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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, the largest and fastest growing conservative youth activist organization in the country with over 250,000 student members, over 150 full-time staff, and a presence on over 2,000 high school and college campuses nationwide. Charlie is also the Chairman of Students for Trump, which aims to activate one million new college voters on campuses in battleground states in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election. His social media reaches over 100 million people per month and according to Axios, he is one of the "top 10 most engaged" Twitter handles in the world. He is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” which regularly ranks among the top news shows on Apple podcast charts.
Charlie Kirk Exposes How Russia Hoax Stole Trump's First Presidency and Shaped Ukraine War
Charlie Kirk examines newly declassified intelligence showing the Russia collusion narrative that consumed Trump's first term was built on a single unreliable sentence fragment. The Obama administration's fabricated report justified years of investigations, media hysteria, and sanctions against Russia, ultimately derailing Trump's early presidency and potentially fueling the current Ukraine conflict. Kirk compares the paralyzed first term with Trump 2.0's rapid achievements in trade, border security, and diplomacy, arguing the American people were robbed of effective governance from 2017-2019 based on lies from John Brennan, the CIA, and Hillary Clinton.
Where were we at this point in Trump 1.0? We are now in the midst of Trump 2.0. We are getting trade deals. We have a secure border. We got a tax cut. We got incredible funding for mass deportations. We're doing mass deportations. We're ending wars between the Congo and Rwanda, between Pakistan and India, between Israel and Iran. We have incredible trade deals that are coming through with Japan.
But where were we at this moment back in July of 2017? I went to the New York Times archive page, which is fun to do. Kind of see what was on the front page of the newspapers back during Trump 1.0. It's almost looking through a time capsule.
Congress Targets Russia While Trump Fights for Survival
Front page of the New York Times exactly eight years ago: "As Congress aims to punish Russia, Trump faces bind." You read this article, it's remarkable. Congress's number one focus while we had a Republican House and a Republican Senate during Trump 1.0 was to punish Russia. Why? Because they say they interfered with the 2016 election.
Donald Trump's first term was largely taken from him. In fact, we want to talk about the stolen presidency. We should be talking about what happened in the first, second, and third year of the Trump administration. The Republican House and the Republican Senate both had Russia investigations ongoing. They were investigating their own president.
Remember, Jeff Sessions recused himself in March of 2017. March 2nd, 2017. So, President Donald Trump did not even have his own attorney general. He never should have recused himself. It was a terrible mistake. And then Bob Mueller was appointed as a special counsel in May of 2017 to basically be able to marauder around after all allies around the Trump administration. Republicans led this against Donald Trump.
Fighting Just to Keep His Head Above Water
So we go back into this moment in Trump 1.0. We were not doing trade deals. We did not have—he was fighting like mad to try to secure the border and do all this. But every hour on the hour, another Russia lie came to the surface. President Donald Trump had to push back the salvos that were coming from Capitol Hill.
This was the front page of the New York Times at this moment during the first Trump term: "Congress reaches deal on Russia sanctions, setting up tough choice for Trump." This is before Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. We were sanctioning Russia based on a lie. Donald Trump was fighting as hard as he's ever fought to just keep his head above water, let alone do trade deals or put forward some sort of monumental or significant policy agenda.
The Birth of the Russia Excuse
Tulsi Gabbard, who is doing a phenomenal job as director of national intelligence, has come out with some bombshell revelations and we're going back into a time warp all the way back into 2016. Now we know that Hillary Clinton lost the election to Donald Trump. It was a big upset. There was a major election forecaster who said he would eat a bug if he was wrong about Clinton winning and then he had to go eat a bug.
Hillary's loss was shocking and humiliating. And when politicians get humiliated, they go hunting for excuses. They never take ownership for their decisions. They never assume personal responsibility. And what was the excuse that they decided to communicate? The consensus excuse was Russia.
Because that excuse had multiple benefits for the DC ruling class. Had multiple benefits for the Uniparty Republicans and Uniparty Democrats. Not only was Russia very hatable for the octogenarian 88-year-old senator who still thinks the Cold War is going on, but it allowed for a new theater for the neocons to create a new war. So the war contractors, the war machine, and the endless military conflict position of DC had a new emphasis to focus on.
The Media Drumbeat of Lies
Almost overnight, the new narrative was that Donald Trump only won because Russia intervened with fake news and cyber warfare to hack our democracy. Every night, Rachel Maddow would get massive numbers. She would get four, five, six million people watching her a night when she would just pedal lie after lie after lie. Adam Schiff, who is now a US senator, went on television and said that there is verifiable proof that Donald Trump colluded with the Kremlin.
The chief driver of the Russia conspiracy theory was a report from the outgoing Obama administration. The report published in January of 2017 claimed that Russia extensively interfered in the 2016 election with the explicit goal of defeating Hillary Clinton and getting Trump elected. This report justified almost everything that happened in the following year.
Obama's Time Bomb
The report that the Obama administration did was a mine. It was a time bomb that was inserted underneath the Trump presidency. The report justified almost all of this. Then it justified the FBI to entrap President Trump and Michael Flynn. It justified the Mueller probe. It justified the years of media hysteria. It practically wrecked the first Trump administration right out of the gate.
The fact that Trump got anything done in the first administration while having to deal with all this garbage from our own intel services is a remarkable accomplishment.
Tulsi Gabbard's Bombshell Declassification
And now we know thanks to Tulsi Gabbard, it was all a fabrication from the beginning. Tulsi Gabbard declassified a House Intel Committee report from 2020, which was kept under wraps until now. The report across 47 pages reveals in shocking detail how shoddy, inept, and half-baked the original claims of the Russia hoax were.
