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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's another of our weekend podcast. If you notice the
word bonus in front of the description, that means it's
not a show that aired during the week. And so
these are things that we create for you. Usually or
often it's sometimes it's just me, more of me rambling
because five hours a day, five days a week wasn't
(00:22):
enough to get it all out there. I know it's
something weird about me, but it's usually something that doesn't
make sense within our format of eight to nine minute
segments because it's too long for that, and then if
we had to chop it up, there's no continuity, so
it loses some of the punch. So earlier in the week,
we knew we had to play this on the weekend.
(00:43):
We knew you needed to hear it. You may have
heard it already, maybe you'll enjoy listening again. One of
the things we try to do with our show during
the week and our podcast on the weekend is to
amplify other voices. We don't think we've we're the only
ones who figured any out. We don't think we're the
only ones with the contribution to make.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We like to.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Amplify as well. The voices of people famous or not
who are saying important things that can move our country
in the right direction. This week, it happens to be
the Vice President JD. Vance, and he hosted the first
Charlie Kirk Show after Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah
(01:27):
and other people were calling for unity, but JD Vance said,
hold up, there are people who we don't want to
unite with. We played part of this earlier in the week,
but I really like this this is his monologue on
the Charlie Kirk Show, because a lot of people are
still under this false impression that if we can just
(01:50):
if we can just be nice enough to the left
who want to kill us, then everything will be okay,
if we can just have unity. Well, I got news
for you. If you think you're going to have unity
with the cannibal who's hungry, you're about to be dinner.
If you think you're about to have unity with a
serial killer who's just locked the door behind him as
he walks in with a knife in his hand, you're
(02:14):
about to see your final moments. There are certain people
you cannot have unity with because they choose not to
seek unity. There comes a point in time where you
draw your boundaries and you create the perfect world as
you envision it, and that does not involve them being
(02:35):
a part of your team. Never will.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
But JD.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Vance, I think said it well and this makes me proud.
He's our vice president. So enjoy the bonus podcast. Send
me an email through the website Michael Berryshow dot com.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Shortly after Usha and I left Charlie's family and Charlie's
remains in Arizona, I wrote a story in The Nation
magazine about my dear friend Charlie Kirk. Now The Nation
isn't a fringe blog. It's a well funded, well respected
magazine whose publishing history goes back to the American Civil War.
(03:09):
George Soros's Open Society Foundation funds this magazine, as does
the Ford Foundation and many other wealthy titans of the
American progressive movement.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
The writer accuses Charlie of.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Saying, and I quote, black women do not have brain
processing power to be taken seriously. But if you go
and watch the clip, the very clip she links to,
you realize he never said.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Anything like that.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
He never uttered those words. He made an argument against affirmative.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Action as a policy.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
He criticized a specific Supreme Court justice. As an individual,
he never said anything about black women as a group.
