Charlie Kirk Shot in the Neck in Utah (Update: Shooter Alt-right links)
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And then in other posts you contradicted yourself claiming he was engaged in hate speech, and had it coming
He was engaged in hate speech. That is just a statement of fact.
And when you stir up hatred and anger, it inevitably leads to violence, because believe it or not, there are crazy people out there both on the right and the left.
Let us not be naive.
That doesn't mean I am saying that he deserved to be killed.
Yeah.... to get the real anger, hatred and abuse going, you also have to add that the inferior races and inferior gender steal better human beings' - i.e white males' - jobs. Which is what Kirk said all the time.
Thats exactly what you're saying. Own it
Promotion of falsehoods and conspiracy theories
According to Forbes, Kirk was known for "his repudiation of liberal college education and embrace of pro-Trump conspiracy theories".[67] Kirk promoted the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory and described universities as "islands of totalitarianism".[9][68][69]
In a 2015 speech at the Liberty Forum of Silicon Valley, Kirk stated that he had applied for nomination to the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, and was not accepted.[14] He said that "the slot he considered his went to 'a far less-qualified candidate of a different gender and a different persuasion'" whose test scores he claimed he knew.[9] He told The New Yorker in 2017 that he was being sarcastic when he said it.[9] He told the Chicago Tribune in 2018 that "he was just repeating something he'd been told",[8][70] while at a New Hampshire Turning Point event featuring Rand Paul in October 2019 he claimed that he never said it.[70]
In July 2018, Kirk falsely claimed on social media that Justice Department statistics showed an increase in human trafficking arrests from 1,952 in the year 2016 to 6,087 in the first half of 2018. He deleted the tweet without an explanation the next day, after a fact-checker had pointed out that the false 2018 number had originated on the conspiracy site 8chan.[71][72] In December 2018, Kirk falsely claimed that protesters in the French yellow vests movement chanted "We want Trump". These false claims were later repeated by President Trump himself.[73]
Kirk spread falsehoods about voter fraud,[74][75] as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.[67] In defending the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kirk falsely stated that, during the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, it "took President Barack Obama 'millions infected and over 1,000 deaths'" to declare a public health emergency.[76][77] In fact, when the Obama administration acknowledged the WHO's declaration of a public health emergency on April 26, 2009,[78] there were less than 280 cases of H1N1 infection reported in the U.S.,[79] and the first confirmed death (of a Mexican toddler on vacation) occurred the next day, April 27.[80] The WHO projected 1,000,000+ U.S. cases on June 25, after declaring a pandemic on June 11.[81]
COVID-19 misinformation
Kirk with Simone Gold, founder of America's Frontline Doctors, at a TPUSA forum in 2020
Kirk spread false information about COVID-19 on social media platforms, such as Twitter, in 2020. Kirk sharply criticized Democrats' criticism of Donald Trump's withdrawal of WHO funding and referred to COVID-19 as the "China virus", which was retweeted by Trump.[59] Kirk alleged that the WHO covered up information about the COVID-19 pandemic. He was briefly banned from Twitter after falsely claiming that hydroxychloroquine had proved to be "100% effective in treating the virus";[59] he alleged that Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan, threatened doctors who tried to use the medication.[59] These falsehoods were retweeted by Rudy Giuliani, whose account was then suspended by Twitter as well.[59][82]
Kirk described the public health measure of social distancing prohibitions in churches as a "Democratic plot against Christianity" and made the unfounded assertion that authorities in Wuhan, China, were burning patients.[59] In 2020, Kirk said that he refused to abide by mask requirements, stating that "the science around masks is very questionable."[67][83] In July 2021, Kirk promoted misleading claims about the efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccines.[23] On Fox News' Tucker Carlson show, Kirk called mandatory requirements for students to take the COVID-19 vaccine "medical apartheid".[84] Kirk called for parents to protest at school board meetings urging parents to stand up and push back against mask-wearing.[85]
Election fraud claims and 2021 United States Capitol attack
Immediately after Donald Trump lost the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Kirk promoted false and disproven claims of fraud in the election.[86][87] On November 5, 2020, Kirk was the leader of a Stop the Steal protest at the Maricopa Tabulation Center in Phoenix.[88] Kirk was considered a "big name" social influencer in Rudy Giuliani's communications plan to overturn the 2020 election.[89]
On January 5, 2021, the day before the Washington, D.C., protest that led to the January 6 United States Capitol attack, Kirk wrote on Twitter that Turning Point Action and Students for Trump were sending more than 80 "buses of patriots to D.C. to fight for this president".[90][91][92] A spokesman for Turning Point said that the groups ended up sending seven buses, not 80, with 350 students.[90][93] In the lead-up to the storming, Kirk said he was "getting 500 emails a minute calling for a civil war."[94] Publix heiress Julie Fancelli gave Kirk's organizations $1.25 million to fund the buses to the January 6 event. Kirk also paid $60,000 for Kimberly Guilfoyle to speak at the Trump rally.[95]
Afterward, Kirk said the violent acts at the Capitol were not an insurrection and did not represent mainstream Trump supporters.[96][97] Appearing before the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack in December 2022, Kirk pleaded the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. His team provided the committee "with 8,000 pages of records in response to its requests".[98] In another closed-door meeting of the House January 6 Committee, Ali Alexander blamed Kirk and Turning Point USA for financing the travel of demonstrators to the Stop the Steal rally.[99]
In the 2020s, Kirk was a Christian nationalist who advocated for the end of the separation of Church and state in the United States.[100][101][5] In 2024, Kirk stated, "One of the reasons we're living through a constitutional crisis is that we no longer have a Christian nation, but we have a Christian form of government, and they're incompatible. You cannot have liberty if you do not have a Christian population".[102][103] Appearing at a Trump campaign rally in the same year, he declared "This is a Christian state. I'd like to see it stay that way".[104] Kirk promoted the Seven Mountain Mandate, a dominion theology concept which calls for Christians to control seven spheres of society (government, education, media, arts and entertainment, business, family, and religion).[5] Before the 2020s, Kirk had been more secular. He told Dave Rubin in 2018: "We do have a separation of church and state, and we should support that".[5]
Kirk believed in the superiority of the Western world. In a 2023 speech, he said that "all men are created equal in the eyes of God, all men and women, but not all cultures are created equal. To say that, you get attacked in every direction, but excuse me when I say that Western civilization is the best that humanity has produced. It’s an outgrowth of the Bible."[105]
Abortion
In a September 2024 debate hosted by Jubilee Media, Kirk argued that there may be situations wherein abortion could be medically necessary if the mother's life is at risk. However, he also argued that abortion is murder and should be illegal. He opposed exceptions for rape, including for children as young as 10.[106] Kirk compared abortion to the Holocaust, and said that abortion is worse.[107]
Gun rights and the Second Amendment
