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Charlie Kirk Was BETRAYED...
I’m tired of watching people who barely knew Charlie attack his wife, his team, and the organization he built while pretending they’re “seeking truth.†In this video I explain why the conspiracies around what happened to Charlie are evil, defend Erica, Mikey, Rob, and the TPUSA family, and call out the cowardice of giving his enemies a platform. If you actually care about Charlie’s legacy, you’ll put God first, protect his family, and reject the demonic garbage trying to tear this mo
I’m tired of watching people who barely knew Charlie attack his wife, his team, and the organization he built while pretending they’re “seeking truth.” In this video I explain why the conspiracies around what happened to Charlie are evil, defend Erica, Mikey, Rob, and the TPUSA family, and call out the cowardice of giving his enemies a platform. If you actually care about Charlie’s legacy, you’ll put God first, protect his family, and reject the demonic garbage trying to tear this movement apart.
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⏱️Chapters
0:00 - “These People Loved Charlie”
1:40 - Threats Against Erika, Mikey & The TPUSA Team
4:45 - Why The Conspiracy Theories Are Evil, Not “Questions”
7:34 - Fake Friends, Clout Chasers & Platforming Charlie’s Enemies
11:24 - Extremists, Anti-Israel Lies & Demonic Ideas In Our Tent
15:38 - How We Lose The Movement If We Normalize This
19:14 - How To Truly Honor Charlie’s Legacy & Put God First
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Video Transcript
It's funny that some people say
Charlie believed this. Charlie did this.
Everybody turned on Charlie
and these people were closer to Charlie
than they were.
>> Yeah.
>> These people, I would argue, love
Charlie to the day he died. They were
there when he died.
And
>> and they're holding his organization
together day in and day out.
>> They're trying their best. He is the
cash cow. He is the idea. He's the
movement. He's the bread and butter of
Turning Point. What are you going to do
without Charlie Kirk? [music]
That's all I care about is his legacy.
So, I want to take care of his wife. I
want to take care of his legacy with
Turning Point USA. And I want to push
the things that he believed in. So, I go
to Turning Point. Um, [music] and I see
Erica and I give her a big hug. I see
Mikey. I see Tero. These people are
getting death threats that people are
threatening to kill them because somehow
they think it had anything to do with
Charlie's death. These people loved
Charlie. That's all I care about is his
legacy. So, I want to take care of his
wife. [music] I want to take care of his
legacy with Turning Point USA. And I
want to push the things that he believed
in. So, I go to [music] Turning Point.
Um, and I see Erica and I give her a big
hug. I see Mikey. I see Ter. These
people are getting death threats that
people [music] are threatening to kill
them because somehow they think it had
anything to do with Charlie's death.
These people loved Charlie. Like and
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>> How is it that they go from attacking
Israel, being obsessed with Israel,
literally almost every show is about
Israel and the Jews while we're losing
America, right? We have Manny and all of
the craziness that is happening here.
[snorts] And now it just transfers into
an attack on a Christian pastor
literally
>> because because the mind went back and
attacking Israel. The mind went. So now
the mind is susceptible for the devil to
use you for his good. And so you see
those people going now and attacking
good people. I know Rob. I could
probably text Rob right now. I didn't
know Mikey as much, but I know Rob and I
met Mikey a few times. I know Erica.
I've met her. for somebody to say that
they think that they have anything to do
with Charlie's death.
They're either
It's only one. Well, if you don't know
them, you're ignorant. If you know them
and say it, you're evil.
>> Yeah.
>> It's pure evil.
>> It's evil.
>> I'm I went to Turning Point the other
day because I do really love Charlie.
And Charlie was my friend. And my
dedication to Charlie is his legacy.
That's all I care about is his legacy.
So, I want to take care of his wife. I
want to take care of his legacy with
Turning Point USA. And I want to push
the things that he believed in. So, I go
to Turning Point. Um, and I see Erica
and I give her a big hug. I see Mikey. I
see Tero. These people are getting death
threats that people are threatening to
kill them because somehow they think it
had anything to do with Charlie's death.
