Charlie Kirk on the Trump administration and Epstein: “We're getting flooded with thousands, hundreds of thousands of comments that are very unhappy”
Kirk downplays the situation: “A lot of this is largely just a misunderstanding.”
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From the July 16, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): What I'm going to say to the president, you know, if I see him soon or if we talk on the phone or — I'll say this, the same thing on the show. There's no, like, private agenda here. Is that, Mr. President, the emphasis on Epstein is truly the best intentions of your most loyal followers, where we're not trying to score points with the CNNs or the New York Times. It's truly because we care about you. It's because we want what's best for the presidency. And one of the core campaign promises that I know that you are pushing forward is that you want to dismantle the deep state. We are messengers here. We are relaying what we are hearing from your most loyal ultra-MAGA supporters all the time. And it's not that people are saying, you know, they wanna learn about Epstein because they have any suspicion of President Trump. No. We don't think — no one thinks you're involved in any way of that stuff whatsoever. But the way that you taught us is that we need to go after the rogue intel agencies, to lance the boil that has been festering in this country for decades. And by an act of God and by your courage and by what the president has been able to do — and you just happen to be president. We are your students in dismantling the deep state. And this cancer has been festering in this country for decades. So the boil is the intelligence community. The boil is — James Comey is involved in all of this stuff. James Comey's daughter is the prosecutor on the Ghislaine Maxwell case. You think of all the prosecutors that could have been chosen in the federal government, Maureen Comey — I think that's her name — was chosen as the prosecutor on the on the Maxwell case? Come on. And the Diddy case.
And, look, my one piece that I would say to the president privately as well is have an understanding of your supporters and your followers here and know that they're not trying to take you out. They're not trying to fall for a hoax. And I could tell you amongst the young people that I'm following right now, they don't really know how to analyze or process this. This is — I would say, Mr. President, this is not a Trump resistance from a lot of the young people, from the college bros and the crypto bros and the podcast people. These are not never-Trumpers. Part of that is out there, but it's not this. These are guys that care about transparency, and they do wanna talk about your success. They do wanna talk about this historic presidency. And so instead, let's try to combine all of these forces together and try to go after the deep state.
And I could tell you right now, Gen Z is really fired up about this, especially young men.
I mean, we're getting flooded with thousands, hundreds of thousands of comments that are very unhappy about this. And I think they're unhappy about it because they want and they voted for President Trump on a government. They wanna have a mandate where they assail the deep state, and we all agree. We all agree. Gen Z is going off right now on this, and that's no breaking news.
President Trump was elected primarily to go after the deep state. We wanna go after the deep state.
A lot of this is largely just a misunderstanding.