Kirk was a gun owner and gun rights advocate. After the Parkland shooting in February 2018, he spoke for the National Rifle Association in Parkland, Florida.[108][109] Kirk was invited by a student to a pro-gun event in the school where the shooting happened, but the event was cancelled. He had said that guns, armed guards and gun detectors could be used in order to prevent shootings in schools and campuses.[110][111] In an April 2023 Turning Point USA event in Salt Lake City, Utah, Kirk said: "I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."[112][113][114][115]
Relationships and "sexual anarchy"
In October 2021, Kirk said on his podcast that Democrats wanted Americans to live where "there is no cultural identity, where you live in sexual anarchy, where private property is a thing of the past, and the ruling class controls everything." Following social media backlash, he released a statement on the website of the Claremont Institute doubling down on and expanding his remarks.[116][117][118]
According to Media Matters, at the TPUSA Young Women's Leadership Summit 2022 Conference, Kirk said that the "biblical model" for women to pursue in romantic relationships is a partner who is "a protector and a leader, and deep down, a vast majority of you agree" and that "if you want to go meet conservative men that have their act together, that aren't like, woke beta men, like, start a Turning Point USA chapter, you'll meet a lot of them."[119] Kirk stated that birth control makes women angry and bitter, which he alleged suited the political leanings of the Democratic Party. He also believed the medication "screws up female brains".[120]
Race
Kirk said that the concept of white privilege is a myth and a "racist idea".[121][14][122] Kirk served on President Donald Trump's 1776 Commission, a response to the 1619 Project.[123] Assuming "more hard-right positions", he said that Democratic immigration policies were aimed at "diminishing and decreasing white demographics in America."[51][124] In October 2021, Kirk began the "Exposing Critical Racism Tour" of a number of campuses and off-campus venues to "fight racist theories on America's college campuses!"[125][126] Kirk posted on Instagram in March 2024 that "The 'Great Replacement' is not a theory, it's a reality." Alongside this statement, Kirk shared a screenshot from a Fox News story headline that read; "7.2M illegals entered the U.S. under Biden admin[istration], an amount greater than population of 36 states."[127]
African Americans
On the Minnesota leg of the tour on October 5, 2021, Kirk called George Floyd a "scumbag" and appeared to refer to the January 6 riot at U.S. Capitol when he said that "if you dare walk into the U.S. Capitol building and take a selfie, they'll put you in solitary confinement."[128]
Kirk promoted several debunked claims about Floyd, such as that he was "illegally counterfeiting currency," and had once "put a gun to a pregnant woman's stomach."[128] On Facebook, YouTube and Rumble, Kirk repeatedly promoted the false claim that the medical examiner who performed the autopsy declared Floyd had died of an overdose. Following a fact check by AFP that noted the doctor stood by the classification of Floyd's death as a homicide, corrections were added to Kirk's posts on social media.[129] In a November 2021 Fox News article, Kirk wrote that he believed state power should be used to stop teachers from instructing children on critical race theory: "directly confronting the left, and promising to fight their illiberal ideology with state power when necessary, is the key to winning everyday Americans."[130][131]
Kirk praised Martin Luther King Jr. prior to December 2023, variously calling him a "hero" and a "civil rights icon". That December, however, he used a speech at AmericaFest to describe him as "awful ... not a good person" and as someone who is admired only because he "said one thing he didn't actually believe." The speech also saw Kirk condemn the Civil Rights Act of 1964, calling its passage a "huge mistake" and alleging that it had created a "permanent DEI-type bureaucracy".[131] Kirk told The New York Times, "I take the Caldwellian view, from his book The Age of Entitlement, that we went through a new founding in the '60s and that the Civil Rights Act has actually superseded the U.S. Constitution as its reference point. In fact, I bet if you polled Americans, most of them would have more reverence for the Civil Rights Act than the Constitution. I could be wrong, but I think I'm right."[45]
In January 2024, Kirk said that a "myth" had been created around King which had "grown totally out of control" and that King was currently "the most honored, worshiped, even deified person of the 20th century" despite "most people" supposedly disliking him during his life. Responding to accusations by Malcolm Kenyatta that he was working to undermine King and the Voting Rights Act, Kirk called this claim "a lie" and "fear-mongering", and added that telling the "truth" about King "should not be trampling sacred ground" since he was "just a man ... a very flawed one at that" and a "mythological anti-racist creation of the 1960s." Kirk later said he had "found the sacred cow of modern America" in criticizing King.[132]
Also in January 2024, Kirk blamed DEI programs for national aviation issues, saying, "If I see a Black pilot, I'm going to be like, 'Boy, I hope he's qualified.'"[133][134][135] He had previously expressed opposition to DEI programs, describing them as "anti-White".[136] NBC News further reported that Kirk's comments about DEI programs and his comment about Black or African American airline pilots resulted in ongoing conflict with the Republican National Committee over outreach to Black voters.[39]
On September 9, 2025, while speaking about the unprovoked murder of a Ukrainian refugee woman in Charlotte, North Carolina, Kirk accused Democrats of spreading a "false narrative" that "that there is a relentless assault against Black people on behalf of white people",[137] saying "White individuals are actually more likely to be attacked, especially even per capita, by Black individuals in this country."[4]
Jewish Americans
After the October 7 attacks, Kirk criticized Jewish philanthropy to American universities for "subsidizing your own demise by supporting institutions that breed Anti-Semites and endorse genocidal killers." Weeks later, on "The Charlie Kirk Show", he said that Jewish people control "not just the colleges; it's the nonprofits, it's the movies, it's Hollywood, it's all of it." These comments were criticized by some conservatives for being anti-semitic. The ADL accused Kirk of creating a "vast platform for extremists and far-right conspiracy theorists" and promoting "Christian nationalism".[138]
Kirk stated in late 2023 that "Jewish donors" had "a lot of explaining to do" and that they had "been the number one funding mechanism of radical open-border, neoliberal, quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions and nonprofits". He later also said that "Jews have been some of the largest funders of cultural Marxist ideas and supporters of those ideas over the last 30 or 40 years".[139]
After Elon Musk was widely criticized for endorsing an antisemitic post that referenced the Great Replacement Theory and blamed "Jewish communities" for supporting mass migration, Kirk defended Musk, stating that "Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them."[140] Kirk went on to say that it was "completely correct" that "the philosophical foundation of anti-whiteness has been largely financed by Jewish donors in the country", praising Tucker Carlson's statements on the issue.[141]
In July 2025, Kirk warned his followers against hatred of Jews, calling it "evil" and "demonic".[142] He has said that he had defended Israel for his "whole life".[138] Some Jewish public figures have defended Kirk against accusations of antisemitism, citing his pro-Israel stance. Kirk has been funded by some Jewish donors, including Bernie Marcus.[143]
LGBTQ issues
