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Charlie Kirk
Charles James Kirk was an American right-wing political activist, entrepreneur, and media personality. He co‑founded the conservative student organization Turning Point USA (TPUSA) in 2012 and served as its executive director until his assassination in 2025. A key ally of Donald Trump, he became one of the most prominent voices of the MAGA movement within the Republican Party, publishing several b…
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business · American political activist (1993–2025) · conspiracy theorist · political activist · writer · political pundit · podcaster · apologist · presenter · activist · chief executive officer · also Charlie Kirk, Charles Kirk, Charles J. Kirk, Charles James Kirk, Kirk
Born 14 October 1993 · Died 10 September 2025 · Q30121972
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2026· 29 entries
“I don’t think you should introduce yourself just based on your sexuality because that’s not who you are.”
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“play certain games, win certain prizes.”
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“s argument that there was scientific confirmation for intelligent design, contrary to Darwin. Kirk elaborated on Hinduism and his disapproval of its morality due to its polytheism, stating:”
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“bringing force upon themselves”
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“America does not need more visas for people from India”
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“I take the Caldwellian view, from his book The Age of Entitlement, that we went through a new founding in the”
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“found the sacred cow of modern America”
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“you might want to crack open that Bible of yours, in a lesser reference — part of the same part of scripture is in Leviticus 18, is that thou shall lay with another man shall be stoned to death. Just saying. So, Ms. Rachel, you quote Leviticus 19, love your neighbor as yourself. The chapter before affirms God”
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“buses of patriots to D.C. to fight for this president”
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“getting 500 emails a minute calling for a civil war”
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Published video “Surrogate Defies California Couple and Fights to Save Baby”.
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Published video “What Charlie Kirk Understood About Churchill That Everyone Forgets”.
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Published video “Royce "Roysha" White Just Exposed the WNBA's Biggest Problem”.
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Published video “The Left-Wing Covid Reckoning IS HERE”.
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Published video “Tyler Robinson's Defense Isn't Even Arguing He Didn't Kill Charlie Kirk”.
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Published video “This Froyo Shop Refused to Back Down on Charlie Kirk and It Paid Off Big”.
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Published video “The Secret Air Force One Switch They Didn't Want You to Notice”.
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Published video “The Easiest Way You Can Help Persecuted Christians Around the World”.
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Published video “AOC Puts Her Career Before Her Family”.
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Published video “Socialism is Like Giving C's to both A and F Students”.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “A real picture on a McDonald's job recruiting tray liner shows Charlie Kirk or a person who looks like him.” Altered Image.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Balogun AND Charlie Kirk AND shirt AND World Cup” Made-Up Story.
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Snopes rated the claim “An image from April 2026 authentically shows that Disney is planning a movie titled "Charlie Kirk" for either 2026 or early 2027.” Labeled Satire.
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Snopes rated the claim “Attorneys for Tyler Robinson, the suspect in Charlie Kirk's fatal shooting, said in a court filing that a report indicated the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives "was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr. Robinson."” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “In February 2026, a banner with the portrait of Turning Point USA co-founder and conservative commentator Charlie Kirk appeared on the building of the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C.” True.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Turning Point USA CEO and cofounder Charlie Kirk once said: “The 2nd amendment is not for hunting, it is not for self protection. It is there to ensure that free people can defend themselves if god forbid government became tyrannical and turned against its citizens.”” Correct Attribution.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “An image shows Renee Good mocking Charlie Kirk after his assassination” Altered picture.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “An image authentically shows Minneapolis ICE shooting victim Renee Nicole Good mocking the 2025 assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.” Fake.
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2025· 16 entries
AAP rated the claim “Charlie Kirk's killer has collapsed in court after receiving the death penalty.” False. The story is fake and the images are AI-generated..
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Snopes rated the claim “Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, said she would get less hate if she had touched U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s backside, in response to a question about the outrage around their hug.” True.
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Snopes rated the claim “U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, demanded a federal investigation into Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk for allegedly receiving a $350,000 transfer prior to the death of her husband, Charlie Kirk.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “In the fall of 2025, authorities arrested a man in Tennessee after he posted a meme deriding U.S. President Donald Trump following the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.” True.
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Died 2025-09-10.
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Kirk was fatally shot by a rooftop sniper while speaking at a TPUSA debate event at Utah Valley University
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While speaking about the killing of Iryna Zarutska, Kirk accused Democrats of spreading a "false narrative" that "that there is a relentless assault against Black people on behalf of white people", tweeting "White indivi
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom (2025).
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"I would say, sadly, if we took Taiwan, it would probably start a nuclear war
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Career landmark: memorial service of Charlie Kirk.
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“Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.”
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TPUSA said it had chapters at more than 2,000 college and high school campuses, and that it had received 32,000 inquiries about starting new chapters in the days after Kirk's death
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Kirk wrote on Twitter that "Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America
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Career landmark: assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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“I would say, sadly, if we took Taiwan, it would probably start a nuclear war. Our leaders have largely mishandled China. We probably should have taken [Taiwan] in 1950 right after World War II.”
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Career landmark: funeral of Charlie Kirk.
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2024· 3 entries
In an episode of his podcast, he criticized YouTuber Ms
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Said, "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
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Said, "The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different", and added, "The American Democrat party h
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2023· 9 entries
By stating, "If we would have said three weeks ago [
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After the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that colleges can no longer employ affirmative-action practices in admissions, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee stated on the House floor, "I rise today as a clear reci
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“One issue I think that is so against our senses, so against the natural law and, dare I say, a throbbing middle finger to God, is the transgender thing happening in America right now.”
