Charlie Kirk’s Epstein Backpedal: A Media and Audience Breakdown

[00:00] Charlie Kirk is backpedaling as hard and

[00:02] as fast as I've ever seen someone in

[00:05] right-wing media do over his prior

[00:07] statements just about a day ago that

[00:09] he's done talking about Epstein for the

[00:12] time being after getting a call from

[00:14] Donald Trump clearly saying to get in

[00:16] line. So, we're going to play what he's

[00:18] now saying his stance is on discussing

[00:20] Epstein and then a reminder of what he

[00:23] said earlier this week.

[00:24] >> Honestly, I'm done talking about Epstein

[00:26] for the time being. I'm going to trust

[00:28] my friends in the administration. I'm

[00:29] going to trust my friends in the

[00:30] government to do what needs to be done.

[00:33] Solve it. Balls in their hands. I've

[00:35] said plenty this last weekend.

[00:38] I want to make an addendum to what was

[00:40] said yesterday is we're going to keep on

[00:43] talking about it. When I said for the

[00:45] time being, I was talking yesterday. I

[00:48] was telling the audience, guys, I got a

[00:50] whole deck of stories I got to cover

[00:52] here.

[00:54] That is the most obvious spitting in

[00:58] your audience's face lie I've ever

[01:01] heard. And by the way, his base knows

[01:04] it. His base watching that is like,

[01:07] "Come the f on you were talking about

[01:10] that day." First of all, he's twitching

[01:12] even more than usual in that clip. So,

[01:14] you can tell the pressure he's feeling.

[01:16] Ken Clippenstein took that initial thing

[01:18] where he's like, I'm just gonna trust

[01:20] the government on this. It got like 9

[01:22] million views on Twitter or whatever.

[01:24] There were writeups about it. He was

[01:25] revealed as an absolute fraud. Okay. And

[01:28] so he probably got, I'm going to guess,

[01:31] a 100,000 comments of people who, for

[01:34] better or worse, and I'll say worse,

[01:36] trusted him or listened to him and they

[01:38] were like, "Dude, I'm done with you now.

[01:39] You're you're an absolute clown and a

[01:41] fraud." And so the backpedal. Okay, so

[01:44] here is what you're supposed to believe

[01:46] that he said, "I'm done with it for the

[01:50] time being." And all he meant was that's

[01:52] the end of this story. You know how uh

[01:56] on the damage report 10 times a show I

[01:58] say and that and I'm done with it for

[02:00] now. I'm just going to trust the

[02:02] government. Let's move on to the BB

[02:03] block. We'll be back on it tomorrow.

[02:05] Yeah, that's that's how people talk.

[02:06] That's how people talk. Also, by the

[02:07] way, he said, "Look, I talked about it

[02:10] all over the weekend. You could refer to

[02:12] my statements if you want more of my

[02:14] thoughts, but I'm done with it for the

[02:15] time being." You would Why would you

[02:17] refer back to the previous stuff? What

[02:19] you were trying to do there was like,

[02:20] "Hey, I've been on the record. Please

[02:22] don't hate me, but I got to fall in

[02:25] line. I got to bow down." That is

[02:27] obviously what he was doing. And his

[02:29] defense is the media cut out the part of

[02:33] his statement of for the time being.

[02:35] He's pretending that the media all just

[02:37] quoted him as saying, "I'm done talking

[02:39] about Epstein." And not the for the time

[02:41] being. As if as if that's exculpatory or

[02:44] whatever. Again, that's not how you talk

[02:45] about something that you're going to

[02:46] bring up on the show tomorrow. But just

[02:48] to be very clear, in our coverage of it

[02:50] yesterday on the show, that was in the

[02:52] clip. Every news story that covered his

[02:55] hypocrisy had it in. So, it's not even

[02:57] true. It wouldn't be a defense if it

[02:59] was, but it's not even true either. That

[03:01] is embarrassing. And I hope I really

[03:05] hope that his base just stays a little

[03:08] bit consistent. You you can see through

[03:10] this guy. You know how fake he's being,

[03:13] how false he's being. Please. There's a

[03:15] thousand other a-holes on the right that

[03:17] you can go listen to. You don't have to

[03:19] keep listening to him. Sharon, what do

[03:21] you think?

