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Thank you for listening to this Podcast 1 production now available on Apple Podcasts, Podcast 1, Spotify and anywhere else you get your podcasts. Chicago is on fire. We talk about my original hometown and what is happening to a once beautiful city that has been taken over by terrorists. Please consider supporting our program. I first want to say thank you to those of you that support our program@charliekirk.com support if it's $10, $50, $100, whatever it is. Thank you guys so much for getting behind us and for helping us out@charliekirk.com support charliekirk.com support email us your questions freedom charliekirk.com and type in Charlie Kirk show to your podcast provider. Hit subscribe and actually you'll hear at the end of this episode if you want to win a MAGA doctrine. However, if you want to get a signed copy of Donald Trump Jr's new book for the first 15 people that type in Charlie Kirk show to your podcast provider, subscribe it and email it to us and get a friend to do the same. Then I'll send you a copy of Don's new book which comes out very soon. That's right. New offer right here. If you can prove you're subscribed, type in Charlie Kirk show hit subscribe and email it to us. Give us a five star review. We take on Chicago. Lori Lightfoot, Joe Biden and all the Democrats. Buckle up. Here we we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point usa. 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. Terror in Chicago. Chicago is burning again. I woke up pretty early on Monday morning and I started to watch footage of what was happening the night prior in my original hometown, Chicago. I'm originally from the suburbs of Chicago. I went to Wheeling High School and I love the city. I love everything about Chicago. I love the people, I love the history. At least at one point, I loved everything about Chicago. It's really hard for me to be proud of this city anymore. I'm a huge Cubs fan. I'm a huge Bears fan. I think that the hardest working people in the country are from Chicago. I really believe that, I've always said it, that Chicago has a unique and special work ethic, a Midwestern work ethic. We're going to be talking about this at length during this episode. It is easier for you to just go look at the video footage yourself. This is from Fox News. Widespread looting in Chicago. Caught on video after police involved shooting. I encourage you to go look at the footage. I encourage you to go look at the footage of what has just been happening in Chicago. Hundreds of people were seen looting stores such as Nordstrom, Walgreens and Macy's. I was getting text messages from friends in Chicago that were completely apolitical. Some of them had completely woken up. They said, charlie, I've been listening to some of your podcasts. You've been warning about the crime spree. What happens if we do not stand up against it? And now it's in the best neighborhood of Chicago, Streeterville. What do we do? I said, well, stop electing Democrats. That'd be a good start. And there are a lot of people that are very afraid. I also got texts from people that said, charlie, this crime spree is out of control. This is all Trump's fault. Just so you know, I've got plenty of messages like that of people that are blaming President Donald Trump for the crime spree of criminals and thugs and gang bangers. Somehow that's President Donald Trump's fault. I really believe America is the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world. And I want to continue to believe that. And if people continually vote these people into office, I don't know what I'm gonna think anymore. This is from the article. Videos circulating online show widespread looting and clashes with police across Chicago's Magnificent Mile shopping district early Monday, sparked by an officer involved shooting hours earlier that left a 20 year old man wounded. 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And again, I really encourage you to look at this footage yourself. You're gonna see this and you're gonna say, this is not America. This is something out of Nicaragua or Southeast Asia or something that looks like a revolution. This is not America. So what started all of this insanity? Well, Attorney General Bill Barr referred to it as urban guerrilla warfare. Now, some people are calling that racist. Well, they don't know what the term guerrilla means. And if you all of a sudden hear gorilla and you think it is racist, then you're actually the racist. Because guerrilla means underground. It doesn't mean an animal. It's not trying to make any sort of racial implications. That is a lazy and sloppy analysis. The violence and the rioting began Sunday afternoon after police responded to a report of a man with a gun in the city's Englewood neighborhood. Police pursued the suspect, who was on foot when he turned, quote, and turned and fired shots at officers before being struck himself and taken to a local hospital. Deputy Chief of Police Delanda Talley told Fox 32 Chicago. To make a situation even worse, a crowd which had Gathered at the scene, started throwing objects at officers like concrete, bricks and blocks. Why? Over a false rumor that the Suspect, who was 20 years old, who is actually. Was actually a young child. He's 20 years old and he shoots at police. He should be in prison. The suspect had previously been arrested