Charlie Kirk threatens J.B. Pritzker and Brandon Johnson with the Insurrection Act and a federal takeover of Chicago
Kirk: “Mr. Johnson, Mr. Pritzker, you are next, and you are woefully unprepared for what is coming”
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From the August 22, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): Here's what he can do lawfully. He can surge federal agents, expand ATF, FBI, and USMS task forces, go after carjacking, gang cases, and route them all up to federal cases where appropriate. Project safe neighborhoods and enforcement zones. Also, go down on this fugitive carjacking crackdowns. US Marshals -- flood the zone with US Marshals. An emergency backstop, if necessary, declare the Insurrection Act. Insurrection Act 10 U.S.C. (251–253) allows limited federal troop deployment as extreme last resort, but I don't think that should be off the table. Chicago has become more dangerous than third world cities.
And it's working in DC. Could you imagine if you're able to say in one week in Chicago, there's not a single murder? It's unheard of. Not a single murder in DC for a week. The DC template can now be scaled. Making America great again means making our Midwestern cities great again. Revive Chicago. Revive Detroit. Revive Minneapolis -- okay, that might be tough. That's a third world Somali slum. The city has a death wish.
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I want President Trump to do everything he possibly can. I'm going to talk to him. I'm going to say, "Man, Mr. President, I'm 100 percent behind you. Whatever you need to do a federal takeover of Chicago and make this a test case, I will do whatever I possibly can, Mr. President." I'm going to probably shoot him a message later on.
Black men have a cumulative incidence of being shot in Chicago of 11 percent by age 40. That means one out of ten Black men have been shot by the time they reach 40 in Chicago. In Chicago, one out of ten Black men have been shot by the age of 40. That's in Chicago.
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Declare a national emergency, flood the zone with ATF, FBI, take -- have an entire task force, make Chicago another test case.
One -- hold on. If anyone, like, thinks I'm wrong here, if one in ten Black men have been shot by the age of 40, how is that not an emergency? Seriously, what is your argument? If one in ten Black men are shot by the age of 40, how is that not an emergency? That means if you have a basketball team -- if you have a basketball team at Simeon High School where Derrick Rose went, and it's 20 people on the basketball team, that means two of the people on that basketball team will be shot by the age of 40. Email us as always freedom@charliekirk.com.
Sweet home Chicago, take it over. Seize it. Roll in the tanks just like we said in DC. Mr. Johnson, Mr. Pritzker, you are next, and you are woefully unprepared for what is coming. Law and order is coming, and we will liberate my favorite city, Chicago.