USA Today: The Rachel Levine Story That Got Kirk Banned
Showing 5 USA Today videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
USA Today's decision to name Rachel Levine, the transgender former assistant health secretary, one of its Women of the Year directly triggered Charlie Kirk's Twitter suspension after he referred to her by her birth name, Richard Levine, and stated that she had spent fifty-four years of her life as a man before her 2011 transition, a tweet the platform flagged despite Kirk maintaining that every fact in the statement was accurate. Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon describes his site's related satirical response to the same USA Today recognition drawing comparable censorship, contrasting this treatment with what he argues is more lenient handling of similar jokes made by mainstream comedians like Stephen Colbert. Separately, Candace Owens cites a USA Today video compiling witness accounts from the scene of Charlie Kirk's assassination as part of her broader investigation into the shooting's circumstances, while Representative Al Green separately referenced a USA Today anniversary article about September 11th during a House floor speech condemning political violence more broadly following Kirk's death.