According to a 2024 NBC News report, Kirk was relatively secular regarding LGBTQ issues in 2018, but shifted towards more socially conservative stances.[5] Kirk argued there is an "LGBTQ agenda",[5] and he opposed gay marriage.[144] In 2024, while criticizing YouTuber Ms. Rachel for quoting Leviticus 19:18 ("Love your neighbor as yourself"), Kirk responded by citing Leviticus 20:13 ("If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them"), as "God's perfect law when it comes to sexual matters".[100] According to Media Matters, Kirk argued against gender-affirming care for transgender people, saying, "We must ban trans-affirming care — the entire country. Donald Trump needs to run on this issue."[145] Kirk stated that "there are only two genders" and that "transgenderism and gender 'fluidity' are lies that hurt people and abuse kids".[118][independent source needed] He has said that transgender women in women's locker rooms should be taken care of "the way we used to take care of things in the 1950s and 60s".[146]
Islam
Following the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 New York City Democratic mayoral primary, Kirk posted that "24 years ago a group of Muslims killed 2,753 people on 9/11. Now a Muslim Socialist is on pace to run New York City." Liberal Fox News commentator Jessica Tarlov asked Kirk to take down the "gross and islamophobic" post.[147] In a separate post, Kirk argued that "It's not Islamophobia to notice that Muslims want to import values into the West that seek to destabilize our civilization."[148] Earlier in 2018, Kirk spoke at the annual conference of anti-Muslim group ACT for America, an organization with multiple ties to Turning Point USA.[149]
Following the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, Kirk incorrectly linked Ilhan Omar to Hamas and called for her deportation.[105]
Immigration
At a 2023 event at Missouri State University, Kirk said that immigration to the United States should be completely stopped.[105]
In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, Kirk promoted the false claim that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio were eating residents' pets and other wildlife.[150][151]
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According to Forbes, Kirk was known for "his repudiation of liberal college education and embrace of pro-Trump conspiracy theories".[67] Kirk promoted the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory and described universities as "islands of totalitarianism".[9][68][69]
In a 2015 speech at the Liberty Forum of Silicon Valley, Kirk stated that he had applied for nomination to the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, and was not accepted.[14] He said that "the slot he considered his went to 'a far less-qualified candidate of a different gender and a different persuasion'" whose test scores he claimed he knew.[9] He told The New Yorker in 2017 that he was being sarcastic when he said it.[9] He told the Chicago Tribune in 2018 that "he was just repeating something he'd been told",[8][70] while at a New Hampshire Turning Point event featuring Rand Paul in October 2019 he claimed that he never said it.[70]
In July 2018, Kirk falsely claimed on social media that Justice Department statistics showed an increase in human trafficking arrests from 1,952 in the year 2016 to 6,087 in the first half of 2018. He deleted the tweet without an explanation the next day, after a fact-checker had pointed out that the false 2018 number had originated on the conspiracy site 8chan.[71][72] In December 2018, Kirk falsely claimed that protesters in the French yellow vests movement chanted "We want Trump". These false claims were later repeated by President Trump himself.[73]
Kirk spread falsehoods about voter fraud,[74][75] as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.[67] In defending the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kirk falsely stated that, during the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, it "took President Barack Obama 'millions infected and over 1,000 deaths'" to declare a public health emergency.[76][77] In fact, when the Obama administration acknowledged the WHO's declaration of a public health emergency on April 26, 2009,[78] there were less than 280 cases of H1N1 infection reported in the U.S.,[79] and the first confirmed death (of a Mexican toddler on vacation) occurred the next day, April 27.[80] The WHO projected 1,000,000+ U.S. cases on June 25, after declaring a pandemic on June 11.[81]
COVID-19 misinformation
Kirk with Simone Gold, founder of America's Frontline Doctors, at a TPUSA forum in 2020
Kirk spread false information about COVID-19 on social media platforms, such as Twitter, in 2020. Kirk sharply criticized Democrats' criticism of Donald Trump's withdrawal of WHO funding and referred to COVID-19 as the "China virus", which was retweeted by Trump.[59] Kirk alleged that the WHO covered up information about the COVID-19 pandemic. He was briefly banned from Twitter after falsely claiming that hydroxychloroquine had proved to be "100% effective in treating the virus";[59] he alleged that Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan, threatened doctors who tried to use the medication.[59] These falsehoods were retweeted by Rudy Giuliani, whose account was then suspended by Twitter as well.[59][82]
Kirk described the public health measure of social distancing prohibitions in churches as a "Democratic plot against Christianity" and made the unfounded assertion that authorities in Wuhan, China, were burning patients.[59] In 2020, Kirk said that he refused to abide by mask requirements, stating that "the science around masks is very questionable."[67][83] In July 2021, Kirk promoted misleading claims about the efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccines.[23] On Fox News' Tucker Carlson show, Kirk called mandatory requirements for students to take the COVID-19 vaccine "medical apartheid".[84] Kirk called for parents to protest at school board meetings urging parents to stand up and push back against mask-wearing.[85]
Election fraud claims and 2021 United States Capitol attack
Immediately after Donald Trump lost the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Kirk promoted false and disproven claims of fraud in the election.[86][87] On November 5, 2020, Kirk was the leader of a Stop the Steal protest at the Maricopa Tabulation Center in Phoenix.[88] Kirk was considered a "big name" social influencer in Rudy Giuliani's communications plan to overturn the 2020 election.[89]
On January 5, 2021, the day before the Washington, D.C., protest that led to the January 6 United States Capitol attack, Kirk wrote on Twitter that Turning Point Action and Students for Trump were sending more than 80 "buses of patriots to D.C. to fight for this president".[90][91][92] A spokesman for Turning Point said that the groups ended up sending seven buses, not 80, with 350 students.[90][93] In the lead-up to the storming, Kirk said he was "getting 500 emails a minute calling for a civil war."[94] Publix heiress Julie Fancelli gave Kirk's organizations $1.25 million to fund the buses to the January 6 event. Kirk also paid $60,000 for Kimberly Guilfoyle to speak at the Trump rally.[95]
Afterward, Kirk said the violent acts at the Capitol were not an insurrection and did not represent mainstream Trump supporters.[96][97] Appearing before the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack in December 2022, Kirk pleaded the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. His team provided the committee "with 8,000 pages of records in response to its requests".[98] In another closed-door meeting of the House January 6 Committee, Ali Alexander blamed Kirk and Turning Point USA for financing the travel of demonstrators to the Stop the Steal rally.[99]
In the 2020s, Kirk was a Christian nationalist who advocated for the end of the separation of Church and state in the United States.[100][101][5] In 2024, Kirk stated, "One of the reasons we're living through a constitutional crisis is that we no longer have a Christian nation, but we have a Christian form of government, and they're incompatible. You cannot have liberty if you do not have a Christian population".[102][103] Appearing at a Trump campaign rally in the same year, he declared "This is a Christian state. I'd like to see it stay that way".[104] Kirk promoted the Seven Mountain Mandate, a dominion theology concept which calls for Christians to control seven spheres of society (government, education, media, arts and entertainment, business, family, and religion).[5] Before the 2020s, Kirk had been more secular. He told Dave Rubin in 2018: "We do have a separation of church and state, and we should support that".[5]
