1. Charles James Kirk was born on October 14,1993 and is an American conservative political activist, author and media personality.
61 Facts About Charlie Kirk
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Charlie Kirk is the chief executive officer of Turning Point Action, Turning Point Academy, and Turning Point Faith; president of Turning Point Endowment; and a member of the Council for National Policy.
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Charlie Kirk was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs of Arlington Heights and Prospect Heights, Illinois.
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In high school, Charlie Kirk actively engaged in politics, supporting Mark Charlie Kirk's US Senate campaign and campaigning against a price increase in his school's cafeteria.
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Charlie Kirk briefly attended Harper College before dropping out to pursue political activism full-time, influenced by Tea Party member Bill Montgomery.
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In 2012, Charlie Kirk founded TPUSA, a conservative student organization that quickly grew with backing from donors like Foster Friess.
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In 2019, Charlie Kirk founded Turning Point Action, a political advocacy arm, and later formed Turning Point Faith, aimed at mobilizing religious communities on conservative issues.
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Kirk hosts "The Charlie Kirk Show," a conservative talk radio program.
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Charlie Kirk has publicly promoted conservative and Trump-aligned causes, and criticized the COVID-19 response, critical race theory, and the scientific consensus on climate change.
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Charles James Charlie Kirk was born in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Illinois, and raised in nearby Prospect Heights, Illinois.
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Charlie Kirk's mother is a mental health counselor and his father is an architect.
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Charlie Kirk was a member of the Boy Scouts of America and earned the rank of Eagle Scout.
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Charlie Kirk wrote an essay for Breitbart News alleging liberal bias in high school textbooks, which led to an appearance on Fox Business.
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At a subsequent speaking engagement at Benedictine University's "Youth Empowerment Day," Charlie Kirk met Bill Montgomery, a retiree more than 50 years his senior, who was then a Tea Party-backed legislative candidate.
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Charlie Kirk briefly attended Harper College, a community college near Chicago, but dropped out without having completed any degree or attaining a certificate.
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Charlie Kirk has been CEO, chief fundraiser, and the public face of Turning Point since its founding.
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Charlie Kirk co-founded the organization in 2012 at 18 years of age.
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Charlie Kirk earned a salary of more than $325,000 from TPUSA and related organizations.
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In May 2019, it was reported that Charlie Kirk was preparing to launch Turning Point Action, a 501 entity designed to target Democrats.
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In July 2019, Charlie Kirk announced that Turning Point Action had acquired Students for Trump along with "all associated media assets".
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Charlie Kirk became chairman and launched a campaign to recruit one million students for the 2020 Trump reelection campaign.
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Charlie Kirk is a spokesperson for CNP Action, the political arm of the CNP.
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In October 2020, Kirk began hosting a daily three-hour radio talk show, called The Charlie Kirk Show, on Salem Media's "The Answer" radio channel.
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In 2024, NBC News reported that it was presented with internal data showing that Charlie Kirk's podcast is being downloaded between 500,000 and 750,000 times each day.
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Charlie Kirk has aided the President elect in choosing leadership positions for his administration, including cabinet positions.
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Charlie Kirk promotes the antisemitic Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory, and has described universities as "islands of totalitarianism".
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Charlie Kirk said that "the slot he considered his went to 'a far less-qualified candidate of a different gender and a different persuasion'" whose test scores he claimed he knew.
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Charlie Kirk told The New Yorker in 2017 that he was being sarcastic when he said it.
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Charlie Kirk told the Chicago Tribune in 2018 that "he was just repeating something he'd been told," while at a New Hampshire Turning Point event featuring Rand Paul in October 2019 he claimed that he never said it.
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On July 7,2018, Charlie Kirk falsely claimed on social media that Justice Department statistics showed an increase in human trafficking arrests from 1,952 in the year 2016 to 6,087 in the first half of 2018.
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Charlie Kirk deleted the tweet without an explanation the next day, after a fact-checker had pointed out that the false 2018 number had originated on a conspiracy site 8chan.
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In defending the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Charlie Kirk falsely stated that during the H1N1 swine flu pandemic it "took President Barack Obama 'millions infected and over 1,000 deaths'" to declare a public health emergency.
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Charlie Kirk has spread falsehoods about voter fraud and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Charlie Kirk has said that the concept of white privilege is a myth and a "racist lie".
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Charlie Kirk served on President Donald Trump's 1776 Commission, a response to the 1619 Project.
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The speech saw Charlie Kirk condemn the Civil Rights Act of 1964, calling its passage a "huge mistake" and alleging that it had created a "permanent DEI-type bureaucracy".
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Charlie Kirk later claimed to have "found the sacred cow of modern America" in criticizing King.
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Charlie Kirk has consistently supported the extraction and use of fossil fuels.
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Charlie Kirk is a climate change denialist, falsely claiming that humans have no significant effect on global climate change.
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Charlie Kirk flipped to supporting Trump at the 2016 Republican National Convention and spent the remainder of the campaign assisting with travel and media arrangements for Donald Trump Jr.
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In October 2016, Charlie Kirk participated in a Fox News event along with Trump Jr.
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Charlie Kirk spread false information and conspiracy theories about COVID-19 on social media platforms, such as Twitter, in 2020.
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Charlie Kirk sharply criticized Democrats' criticism of Donald Trump's withdrawal of World Health Organization funding and referred to COVID-19 as the "China virus", which was retweeted by Trump.
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Charlie Kirk alleged that the WHO covered up information about the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Charlie Kirk described the public health measure of social distancing prohibitions in churches as a "Democratic plot against Christianity" and made the unfounded assertion that authorities in Wuhan, China, were burning patients.
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In July 2021, Charlie Kirk promoted misleading claims about the efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccines.
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On Fox News' Tucker Carlson show, Charlie Kirk called student mandatory requirements for taking the COVID-19 vaccine "medical apartheid".
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Immediately after Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, Charlie Kirk promoted false and disproven claims of fraud in the election.
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On November 5,2020, Charlie Kirk was the leader of a Stop the Steal protest at the Maricopa Tabulation Center in Phoenix.
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Charlie Kirk was considered a "big name" social influencer in Rudy Giuliani's communications plan to overturn the 2020 election.
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On January 5,2021, the day before the Washington, DC protest that led to the storming of the United States Capitol, Charlie Kirk wrote on Twitter that Turning Point Action and Students for Trump were sending more than 80 "buses of patriots to DC to fight for this president".
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Charlie Kirk paid $60,000 for Kimberly Guilfoyle to speak at the Trump rally.
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In May 2021, Charlie Kirk tweeted for parents to protest at school board meetings urging parents to stand up and push back on mask mandates and the teaching of critical race theory.
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Charlie Kirk has advocated for parents to never let their daughters receive prescriptions for birth control medication for any reason.
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Charlie Kirk claimed that the medication makes women angry and bitter, which he alleged suited the political leanings of the Democratic Party.
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Charlie Kirk has argued there is an "LGBTQ agenda", and opposes gay marriage.
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In December 2022, Charlie Kirk warned the Republican National Committee that they needed to listen to their grassroots voters or face the consequences of ignoring them.
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Charlie Kirk was appointed by President Donald Trump to a commission promoting "patriotic education".
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Charlie Kirk co-wrote, with Brent Hamachek, the 2016 book Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations.
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Charlie Kirk wrote the 2018 book Campus Battlefield: How Conservatives Can WIN the Battle on Campus and Why It Matters.
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Charlie Kirk has made an appearance on Gavin Newsom's podcast, This is Gavin Newsom.