Charlie Kirk | Media Matters for America

Charlie Kirk was a right-wing provocateur and founder of Turning Point USA who was fatally shot on September 10, 2025. He had a history of pushing right-wing hoaxes and conspiracy theories.

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Charlie Kirk on Trump and Iran: “It is very conceivable that if he bombs those two cities, that is not a new war”

06/18/25 1:11 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk calls the SALT deduction “a penalty for well-run red states”

06/17/25 1:48 PM EDT
On Fox News, Charlie Kirk praises Trump's “remigration” policy, a form of ethnic cleansing

06/16/25 10:18 PM EDT
Right-wing disinformation machine spins up a false profile of Minnesota shooting suspect

06/16/25 12:50 PM EDT
Right-wing media weaponize Israel’s strike on Iran to fearmonger about “millions of jihadi sleeper cells in our country thanks to the Democrats open border polices.”

06/13/25 4:11 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk claims he had advanced warning of Israel's attack on Iran: “I knew it was coming”

06/13/25 12:34 PM EDT
Media Matters weekly newsletter, June 13

06/13/25 10:45 AM EDT
Mainstream media ignore Trump’s planned Office of Remigration, a term for ethnic cleansing

06/11/25 2:08 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk: “My whole life, I've heard people complain about traffic on the 405. Mass deportations will help solve that.”

06/11/25 1:39 PM EDT
White nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes declares “the groypers have won” as the right is now “so explicitly against mass migration”

06/10/25 3:03 PM EDT
While calling for the military to be deployed to Los Angeles, Charlie Kirk uses a chart sourced to a white nationalist website

06/09/25 2:13 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk responding to protests in Los Angeles: “We must be unafraid to declare the Insurrection Act of 1807”

06/09/25 1:14 PM EDT