He made an argument for judging people of all races
and backgrounds by their own individual merits.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The very evidence she this hack of a writer.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Shows that she lied about a dead man, and yet
she wrote it, an esteemed magazine published it, it made
it through the editors, and of course liberal billionaires rewarded
that attack.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Now, of course, even.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
If Charlie had uttered those words, it wouldn't mean that
he deserved his fate. But consider the level of propaganda
at work. Charlie was gunned down in broad daylight, and
well funded institutions of the left lied about what he
said so as to justify his murder. This is soulless
(04:39):
and evil. But I was struck not just by the
dishonesty of this smear, but by the glee over a
young husband's and young father's death.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Quote she says he.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist the Nation wrote,
who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there
was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
He had children, as do many vile.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
People, that's what they said. He had children, as do
many vile people. Now, hours before this smear was published,
my wife and I had the honor of escorting Charlie's
body back to his home in Arizona. We took his wife, Erica,
we love you, his parents, his sister, and a few
(05:32):
of his best friends with us. And as they offloaded
Charlie's casket from Air Force two, I worried that Erica
would collapse with grief. Now, I'm a very lucky husband
to a very wonderful wife, But I have never been
prouder of my wife at that moment, as she held
Erica in Erica's very darkest hour.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And I thought of Erica.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
As I read that disgusting attack on Charlie. He had children,
as do many vile people.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
That's what they said about him.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I said the Lord's prayer, our Father, who art in heaven,
how would be thy name, Thy Kingdom Come? Thy will
be done on earth as it is in heaven. And
I asked Yusha what Erica had said to her earlier
in the day in a private moment, and I asked
Erica's permission to share this. My wife told me she
(06:27):
asked me.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
For advice.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Erica asked me for advice on how she should tell
her children.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
That their father had been murdered.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
She asked my wife how to tell her beautiful kids
that their father and my very dear friend, is no
longer with us, And as she was doing it, there
were people dancing on that father's grave.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Now, I have heard many calls in the last few
days for.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Unity and for healing in the wake of Charlie's assassination.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You have no idea how desperately I want that.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
How gratified I was when Democratic friends and even former
Senate colleagues reached out to offer.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Their condolences to me.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I'm so thankful, and I know there are so many
like them all across our great country. I am desperate
to wrap my arms around them as we all unite
to condemn political violence and the ideas that cause it.
Psalm one thirty three tells us, Behold, how good and
how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
(07:41):
It is like the precious ointment upon the head whole.
How badly have I craved that precious ointment in recent days,
and I believe we can have it. But first, first,
we must tell the truth It's the only way to
honor Charlie for what was he if not a man
who told the truth in every place, in every environment. Now,
(08:05):
the most important truth Charlie told is this that long
ago a man begotten, not made, came down from heaven
and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,
and became a man for our sake. He was crucified
under ponscious pilot and suff death, and was buried and
(08:26):
rose again on the third day. Charlie believed, as I do,
that all the truth he told flowed from that fundamental principle.
I really do believe that we can come together in
this country. I believe we must. But unity, real unity
(08:49):
can be found only after climbing the mountain of truth,
and there are difficult truths we must confront in our country.
One truth is that twenty four percent.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Of self described quote very liberals believe it is acceptable
to be happy about the death of a political opponent,
while only three percent of self described very conservatives agree.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Three percent is too many, of course. Another truth is
that twenty six percent of young liberals believe political violence
is sometimes justified, and only seven percent of young conservatives
say the same. Again too high a number. In a
country of three hundred and thirty million people. You can
of course find one person of a given political persuasion
(09:37):
justifying this or that, or almost anything.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
But the data is clear.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
People on the left are much likelier to defend and
celebrate political violence. This is not a both sides problem.
If both sides have a problem, one.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Side has a much bigger and malignant problem.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And that is the truth.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
We must be told that problem has terrible consequences. The
leader of our party, Donald J. Trump, escaped an assassin's
bullet by less than an inch. Our House majority leavers,
Steven Scalise, came within seconds of death by an assassin himself,
(10:18):
now the most influential conservative activist in generations. Our friend
Charlie has been murdered. This violence, it doesn't come from nowhere.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Any political movement, violent or not violent, is a collection
of forces.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
It's like a pyramid that stacks on top one support
on top of the other. That pyramid's got a foundation
of donors, of activists, of journalists now, of social media influencers,
and of course of politicians. Not every member of that
pyramid would commit a murder. In fact, over ninety nine percent,
I'm sure would not. But by celebrating that murder, apologizing
(10:57):
for it, and emphasizing not Charlie's innate sense, but the
fact that he said things some didn't like, even to
the point of lying about what he actually said, many
of these people are creating an environment where things like
this are inevitably going to happen. A couple of months ago,
I head Land a fundraiser in southern Californian. Since you
(11:18):
know we'd be out there anyways, my wife and I
decided to take our kids to Disneyland one weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
We had fun, and.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
To be clear, most of the guests said very nice
things or they just left us alone. But there was
a loud and verybole minority that would shout at my children,
who were eight, five and three, whenever they got the opportunity.
