I’ve already told you and given the name of the site that was my source.
This time l’ll tell you again, giving an even broader sweep and l’ll paste it directly from the site (Wikipedia this time).
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False claims and conspiracy theories
According to Forbes, Kirk was known for “his repudiation of liberal college education and embrace of pro-Trump conspiracy theories”.[98] He promoted the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory,[99][100][101] and called universities “islands of totalitarianism”.[8] In a 2015 speech at the Liberty Forum of Silicon Valley, Kirk said he had applied for nomination to the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, and was not accepted.[20] 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.[8] In 2017 he told The New Yorker that he was being sarcastic when he said it.[8] In 2018 he told the Chicago Tribune that “he was just repeating something he’d been told”,[2][102] and in October 2019 at a New Hampshire Turning Point event featuring Rand Paul he claimed he never said it.[102]
Kirk promoted debunked claims about George Floyd, such as that he was “illegally counterfeiting currency” and had once “put a gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach”.[103] 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. After a fact check by Agence France-Presse 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.[104]
In July 2018, Kirk falsely claimed on social media that U.S. 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 explanation the next day, after a fact-checker had pointed out that the false 2018 number had originated on the conspiracy site 8chan.[105][106] In December 2018, Kirk falsely claimed that protesters in the French yellow vests movement chanted “We want Trump”. Trump later repeated these false claims.[107]
Ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Kirk spread falsehoods about voter fraud[108][109] and, immediately after Trump lost the 2020 election, Kirk promoted false and disproven claims of fraud in the election.[110][111] On November 5, 2020, he led a Stop the Steal protest at the Maricopa Tabulation Center in Phoenix.[112] Kirk was considered a “big name” social influencer in Rudy Giuliani’s communications plan to overturn the 2020 election.[113] In August 2025, Kirk called for the elimination of Jasmine Crockett’s congressional district as a part of the 2025 Texas redistricting, justifying the erasure of her district by claiming she was a part of an “attempt to eliminate the white population in this country”.[114]
COVID-19
In 2020, Kirk spread false information and conspiracy theories about COVID-19 on social media platforms, such as Twitter. He sharply criticized Democrats’ criticism of Trump’s withdrawal of WHO funding and called COVID-19 the “China virus”, which Trump retweeted.[82][117] 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”;[82] he alleged that Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan, threatened doctors who tried to use the medication.[82] Rudy Giuliani retweeted these falsehoods, and Twitter also suspended his account.[82][118]
In defending the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic, Kirk falsely stated that during the 2009 swine flu pandemic it “took President Barack Obama ‘millions infected and over 1,000 deaths’” to declare a public health emergency, with the meme shared by Kirk confusing the point at which Trump declared a public health emergency and the point at which Obama issued a national emergency.[119][120] When the Obama administration acknowledged the WHO’s declaration of a public health emergency on April 26, 2009, there were fewer than 280 cases of H1N1 infection reported in the U.S., and the first confirmed death (of a Mexican toddler on vacation) occurred the next day, April 27. The WHO projected 1,000,000+ U.S. cases on June 25, after declaring a pandemic on June 11. A spokesman for Turning Point USA acknowledged that its “social media team confused the two different types of emergency declarations”, and Trump had not yet issued a national emergency.[119][120]
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.[82] In 2020, he said he refused to abide by mask requirements because “the science around masks is very questionable”.[98][121]
In July 2021, Kirk promoted misleading claims about the efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccines.[29] On the Fox News show hosted by Tucker Carlson, Kirk called mandatory requirements for students to take the COVID-19 vaccine “medical apartheid”.[122] He called for parents to protest at school board meetings, urging them to push back against mask-wearing.[123]
Kirk was initially critical of the evangelical right, but he later reversed his position. In 2018, he told Dave Rubin, “We do have a separation of church and state, and we should support that.”[45] In 2019, 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.[45] In 2021, 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 seven areas of society: government, media, education, business, family, religion, and entertainment. Kirk later interviewed with the creator of the Seven Mountain concept.[45][124][125][126] Kirk frequently collaborated with Christian nationalist pastors and preachers, having them as guests on his shows as well as appearing as a speaker at their events,[127][126][128] with the Anti-Defamation League accusing Kirk of promoting Christian nationalism.[94]
In 2022, Kirk called the separation of church and state in the United States a “fabrication”.[45] In 2024, he 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. You cannot have liberty if you do not have a Christian population.”[129] Appearing at a Trump campaign rally in the same year, he said: “This is a Christian state. I’d like to see it stay that way.”[92] By 2024, Kirk’s shift to Christian nationalism exemplified its growing approval by the Republican Party under Trump.[69][45][126][130][70]
Kirk believed in the superiority of the Western world, credit for which he gave to the role of Christianity in civilization. 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.”[131]
Abortion
Kirk strongly opposed abortion. In a September 2024 debate hosted by Jubilee Media, Kirk argued that abortion is murder and should be illegal. He opposed exceptions for rape, including for children as young as 10.[132][133] Kirk compared abortion to the Holocaust, and said that abortion is worse.[134][117]
