knowledge of wrongdoing with Jeffrey Epstein.
I just think it's a real, you know, travesty that President Trump and this DOJ that is releasing the files, I'm not saying they handled it right, they actually handled it terribly at first, the whole binder gate or whatnot.
But, you know, you don't turn them into the villains for actually releasing the files.
When the Democrats were sitting on them for years and did nothing.
And all of a sudden, it's a political football that they're trying to take advantage of.
All right.
I actually, we wanted to have you on because of this great, unless you want to respond, Senator.
Well, I just want to say, you know, those files were sitting in the Biden Justice Department for how many years?
Exactly.
What evidence do I have that they haven't been doctored, that the bad stuff against Democrats hasn't been deleted?
So, again, I just have no faith in what's being produced anyway.
Such a good point.
Such a good point.
All right, Senator, you made some news yesterday, and we're going to get to it.
But first, I want to play this clip from the State of the Union.
I was in the gallery, I saw you down there walking around, shaking hands, and doing the thing.
And I heard you say you really had to be in the gallery to understand the tension in the room, the dynamic in the room, and I agree.
But here's 503 President Trump saying pass the Save America Act.
503.
And perhaps most importantly, I'm asking you to approve the Save America Act to stop illegal aliens and others who are unpermitted persons from voting in our sacred American elections.
So, this is a mandate from President Trump to pass the Save Act.
And, you know, you've probably seen some of the reports.
You know, there's Senator Tillis doing a dog show.
I don't know what's going on, but people are upset because this is going on.
Meanwhile, we have like basically one job the base is demanding from the Senate.
And you are now on the side of a talking filibuster.
Explain what your thinking is and what do you want to see happen?
Well, let's first place the blame where it really needs to squarely be on Democrats.
I mean, Democrats are one that opened the border, flooded America with millions of people into sanctuary states, sanctuary cities, plus up the census, get more members of Congress.
They oppose any measure to secure our elections.
In fact, what they're doing is doing everything they can to make it easy to cheat.
So, again, the main impediment to Saving America Act is Democrats who want to, again, not have any control over elections.
They're happy to have your legitimate vote as a conservative canceled by one of their fraudulent ones.
So, they're the main impediment.
Okay, now, in terms of our ability to pass it with slim majorities of both the House and the Senate, I came out reluctantly agreeing with President Trump that the day of the filibuster is over.
It's unfortunate that Democrats don't respect the rights of the minority, but we know that the next time they're in power, they will end the filibuster to consolidate their power.
They'll turn D.C., Puerto Rico into states.
They'll pack the Supreme Court.
They will pass a national election law to make it easier to cheat.
So that's what they're going to do.
So we ought to beat them to the punch.
But when we do it, we'll do it to secure our border, to secure our elections, to provide prosperity for every American.
Again, our motives are the proper ones for the benefit of the American people.
Unfortunately, I have a lot of colleagues in the Republican Conference who are deluding themselves, saying, oh, the Democrats aren't really serious.
They're not going to nuke the filibuster.
Oh, yes, they will.
So we don't have the votes to end this filibuster.
So the next best thing is the talking filibuster.
That's a long shot as well.
Unless we're willing to go back to press, because it's basically unlimited debate, unlimited amendments, unless we're willing to go back to prior to 1986 when Robert Byrne changed the precedent of the Senate that didn't count offering an amendment as a speech.
So I know we've got the two speech rule, but as long as Democrats can go down and offer an infinite number of amendments, split those amendments, we call them clay pigeon amendments, into hundreds of parts, literally they can just drag this thing out as long as they want to and bring it to a close.
Is much easier said than done.
Well, so, but Senator, Senator, let me finish.
At a minimum, what John Thune ought to do is bring the Save America Act up to the floor and force Democrats to defend day after day after day.
And I don't know how long it would last, but make them defend why they oppose something that 80 some percent of the American people support, secure elections and voter ID.
Yeah, no, I completely agree with you, Senator.
Absolutely.
Force them to defend the indefensible.
This 1986 rule, what would it take to revert that so that every amendment doesn't turn into an endless debate on the floor?
Well, that would be a 50 vote threshold.
When Robert Byrd proposed it, over 90 senators voted for it.
So it was overwhelmingly popular to allow an unlimited number of amendments and not count those as a speech, counting against the two speech rule.
So again, we could do that with the, and that wouldn't be nuclear filibuster.