Quote: "The director of the CIA ordered the post-election publication of 15 reports containing previously collected but unpublished intelligence. Three of the reports were substandard containing information that was unclear of uncertain origin, potentially biased or implausible. These three reports became the foundational sources for the intelligence community, saying that their judgments that Putin preferred Trump over Clinton. The IC misrepresented these reports as reliable without mentioning their significant underlying flaws."
In fact, the claim that Vladimir Putin wanted Trump to win the election was based entirely on one "scant, unclear, unverifiable fragment of a sentence from just one of the substandard reports." Scant, unclear, unverifiable, substandard—this torpedoed a majority of Trump's first administration.
The Russia Gate Nightmare
This is what Russia Gate was based on. And for those of you that don't remember this, I want to bring you back into that moment. We had a special counsel, Bob Mueller. We didn't have an attorney general. It's all the media cared about. And there were sanctions of a foreign country that we were preparing to go to war against, a kinetic part of a major war against Russia. All based on a lie from the intel services.
Russia gate that derailed the entire focus of our nation was a legitimate conspiracy theory. It was a legitimate lie in front of us. They bugged Trump's phone calls. They impeached Donald Trump because of a phone call to Zelensky. A fragment of a sentence from one low-quality intelligence report of unclear origin. That's the only evidence the CIA ever had for Vladimir Putin wanting Trump to win in 2016.
A Soft Coup Against Popular Sovereignty
But that did not stop the entire Democrat base from getting behind it. It did not stop Rachel Maddow from getting record numbers every single night. It did not stop the Democrat party from saying that the Republican party was infiltrated with Russian influence. It did not stop the New York Times and every major outlet to drumbeat every day.
It was a soft coup against popular sovereignty and against the will of the American people. You could make an argument that the first Trump administration was largely stolen from the American people. Yes, President Trump was allowed to remain as president, but he had to fight with every ounce of energy he had just to be able to survive. And we the people got hosed.
And I want you to remember back of how sick and damaged things were back in 2017 because of this. And Barack Obama was the designer of all this. I think it's time for people to go to jail for this. This is far worse than a 75-year-old grandma walking into the US Capitol on January 6 and saying a prayer with a pocket constitution.
All Roads Lead to John Brennan
Here's James Comey, John Brennan, Hillary Clinton peddling what they knew was a lie. Brennan is easily the number one villain in this declassified report. He is a sinister human being. All roads lead back to John Brennan. He basically took the intelligence and shaped it into a Trump hit job.
"The Russians interfered in our election during the 2016 cycle. It is a high confidence judgment of the entire intelligence community," Brennan claimed. "It was Russia in a very systematic way and try to interfere in the election and to try to advance the prospects of Donald Trump being elected. Donald Trump knows that the Russians helped him win in 2016. There will always be an air of illegitimacy around the 2016 campaign."
Nobody disputes that Russia did some opaque political digital stuff in the 2016 election. But here's the part that Brennan made up and Hillary repeated: "to advance the prospects of Trump being elected." That is the mega lie where he threw out all the evidence. Russia wanted to create chaos and distrust. Mission accomplished. Good job, Democrats.
The Media's Obsession and the Ukraine Connection
John Brennan appeared on MSNBC in 2019 peddling a grotesque lie and the consequences of it was non-stop media obsession. And there's another consequence as well, one that's right in front of us that's still happening to this day.
"So disappointing to look at what we're seeing from right-wing media these days where there's such an obsession with the deep state and these revelations about the Russia probe. Latest on the Robert Mueller Russia investigation. Mueller investigation. The Russia investigation. Trump's Russia ties and Robert Mueller. The real Russia story. Russia probe. The ongoing Russia probe. Russia probe. Russia investigation. But Mueller and the Russia probe. Russia synergies."
And that's just a little taste of one anchor on one show on one network. Multiply that times a thousand for every single day. And I only do this to bring you back into the time and place. And now we look at Trump 2.0 and we're getting trade deals and we're securing border and we're getting tax cuts and of course we have so much more to do.
Understand that sanctioning a country is a big deal. Congress went about to sanction Russia for something Russia did not ultimately do. Yeah, they wanted to sow chaos and distraction even though it was a very small amount. And Iran does this and the Chinese Communist Party does this in their own way.
Is the current hot war between Russia and Ukraine and the West's involvement of it connected to Russia gate? Almost certainly because Russia was the blame, was the filler excuse as to why Donald Trump became president, which then gave the Democrat party license to be able to finance the Ukrainian war effort.
The Anti-Clinton Dirt Russia Never Released
Russia was also sitting on a ton of information. This is page 17 of the now declassified House Intelligence Report. Russia was sitting on a huge amount of potential anti-Clinton dirt that it sat on throughout the final days of the 2016 campaign. It included internal claims that Hillary was on heavy tranquilizers and suffering from intensified psycho-emotional problems. We suspected that evidence of severe health ailments like type two diabetes and heart disease. Internal DNC comms found that Obama and others said that Hillary's health was extraordinarily alarming.
Evidence of secret meetings with religious leaders where Clinton offered "significant increases in funding from the State Department in return for their support." Oh, you mean the same stuff that we accused them of? Internal Democrat admissions that European allies were unenthusiastic about a Clinton presidency and thought she was not up to the job of heads of state.
So, if Russia was really all in on supporting Trump and hurting Clinton, it would have leaked information in October 2016 when her lead in the RCP average slipped to just plus 1.3 points. Instead, Russia did not. This completely debunks the core assumptions of the Russia hoax. Rather than admit they were wrong, Brennan and the CIA buried the info and manufactured a completely alternative reality to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump.
Gratitude for Where We Are Now
I say this for many reasons, but one that I want to repeat: Let's be grateful to God and how much better of a place we are on July 23rd, 2025 than we were in July 2017.