Gun rights and the Second Amendment
Kirk was a gun owner and gun rights advocate. He was opposed to gun control.[135] After the Parkland school shooting in February 2018, he spoke for the National Rifle Association in Parkland, Florida.[20][136] Kirk was invited by a student to a pro-gun event in the school where the shooting happened, but the event was canceled. He had said that guns, armed guards, and gun detectors could be used to prevent shootings in schools and campuses.[137][138] In an April 2023 TPUSA event in Salt Lake City, Utah, Kirk said: “I think it’s worth it, 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.”[139][140][141]
LGBTQ community
Kirk was relatively respectful regarding LGBTQ rights in 2018, but by 2022 had reversed his positions,[45] routinely making anti-LGBTQ remarks, opposing transgender rights and medical care, and asserted that there is an “LGBTQ agenda”.[142][143][45] Kirk claimed that being gay was an “error” and likened homosexuality to drug addiction.[144] He also believed monogamous heterosexual marriage should be a prerequisite for adoption.[145]
On June 8, 2024, in an episode of his podcast, he criticized YouTuber Ms. Rachel for a post that celebrated Pride Month by quoting the Bible verse “love thy neighbor”, arguing that she was being selective. Kirk told Ms. Rachel, “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’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.”[146][147][148]
Same-sex marriage
On November 22, 2019, Kirk said, “I believe marriage is one man, one woman”, but added that gay people should be allowed in the conservative movement.[149] In 2022, during an episode of The Charlie Kirk Show streamed on YouTube, Kirk criticized the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. He called LGBTQ activists the “alphabet mafia”, claiming that the movement is not “just about two dudes being able to get married”.[citation needed] Kirk called Obergefell a “national takeover of our laws” and argued that conservatives mistakenly thought the issue of same-sex marriage in the United States would end after the ruling, instead concluding that “…[gay people] are not happy just having marriage. Instead, they now want to corrupt your children”.[150]
Transgender community
In the op-ed “Sexual Anarchy” for The American Mind on October 14, 2021, Kirk said “the facts are that there are only two genders; that transgenderism and gender ‘fluidity’ are lies that hurt people and abuse kids.”[151] In early 2023, he 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”.[152]
In another 2023 speech, Kirk said, “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.”[142] In the same speech, he quoted a Bible verse, Deuteronomy 22:5, saying that a man wearing women’s clothes or a woman wearing men’s clothes is an “abomination”.[142] On April 1, 2024, Kirk called for Trump to propose a nationwide ban of gender-affirming care for transgender people.[153] That same day, he called for the imprisonment of doctors who perform gender-affirming care and demanded “Nuremberg-style” trials for them.[154] Kirk also actively promoted misinformation about violence by transgender people.[143]
In the moments before his assassination, he claimed there had been “too many” transgender mass shooters in the United States over the last 10 years,[155] despite statistical evidence that such shootings by transgender people are rare.[156]
Gender roles
Kirk promoted traditional gender roles, telling young women to go to college for the purpose of finding husbands and “embrace their roles as mothers and homemakers”.[157] In October 2021, he 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”.[158][159] Following social media backlash, he released a statement on the website of the Claremont Institute reiterating and expanding his remarks.[151] According to Media Matters for America, Kirk said at the TPUSA Young Women’s Leadership Summit 2022 Conference 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.”[160] Kirk had repeatedly criticized birth control, and once said that it creates “very angry and bitter young ladies and young women”.[161]
Race
White Americans
Kirk had voiced a belief in the decline and victimhood of White Americans, reflecting grievance politics.[162] In 2015, Kirk alleged that he had lost a slot to attend West Point to a candidate of “a different ethnicity and gender”.[20][8][11] In 2018, Kirk told a college audience that the concept of white privilege is a myth and a “racist idea”.[20][163] Assuming “more hard-right positions”, he told followers of his radio podcast in 2021 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 in America”.[76][164][165]
In 2023, Kirk said that “prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people” in urban America.[166] In 2024, he 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”,[166] and added, “The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white.”[166] Kirk further posted “The ‘Great Replacement’ is not a theory, it’s a reality”, alongside a Fox News headline that falsely claimed: “7.2M illegals entered the U.S. under Biden administration, an amount greater than population of 36 states.”[167]
African Americans
In 2016, Kirk said about TPUSA’s national director Crystal Clanton, “Turning Point needs more Crystals; so does America.”[8] In 2017, it was revealed that Clanton allegedly sent a text message in the past that read, “I hate black people. Like f— them all… I hate blacks. End of story.”[8] Kirk responded by having Clanton expelled from the organization.[8][168][169]
In 2018, Kirk and TPUSA’s communication director Candace Owens presented what the Southern Poverty Law Center described as “a symphony of racist dog-whistles […] pandering to the extreme right” at the 2018 Western Conservative Summit, with Kirk asserting that the increasing presence of African Americans in American politics resulted in the Black community being “worse off”.[170][171] Kirk cited single motherhood in Chicago’s Black community as a cause of gun violence, blaming the absence of a father from some Black households on “a broken culture problem”.[172][173]
Kirk praised Martin Luther King Jr. prior to December 2023, variously calling him a “hero” and a “civil rights icon”. That December, 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”.[174] 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”.[175] Kirk thought the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a destructive force in American politics that had been turned into an anti-white weapon.[176][177] 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.”[61]