Kirk believed in the superiority of the Western world. In a 2023 speech, he said that "all men are created equal in the eyes of God, all men and women, but not all cultures are created equal. To say that, you get attacked in every direction, but excuse me when I say that Western civilization is the best that humanity has produced. It’s an outgrowth of the Bible."[105]
Abortion
In a September 2024 debate hosted by Jubilee Media, Kirk argued that there may be situations wherein abortion could be medically necessary if the mother's life is at risk. However, he also argued that abortion is murder and should be illegal. He opposed exceptions for rape, including for children as young as 10.[106] Kirk compared abortion to the Holocaust, and said that abortion is worse.[107]
Gun rights and the Second Amendment
Kirk was a gun owner and gun rights advocate. After the Parkland shooting in February 2018, he spoke for the National Rifle Association in Parkland, Florida.[108][109] Kirk was invited by a student to a pro-gun event in the school where the shooting happened, but the event was cancelled. He had said that guns, armed guards and gun detectors could be used in order to prevent shootings in schools and campuses.[110][111] In an April 2023 Turning Point USA event in Salt Lake City, Utah, Kirk said: "I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."[112][113][114][115]
Relationships and "sexual anarchy"
In October 2021, Kirk said on his podcast that Democrats wanted Americans to live where "there is no cultural identity, where you live in sexual anarchy, where private property is a thing of the past, and the ruling class controls everything." Following social media backlash, he released a statement on the website of the Claremont Institute doubling down on and expanding his remarks.[116][117][118]
According to Media Matters, at the TPUSA Young Women's Leadership Summit 2022 Conference, Kirk said that the "biblical model" for women to pursue in romantic relationships is a partner who is "a protector and a leader, and deep down, a vast majority of you agree" and that "if you want to go meet conservative men that have their act together, that aren't like, woke beta men, like, start a Turning Point USA chapter, you'll meet a lot of them."[119] Kirk stated that birth control makes women angry and bitter, which he alleged suited the political leanings of the Democratic Party. He also believed the medication "screws up female brains".[120]
Race
Kirk said that the concept of white privilege is a myth and a "racist idea".[121][14][122] Kirk served on President Donald Trump's 1776 Commission, a response to the 1619 Project.[123] Assuming "more hard-right positions", he said that Democratic immigration policies were aimed at "diminishing and decreasing white demographics in America."[51][124] In October 2021, Kirk began the "Exposing Critical Racism Tour" of a number of campuses and off-campus venues to "fight racist theories on America's college campuses!"[125][126] Kirk posted on Instagram in March 2024 that "The 'Great Replacement' is not a theory, it's a reality." Alongside this statement, Kirk shared a screenshot from a Fox News story headline that read; "7.2M illegals entered the U.S. under Biden admin[istration], an amount greater than population of 36 states."[127]
African Americans
On the Minnesota leg of the tour on October 5, 2021, Kirk called George Floyd a "scumbag" and appeared to refer to the January 6 riot at U.S. Capitol when he said that "if you dare walk into the U.S. Capitol building and take a selfie, they'll put you in solitary confinement."[128]
Kirk promoted several debunked claims about Floyd, such as that he was "illegally counterfeiting currency," and had once "put a gun to a pregnant woman's stomach."[128] On Facebook, YouTube and Rumble, Kirk repeatedly promoted the false claim that the medical examiner who performed the autopsy declared Floyd had died of an overdose. Following a fact check by AFP that noted the doctor stood by the classification of Floyd's death as a homicide, corrections were added to Kirk's posts on social media.[129] In a November 2021 Fox News article, Kirk wrote that he believed state power should be used to stop teachers from instructing children on critical race theory: "directly confronting the left, and promising to fight their illiberal ideology with state power when necessary, is the key to winning everyday Americans."[130][131]
Kirk praised Martin Luther King Jr. prior to December 2023, variously calling him a "hero" and a "civil rights icon". That December, however, he used a speech at AmericaFest to describe him as "awful ... not a good person" and as someone who is admired only because he "said one thing he didn't actually believe." The speech also saw Kirk condemn the Civil Rights Act of 1964, calling its passage a "huge mistake" and alleging that it had created a "permanent DEI-type bureaucracy".[131] Kirk told The New York Times, "I take the Caldwellian view, from his book The Age of Entitlement, that we went through a new founding in the '60s and that the Civil Rights Act has actually superseded the U.S. Constitution as its reference point. In fact, I bet if you polled Americans, most of them would have more reverence for the Civil Rights Act than the Constitution. I could be wrong, but I think I'm right."[45]
In January 2024, Kirk said that a "myth" had been created around King which had "grown totally out of control" and that King was currently "the most honored, worshiped, even deified person of the 20th century" despite "most people" supposedly disliking him during his life. Responding to accusations by Malcolm Kenyatta that he was working to undermine King and the Voting Rights Act, Kirk called this claim "a lie" and "fear-mongering", and added that telling the "truth" about King "should not be trampling sacred ground" since he was "just a man ... a very flawed one at that" and a "mythological anti-racist creation of the 1960s." Kirk later said he had "found the sacred cow of modern America" in criticizing King.[132]
Also in January 2024, Kirk blamed DEI programs for national aviation issues, saying, "If I see a Black pilot, I'm going to be like, 'Boy, I hope he's qualified.'"[133][134][135] He had previously expressed opposition to DEI programs, describing them as "anti-White".[136] NBC News further reported that Kirk's comments about DEI programs and his comment about Black or African American airline pilots resulted in ongoing conflict with the Republican National Committee over outreach to Black voters.[39]
On September 9, 2025, while speaking about the unprovoked murder of a Ukrainian refugee woman in Charlotte, North Carolina, Kirk accused Democrats of spreading a "false narrative" that "that there is a relentless assault against Black people on behalf of white people",[137] saying "White individuals are actually more likely to be attacked, especially even per capita, by Black individuals in this country."[4]
Jewish Americans
After the October 7 attacks, Kirk criticized Jewish philanthropy to American universities for "subsidizing your own demise by supporting institutions that breed Anti-Semites and endorse genocidal killers." Weeks later, on "The Charlie Kirk Show", he said that Jewish people control "not just the colleges; it's the nonprofits, it's the movies, it's Hollywood, it's all of it." These comments were criticized by some conservatives for being anti-semitic. The ADL accused Kirk of creating a "vast platform for extremists and far-right conspiracy theorists" and promoting "Christian nationalism".[138]
Kirk stated in late 2023 that "Jewish donors" had "a lot of explaining to do" and that they had "been the number one funding mechanism of radical open-border, neoliberal, quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions and nonprofits". He later also said that "Jews have been some of the largest funders of cultural Marxist ideas and supporters of those ideas over the last 30 or 40 years".[139]