You should disown your dad, you little shit, one middle
aged woman yelled at my five year old. Tell the
Secret Service to protect the Constitution, not your father, screamed another.
(11:48):
Are these women violent, probably not. Are they deranged, certainly?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
And while our.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Side of the aisle certainly has its crazies, it is
a statistical fact that most of the lunatics in America
and politics today, are proud members of the far left.
After Charlie died, one of his friends and one of
our senior White House staffers, had left leaning operatives in
his neighborhood, passing out leaflets telling people what he looked
(12:17):
like and where he lived, encouraging neighbors to harass him
or God forbid, to do worse. While he was mourning
his dead friend, he and.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
His wife had to worry about the political terrorists drawing
a big target on the home he shares with his
young children.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Are these people violent? I hope not.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
But are they guilty of encouraging violence? You damn well
better believe it. We can thank God that most Democrats
don't share these attitudes, and I do while acknowledging that
something has gone very wrong with a lunatic fringe, a minority,
but a growing and powerful minority on the far left.
(13:00):
There is no unity with people who scream at children
over their parents' politics. There is no unity with someone
who lies about what Charlie Kirk said in order to
excuse his murder.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
There is no.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Unity with someone who harasses an innocent family the day
after the father of that family lost a dear friend,
There is no unity with the people who celebrate Charlie
Kirk's assassination, And there is no unity with the people
who fund these articles, who pay the salaries of these
terrorist sympathizers, who argue that Charlie Kirk, a loving husband
(13:34):
and father, deserved a shot to the neck because he
spoke words with which they disagree.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Did you know that the.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
George Soros Open Society Foundation and the Ford Foundation, the
groups who funded that disgusting article justifying Charlie's death? Do
you know they benefit from generous tax treatment. They are
literally subsidized by you and me, the American tax payer.
And how do they reward us by setting fire to
the house built by the American family over two hundred
(14:06):
and fifty years. I am desperate for our country to
be united in condendation of the actions and the ideas
that killed my friend.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I want it so badly that I will tell you
a difficult truth.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
We can only have it with people who acknowledge that
political violence is unacceptable, and when we work to dismantle
the institutions that promote violence and terrorism in our own country,
now our government. You heard me talk to Stephen Miller
about this will be working very hard to do exactly
that in the months to come. We're not always going
(14:42):
to get it right. We will sometimes move more slowly
than you would like. We will sometimes move more slowly
than I want us to. But I promise you that
we will explore every option to bring real unity to
our country and stop those who would kill their fellow
Americans because they don't like what they say.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
But you have a role too.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Civil society, Charlie understood this well, is not just something
that flows from the government. It flows from each and
every one of us. It flows from all of us.
So when you see someone celebrating Charlie's murder, call them
out in hell, call their employer. We don't believe in
(15:24):
political violence, but we do believe in civility, and there
is no civility in the celebration of political assassination.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Get involved, Get involved, Get involved. It's the best way
to honor Charlie's legacy. Start a chapter of TPUSA, or
get involved in the one that already exists. If you're older,
volunteer for your local party, write an op ed in
your local paper, run for office. I can't promise you
this is going to be easy. I can't promise you.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
That all of us will avoid Charlie's fate. Can't promise
you that I will avoid Charlie's fate. But the way
to honor him is to shine the light of truth
like a torch in the very darkest places.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Go do it.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
We owe it to our friend to ensure that his
killer is not just prosecuted.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
But punished.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
And the worst punishment is not the death penalty, but
the knowledge that Charlie's mission continues after he's gone. Saint
Paul tells us in the Book of Ephesians to put
on the full armor of God.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Let all of us put on that armor and commit.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Ourselves to that cause for which Charlie gave his life,
to rebuild a United States of America, and to do
it by telling the truth.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
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The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's another of our weekend podcast. If you notice the
word bonus in front of the description, that means it's
not a show that aired during the week. And so
these are things that we create for you. Usually or
often it's sometimes it's just me, more of me rambling
because five hours a day, five days a week wasn't
(00:22):
enough to get it all out there. I know it's
something weird about me, but it's usually something that doesn't
make sense within our format of eight to nine minute
segments because it's too long for that, and then if
we had to chop it up, there's no continuity, so
it loses some of the punch. So earlier in the week,
we knew we had to play this on the weekend.
