Why Charlie Kirk Kept Returning to the Russiagate Hoax

Showing 33 Russiagate Hoax videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Charlie Kirk treated Russiagate as the clearest proof that his skepticism of federal intelligence agencies was justified rather than paranoid, returning to it repeatedly as a preview of arguments he would later make about the FBI and CIA more broadly. Author Lee Smith laid out the fullest version of the case on Kirk's platform, arguing that Barack Obama, CIA Director John Brennan, and FBI Director James Comey coordinated intelligence assessments and media leaks to build a Trump-Russia collusion narrative that a two-year, thirty-million-dollar special counsel investigation ultimately failed to substantiate with any criminal conspiracy charge, despite interviewing more than 500 witnesses. Kirk connected the story directly to current politics, praising Tulsi Gabbard's work as Director of National Intelligence investigating what actually happened in 2020 and expressing hope that senior Obama-era officials might eventually face real consequences. He discussed the episode at length with Tucker Carlson during a widely shared conversation that also covered Gen Z's economic anxiety, framing Russiagate and the credit-dependent, ownership-starved economy young Americans face as two symptoms of the same institutional dishonesty. David Sacks extended the pattern into a live argument, saying Gabbard's own opponents were recycling the discredited Russian-asset smear against her specifically to derail a more restrained, less interventionist foreign policy.