Kirk was a critic of schools and local governments teaching about racism.[178] He wrote in a 2021 Fox News article that “directly confronting the left, and promising to fight their illiberal ideology with state power when necessary, is the key to winning everyday Americans”.[179] He served on Trump’s 1776 Commission to advance “patriotic education”, which was set up in response to the 1619 Project.[180] 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!”[181][182] He also opposed Juneteenth (a day which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S.) being declared a federal holiday, describing it as “anti-American” for promoting “a neo-segregationist view” that he alleged sought to supplant Independence Day.[183]
On July 11, 2023, 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 recipient of affirmative action, particularly in higher education. I may have been admitted on affirmative action, both in terms of being a woman and a woman of color, but I can declare that I did not graduate on affirmative action.” Kirk reacted to this on his podcast on July 13, 2023, by stating, “If we would have said three weeks ago […] that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative-action picks, we would have been called racist. But now they’re comin’ out and they’re saying it for us!” He continued, “You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.”[184][185]
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 of 1965, 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.[186] 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.’”[187][188][189]
NBC News 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.[54] Kirk called Jackson a “recipient of affirmative action” and said she was nominated for the Supreme Court because of her race.[190] Kirk blamed the high death toll of the July 2025 Central Texas floods on DEI.[191] On September 9, 2025, 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”,[192] saying “White individuals are actually more likely to be attacked, especially even per capita, by Black individuals in this country.”[93]
Indians
Kirk was vocal about his disapproval of immigration of Indians, particularly non-Christian Indians, into the U.S. These positions stemmed from views on economic competition and religious pluralism. On the topic of the former, Kirk stated that “America does not need more visas for people from India”, arguing that the American workforce has become dominated by Indian-American immigrants, effectively decreasing job opportunities for Americans.[193] On the topic of the latter, Kirk commented on how race is less important to culture than religion is, stating that America would still be America if it were ethnically 90% Indian, as long as they were Christian Indians.[194]
Kirk elaborated on Hinduism and his disapproval of its morality due to its polytheism, stating: “When you have multiple gods, you get different moralities. And the West has largely embraced the idea that there is a standard of conduct, or a best way to live.”[195] Furthermore, in reply to an inquiry about how that claim was not inclusive of other religious worldviews, he responded: “I don’t seek to be inclusive, I seek what his best. And the Ten Commandments are what is best. Would it be offensive to a young Hindu kid? Maybe, maybe not. But it also is a reminder they’re living in a country that’s a monotheistic country.”[195]
Native Americans
Kirk was critical of Federal Indian Policy. He argued for the abolition of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, tweeting that it is “the most mismanaged & inefficient government agency”, highlighting that Native Americans are “the most impoverished American demographic despite receiving the most government benefits”.[196] He also mentioned alcoholism on reservations, and said that Native Americans had become dependent on government benefits.[197][198]
Government of Israel
Kirk was highly supportive of Israel.[208] During a 2019 visit to Jerusalem, he told an audience “I’m very pro-Israel … and my whole life I have defended Israel”.[94] In August 2025, he said “I have a bulletproof resumé showing my defense of Israel … I believe in the scriptural land rights given to Israel. I believe in fulfilment of prophecy”, and added that he would “fight for” Israel.[115]
In September 2025, conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson claimed that Kirk loved Israel, but disliked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and was “appalled by what was happening in Gaza”, and most of all he disliked that Netanyahu was using the United States to wage wars on Israel’s behalf.[209][a]
In December 2025, The Jerusalem Post reported that Kirk had sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning that the country was “losing the information war” among young Americans. According to the report, he argued that reliance on American pro-Israel advocates was insufficient and that pro-Palestinian narratives were being spread. Kirk urged Israel to develop a direct, independent voice to communicate its perspective.[citation needed] Elements of his recommendations were subsequently considered in Israel’s adoption of new messaging reforms, including multilingual digital content and the use of personal testimonies to reach international audiences.[211]
Several Israeli government ministers, politicians, and political activists mourned Kirk’s death, with many describing him as a “friend of Israel” and a few linking his killing to anti-Zionists.[203] Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar described Kirk as a representative of “the Judeo-Christian values that unite Israel and America” and as a “fearless warrior for truth and freedom”.[95] Netanyahu said he had invited Kirk to Israel prior to Kirk’s death, while Morton Klein said Kirk had recently accepted an invitation to speak at the Zionist Organization of America’s national gala.[94]
Islam
In 2018, Kirk was a speaker for the annual conference held by the anti-Muslim advocacy group ACT for America in Washington DC.[212]
In 2025, Kirk wrote on Twitter that “Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.”[95] 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.[213] 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.”[214]
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