(00:43):
We knew you needed to hear it. You may have
heard it already, maybe you'll enjoy listening again. One of
the things we try to do with our show during
the week and our podcast on the weekend is to
amplify other voices. We don't think we've we're the only
ones who figured any out. We don't think we're the
only ones with the contribution to make.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We like to.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Amplify as well. The voices of people famous or not
who are saying important things that can move our country
in the right direction. This week, it happens to be
the Vice President JD. Vance, and he hosted the first
Charlie Kirk Show after Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah
(01:27):
and other people were calling for unity, but JD Vance said,
hold up, there are people who we don't want to
unite with. We played part of this earlier in the week,
but I really like this this is his monologue on
the Charlie Kirk Show, because a lot of people are
still under this false impression that if we can just
(01:50):
if we can just be nice enough to the left
who want to kill us, then everything will be okay,
if we can just have unity. Well, I got news
for you. If you think you're going to have unity
with the cannibal who's hungry, you're about to be dinner.
If you think you're about to have unity with a
serial killer who's just locked the door behind him as
he walks in with a knife in his hand, you're
(02:14):
about to see your final moments. There are certain people
you cannot have unity with because they choose not to
seek unity. There comes a point in time where you
draw your boundaries and you create the perfect world as
you envision it, and that does not involve them being
(02:35):
a part of your team. Never will.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
But JD.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Vance, I think said it well and this makes me proud.
He's our vice president. So enjoy the bonus podcast. Send
me an email through the website Michael Berryshow dot com.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Shortly after Usha and I left Charlie's family and Charlie's
remains in Arizona, I wrote a story in The Nation
magazine about my dear friend Charlie Kirk. Now The Nation
isn't a fringe blog. It's a well funded, well respected
magazine whose publishing history goes back to the American Civil War.
(03:09):
George Soros's Open Society Foundation funds this magazine, as does
the Ford Foundation and many other wealthy titans of the
American progressive movement.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
The writer accuses Charlie of.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Saying, and I quote, black women do not have brain
processing power to be taken seriously. But if you go
and watch the clip, the very clip she links to,
you realize he never said.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Anything like that.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
He never uttered those words. He made an argument against affirmative.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Action as a policy.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
He criticized a specific Supreme Court justice. As an individual,
he never said anything about black women as a group.