After Elon Musk was widely criticized for endorsing an antisemitic post that referenced the Great Replacement Theory and blamed "Jewish communities" for supporting mass migration, Kirk defended Musk, stating that "Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them."[140] Kirk went on to say that it was "completely correct" that "the philosophical foundation of anti-whiteness has been largely financed by Jewish donors in the country", praising Tucker Carlson's statements on the issue.[141]
In July 2025, Kirk warned his followers against hatred of Jews, calling it "evil" and "demonic".[142] He has said that he had defended Israel for his "whole life".[138] Some Jewish public figures have defended Kirk against accusations of antisemitism, citing his pro-Israel stance. Kirk has been funded by some Jewish donors, including Bernie Marcus.[143]
LGBTQ issues
According to a 2024 NBC News report, Kirk was relatively secular regarding LGBTQ issues in 2018, but shifted towards more socially conservative stances.[5] Kirk argued there is an "LGBTQ agenda",[5] and he opposed gay marriage.[144] In 2024, while criticizing YouTuber Ms. Rachel for quoting Leviticus 19:18 ("Love your neighbor as yourself"), Kirk responded by citing Leviticus 20:13 ("If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them"), as "God's perfect law when it comes to sexual matters".[100] According to Media Matters, Kirk argued against gender-affirming care for transgender people, saying, "We must ban trans-affirming care — the entire country. Donald Trump needs to run on this issue."[145] Kirk stated that "there are only two genders" and that "transgenderism and gender 'fluidity' are lies that hurt people and abuse kids".[118][independent source needed] He has said that transgender women in women's locker rooms should be taken care of "the way we used to take care of things in the 1950s and 60s".[146]
Islam
Following the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 New York City Democratic mayoral primary, Kirk posted that "24 years ago a group of Muslims killed 2,753 people on 9/11. Now a Muslim Socialist is on pace to run New York City." Liberal Fox News commentator Jessica Tarlov asked Kirk to take down the "gross and islamophobic" post.[147] In a separate post, Kirk argued that "It's not Islamophobia to notice that Muslims want to import values into the West that seek to destabilize our civilization."[148] Earlier in 2018, Kirk spoke at the annual conference of anti-Muslim group ACT for America, an organization with multiple ties to Turning Point USA.[149]
Following the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, Kirk incorrectly linked Ilhan Omar to Hamas and called for her deportation.[105]
Immigration
At a 2023 event at Missouri State University, Kirk said that immigration to the United States should be completely stopped.[105]
In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, Kirk promoted the false claim that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio were eating residents' pets and other wildlife.[150][151]
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I never took any of that from watching his videos. In several debates he praised minorities and legal immigrants and touted them as being the most successful and productive members of American society, ie vietnamese and taiwanese americans. IMO, he advocated for all groups regardless of race to just be better, for their families, for their country.
Read the wiki article I just cut and paste.
This is one video vs the thousands you see of the lunatics absolutely praising kirks assassination
Kirk was killed by a sniper long range.
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Kirk was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs of Arlington Heights and Prospect Heights, Illinois. In high school, Kirk actively engaged in politics, supporting Republican candidate Mark Kirk (no relation) and his U.S. Senate campaign. He briefly attended Harper College before dropping out to pursue political activism full-time, influenced by Tea Party member Bill Montgomery. In 2012, Kirk founded TPUSA, a conservative student organization that quickly grew with backing from donors like Foster Friess.
Kirk expanded the organization's influence through initiatives such as the Professor Watchlist and School Board Watchlist, which sought to fire or silence professors and educators through targeted harassment campaigns for sharing opinions opposed by Turning Point. In 2019, Kirk founded Turning Point Action, a political advocacy arm, and later, with Pentecostal pastor Rob McCoy, formed Turning Point Faith—aimed at mobilizing religious communities on conservative issues. Kirk hosted The Charlie Kirk Show, a conservative talk radio program. A key ally of Donald Trump, Kirk promoted conservative and Trump-aligned causes. He espoused a variety of controversial views, especially regarding his opposition to gun control, abortion, and LGBTQ rights; his criticism of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Martin Luther King Jr.; and his promotion of Christian nationalism, COVID-19 misinformation, the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, and false claims of electoral fraud in 2020. He played an important role in the Donald Trump campaign during the 2024 United States presidential election.
On September 10, 2025, Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at a TPUSA event on the campus of Utah Valley University as part of his American Comeback Tour at his signature Prove Me Wrong table.[6]
Turning Point USA
Main article: Turning Point USA
Kirk was CEO, chief fundraiser, and the public face of Turning Point USA from its founding to his death in 2025.[14][9] He co-founded the organization in 2012 at 18 years of age.[15] According to The New York Times, he turned the organization into a "well-funded media operation, backed by conservative megadonors like the Wyoming businessman Foster Friess".[16] TPUSA's activities include publication of the Professor Watchlist and the School Board Watchlist.[17] Critics of these watchlists say that they threaten academic freedom and have led to the targeted harassment of academics.[18][19] In 2019, the Professor Watchlist was briefly suspended by its web host.[20]
Kirk and President Donald Trump speaking with attendees at a Turning Point Action Conference in 2023
In 2020, ProPublica investigated the finances of TPUSA and found that the organization made "misleading financial claims", that the audits were not done by an independent auditor, and that the leaders had enriched themselves while advocating for Trump. ProPublica also reported that Kirk's salary from TPUSA had increased from $27,000 to nearly $300,000 and that he had bought an $855,000 condo in Longboat Key, Florida.[21] In 2020, Turning Point USA had $39.2 million in revenues.[22] Kirk earned a salary of more than $325,000 from TPUSA and related organizations.[23]
Basically, he was a well paid hate-monger.
Kirk expanded the organization's influence through initiatives such as the Professor Watchlist and School Board Watchlist, which sought to fire or silence professors and educators through targeted harassment campaigns for sharing opinions opposed by Turning Point. In 2019, Kirk founded Turning Point Action, a political advocacy arm, and later, with Pentecostal pastor Rob McCoy, formed Turning Point Faith—aimed at mobilizing religious communities on conservative issues. Kirk hosted The Charlie Kirk Show, a conservative talk radio program. A key ally of Donald Trump, Kirk promoted conservative and Trump-aligned causes. He espoused a variety of controversial views, especially regarding his opposition to gun control, abortion, and LGBTQ rights; his criticism of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Martin Luther King Jr.; and his promotion of Christian nationalism, COVID-19 misinformation, the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, and false claims of electoral fraud in 2020. He played an important role in the Donald Trump campaign during the 2024 United States presidential election.
