Charlie Kirk dismisses concerns over the safety of school board members: “We all get death threats”
Kirk: “We all get death threats. It's disgusting, it's vile, it's also part of life”
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From the October 1, 2021, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on YouTube
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): If you are going to school board meetings, if you testified at a school board meeting, your own government is calling you ISIS. Not your government yet, let me rephrase, let me be more clear. The National School Board Association is asking the government to call you ISIS. I just want to make sure that I'm clear.
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So, if you're a mom speaking at a school board, the National School Board Association wants the combined infantry and militia power of the FBI, the DOJ, DHS, Secret Service, National Threat Assessment Center. Do you think these people will stop at anything? Jen Psaki commented on this, she said we take the security of public servants and elected officials across the country very seriously. Oh really? You took it seriously when Rand Paul got shot at? He got beat up by his neighbor. You took it seriously when Steve Scalise was shot by a Bernie Sanders supporter at the congressional baseball game practice?
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This is such – This is exactly the playbook they use. You understand I could go every single day and say hello everybody, Charlie Kirk here. Welcome on Friday. Let's go through all the death threats that I received.
We all get death threats. It's disgusting, it's vile, it's also part of life.
I get death threats that involve federal law enforcement. It's called being in the public eye. Do I talk about it? No. Do I want you to feel sorry for me? Not in the slightest. I'm, like, the luckiest person alive. I love what I get to do. Instead, these school board meetings are like I got an angry Facebook message of someone saying we're coming for you. That must mean they're going to burn down my house. Let's get the FBI involved.
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That's right, they're going to start spying on people that are showing up to school board meetings. This is why they needed the January 6th narrative to be what it was. They were trying to suppress public activism and keep people in their homes.