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Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio. President Trump is the anti abstraction president. The data is in from DC and wait till you hear the crime statistics. We also have Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the Law. And then we have Nate Morris, who is working to fill McConnell's open Senate seat. Email us as always, freedomarliekirk.com and subscribe to our podcast, that is the Charlie Kirk show podcast page and become a member today. Members.charliekirk.com that is members.charliekirk. com Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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I want you to know we are.
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Lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
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I want to thank Charlie.
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He's an incredible guy.
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His spirit, his love of this country.
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He's done an amazing job building one.
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Of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point usa.
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We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives. And we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. We are seeing in real time the emergence of a different type of presidency. There's ways to describe the Trump presidency that are conventional. Oh, he's a disruptor. He's different. He's taking on all these different projects. What have I told you, though? One of the reasons why he is succeeding is that he is an anti abstraction president. President Trump always feels like the luckiest man in the world. How many times have you heard that now on July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania, turning his head to the right at that specific moment. Hard to disagree. Even six years ago, people were making memes about how often the press said the walls are closing on Donald Trump. And since then, the walls have been closing a lot more. But how many times has it looked all over for Trump, whether his business empire being taken away from him, the January 6th hit job, the literally being shot on July 13th, the guy has dodged a bullet multiple, multiple times. He survived indictments in New York, in Georgia, In Florida and D.C. remarkable fortitude, the likes of which that we have not seen in American politics. The Russiagate conspiracy that tried to destroy him, he beat that, too. He overcome all of that. And just today, breaking out of New York, he survived. Letitia James is a attempt to bankrupt him with one of the flimsiest fraud cases in memory today in New York. Appeals court has thrown out a $465 million verdict in that case. $465 million verdict to give You a reminder of how bad that case was. Most of the time, accusing somebody of fraud requires you that somebody be defrauded. But New York decided, nope, not needed. Even though all of Trump's lenders came out and said, yes, he's paid on time, he's a great client. They accused him of fraud for inflating the value of his assets. And by the way, if you go to Mar A Lago, they said, oh, yeah, Mar A Lago is worth $15 million. Mar a Lago is probably worth $900 million minimum. It was so bad that after it happened, Wall street panicked. They said, wait, how can we keep affording to keep operating in New York if they do this? I remember I met somebody in Scottsdale from New York, built a huge financial business. He said, charlie, I sold all my stuff in New York after Trump had that guilty verdict. And I moved to Scottsdale because I was afraid that if they could go after Trump this way, the Soviet Union style tactics will soon come after me. It was a political hit job from start to finish, and now it's failed. Now this actually gets back to one of Donald Trump's greatest strengths. And I want to really zero in on this. Think about how many people hate Trump. Think about how badly they've wanted to destroy him for so long and how far they're willing to do it. And yet nothing they've done has ever been able to stick. Why? Because President Trump, in the best possible way, is a simple person. He follows the basic rules he's followed all life. Just like he doesn't drink or smoke. Trump doesn't break any laws. Why would he do that? That's how they take you out. Trump is aggressive, he understands where the rules are and he goes right up to the maximum place in the betterment for America, as any businessman would, by the way, if it's something like politics or media, he breaks all the rules, but he doesn't actually ever break the law. And that is very important. He's a simple guy like that. And in a city of actual criminals, that short circuits people's brains. He's surrounded by actual criminals and he does not break the law. Now, how does this all relate to the even bigger story today, President Trump's big push to take control over Washington, D.C. well, everybody, it is working. This should be the number one news story in the country. And for Democrats in Chicago, Democrats in Philadelphia, Democrats in San Francisco, Democrats in Portland and Seattle, New York, the crime that you are experiencing in your city is because you are choosing to have that crime we said a week ago that this would be a crucial test. You could deploy troops to Washington, D.C. you could put tanks on the street and make a big show of law and order. But it has to work. You actually have to bring crime down. And now today, we have this. For the first time in ages, D.C. has gone seven straight days without a murder in