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Charlie Kirk
stated on December 8, 2024 in a post on X:

The 14th Amendment “has never been challenged at SCOTUS.”

By Madison Czopek • December 12, 2024
Charlie Kirk
stated on August 6, 2024 in a Threads post:

“During Covid, Tim Walz rationed access to monoclonal antibody treatments based on skin color.”

By Jeff Cercone • August 14, 2024
Charlie Kirk
stated on August 2, 2023 in a video:

Douglass Mackey was convicted “because he made a meme in the 2016 election.”

By Madison Czopek • August 9, 2023
Charlie Kirk
stated on June 1, 2023 in a post:

“Jamie Foxx left ‘paralyzed and blind’ from blood clot in his brain” after a COVID-19 vaccine injection.

By Gabrielle Settles • June 5, 2023
Charlie Kirk
stated on November 8, 2022 in a tweet:

“Maricopa County intentionally reduced the polling places.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • November 9, 2022
Charlie Kirk
stated on October 3, 2022 in a video:

For climate change environmentalists, “not a single one of their predictions ever come true.”

By Kristin Hugo • October 25, 2022
Charlie Kirk
stated on August 24, 2022 in a Tweet:

“Harvard is sitting on top of a $54 billion hedge fund they call an ‘endowment’ that they pay zero taxes on. Yale has $31 Billion. Stanford $29 Billion. Princeton $26 Billion.”

By Madison Czopek • August 31, 2022
Charlie Kirk
stated on May 23, 2022 in a tweet:

The World Economic Forum has its own police force.

By Monique Curet • June 2, 2022
Charlie Kirk
stated on August 16, 2021 in a radio show segment:

Joe Biden intentionally “let it fall apart” in Afghanistan because he “wants a couple hundred thousand more Ilhan Omars to come into America to change the body politic permanently.”

By Bill McCarthy • August 19, 2021
Charlie Kirk
stated on June 1, 2021 in a tweet:

Says Anthony Fauci will make millions off new book.

By Samantha Putterman • June 15, 2021
Charlie Kirk
stated on March 4, 2021 in a radio show segment:

H.R. 1 “would allow the Boston bomber to have a right to vote.”

By Bill McCarthy • March 5, 2021
Charlie Kirk
stated on January 26, 2021 in an Instagram post:

"Joe Biden admits he is governing like a 'dictator.'"

By Daniel Funke • January 28, 2021
Charlie Kirk
stated on April 3, 2020 in a tweet:

“The Chinese Communist Party is using Zoom as a way to spy on our citizens.”

By Bill McCarthy • April 7, 2020
Charlie Kirk
stated on February 24, 2020 in a tweet:

“Three Chinese nationals were apprehended trying to cross our Southern border illegally. Each had flu-like symptoms. Border Patrol quickly quarantined them and assessed any threat of coronavirus.”

By Madlin Mekelburg • February 28, 2020
Charlie Kirk
stated on February 4, 2020 in a tweet:

"Nancy Pelosi may have just committed a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2071, Section 2071 (a) when she ripped up President Trump’s State of the Union address. This violation is punishable by up to three years in prison.”

By Bill McCarthy • February 5, 2020
Charlie Kirk
stated on February 2, 2020 in a tweet:

Says "EIGHT Iowa counties have more adults registered to vote than voting-aged adults living there.”

By Daniel Funke • February 3, 2020
Charlie Kirk
stated on September 29, 2019 in a tweet:

"Barack Obama asked Ukraine to investigate his political rival's campaign manager, 3 Democrat senators asked Ukraine to investigate Trump, and the DNC solicited Ukraine's help to dig up dirt on Trump."

By Bill McCarthy • October 3, 2019