In his first day back hosting his radio show after taking a week off to be with his wife as they welcomed their first born child, Charlie Kirk noted a recent article from The New York Times is a precursor to a potential coming indictment of former President Donald Trump after the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago estate in search of classified documents.
“(The New York Times) wrote this long piece over the weekend. Basically, laying out this intellectual case — their supposed pseudo-intellectual case — for an indictment,” said Kirk. “And The New York Times, they love ‘I told you so’s’. They love to say ‘As I told you a couple months ago we were right about this. We were very clear about why Donald Trump needed to be indicted’. Nonsense. They wrote this piece — and I don’t want to make a habit of covering The New York Times — but they wrote this piece, ‘Donald Trump Is Not Above The Law‘ by the editorial board.
“Now, The New York Times wrote this piece probably in collusion and coordinator with the FBI and probably the Justice Department, with prosecutors. The New York Times can be best compared to, metaphorically, a fullback or a snowplow. To force forward, to pave the way, for a coming or a looming indictment.”
The Charlie Kirk Show host then said The New York Times is working to move the “Overton Window”. The Overton Window, a political range of discourse that ranges from unthinkable to acceptable to popular. In Kirk’s view, The New York Times wrote the story to move the Overton Window to view Donald Trump’s potential indictment as “acceptable”.
“So The New York Times writes this article to try to move the Overton Window,” Kirk posited. “To try to prime the pump for a grand jury they’re trying to empanel. Now I know some of you might say ‘Charlie, none of this is new. They’re trying to get Trump’. Now this is very important, we’re going to go a step deeper. Because this impacts the mid-terms and I think Republicans are mishandling this.”