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and give today. These would It's funny
that some people say
Charlie believed this. Charlie did this.
Everybody turned on Charlie.
And these people were closer to Charlie
than they were.
>> Yeah.
>> These people, I would argue, love
Charlie to the day he died. They were
there when he died. And
>> and they're holding his organization
together day in and day out.
>> They're trying their best. He is the
cash cow. He is the idea. He's the
movement. He's the bread and butter of
Turning Point. What are you going to do
without Charlie Kirk? You know what
Mikey had been told over and over again
by Charlie? If anything happens to me,
the first thing you do is you call
Erica.
>> Get her on the phone immediately. Now,
Erica
was in Phoenix. We were in Utah.
Mikey did the emergency procedure.
That's what you're supposed to do. And
anybody in the military or law
enforcement knows what I'm talking
about. I was in the Navy for eight
years. You think about all this stuff
before it happens. So when it happens,
you don't have to think. You just do
what you're supposed to do. What sense
would it made for would it would it make
for Mikey to run to Charlie when his
security team six guys were already on
him? Well, four guys were on him. There
two more there,
>> right?
>> They were they were already they they
were right there. He would have just
gotten in the way.
>> He knew what he had to do and he did it.
>> Yeah. And you know, I don't have any
special insight, but I assumed that that
thing, as you said, had been rehearsed
and as you said, had been talked about
and Erica said on Fox News to Jesse
Waters that Mikey called her and said,
"Get the kids. Get security. This just
happened." And so, if that's not what
happened or people saying that Erica is
lying, like that would be the
implication there that she's not telling
the truth. Um, and so I just I I really
feel for him and the implication that,
you know, he was promised to be
Charlie's successor and that's why he's
speaking at Liberty University. Again,
no evidence of that. I mean, Mikey's not
hosting Charlie's show. I don't see like
Mikey doing a bunch of interviews out
there being like, I'm going to I haven't
seen him at a campus stop. He hasn't
been on any like doing any of these
debates. There have been a lot of us,
you, me, a lot of other people who were
in this circle who have been asked to go
to this speaking engagement or go to
this campus stop or fill in or do this
interview or or things like that. Not,
you know, to take anyone's place, but
just because, you know, we're trying to
fill in for a friend, but I haven't seen
any evidence of Mikey stepping into any
realm. I've seen him continue to serve.
And so, again, I just don't see the
proof. And I think it matters a whole
lot to put someone, you know, in in the
crosshairs by implying that somehow they
were involved in this. That's like a
really really hefty claim to make.
>> Yeah. And it's causing dissension among
the brothers.
>> These people, I would argue, love
Charlie to the day he died. They were
there when he died.
>> And they're holding his organization
together day in and day out.
>> They're trying their best. He is the
cash cow. He is the idea. He's the
movement. He's the bread and butter of
Turning Point. What are you going to do
without Charlie Kirk? As if they want
him to die so they can take over. Erica,
I love Erica. She's a wonderful woman
and that's why God matched her and
Charlie together. Erica is not Charlie.
It's not that easy for Erica to take
over that organization from Charlie and
try to continue his legacy. That's not
easy to do. She can't go around the
country and speak at 150 events. She has
two little kids and she just had the
most shocking experience of anybody's
lifetime.
>> Can you Can you imagine? I'm married and
obviously you're married too. Can you
imagine? And I don't even want you to
think about this, but if you lost your
significant other that way, not because
uh had a heart attack or something, it
was or they were had chemo, you know,
going through chemo and it was a kind of
an expected end. They get assassinated
on television in front of the world. My
son saw Charlie get assassinated. They
were they were sharing the videos at
school. So, you know, they're seeing it
all over the world. You lose your loved
one like that. And people who love you
or should love you and care about you or
care about at least your husband should
protect your heart in that in that
moment because they should know if
they're married what it could possibly
be if you lose somebody like that.