That wouldn't be something unprecedented.
That'd actually be following the precedent of the Senate.
Robert Byrd changed that precedent.
We just would be going back to the way the Senate operated under the culture rule, under the filibuster rule, for about 100 years.
I mean, that seems really pretty obvious.
Reports are coming in.
Listen, I understand you have, there's a culture in the Senate that can be really good.
I'm not asking you to name names.
I'm going to name them.
You don't have to agree, sir.
Reports are coming out that it's Senator Curtis from Utah, Tom Tillis, probably Mitch McConnell.
And maybe one or two others that are blocking this.
So we're probably at like 48, 49 votes to do this.
We're short.
We need to get to 50, 50 plus one to do this, to make these rules effective in the Senate.
Do you feel like any of these holdouts are gettable?
Are talks ongoing?
Are you guys working the phones?
Are you making phone calls to see if we can get them over the top?
Well, the best way to get them on top is to put it on the floor and make them vote.
Everybody says, you know, we're coming here and we should be willing to take hard votes.
Okay, well, put your votes where your mouth is.
Put it on the floor.
You know, let the Democrats offer an amendment.
It might be something we actually want to pass, but realizing it'd be a poison pill.
We defeat or we table amendments all the time, all the time.
You know, even good amendments, we said, no, we're going to vote no because if we put this in here, it changes the bill and it's going to be a poison pill.
So we just would bring up, you know, any Democrat amendment, we just have a strategy and say, okay, we're not going to, no matter how good the amendment is.
No matter how much you'd want to support it, we're all going to vote to table it so we can actually pass the Save America Act because that's the higher priority.
Yeah.
And just to be clear, I was speaking specifically of changing the rules, maybe back to pre 1986.
Seems like we're at like 48, 49 votes to actually institute something like Mike Lee and now you are suggesting and make it a talking filibuster.
I love that, by the way, I love the framing that Mike Lee has put on it, the zombie filibuster, because Blake makes this point all the time on the show.
Congress is like a zombie Congress because we just don't do anything in Congress because this 60 vote threshold.
They're used to not doing anything.
You have senators who, the vast majority of senators have been in a Congress that never is expected to pass anything, never is expected to take the initiative.
All they can ever do is pass these big omnibus spending bills because that's really the only legislation we ever passed.
Well, or, you know, the, you know, the, what's the bill?
This is the one big beautiful bill.
I'm blanking on the name right now.
That's a big omnibus bill, though, basically.
We're a new Family Tax Cut Act now.
Okay.
But generally, not passing things in Congress is generally a good thing.
No, for sure.
So much of the Passes awful.
So that's really the beauty of the filibuster we've been able to block all kinds of awful legislation.
And, you know, so again, that's why I'm sympathetic with those who don't want to, you know, end it.
But again, you have to recognize the reality has changed.
Democrats will end it.
They'll turn D.C. and Puerto Rico into states.
They'll pack the Supreme Court.
They'll pass a national election law that will make it easy to cheat.
We have to recognize that reality and we need to beat them to the punch.
Senator Ron Johnson, you are one of the good ones.
You're fighting for.
The base for the grassroots.
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And we thank you for that.
And we pray you're successful because the SAVE Act, I think it's existential.
You got to do it before the election.
That's the whole point.
We have to make sure our elections are secure.
So God bless you.
Thank you for the work you're doing on that.
And we'll talk to you again soon.
God bless you guys.
Take care.
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I'm noticing a trend where left wing commentators or politicians are trying to whitewash what happened to Charlie.
And it's really bothering me, actually.
And so, two instances in just the last 24 hours there was a Democrat Florida state rep, Ashley Viola Gant, who said his passing was tragic, but he was not assassinated.
She doesn't even admit he was assassinated.
536.
We want to talk about exercising free speech.
Let's ball.
The First Amendment protects free speech.
We don't need this day of remembrance for a man that was mediocre and racist.
And I say mediocre at best.
When we hear assassination, that's typically related to a person and a political position.
Charlie Kirk died from gun violence.
Okay?
Was his passing tragic for those who love him?
Absolutely.
There is no denying that.
But he was not assassinated.
And words being accurate matters.
It was a death by gun violence.
That is an issue here in the country.
So, Charlie Kirk was not someone that children in the state of Florida should be subjected to honoring.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, pretty disgusting stuff.