On September 10, 2025, Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at a TPUSA event on the campus of Utah Valley University as part of his American Comeback Tour at his signature Prove Me Wrong table.[6]
Turning Point USA
Main article: Turning Point USA
Kirk was CEO, chief fundraiser, and the public face of Turning Point USA from its founding to his death in 2025.[14][9] He co-founded the organization in 2012 at 18 years of age.[15] According to The New York Times, he turned the organization into a "well-funded media operation, backed by conservative megadonors like the Wyoming businessman Foster Friess".[16] TPUSA's activities include publication of the Professor Watchlist and the School Board Watchlist.[17] Critics of these watchlists say that they threaten academic freedom and have led to the targeted harassment of academics.[18][19] In 2019, the Professor Watchlist was briefly suspended by its web host.[20]
Kirk and President Donald Trump speaking with attendees at a Turning Point Action Conference in 2023
In 2020, ProPublica investigated the finances of TPUSA and found that the organization made "misleading financial claims", that the audits were not done by an independent auditor, and that the leaders had enriched themselves while advocating for Trump. ProPublica also reported that Kirk's salary from TPUSA had increased from $27,000 to nearly $300,000 and that he had bought an $855,000 condo in Longboat Key, Florida.[21] In 2020, Turning Point USA had $39.2 million in revenues.[22] Kirk earned a salary of more than $325,000 from TPUSA and related organizations.[23]
Basically, he was a well paid hate-monger.
Hmmm..... I haven't seen any of those "thousands of videos".This is one video vs the thousands you see of the lunatics absolutely praising kirks assassination
They must be hiding from me.
That is some sane washing right there.
I provided several quotes.
Mandrill posted several examples:
Promotion of falsehoods and conspiracy theories
According to Forbes, Kirk was known for "his repudiation of liberal college education and embrace of pro-Trump conspiracy theories".[67] Kirk promoted the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory and described universities as "islands of totalitarianism".[9][68][69]
In a 2015 speech at the Liberty Forum of Silicon Valley, Kirk stated that he had applied for nomination to the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, and was not accepted.[14] He said that "the slot he considered his went to 'a far less-qualified candidate of a different gender and a different persuasion'" whose test scores he claimed he knew.[9] He told The New Yorker in 2017 that he was being sarcastic when he said it.[9] He told the Chicago Tribune in 2018 that "he was just repeating something he'd been told",[8][70] while at a New Hampshire Turning Point event featuring Rand Paul in October 2019 he claimed that he never said it.[70]
In July 2018, Kirk falsely claimed on social media that Justice Department statistics showed an increase in human trafficking arrests from 1,952 in the year 2016 to 6,087 in the first half of 2018. He deleted the tweet without an explanation the next day, after a fact-checker had pointed out that the false 2018 number had originated on the conspiracy site 8chan.[71][72] In December 2018, Kirk falsely claimed that protesters in the French yellow vests movement chanted "We want Trump". These false claims were later repeated by President Trump himself.[73]
Kirk spread falsehoods about voter fraud,[74][75] as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.[67] In defending the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kirk falsely stated that, during the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, it "took President Barack Obama 'millions infected and over 1,000 deaths'" to declare a public health emergency.[76][77] In fact, when the Obama administration acknowledged the WHO's declaration of a public health emergency on April 26, 2009,[78] there were less than 280 cases of H1N1 infection reported in the U.S.,[79] and the first confirmed death (of a Mexican toddler on vacation) occurred the next day, April 27.[80] The WHO projected 1,000,000+ U.S. cases on June 25, after declaring a pandemic on June 11.[81]
COVID-19 misinformation
Kirk with Simone Gold, founder of America's Frontline Doctors, at a TPUSA forum in 2020
Kirk spread false information about COVID-19 on social media platforms, such as Twitter, in 2020. Kirk sharply criticized Democrats' criticism of Donald Trump's withdrawal of WHO funding and referred to COVID-19 as the "China virus", which was retweeted by Trump.[59] Kirk alleged that the WHO covered up information about the COVID-19 pandemic. He was briefly banned from Twitter after falsely claiming that hydroxychloroquine had proved to be "100% effective in treating the virus";[59] he alleged that Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan, threatened doctors who tried to use the medication.[59] These falsehoods were retweeted by Rudy Giuliani, whose account was then suspended by Twitter as well.[59][82]
Kirk described the public health measure of social distancing prohibitions in churches as a "Democratic plot against Christianity" and made the unfounded assertion that authorities in Wuhan, China, were burning patients.[59] In 2020, Kirk said that he refused to abide by mask requirements, stating that "the science around masks is very questionable."[67][83] In July 2021, Kirk promoted misleading claims about the efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccines.[23] On Fox News' Tucker Carlson show, Kirk called mandatory requirements for students to take the COVID-19 vaccine "medical apartheid".[84] Kirk called for parents to protest at school board meetings urging parents to stand up and push back against mask-wearing.[85]
Election fraud claims and 2021 United States Capitol attack
Immediately after Donald Trump lost the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Kirk promoted false and disproven claims of fraud in the election.[86][87] On November 5, 2020, Kirk was the leader of a Stop the Steal protest at the Maricopa Tabulation Center in Phoenix.[88] Kirk was considered a "big name" social influencer in Rudy Giuliani's communications plan to overturn the 2020 election.[89]
On January 5, 2021, the day before the Washington, D.C., protest that led to the January 6 United States Capitol attack, Kirk wrote on Twitter that Turning Point Action and Students for Trump were sending more than 80 "buses of patriots to D.C. to fight for this president".[90][91][92] A spokesman for Turning Point said that the groups ended up sending seven buses, not 80, with 350 students.[90][93] In the lead-up to the storming, Kirk said he was "getting 500 emails a minute calling for a civil war."[94] Publix heiress Julie Fancelli gave Kirk's organizations $1.25 million to fund the buses to the January 6 event. Kirk also paid $60,000 for Kimberly Guilfoyle to speak at the Trump rally.[95]
Afterward, Kirk said the violent acts at the Capitol were not an insurrection and did not represent mainstream Trump supporters.[96][97] Appearing before the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack in December 2022, Kirk pleaded the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. His team provided the committee "with 8,000 pages of records in response to its requests".[98] In another closed-door meeting of the House January 6 Committee, Ali Alexander blamed Kirk and Turning Point USA for financing the travel of demonstrators to the Stop the Steal rally.[99]