>> Losing a dog hurt. You know what I'm
saying? Like I've lost pets before and
like I'm devastated. Losing your husband
is devastating.
My heart is I'm going to protect her.
>> Yeah.
>> That's the first thing. I don't care
about conspiracies, money, none of that
stuff. The first thing I did was I
wanted a shirt for Charlie. And then I
we I was going to a UFC fight and I'm
like, I want to wear a shirt to
represent Charlie cuz that's what this
is about. Not me. Nobody else. It's
Charlie. And I said, and people wanted,
I want that shirt. I want that shirt. I
said, okay, this is what I'll do. 100%
of the profits that we sell from this
shirt to go to Erica. And we raise
money, we going to give it to Erica. and
for people to not only
bash him and his people around him, but
those who are not bold enough to stand
up and say something. I know people who
claim that they were friends with him,
uh, Charlie, and then they have a guy
come on the podcast that hated Charlie,
that spoke ill will of Charlie every
single day, vile, and then bring him on
the show. And, "Hey, let me talk to you
about your I'm sorry I said this to you,
Marissa. You can't come on my show if
you bash Charlie without being
confronted by me.
You're lucky to be in the same presence
as me if you were to bash my friend like
that. And you brought his wife up and
said his wife was a plant. You can't
even talk to me with saying stuff like
that. I I I don't know what kind of
cowardice friends
>> Yeah.
>> that you have around you that will let
somebody say that about your wife and
let somebody say something about you
crazy in your death and they don't stand
up to it. We have this very interesting
that you bring up the term friends
because the the concept of friendship,
right? We all have friendships behind
the scenes. We all have friendships in
in the public sphere, but obviously we
develop friendships uh you know, just
natural friendships as as we we are in
the same we're colleagues essentially.
How can you be a friend of Charlie Kirks
and bring on a vile person who
constantly try to destroy Charlie Kirk's
organization? You call that friendship?
And I mean I I'm going to say I you know
I don't want to say his name. Everybody
is watching this knows exactly who I'm
talking about. But the reason we are not
calling this person out, people are not
calling this person out is because we're
saying, "Oh, he's our friend. We we
don't bash our friends in public. We
don't bash our friends in public.
Meanwhile, this friend of ours has no
problem bashing our dead, murdered
friend who can't stand up for himself or
for his wife at this point in time. It
it is Brandon. It is demonic. The demon
has made it into the conservative right.
[snorts] And I'm all about having a big
tent, but even a tent needs to have its
borders. Even if a if a tent does not
have a border, it will lose its soul.
And I really worry that if we do not
speak out, we're going to be swimming in
a lot of vile garbage and we will lose
everything we fought for.
>> You you cannot say that you are a fan of
Joseph Stalin
and think that you have that you that
you you know there's a and I'm not
really a big rapper but there's a big
song out by Kendrick Lamar. They not
they not like us.
>> Yeah.
>> Uh they not like us. Like it you you
saying you support Joseph Stalin and you
a Hitler fan and that you say the N-word
every time you open your mouth on your
shows and you and you bash women and you
and you do this and you say you were
effing Turning Point USA. He said it.
I'm effing Turning Point USA and I've
been effing it and it's baby.
>> Charlie's baby Turning Point. I'm effing
it. I've taken over Turning Point. I'mma
tear it all down. You cannot You ain't
like us. We don't operate like that.
Charlie don't operate like that. Why
didn't Charlie interview that person?
Because Charlie don't give we we don't
give credence to foolery and then you
wait till he dies to interview this
person. Why didn't you interview him
when Charlie was alive?
Hm. I wonder why. But then you bring him
on to do a little like I call a butt
sniffing. Like dogs they want to get to
know each other. They sniff each other
butt. This should have been an allout
brawl.
