Charlie Kirk calls on Donald Trump to broker a Speaker of the House deal
Kirk: “Some people would say, well, Charlie, if he's not able to make the deal it will make him look bad. Well, look, at some point, you gotta take some risk.”
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From the January 4, 2023, edition of the Salem Radio Network's The Charlie Kirk Show and simulcast on Real America's Voice
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): Now, I did tweet this morning that I thought Donald Trump should personally fly up to Washington, D.C. and broker a deal, whether that's in favor of Kevin McCarthy, in favor of Byron Donalds. He did write The Art of the Deal. He was able to do Middle East peace with Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the Emirates. He was able to renegotiate NAFTA. He knows how to strike a deal and he still has a lot of political power. I don't think, actually, it's in his interest to do this in favor of Kevin remotely.
If Kevin McCarthy ends up failing, one of the leads will be Donald Trump's endorsement does not mean that much anymore. So you can't get half pregnant here. This is my advice to President Trump. I think he should fire up Trump Force One, fly into Washington, D.C., come and act like the magnanimous leader that he is, and call a meeting. Do the deal.
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And I'm afraid if Trump does not that do that this is going in an uncertain direction. Because there is not anyone that has the political power, political capital, that has the capacity to negotiate like Donald Trump. And I'm supporting Donald Trump in 2024 so I have a very politically selfish reason. His stock would go up in everybody's eyes. He would like the man that solved the impossible deal. Hasn't gone to five ballots since 1865, it looked like a total impasse and Donald Trump comes into Washington, D.C., and makes the impossible deal possible. It will deescalate a lot of his critics. And, by the way, it's in his interest to have a functioning House of Representatives to cross-examine and investigate the Department of Justice that is – that just raided Mar-a-Lago. So this is a deal that, in some ways, he personally needs to get done. But if you just look at his 2024 stock, there's a lot of people that are upset with Trump because of Georgia and the runoffs and some people said the midterms -- and I mean, a lot of that is unfair.
So, I think a pro-Trump – if you want Trump to succeed in '24, own this. Fly into D.C. And some people would say, well, Charlie, if he's not able to make the deal it will make him look bad. Well, look, at some point, you gotta take some risk.