August. This is killing season. This is where the blood flows through the streets. As Enoch Powell would say in the United Kingdom. This is killing season. This is where gangs are settling scores and those teenage youths are going out for the first time in ages. Carjackings are down 83%. Robbery is down 46%. All violent crime is down 22%. In one week, President Donald Trump has reversed the America's most dangerous city, our nation's capital, into a far more pleasant place. This is empirical data. So for all of the chattering, clamoring left wingers out there, can you start to apologize? Can you start to have some contrition? This is now a test case. And for Brandon Johnson and for Karen Bass, this shows that you could solve this, but you want the killing. There is no other explanation. How did this happen? What's the power of President Trump being so straightforward? He's executing rules that are a lot older than the present day conventional wisdom of D.C. and part of this is also psychological warfare. We're gonna bring in the tanks, we're gonna bring in the Marines. People mocked me when I said that last week, but I knew what I was saying. Why would I say something like that? Because criminals hate a bigger gun. That's all they understand. All criminals understand is force. They don't want social workers, they don't want some sort of conversation in the corner. They don't want to be persuaded. All they understand is, whoa, there's a tank in the street. Maybe I shouldn't go kill somebody. Criminals have very short term thinking they're criminals. Let's play cut444 with the guard on the ground. Crime is on the decline. For the first time in a long time. D.C. has gone seven days without a homicide. And that's not all. Carjackings are down 83%, robberies are down 46%, car thefts down 21%. And overall violent crime is down 22%. By the way, we're going to play this piece of tape multiple times throughout the hour just to make sure that this is. This is implanted into the American zeitgeist. People who don't feel safe are not free. If you're not able to walk the streets of your great American cities. Like walk the streets of Chicago, walk the streets of New York. And so for all the Democrats out there, what is your response? You have ruined America's greatest cities and President Trump, it is working. This is real, empirical data. And the one that matters most is no murders in one week. No murders in one week. Before Trump took over, they were averaging two or three murders a night. That is 20 murders a week. And it's working. And we need to keep it up. And now we need to scale it to other cities. This will help tourism, this will help morale in the nation's capital. This will allow us to clean up the open air slum that Washington D.C. has become. President Donald Trump decided to do a bold and ballsy maneuver and that is to take over D.C. now Congress is going to have to extend his authorities here coming up. And they better. What are the Democrats going to say? Oh, this is a racist takeover. I'm sorry, who's actually not being murdered right now, so less black people are being murdered and you're going to say, this is a racist takeover. And guess what? We all win as Americans if our cities, especially our nation's capital, are not complete radical hell holes. The brilliance, what President Trump did here is that it was a test case. It very well could have been a swing and a miss. It could have been a failure. Crime could have gone up, by the way. We could have saw the gangs resist this. But deep down, we knew what we Learned when George H.W. bush did one of the most important things in his presidency, I believe in 1991, when he signed the Insurrection act after the Rodney King riots. And I remember I talked to somebody that was there. They said, charlie, all these gang bangers, they were firing pistols up in the sky. They were burning police cars. This was after the Rodney King riots. It enveloped the countries before I was alive. They said as soon as those tanks moved in their neighborhoods, we did one sweep. They all disappeared. They're all tough guys until the Marines show up. Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here, a close friend of mine just saved tens of thousands of dollars on his Medicare. And I want you to know how Medicare enrollment is a maze of misinformation. And it's no accident. The more confused you are, the easier it is for big insurance to steer you into overpriced plans that make them more money. Trump's Department of Justice sued three of the biggest brokers in America for allegedly doing just that. Fortunately, there is a way to fight back. I trust Chapter they're honest and they're independent Chapter's licensed advisors. Search every single Medicare option to find what is best for you. My friend made one simple 30 minute phone call and now he's saving tens of thousands going forward and is fully covered. The call is 100% free. No pressure, just real honest help. People are relieved when they speak with Chapter. I trust Chapter. They're honest and they're independent. So if you're turning 65 or already on Medicare, go call Chapter today, dial pound 250 and say Charlie to speak with a trusted Medicare advisor. That's £250 and say Charlie it could save you thousands. Ayn Rand was wrong on a lot of stuff, especially metaphysics. But she was. She was probably the most talented anti Marxist understanding the liberal mind author of the 20th century. I would put her up against anybody. Ayn Rand said this Leftists do not they do not want to own your fortune. They want you to lose it. They do not want you to succeed, they want you to fail. They do not want to live. They want you to die. They desire nothing. The left hates existence and they keep running, each