I'm telling you, Marissa, no one I hope
that anybody watching this, if you ever
disrespect any of my friends to that
degree and they wives after he has died,
you can don't even talk to me. Don't
even talk to me. If I see Lil Hitler
somewhere, don't talk to me. Stay in
your lane, gangster. We ain't the same.
You not like us. Don't come up to me and
say, "I want to be friend. Can I come on
your podcast?" It's not going to go well
for you. I can't stand evil people. And
the person who's gaslighting the living
daylights out of us who decide to
interview, you know who I'm talking
about. He's gaslighting us, too, because
he goes and says, "Oh, I brought him on
because I wanted to." No, you
gaslighting us.
>> Well, he'll say, "Oh, well, it's my
right to interview whoever I want."
You're right. Correct. Correct. It's
freedom of speech. It's your right. But
should you should you do this? You talk
about morality. We talk about being a
Christian. You talk about being
biblical. Okay. Interview whoever you
want, but there is a consequence. Cuz
should you do it? Should you interview
the arch nemesis of your murdered friend
2 months after he was murdered? Should
you? And should we hold him accountable
for doing something literally horrible,
vile, and probably demonic?
>> Interview who you want. We're gonna call
you on the carpet. That's it. You can't
interview and think people are gonna
call you out. Why do I not interview
certain people because I'm not giving a
platform to somebody who is and the
thing is this, you can stay online and
say whatever you want on your own
platform. Little homie can say whatever
he want to do. And you people can
interview whoever they want. But
brother, you interview somebody like
that, we going to come out, we going to
criticize you.
>> Sure.
>> Just like somebody come out and say God
ain't real. Like God ain't real. I don't
care if you're a Jewish or Christian. We
all believe in God. God ain't real and
we're not going to criticize you. You
got to be a fool. You can't be you're
not a part of the movement. If you're
saying God don't exist, you're not a
part of this movement because all the
things we do is in light of what God has
done for us and God's, you know, word,
the word of God, the law that we have,
our forefather, our founding fathers,
all of that is God. And when people come
out and do this this foolery, we don't
want you to be a part of what we're
doing. No. Like if you think that
there's a lot of momentum in this, too.
People are forgetting. I post a clip of
the little homie. I call him little
homie. I post a clip of him doing
something vile in my comment section.
People are defending it.
We will lose our party if we start
giving credence to this. You know, I I
compare it like this. Let's say Adolf
Hitler was around and it was a big
podcaster. You bring Adolf Hitler on
your podcast, but don't talk about the
Holocaust. That then what are you doing?
You're almost trying to act like he
normal. No, he ain't normal. No, he says
the craziest stuff in the world. No, he
hates women. He bash women. He calls
them bees and all this other stuff.
That's not Christlike for us as
Christians. And that's not godly.
You can't do that and then expect for
people to respect you the same way. You
can't have people on your podcast and
you don't know. You can't determine if
Hamas is a terrorist organization or
not. What are we saying here? They you
bring people on your podcast that say
the Jews created AI to destroy the
world. You You're not going to at least
push back on that. You get a you get you
interviewed a woman on there that says
that Hamas is not a terrorist
organization and that Christians are
treated better in the West Bank than in
Israel.
>> That was the George Stephanopoulos's n
you know it's George Stephanos's sister
who by the way George Stephanop like
after everything Trump went through with
that family that's who we're we're now
oh just bring them into our tent. Our
tent has no borders. You know when this
William Buckley you should read William
Buckley because he has written about
this a lot heard and and it was a very
dangerous moment for the conservative
movement because America is not
extremist. America is is a melting pot.
That's what America is. You know
everybody is an inner inner marriage.
People don't like extremism. And if we
allow our friends to narrate for and
launder the ideas of extremists into our
movement, then all the stuff that they
were accusing us of, right? The this is
why the New York Times is all over this.
They are loving this. They are loving
this because we're not talking about Mum
Donnie. We're not talking about all of
we are just laundering bad ideas in the
name of well it's freedom of speech. We
can talk about whatever we want. Yeah,
it's your freedom of speech, but there
has to be a consequence.