four times for charges including burglary, child endangerment, and domestic battery. Seems like a real winner for society. Listen, we never celebrate when a life is lost. But from all indications, this was a justified shooting. So the same rumors that agitated the crowd surrounding the scene of the shooting started spreading online. These false rumors were quickly spread on social media, followed by calls for looting and rioting. And then, overnight, Chicago burned. This is terrorism. This is insurrection. This is not time to play nice or to say, oh, they had to get their feelings out. This is no different than if Al Qaeda came into our country and started to burn storefronts and to shoot police officers. It is no difference. The only difference is that these people happen to be citizens of the United States. They need to be arrested. They need to be tried and put in prison for the rest of their life. There's going to be a zero tolerance policy at all whatsoever. And if a police officer is threatened in any way, shape, or form, they should be able to defend themselves. I know people in Chicago, including many people I'm very close to that were texting me about this, and they said, the country is out of control. It's spiraling out of control. I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. I know the city. We would visit there once a week. I know the streets that have just turned into absolute bedlam. And for those of you that have never been to Chicago or you've only visited once or twice, you might say, oh, what is the difference? Chicago has always been a city where controversies and riots have happened. But it's Chicago's ability to be able to overcome that, despite all the institutional political corruption, that made Chicago a safe place to live, generally in certain parts, despite the gang neighborhoods like Englewood. But that's not where this happened. You have to understand where the looting and the rioting and the arson was happening. It would be as if the rioters went straight into Beverly Hills, which they have in recent weeks, or the rioters went straight into Madison Avenue. This was in streeterville in Chicago, One of the nicest parts of one of the greatest once great cities in the world. Police arrested over 100 people so far on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to battery against police. However, the district attorney for Chicago, Kim Fox, who is Another incredibly dangerous person. She's letting first degree murderers out on cash bail. And we're all surprised all of a sudden that crime is running the streets in Chicago. Thirteen officers were injured or hurt in the rioting. This includes a sergeant who was struck in the face with a bottle, another officer who had his nose broken from looters who assaulted him and a security guard and a civilian who, who are now in critical condition after being hit with gunfire during looting overnight. Five guns in total have been recovered from those arrested. The Chicago Police Superintendent, David Brown said, quote, this was an incident of peer criminality. This was an act of violence against our police officers and against our city. I for one, refuse to allow these cowardly acts to hold our city hostage. CPD will not stand by as our beautiful downtown becomes some place that people fear. He's a total loser, this guy David Brown. Okay, I've had enough of these guys statements. Now he might be on the right side. Generally, none of these people wanted President Trump's support. None of these people. President Trump wanted to bring in federal forces and federal agents and all of them, including Mary Lori Lightfoot, who might have said something nicely, all of a sudden, they don't want it. We get to that in a second. And look, we're also getting reports that the Chicago Police Department detectives will comb over high definition footage of suspects and vehicles from the looting scenes, suggesting that more arrests are coming. I hope so. I mean, look, I might be too hard on David Brown, but my patience is wearing so thin. I mean, they're not doing their job. They're just not. They're overseeing an entire city where there are hundreds and hundreds of black people that are shooting hundreds and hundreds of other black people every single summer. He said this. I pledge to pursue these offenders to the fullest extent of the law. A heavy police presence will continue throughout the downtown area today until further notice. I guess that sounds alright, but why now? Why all of a sudden now, tough guy? I mean, the city is done. Chicago is gone. If you live in Chicago, get out as quickly as you possibly can. This will not get better. It won't. This will turn into some form of a dystopian Gotham City. It will not turn around because Democrats are continually in control. This isn't a protest about justice, by the way. This isn't poor people looking for money to feed their family. This is lawlessness. This is widespread chaos. So let's play a clip of David Brown talking to reporters. Frankly, sounding sensible, but I'm a little, I'm tougher on David Brown than most conservatives, because I've seen the Chicago police be completely inactivated for so long during the riots and during the arson. And some of it's political. Some of it is just because the police do not want to go into certain neighborhoods and they've not taken responsibility for what they're supposed to do. Play tape.