He made an argument for judging people of all races
and backgrounds by their own individual merits.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The very evidence she this hack of a writer.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Shows that she lied about a dead man, and yet
she wrote it, an esteemed magazine published it, it made
it through the editors, and of course liberal billionaires rewarded
that attack.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Now, of course, even.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
If Charlie had uttered those words, it wouldn't mean that
he deserved his fate. But consider the level of propaganda
at work. Charlie was gunned down in broad daylight, and
well funded institutions of the left lied about what he
said so as to justify his murder. This is soulless
(04:39):
and evil. But I was struck not just by the
dishonesty of this smear, but by the glee over a
young husband's and young father's death.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Quote she says he.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist the Nation wrote,
who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there
was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
He had children, as do many vile.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
People, that's what they said. He had children, as do
many vile people. Now, hours before this smear was published,
my wife and I had the honor of escorting Charlie's
body back to his home in Arizona. We took his wife, Erica,
we love you, his parents, his sister, and a few
(05:32):
of his best friends with us. And as they offloaded
Charlie's casket from Air Force two, I worried that Erica
would collapse with grief. Now, I'm a very lucky husband
to a very wonderful wife, But I have never been
prouder of my wife at that moment, as she held
Erica in Erica's very darkest hour.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And I thought of Erica.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
As I read that disgusting attack on Charlie. He had children,
as do many vile people.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
That's what they said about him.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I said the Lord's prayer, our Father, who art in heaven,
how would be thy name, Thy Kingdom Come? Thy will
be done on earth as it is in heaven. And
I asked Yusha what Erica had said to her earlier
in the day in a private moment, and I asked
Erica's permission to share this. My wife told me she
(06:27):
asked me.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
For advice.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Erica asked me for advice on how she should tell
her children.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
That their father had been murdered.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
She asked my wife how to tell her beautiful kids
that their father and my very dear friend, is no
longer with us, And as she was doing it, there
were people dancing on that father's grave.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Now, I have heard many calls in the last few
days for.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Unity and for healing in the wake of Charlie's assassination.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You have no idea how desperately I want that.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
How gratified I was when Democratic friends and even former
Senate colleagues reached out to offer.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Their condolences to me.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I'm so thankful, and I know there are so many
like them all across our great country. I am desperate
to wrap my arms around them as we all unite
to condemn political violence and the ideas that cause it.
Psalm one thirty three tells us, Behold, how good and
how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
(07:41):
It is like the precious ointment upon the head whole.
How badly have I craved that precious ointment in recent days,
and I believe we can have it. But first, first,
we must tell the truth It's the only way to
honor Charlie for what was he if not a man
who told the truth in every place, in every environment. Now,
(08:05):
the most important truth Charlie told is this that long
ago a man begotten, not made, came down from heaven
and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,
and became a man for our sake. He was crucified
under ponscious pilot and suff death, and was buried and
(08:26):
rose again on the third day. Charlie believed, as I do,
that all the truth he told flowed from that fundamental principle.
I really do believe that we can come together in
this country. I believe we must. But unity, real unity
(08:49):
can be found only after climbing the mountain of truth,
and there are difficult truths we must confront in our country.
One truth is that twenty four percent.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Of self described quote very liberals believe it is acceptable
to be happy about the death of a political opponent,
while only three percent of self described very conservatives agree.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Three percent is too many, of course. Another truth is
that twenty six percent of young liberals believe political violence
is sometimes justified, and only seven percent of young conservatives
say the same. Again too high a number. In a
country of three hundred and thirty million people. You can
of course find one person of a given political persuasion
(09:37):
justifying this or that, or almost anything.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
But the data is clear.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
People on the left are much likelier to defend and
celebrate political violence. This is not a both sides problem.
If both sides have a problem, one.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Side has a much bigger and malignant problem.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And that is the truth.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
We must be told that problem has terrible consequences. The
leader of our party, Donald J. Trump, escaped an assassin's
bullet by less than an inch. Our House majority leavers,
Steven Scalise, came within seconds of death by an assassin himself,
(10:18):
now the most influential conservative activist in generations. Our friend
Charlie has been murdered. This violence, it doesn't come from nowhere.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Any political movement, violent or not violent, is a collection
of forces.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
It's like a pyramid that stacks on top one support
on top of the other. That pyramid's got a foundation
of donors, of activists, of journalists now, of social media influencers,
and of course of politicians. Not every member of that
pyramid would commit a murder. In fact, over ninety nine percent,
I'm sure would not. But by celebrating that murder, apologizing
(10:57):
for it, and emphasizing not Charlie's innate sense, but the
fact that he said things some didn't like, even to
the point of lying about what he actually said, many
of these people are creating an environment where things like
this are inevitably going to happen. A couple of months ago,
I head Land a fundraiser in southern Californian. Since you
(11:18):
know we'd be out there anyways, my wife and I
decided to take our kids to Disneyland one weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
We had fun, and.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
To be clear, most of the guests said very nice
things or they just left us alone. But there was
a loud and verybole minority that would shout at my children,
who were eight, five and three, whenever they got the opportunity.