In the 2020s, Kirk was a Christian nationalist who advocated for the end of the separation of Church and state in the United States.[100][101][5] In 2024, Kirk stated, "One of the reasons we're living through a constitutional crisis is that we no longer have a Christian nation, but we have a Christian form of government, and they're incompatible. You cannot have liberty if you do not have a Christian population".[102][103] Appearing at a Trump campaign rally in the same year, he declared "This is a Christian state. I'd like to see it stay that way".[104] Kirk promoted the Seven Mountain Mandate, a dominion theology concept which calls for Christians to control seven spheres of society (government, education, media, arts and entertainment, business, family, and religion).[5] Before the 2020s, Kirk had been more secular. He told Dave Rubin in 2018: "We do have a separation of church and state, and we should support that".[5]
Kirk believed in the superiority of the Western world. In a 2023 speech, he said that "all men are created equal in the eyes of God, all men and women, but not all cultures are created equal. To say that, you get attacked in every direction, but excuse me when I say that Western civilization is the best that humanity has produced. It’s an outgrowth of the Bible."[105]
Abortion
In a September 2024 debate hosted by Jubilee Media, Kirk argued that there may be situations wherein abortion could be medically necessary if the mother's life is at risk. However, he also argued that abortion is murder and should be illegal. He opposed exceptions for rape, including for children as young as 10.[106] Kirk compared abortion to the Holocaust, and said that abortion is worse.[107]
Gun rights and the Second Amendment
Kirk was a gun owner and gun rights advocate. After the Parkland shooting in February 2018, he spoke for the National Rifle Association in Parkland, Florida.[108][109] Kirk was invited by a student to a pro-gun event in the school where the shooting happened, but the event was cancelled. He had said that guns, armed guards and gun detectors could be used in order to prevent shootings in schools and campuses.[110][111] In an April 2023 Turning Point USA event in Salt Lake City, Utah, Kirk said: "I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."[112][113][114][115]
Relationships and "sexual anarchy"
In October 2021, Kirk said on his podcast that Democrats wanted Americans to live where "there is no cultural identity, where you live in sexual anarchy, where private property is a thing of the past, and the ruling class controls everything." Following social media backlash, he released a statement on the website of the Claremont Institute doubling down on and expanding his remarks.[116][117][118]
According to Media Matters, at the TPUSA Young Women's Leadership Summit 2022 Conference, Kirk said that the "biblical model" for women to pursue in romantic relationships is a partner who is "a protector and a leader, and deep down, a vast majority of you agree" and that "if you want to go meet conservative men that have their act together, that aren't like, woke beta men, like, start a Turning Point USA chapter, you'll meet a lot of them."[119] Kirk stated that birth control makes women angry and bitter, which he alleged suited the political leanings of the Democratic Party. He also believed the medication "screws up female brains".[120]
Race
Kirk said that the concept of white privilege is a myth and a "racist idea".[121][14][122] Kirk served on President Donald Trump's 1776 Commission, a response to the 1619 Project.[123] Assuming "more hard-right positions", he said that Democratic immigration policies were aimed at "diminishing and decreasing white demographics in America."[51][124] In October 2021, Kirk began the "Exposing Critical Racism Tour" of a number of campuses and off-campus venues to "fight racist theories on America's college campuses!"[125][126] Kirk posted on Instagram in March 2024 that "The 'Great Replacement' is not a theory, it's a reality." Alongside this statement, Kirk shared a screenshot from a Fox News story headline that read; "7.2M illegals entered the U.S. under Biden admin[istration], an amount greater than population of 36 states."[127]
African Americans
On the Minnesota leg of the tour on October 5, 2021, Kirk called George Floyd a "scumbag" and appeared to refer to the January 6 riot at U.S. Capitol when he said that "if you dare walk into the U.S. Capitol building and take a selfie, they'll put you in solitary confinement."[128]
Kirk promoted several debunked claims about Floyd, such as that he was "illegally counterfeiting currency," and had once "put a gun to a pregnant woman's stomach."[128] On Facebook, YouTube and Rumble, Kirk repeatedly promoted the false claim that the medical examiner who performed the autopsy declared Floyd had died of an overdose. Following a fact check by AFP that noted the doctor stood by the classification of Floyd's death as a homicide, corrections were added to Kirk's posts on social media.[129] In a November 2021 Fox News article, Kirk wrote that he believed state power should be used to stop teachers from instructing children on critical race theory: "directly confronting the left, and promising to fight their illiberal ideology with state power when necessary, is the key to winning everyday Americans."[130][131]
Kirk praised Martin Luther King Jr. prior to December 2023, variously calling him a "hero" and a "civil rights icon". That December, however, he used a speech at AmericaFest to describe him as "awful ... not a good person" and as someone who is admired only because he "said one thing he didn't actually believe." The speech also saw Kirk condemn the Civil Rights Act of 1964, calling its passage a "huge mistake" and alleging that it had created a "permanent DEI-type bureaucracy".[131] Kirk told The New York Times, "I take the Caldwellian view, from his book The Age of Entitlement, that we went through a new founding in the '60s and that the Civil Rights Act has actually superseded the U.S. Constitution as its reference point. In fact, I bet if you polled Americans, most of them would have more reverence for the Civil Rights Act than the Constitution. I could be wrong, but I think I'm right."[45]
In January 2024, Kirk said that a "myth" had been created around King which had "grown totally out of control" and that King was currently "the most honored, worshiped, even deified person of the 20th century" despite "most people" supposedly disliking him during his life. Responding to accusations by Malcolm Kenyatta that he was working to undermine King and the Voting Rights Act, Kirk called this claim "a lie" and "fear-mongering", and added that telling the "truth" about King "should not be trampling sacred ground" since he was "just a man ... a very flawed one at that" and a "mythological anti-racist creation of the 1960s." Kirk later said he had "found the sacred cow of modern America" in criticizing King.[132]
Also in January 2024, Kirk blamed DEI programs for national aviation issues, saying, "If I see a Black pilot, I'm going to be like, 'Boy, I hope he's qualified.'"[133][134][135] He had previously expressed opposition to DEI programs, describing them as "anti-White".[136] NBC News further reported that Kirk's comments about DEI programs and his comment about Black or African American airline pilots resulted in ongoing conflict with the Republican National Committee over outreach to Black voters.[39]
On September 9, 2025, while speaking about the unprovoked murder of a Ukrainian refugee woman in Charlotte, North Carolina, Kirk accused Democrats of spreading a "false narrative" that "that there is a relentless assault against Black people on behalf of white people",[137] saying "White individuals are actually more likely to be attacked, especially even per capita, by Black individuals in this country."[4]
Jewish Americans
After the October 7 attacks, Kirk criticized Jewish philanthropy to American universities for "subsidizing your own demise by supporting institutions that breed Anti-Semites and endorse genocidal killers." Weeks later, on "The Charlie Kirk Show", he said that Jewish people control "not just the colleges; it's the nonprofits, it's the movies, it's Hollywood, it's all of it." These comments were criticized by some conservatives for being anti-semitic. The ADL accused Kirk of creating a "vast platform for extremists and far-right conspiracy theorists" and promoting "Christian nationalism".[138]