So, the Florida House passed a bill to designate October 14th, his birthday, Charlie Kirk Day of Remembrance.
And this shameful disgrace of a state rep has the gall to say he was not assassinated.
He didn't die in his sleep, woman.
Well, all you should ask, she's trying to do this pedantic point.
Well, it's for people in a political position.
Okay, was Martin Luther King assassinated?
He didn't hold office.
Great point.
Was Malcolm X assassinated?
He didn't hold an office.
Oh, but sorry, they're black civil rights leaders, so she probably would support that.
Let's just call a spade a spade.
They do not want Charlie Kirk, his legacy, to be in the same stratosphere.
I'm sorry, woman, that it's already done.
There are millions and millions of Americans that honor Charlie as a martyr, as an assassinated martyr, because that's exactly the truth.
Because that's what he is.
They want you to put, oh, it's just gun violence, because then that obscures what we know to be reality, which is that a person.
On the left, radicalized by rhetoric they heard every day from Democratic lawmakers, from people on social media, went, took a rifle, and murdered Charlie.
You're getting to the deeper point, and it's exactly right.
And they'll tell that lie repeatedly so that they can get it into the discourse, just like they lied about it immediately after to make people think Charlie was shot by someone on the right.
Yes.
Just like they love to muddle it in all of these ways so then they can look back five years, 10 years, 50 years later and say, oh, it's a confused, muddled mess.
It's very controversial.
Controversial.
No, exactly.
It's not controversial.
But here's another one Rep. Jonathan Jackson.
So the memo went out.
Rep. Jonathan Jackson just absolutely disgraced himself.
He's a congressman from Illinois.
543.
There's a very toxic climate in Washington, D.C., the same Washington, D.C., that would lower the flag for Charlie Kirk.
That says the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a mistake.
How can you say getting rid of biases and race and sex and religion was a mistake?
How can you say it was a mistake to fully enfranchise?
People to be Americans.
That was a pivotal piece of legislation.
But that's the same speaker, and that's what we're dealing with.
They have a high tolerance for things that are very indecent and a very low regard for people that have been great Americans.
This is an ignorant fool.
He knows nothing about what Charlie actually believed.
Charlie said the intent of the Civil Rights Act was noble, but the execution of it was wrong.
Why?
Why was it wrong?
Because it created a bureaucratic leviathan that was arguably very extra constitutional that.
Has been used among other things to justify things like you know men and women's locker rooms, men and women's sports.
That's why there's that's why Charlie had a problem.
A huge amount of left wing politics is essentially premised on just intentionally not understanding things because it's pretty easy to understand what Charlie meant by it because he explained himself over and over again, of course.
But is that Charlie opposed racial discrimination and so he said, I don't want racially discriminatory things and laws that were passed in the 60s and 70s and 80s that were supposedly Anti discrimination instead institutionalized it, mandated it, were used by courts to impose it on everybody.
And that's why Charlie fought against them because Charlie believed in real equality, the equality that is promised in our Declaration of Independence, in our Constitution.
That is what he fought for.
That is ultimately what he died for.
And I have a message for Rep Jackson.
It's full from Illinois, Charlie's home state.
If you want to know the real reason that Washington is toxic, it's because of fools like you.
It's because of ignorant fools like you that spend more time on social media and your algorithms that are designed to lie to you and feed you your own confirmation biases, lies about Charlie and what he actually believed, what he actually said, than discovering the truth.
Because the truth isn't inconvenient to you that Charlie actually thought the intent of the Civil Rights Act was noble, but it was executed in the wrong way.
It was put in place in the wrong way.
You would rather vilify a martyr.
Than acknowledge the truth.
You would rather go on Mourning Joe and tell Joe Scarborough a complete and utter fiction than admit that you're wrong.
It's these kinds of lies, by the way, Rep Jackson, that led to Charlie's assassination in the first place.
It was fools like you, ignorant fools like you, who told lie after lie after lie about what he said and what he believed, and that had it churned out with these cherry picked clips that lied about him that got him assassinated in the first place.
How many more people have to be killed?
How many conservatives have to die by an assassin's bullet?
For you guys to be satisfied, you can kindly leave his name out of your mouth, Rep Jackson.
And you should, actually, if you had any shame, you would apologize, but you probably won't because you believe the lie so fundamentally.
Shame on you.
Shame on Morning Joe for airing it.
I hope you push back.
I didn't see that part of the clip.
Probably not.
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