>> There there's a mathematical equation
here and there's a precedent that has
been set. The left did this already.
The left had the radical nut jobs in
their party.
>> Yes. The squad
>> doing all this crazy stuff. We don't
know what a woman is. We They doing all
of this and a lot of people left them.
>> That's right.
>> This is why Trump got elected
overwhelmingly like he did. This how
we've been having a House and Senate and
we've been winning on these arguments
because they're so crazy.
They're they say they love women, but
they want men to beat up women in
sports. What?
>> It's so true. The left took in their
most extremist faction and said, "Well,
but it's getting us a lot of views and
so we're going to go bring it. Let's
bring AOC to be our leader." It's
amazing how evil uses the exact same
formula. It's the same formula and it's
coming our way. And I mean, the good
thing, the thing that we have on our
side is the most powerful thing and that
is God. And as long we stick to the
truth and we remember what how important
it is to have strength and courage, we
we we will reject it. I You're rejecting
it. Charlie rejected it. We're rejecting
it. And you know, I think really that is
ultimately the armor of God is is to
reject the lies and just stand in with
the light.
>> 100%.
>> How do we honor Charlie Kirk? Really,
how do we honor his his legacy? It
>> it is very simple. You do what he stood
on. Put God first. you know, and all the
principles that Charlie had. You know,
the standards that he had, like, you
know, he he kept the Sabbath. You know,
that's one thing that, you know, you
can't you can't say you want to honor
Charlie Kirk without honoring all the
things that he stood for. Maybe people
should go out and kind of look into what
Charlie was saying a little bit. You
know, me and my family has thought about
the same thing, like, you know, maybe we
should maybe we should listen to what
Charlie said. Maybe there's something to
it. Let us dig into that. There's
something about that Jesus kept the
Sabbath. Come on. Like, we we probably
should think about that. So, not not
just saying that, but like putting God
first, being godly, um not entertaining
a lot of drama, knowing how to isolate
bad ideas and elevate good ideas. Having
an open dialogue like Charlie isn't on
wasn't on campus letting leftist talk
stupid and then him just uh okay,
everything is fine. No, he challenged
them
>> with kindness.
>> With kindness, but he challenged them.
>> Yes.
>> And he told them that's wrong. That's
not right. This is what God said. This
is what the Constitution says. he
challenged them. So in our efforts and
what we're doing, don't be too cowardish
to challenge people that you oppose. And
I thought one thing that I will say that
that Charlie was a peacemaker more than
anything else.
We have to understand this too.
You may not
have to blast people's names every time.
I have I do I'm bad at this. I put
people name out there. But in the spirit
of Charlie, you may not have to blast
their names, but you can definitely
challenge their ideas.
>> And I I want people to understand this.
There is a difference between saying, "I
have a friendship with a person. I'm not
going to say that person's name, and I'm
also not going to challenge their
ideas." That's a difference than saying,
"I have a friend. I love them. I love
the relationship. I don't want to
destroy that. I may not say that name,
but I will challenge a bad idea."
>> Yeah. And I see people on our side don't
know which camp they're in. You don't
have to. If you don't if you don't feel
comfortable saying their names or
whatever, that's fine. I get it. Some
people have relationships with people
that people don't understand. But dog on
it, if a person say a lie, you should be
able to challenge the lie because at the
end of the day, it's demonic. It's not
about the person per se because that lie
persists in everybody that's demonically
influenced to do certain things. So you
challenge that in the spirit of Charlie.
Put God first. Keep the Sabbath. Read
your Bible. Pray and be a peacemaker.
And always challenge ideas and never be
afraid.
>> If we people do that, the world will be
a better place.
>> I love it. Brandon, morally disciplined,
morally [clears throat] courageous. I
love you, man. You're amazing.
>> Love you, too. Thank you for having me.
>> [music]