Kirk stated in late 2023 that "Jewish donors" had "a lot of explaining to do" and that they had "been the number one funding mechanism of radical open-border, neoliberal, quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions and nonprofits". He later also said that "Jews have been some of the largest funders of cultural Marxist ideas and supporters of those ideas over the last 30 or 40 years".[139]
After Elon Musk was widely criticized for endorsing an antisemitic post that referenced the Great Replacement Theory and blamed "Jewish communities" for supporting mass migration, Kirk defended Musk, stating that "Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them."[140] Kirk went on to say that it was "completely correct" that "the philosophical foundation of anti-whiteness has been largely financed by Jewish donors in the country", praising Tucker Carlson's statements on the issue.[141]
In July 2025, Kirk warned his followers against hatred of Jews, calling it "evil" and "demonic".[142] He has said that he had defended Israel for his "whole life".[138] Some Jewish public figures have defended Kirk against accusations of antisemitism, citing his pro-Israel stance. Kirk has been funded by some Jewish donors, including Bernie Marcus.[143]
LGBTQ issues
According to a 2024 NBC News report, Kirk was relatively secular regarding LGBTQ issues in 2018, but shifted towards more socially conservative stances.[5] Kirk argued there is an "LGBTQ agenda",[5] and he opposed gay marriage.[144] In 2024, while criticizing YouTuber Ms. Rachel for quoting Leviticus 19:18 ("Love your neighbor as yourself"), Kirk responded by citing Leviticus 20:13 ("If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them"), as "God's perfect law when it comes to sexual matters".[100] According to Media Matters, Kirk argued against gender-affirming care for transgender people, saying, "We must ban trans-affirming care — the entire country. Donald Trump needs to run on this issue."[145] Kirk stated that "there are only two genders" and that "transgenderism and gender 'fluidity' are lies that hurt people and abuse kids".[118][independent source needed] He has said that transgender women in women's locker rooms should be taken care of "the way we used to take care of things in the 1950s and 60s".[146]
Islam
Following the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 New York City Democratic mayoral primary, Kirk posted that "24 years ago a group of Muslims killed 2,753 people on 9/11. Now a Muslim Socialist is on pace to run New York City." Liberal Fox News commentator Jessica Tarlov asked Kirk to take down the "gross and islamophobic" post.[147] In a separate post, Kirk argued that "It's not Islamophobia to notice that Muslims want to import values into the West that seek to destabilize our civilization."[148] Earlier in 2018, Kirk spoke at the annual conference of anti-Muslim group ACT for America, an organization with multiple ties to Turning Point USA.[149]
Following the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, Kirk incorrectly linked Ilhan Omar to Hamas and called for her deportation.[105]
Immigration
At a 2023 event at Missouri State University, Kirk said that immigration to the United States should be completely stopped.[105]
In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, Kirk promoted the false claim that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio were eating residents' pets and other wildlife.[150][151]
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This is one video vs the thousands you see of the lunatics absolutely praising kirks assassination
This is one video vs the thousands you see of the lunatics absolutely praising kirks assassination
It doesn’t matter where you sit politically, we should all be concerned that so many people on one side are celebrating the death.
He was killed for talking. For literal words. Whether or not you agree with them doesn’t matter. It’s terrifying that it happened. And atrocious that so many people are applauding it.
We’ve been so trained to self censor and attempt to silence descent. We’ve been conditioned to feel that being uncomfortable in any way is an unsafe environment.
Progress only happens and growth only happens when we look outside of our comfort zone.
I certainly didn’t believe in everything Charlie did. But I had absolute respect for him. He opened up, dialogue in a courteous and respectful way. If you say, he didn’t call me you’ve been looking at snippet and not watching entire debates.
He had a genuine interest in understanding how and why people thought and felt the way that they did. He was open to changing his mind, and he was able to clearly articulate in a logical non-confrontational way why he thought and believed the things that he did.
University, and , life in general aren’t supposed to be about hearing everybody else parrot back and affirm your thoughts and beliefs on something. We are supposed to be consistently challenging, our thoughts, beliefs, ideals, viewpoints, and everything else. We don’t have to share the same beliefs, too respect that somebody else does. And didn’t that understanding why they think and believe them brings us closer together as team humanity. Because I think we’re a lot closer together on a whole lot of things then we often feel in this Divided and compartmentalized strategy.
Red Dance and black ants coexist peacefully together in a jar until somebody comes along and shakes it. Then they fight each other, kill each other, believing that the other is the cause of the attack. They aren’t smart enough to see that it’s actually the person shaking the jar that’s the problem.
I’d like to think we’re smarter than ants.
He was killed for talking. For literal words. Whether or not you agree with them doesn’t matter. It’s terrifying that it happened. And atrocious that so many people are applauding it.
We’ve been so trained to self censor and attempt to silence descent. We’ve been conditioned to feel that being uncomfortable in any way is an unsafe environment.
Progress only happens and growth only happens when we look outside of our comfort zone.
I certainly didn’t believe in everything Charlie did. But I had absolute respect for him. He opened up, dialogue in a courteous and respectful way. If you say, he didn’t call me you’ve been looking at snippet and not watching entire debates.
He had a genuine interest in understanding how and why people thought and felt the way that they did. He was open to changing his mind, and he was able to clearly articulate in a logical non-confrontational way why he thought and believed the things that he did.
University, and , life in general aren’t supposed to be about hearing everybody else parrot back and affirm your thoughts and beliefs on something. We are supposed to be consistently challenging, our thoughts, beliefs, ideals, viewpoints, and everything else. We don’t have to share the same beliefs, too respect that somebody else does. And didn’t that understanding why they think and believe them brings us closer together as team humanity. Because I think we’re a lot closer together on a whole lot of things then we often feel in this Divided and compartmentalized strategy.
Red Dance and black ants coexist peacefully together in a jar until somebody comes along and shakes it. Then they fight each other, kill each other, believing that the other is the cause of the attack. They aren’t smart enough to see that it’s actually the person shaking the jar that’s the problem.
I’d like to think we’re smarter than ants.
Kids in schools were murdered for literally being in class. Kids were killed in a church literally just praying. Charlie said that gun deaths are an unfortunate necessity for 2A. His death isn’t being celebrated but people are rightly pointing out the irony that Charlie lost his life due to gun violence despite him being an advocate for 2A.
