Charlie Kirk’s friends debunk out-of-context clips about slain icon

Buddies of Charlie Kirk say critics of the slain conservative activist are twisting his previous feedback to smear him, however these near Kirk vow they’re doing every part they will to “have his again and make issues proper.”

A recent episode of “The Charlie Kirk Present” aimed to debunk decontextualized clips of Kirk which have gone viral amongst liberals because the founding father of Turning Level USA (TPUSA) was murdered on September 10.

“I felt it was actually necessary to set the report straight about a few of these clips that had gone viral on the left, smearing Charlie as a result of there was a really clear, apparent, logical, widespread sense rationalization for it,” The Charlie Kirk Present govt producer Andrew Kolvet instructed Fox Information Digital.

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Charlie Kirk speaks earlier than he’s killed throughout Turning Level’s go to to Utah Valley College in Orem, Utah, Wednesday, September 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret Information by way of AP)

A clip of Kirk circulating on the left led to claims that the late TPUSA founder engaged in racial discrimination after noting that he would possibly see a black pilot and assume, “I hope he is certified.” Kolvet defined that Kirk was merely responding to United Airways CEO Scott Kirby’s 2021 assertion that fifty% of the brand new pilot courses can be made up of individuals of shade or ladies.

“Properly, this is the factor – after which Charlie and I have been discussing this on the present that bought minimize – there’s solely 9% of candidates, new pilots in coaching which are ladies or individuals of shade. It simply occurs to be a type of fields the place 91% or 90% of recent pilots are white males. I do not know why,” Kolvet mentioned.

“You place your self able in the event you’re United Airways the place it’s a must to select 50% of your pilot core from 9% of the inhabitants. And the way you try this with out decreasing the requirements is past me, and that was the purpose Charlie was making,” Kolvet continued. “Charlie mentioned, ‘I do not care if I see a black pilot, however in the event you begin imposing quotas, I will fear.’ As a result of proper now I take a look at black pilots and I feel, ‘I assume you are certified since you needed to compete and be the perfect, and that is nice.'”

The reason is in step with Kirk’s long-standing message that folks must be rewarded based mostly on advantage alone.

“Charlie was an enormous believer in meritocracies,” Kolvet mentioned.

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Turning Level USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet, a longtime good friend of Charlie Kirk, needs to “set the report straight.” (Patrick Fallon by way of Getty Pictures)

Kolvet, together with Kirk’s mates Tyler Bowyer, Jack Posobiec and Blake Neff, spent 90 minutes exposing the lies and slander. The episode additionally centered on viral clips of Kirk saying gun deaths have been “value it” to guard the Second Modification, discussing the phrase “empathy,” referring to skilled Cenk Uygur in a means that was interpreted as a racial slur and a wide range of different moments that have been reportedly taken out of context by critics.

“The Charlie Kirk Present” aired the viral clips and hung out including important context, airing Kirk’s full quotes in an try to elucidate what he actually meant. Matters included Kirk’s ideas on the civil rights motion, faith, affirmative motion, and even whether or not a lady ought to take her husband’s final title.

“Throughout the board, regardless of the excerpt was that they took out of context, there’s truly a really cheap rationalization that the huge, overwhelming majority of conservatives would agree with it. Charlie was a conservative. He did not anticipate, you recognize, progressives would agree together with his views,” Kolvet mentioned.

“However to take them after which bastardize them, corrupt them, and twist them in order that you may someway say, ‘Charlie deserved what occurred to him,’ is a gross injustice as a result of Charlie, and I spent a lot time with him privately, was actually probably the most remarkably sort, beneficiant, loyal and fair-minded individuals you’ll ever meet,” Kolvet continued. “He exemplified Christian ethics, privately and publicly, and he actually lived these values.”

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A video clip exhibits conservative activist Charlie Kirk talking in Utah on the day he was killed, throughout the public memorial service for Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, September 21, 2025. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

Kolvet — one in all Kirk’s closest mates and enterprise companions — mentioned Kirk has been public about “confronting lies,” so he’s infuriated by liberals who twist his personal rhetoric to smear him.

“As a good friend, I felt an ethical obligation to face behind him and make issues proper,” Kolvet mentioned.

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“We’re not completed defending Charlie but,” he continued. “We are going to proceed to name out the lies after we see them.”