trying not to learn that the object of his hatred is himself. They are the essence of evil. She wrote about the left. They those anti living objects who seek by devouring the world to fill the selfless zero of their soul. It is not your wealth that they're after. Theirs is a conspiracy against the mind, which again means against life and man. That is well said Ms. Rand. Well said. This is liberals in a nutshell. That explains Magione, that explains Mamdani. They side with criminals. They side with parasites. A large chunk of the left is really strongly driven by resentment and this inherently makes them against solving problems. Why would the left bring down crime rates? They side with criminals all the time. They want more criminals out of jail. They want fewer criminals arrested. Not because they think this will help America, but because they know it will make it worse. They are a parasitic force on the United States of America and this DC thing is a perfect test case. I cannot tell you. This D.C. thing now allows us to deal in reality not a murder for seven days that is unheard of in Washington D.C. in the month of killing of August. There is this nihilistic drive that is the life force of the left. Now we have a control case and now we have a template. President Donald Trump is the anti abstraction President President Donald Trump did not need another think tank from some nonprofit on K Street. By the way you drive in D.C. there's all these, you know, hundred million dollar Buildings of this institute and this foundation, some of them are plenty nice people. President Donald Trump did not need another. Sir, here's a 55 page white paper on how you might. He said, I don't know. This is a waste of time running this, rolling the tanks. We don't need a white paper. We need Marines. We need bombs in fordeaux. We need B2 bombers flying over Putin's head. We need John Deere tractors, hard business numbers, criminal in cages and illegals getting tackled in the streets. You see, Russell Kirk wrote about this. One of my favorite authors, no relation, he wrote about this. In the conservative mind. Russell Kirk wrote, politics is the art of the possible, not the pursuit of utopia. Russell Kirk taught us that where the conservative movement went wrong is they spent too much time in the clouds. And, boy, is that true. If you listen to the D.C. conservative political elite, they're constantly talking about abstractions. I can talk about abstractions all the time. I think it's fun at times to talk about the Platonic ideal. We just Spent Times with Dr. James Orr. And this is the problem at its core of libertarianism is you get so consumed in the archetype and the ideal that you do not understand, hey, but you have thought one thought too many. It's a great philosopher who said that sometimes you could be a victim of going, one thought too many. And then Trump's combined with action, with praxis, which is the ancient Greek word for practice. And that is where Republicans are kind of. I don't quite understand this because they have been raised in a tradition, they have been raised in a culture. They have been raised in a conservative movement that is so overwhelmingly committed to the abstract and the distant, while they ignore the immediate and the action oriented. The D.C. machinery cares about NATO. President Donald Trump's like, I care about D.C. yeah, NATO's fine, but why don't Europe fund NATO and we fix D.C. trump is the anti ideologue. President Trump was not a conservative philosopher. He was the first president to live like a real person, suspicious of abstractions and loyal to reality. He did not bow to these idols of the global order, expert consensus or institutional prestige. He asked the Kirkian question, not the Charlie Kerr question. The Russell Kirkian question. Does this serve the American people or is it just a theory? Let me repeat it. Every single time President Donald Trump makes a decision, he says, is this a theory developed by some think tank guy from Yale or does this actually improve the and better the American republic? Russell Kirk famously said, ideology is just politics gone mad. And Trump said, Enough with the madness. And we see it now on full display for all the people that have had their cars jacked for all the murders in D.C. you can now know Muriel Bowser, they were choosing to allow it to happen. If you live in a major US City and it's dirty and it's crime infested, it's because your leaders are choosing for that to happen. Crime is a choice. Look at El Salvador. And now it's time for us to scale it to all of America's greatest cities. We have a control case of a week. Let's spread it out to a month and then let's turn America's cities into the safest in the Western hemisphere. And I don't care if the Democrats object. Ingredients. 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Go to balance in nature.com use discount code charlie to order online at balanceofnature.com, use discount code charlie to get 35% off plus a free bottle of fiber and spice. Joining us now is a great friend, Alex Marlowe, author of Breaking the Law. President Trump says it's a must read. Alex, welcome to the program. We love to have you on. At least once a week, everyone should purchase the book Breaking the Law. Alex, I want to get to the New York civil judgment because it connects to your book. But first I want to get your analysis of what's happening in D.C. alex, how rare and unusual is it in the month of August to have a whole week without a single murder in D.C. you lived in D.C. you built a wonderful company in D.C. breitbart News, seeing carjackings down, we're seeing crime. This is empirical, verifiable, third party controlled data. Alex Marlowe, your thoughts?