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“Jewish donors have been the number 1 funding mechanism of radical, open border, neoliberal, quasi‑Marxist policies ... This is a beast created by secular Jews, and now it”
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Kirk called for the imprisonment or the death penalty of Joe Biden for "crimes against America"
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Kirk said that "prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people" in urban America
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“prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people”
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Kirk called for Mehdi Hasan to be deported and deplatformed over his views on the COVID-19 pandemic, calling him a "neurotic lunatic" and saying, "Send him back to the country he came from
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Kirk promoted a conspiracy theory alleging the Israeli government knew that Hamas was going to launch the attack, and that Benjamin Netanyahu allowed it to go ahead as part of a plan to remain in power
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2022· 7 entries
Turning Point partnered with Dream City Christian School, a private school that has campuses in Glendale and Scottsdale, Arizona, and is affiliated with Dream City Church
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Journalist Bari Weiss released a report of internal Twitter documents dubbed "The Twitter Files", which alleged that Twitter was censoring conservative personalities on the social media platform
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“s Leadership Summit 2022 Conference that the”
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Kirk called the separation of church and state in the United States a "fabrication"
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“the southern border matters a lot more than the Ukrainian border”
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During an episode of The Charlie Kirk Show streamed on YouTube, Kirk criticized the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v
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Kirk warned that climate activism would erode American sovereignty and private property, describing it as a Trojan Horse for Marxism and likening it to "pseudo-paganism"
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2021· 10 entries
Kirk said "the facts are that there are only two genders; that transgenderism and gender 'fluidity' are lies that hurt people and abuse kids
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A Turning Point USA video featuring Kirk and Candace Owens claimed there is "no factual data to back up global warming" and that scientists do not know the cause; Science Feedback rated the claims inaccurate
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Kirk and Pentecostal pastor Rob McCoy founded Turning Point Faith, an organization that encouraged pastors and other church leaders to be active in local and national political issues
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That Democratic immigration policies were aimed at "diminishing and decreasing white demographics in America" and called for Texas to "deputize a citizen force and put them on the border" to protect "white demographics i
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The university renamed the organization to the Standing for Freedom Center
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TPUSA announced it would launch an online academy as an alternative to schools "poisoning our youth with anti-American ideas"
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Kirk partnered with California pastor Rob McCoy to launch TPUSA Faith to mobilize conservative Christians to vote Republican
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Kirk told a congregation, "The Bible says very clearly to 'Occupy until I come'", a verse often cited by followers of the Seven Mountain Mandate to assert that before Jesus returns evangelical Christians must dominate se
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“the facts are that there are only two genders; that transgenderism and gender”
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“The Bible says very clearly to”
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2020· 8 entries
Led a Stop the Steal protest at the Maricopa Tabulation Center in Phoenix
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Kirk released his book The MAGA Doctrine, a manifesto for the Make America Great Again movement, in which he wrote that the Republican Party is "in some sense no longer a conservative party, no longer the party of Reagan
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And the white genocide conspiracy theory
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ProPublica investigated TPUSA's finances and found that the organization made "misleading financial claims" and that its audits were not done by an independent auditor
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The Falkirk Center spent at least $50,000 on Facebook advertisements promoting Trump and Republican candidates
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Kirk spread false information and conspiracy theories about COVID-19 on social media
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Said he refused to abide by mask requirements because "the science around masks is very questionable"
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“Democrats have done a really foolish thing by shutting down all these campuses ... It”
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2019· 4 entries
Kirk said, "I believe marriage is one man, one woman", but added that gay people should be allowed in the conservative movement
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“I believe marriage is one man, one woman”
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The Professor Watchlist was briefly suspended by its web host
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Kirk met Rob McCoy, a pastor of a megachurch in Ventura County, California, who convinced him that America's founding documents were derived from the Bible
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2018· 6 entries
Awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 (2018).
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Kirk was a speaker for the annual conference held by the anti-Muslim advocacy group ACT for America in Washington DC
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Kirk and TPUSA's communication director Candace Owens presented what the Southern Poverty Law Center described as "a symphony of racist dog-whistles
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Told Dave Rubin, "We do have a separation of church and state, and we should support that
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Told the Chicago Tribune that "he was just repeating something he'd been told", and in October 2019 at a New Hampshire Turning Point event featuring Rand Paul he claimed he never said it
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Kirk told a college audience that the concept of white privilege is a myth and a "racist idea"
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2017· 2 entries
Kirk admitted that TPUSA had accepted funding from the fossil fuel industry
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Told The New Yorker that he was being sarcastic when he said it
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2015· 1 entry
Kirk enrolled part-time at King's College in New York City, taking online classes
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2014· 1 entry
Studied at Harper College (2013–2014).
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2012· 4 entries
Kirk applied to West Point but was rejected
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And served as its executive director until his assassination in 2025
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Studied at Wheeling High School (2008–2012).
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Career landmark: chief executive officer of Turning Point USA (2012–2025).
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2010· 1 entry
During his junior year at Wheeling High School, Kirk volunteered for the successful U
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2009· 1 entry
There were fewer than 280 cases of H1N1 infection reported in the U
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1993· 3 entries
Born 1993-10-14.
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In the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Illinois, to Robert Willard Kirk and Kathryn Smith Kirk (née Smith), and raised in the nearby city of Prospect Heights
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“. Newsweek. ISSN 0028-9604. Das Biswas, Shuvrajit (2025-09-10) .”
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