Glenn Beck on Mentoring Charlie Kirk Since Age Seventeen

Showing 61 Glenn Beck videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Glenn Beck knew Charlie Kirk longer than almost anyone else in conservative media, having first met him at 17, years before Turning Point USA existed, and has described watching him grow from a promising teenager into someone Beck argues surpassed even Rush Limbaugh in cultural reach. His tribute broadcast from Turning Point USA's own studio made that comparison literal: Beck placed Limbaugh's original EIB golden microphone in front of Kirk's empty chair, treating the gesture as a formal passing of a specific lineage rather than a generic condolence.

Beck also described a specific, unsettling conversation the two had on a Miami balcony discussing the risk of political assassination, a detail he's revisited publicly since Kirk's death as evidence Kirk had at least considered the danger his public visibility carried. Separately, Beck used his platform to promote research alleging over $80 million in funding from George Soros-linked organizations flowing to groups he connects to domestic political violence, folding that investigation into his broader tribute coverage rather than treating it as a separate story, and reinforcing his framing of Kirk's death as part of a larger, organized pattern rather than an isolated act.