[03:22] >> Well, you're right. He should probably

[03:23] just curl up in a bowl, get a heated

[03:25] blanket, eat a tub of ice cream. He

[03:27] should Charlie Kirk, which I know will

[03:29] never happen, should be so embarrassed

[03:31] by this. It's so corny. What he's saying

[03:34] is so corny and it's all about the

[03:36] money. I can't even trust who's a true

[03:38] influencer anymore. Yes, these people

[03:40] have prominence in clicks and all this

[03:41] stuff, but you know, somebody controls

[03:43] the algorithm, somebody pays these ads,

[03:46] somebody's really propping them up, and

[03:48] rather than put it on the line and and

[03:51] lose some of that, they just say, you

[03:52] know, they got a phone call and they're

[03:53] going to go with that and they're going

[03:54] to continue to deliver Donald Trump's

[03:57] lie. And it's

[03:59] >> just go curl up in a ball already. It's

[04:02] embarrassing.

[04:04] >> I'm I'm going to I want to end with just

[04:06] a quote or two from people in his

[04:07] audience. So, the mighty Quinn says,

[04:09] "You said, and I quote, it's time to

[04:11] move on from Epstein, which is not

[04:14] generally how you talk about a topic

[04:15] that you're going to return to

[04:16] tomorrow." Just again, you were towing

[04:18] the Trump line and you know it because

[04:19] of the backlash. Now, you're trying to

[04:21] cover your ass and claim you didn't say

[04:22] what you said. You've turned out to be a

[04:25] complete fake. Now, I could add Mighty

[04:28] Quinn. How did it take you this long to

[04:31] know that it's a total? How is this that

[04:34] like you thought he was cool and

[04:35] principled and intelligent and funny and

[04:38] compassionate and worth listening to

[04:39] before? But that whatever. Set that

[04:41] aside. Mighty Quinn, don't be mad at me.

[04:43] I love that you've awoken at least at

[04:45] this point. And uh Jack Patriot says,

[04:48] "Sounded like that to me. Unfortunately,

[04:49] I'm not going to watch the video you

[04:50] posted. I'm very disappointed in you.

[04:52] Protect children at all cost." Uh, Jack

[04:56] Patri apparently believes that. Charlie

[04:58] Kirk does not believe that. Protect the

[05:00] children is a useful slogan to attack

[05:04] baselessly Democrats with. Actual

[05:08] prominent, rich, well-connected donor

[05:10] pedophiles. We're not going to do

[05:12] anything about them. They're are they're

[05:14] on our side. They're the monetary base

[05:16] of the Republican party. And so he's

[05:18] been revealed to be a fake. By the way,

[05:21] he's trying to get them off his back,

[05:23] but he he clearly already told Trump

[05:25] that he is going to move on from this.

[05:26] So, like, what's he going to say today?

[05:30] Because if he does a big segment to win

[05:32] his audience back over, Trump already

[05:34] said that you're my past supporters if

[05:36] you do that. But if he doesn't talk

[05:38] about it after pretending that he was

[05:40] going to, then his base is going to be

[05:42] mad again. And so, I feel really bad for

[05:45] him. You know, I hate the situation he's

[05:48] found himself in. Put in a guest host.

[05:51] Try that.

[05:52] >> Put in a guest host. I don't know.

[05:54] Couple days. See if it blows over.

[05:55] >> I think he should pull a char pull a

[05:57] Tucker Carlson and go on like a

[05:59] previously scheduled bass fishing trip

[06:01] or whatever two weeks.

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