You should disown your dad, you little shit, one middle
aged woman yelled at my five year old. Tell the
Secret Service to protect the Constitution, not your father, screamed another.
(11:48):
Are these women violent, probably not. Are they deranged, certainly?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
And while our.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Side of the aisle certainly has its crazies, it is
a statistical fact that most of the lunatics in America
and politics today, are proud members of the far left.
After Charlie died, one of his friends and one of
our senior White House staffers, had left leaning operatives in
his neighborhood, passing out leaflets telling people what he looked
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like and where he lived, encouraging neighbors to harass him
or God forbid, to do worse. While he was mourning
his dead friend, he and.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
His wife had to worry about the political terrorists drawing
a big target on the home he shares with his
young children.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Are these people violent? I hope not.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
But are they guilty of encouraging violence? You damn well
better believe it. We can thank God that most Democrats
don't share these attitudes, and I do while acknowledging that
something has gone very wrong with a lunatic fringe, a minority,
but a growing and powerful minority on the far left.
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There is no unity with people who scream at children
over their parents' politics. There is no unity with someone
who lies about what Charlie Kirk said in order to
excuse his murder.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
There is no.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Unity with someone who harasses an innocent family the day
after the father of that family lost a dear friend,
There is no unity with the people who celebrate Charlie
Kirk's assassination, And there is no unity with the people
who fund these articles, who pay the salaries of these
terrorist sympathizers, who argue that Charlie Kirk, a loving husband
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and father, deserved a shot to the neck because he
spoke words with which they disagree.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Did you know that the.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
George Soros Open Society Foundation and the Ford Foundation, the
groups who funded that disgusting article justifying Charlie's death? Do
you know they benefit from generous tax treatment. They are
literally subsidized by you and me, the American tax payer.
And how do they reward us by setting fire to
the house built by the American family over two hundred
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and fifty years. I am desperate for our country to
be united in condendation of the actions and the ideas
that killed my friend.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I want it so badly that I will tell you
a difficult truth.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
We can only have it with people who acknowledge that
political violence is unacceptable, and when we work to dismantle
the institutions that promote violence and terrorism in our own country,
now our government. You heard me talk to Stephen Miller
about this will be working very hard to do exactly
that in the months to come. We're not always going
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to get it right. We will sometimes move more slowly
than you would like. We will sometimes move more slowly
than I want us to. But I promise you that
we will explore every option to bring real unity to
our country and stop those who would kill their fellow
Americans because they don't like what they say.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
But you have a role too.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Civil society, Charlie understood this well, is not just something
that flows from the government. It flows from each and
every one of us. It flows from all of us.
So when you see someone celebrating Charlie's murder, call them
out in hell, call their employer. We don't believe in
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political violence, but we do believe in civility, and there
is no civility in the celebration of political assassination.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Get involved, Get involved, Get involved. It's the best way
to honor Charlie's legacy. Start a chapter of TPUSA, or
get involved in the one that already exists. If you're older,
volunteer for your local party, write an op ed in
your local paper, run for office. I can't promise you
this is going to be easy. I can't promise you.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
That all of us will avoid Charlie's fate. Can't promise
you that I will avoid Charlie's fate. But the way
to honor him is to shine the light of truth
like a torch in the very darkest places.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Go do it.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
We owe it to our friend to ensure that his
killer is not just prosecuted.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
But punished.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
And the worst punishment is not the death penalty, but
the knowledge that Charlie's mission continues after he's gone. Saint
Paul tells us in the Book of Ephesians to put
on the full armor of God.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Let all of us put on that armor and commit.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Ourselves to that cause for which Charlie gave his life,
to rebuild a United States of America, and to do
it by telling the truth.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
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