Charlie Kirk now says he will continue to talk about Jeffrey Epstein: “When I said for the time being, I was talking yesterday.”
Kirk: “I'm not trusting the government. I'm trusting individuals that you too also trust. You guys are all fans of Dan Bongino and Kash Patel. We are trusting that they heard you, they heard me, and they are working to fix this.”
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From the July 15, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): So this is what I said yesterday. Plenty was said this last weekend at our event about Epstein. Honestly, I'm done about talking about Epstein for the time being. Nobody, not a single news outlet said for the time being. They did not include that second part of the sentence. I'm going to trust my friends of the administration. True. I'm gonna trust Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, JD Vance. It's their ball. It's their possession. I'm gonna trust my friends in the government to do what needs to be done. I've said plenty this weekend, and the ball is in their hands. So if you guys wanna see my commentary on it, that's fine. We have escalatory action being taken in Ukraine and Russia. We have tons of announcements happening when it comes to NATO. But let me say this again — you know my opinion about Epstein, the messaging fumble. I would love to see — this is, again, no one covered the second part of the statement. No one covered it. This thing has, like, 10 million views on social media. And, unfortunately, too many people on our side fell for this garbage. And I get it heightened — and, by the way, part of this is I'm gonna have some compassion. This is a very hot moment. Very hot.
And let me be clear. I'm not trusting the government. I'm trusting individuals that you too also trust. You guys are all fans of Dan Bongino and Kash Patel. We are trusting that they heard you, they heard me, and they are working to fix this. Let me finish this. But let me say this again — I would love to see the DOJ move to unseal the grand jury testimony. We're gonna talk about that with a guest later this show. I think this would be a big win, and I would love to see that. I'm gonna trust my friends Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, my friend Pam Bondi, all these guys. I'm gonna trust them to solve it. Ball is in their court. I think there was, let's say, a lot of speeches that were directed towards this topic. That's it. And by the way, today we're gonna cover it for nearly a full hour.
But the media went out of its way — let's just put 323 up there on screen again. All of these articles so they won't cover the essence or the story of the Epstein story, but they'll cover the idea that somehow Charlie Kirk is moving on. Never was that ever said, nor is that the truth. And, guys, they heard us. Trust me. Student Action Summit was near complete messaging saturation.
And so looking back, should I have said those five words in the sequence I said? Here's what I should have said and what I was saying — and guess what? You say thousands of words on a talk radio program. Not all of them is as precise as you should have said.
So this is what I was saying — ball is in your court, guys. You are my friends. We got your attention overwhelmingly. Fix it. That is what I was saying. And this was a mockingbird media hit from our guests, from a lot of people chose to bring it up all over the weekend, and that's fine. And to be clear, we think they can fix it. So what I want to make an addendum to what was said yesterday is we're going to keep on talking about it. When I said for the time being, I was talking yesterday. I was telling the audience, guys, I got a whole deck of stories I gotta cover here. You see, they wanna cover MAGA in disarray, and there is so much going on right now.