THE LEGACY OF CHARLIE KIRK

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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What should have been a landmark week for medical freedom was instead cast in sorrow with the shocking assassination of free speech champion and Turning Point USA founder, Charlie Kirk. Del reflects on his friendship with Charlie—an ally who was instrumental in connecting RFK Jr. and President Trump in the spirit of unity and freedom. We also revisit a powerful moment from “The Charlie Kirk Show,” showcasing Charlie’s unwavering belief in honest debate, open dialogue, and the courage to build bridges across divides.

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0:00.0	This episode really should have been about an incredible week in Washington, D.C., both the dropping of a study inside of the Ron Johnson hearings that I think may change this conversation about the safety of vaccines forever.
0:17.8	Almost that exact same time, a Maha report that is looking at how to make children healthier
0:23.6	and an executive order that could really change everything as we know it in television and advertising.
0:31.6	But of course all of that right now is being overshadowed by this incredible tragedy yesterday and the assassination of Charlie
0:40.6	Kirk. So to start there, I was honored to know Charlie Kirk. I consider him a friend, so this
0:50.5	hits very close to home. Charlie was instrumental in giving a voice to the medical
0:57.7	freedom movement that I'd been working at for so many years. The first day that I remember
1:03.3	meeting him was actually the moment where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump came together.
1:10.7	That incredible, incredible event.
1:13.6	Backstage, I got to meet Charlie. None of us really knew the spectacle he was about to make out of that moment.
1:19.6	I never saw fireworks in any other of his events that I went to after that, but he knew how important this connection was.
1:27.8	He was critical in not only bringing these two gentlemen together, but knowing how to help
1:33.6	all of us voice this team and bring these two together under the idea of healing the divide,
1:40.5	which was the core value of the Kennedy campaign that I was honored to be the
1:44.5	directive communications on. And so then Charlie put Robert Kennedy Jr. front and
1:50.5	foremost at many of these events I got to speak at the turning events, turning point events,
1:55.5	and bring this message of medical freedom and uniting everyone for change to bring that together
2:02.4	and reach millions of people we never would have reached before. Just really a spectacular
2:10.5	individual who smiled and had joyed what he had done. I went and got to walk through his operations.
2:18.6	Incredible what Turning Point has done.
2:22.4	This thing that he built starting at the age of 18
2:25.9	and bringing people together into dialogue.
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