The Aftermath of a Legendary Amfest + Merry Christmas

Hey everybody, a recap of America Fest. What an amazing, amazing event.

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Go to noblegoldinvestments.com. I will say a preemptive Merry Christmas to all of you. It is December the 23rd, 2024. I am here in Palm Beach and soon to be going back to Arizona. I've been kind of going back and forth through the coasts. Duty calls.

You never know. Things are moving very quickly. I just have to say what a remarkable couple of days. The entire Turning Point team has performed at a level of excellence that is rarely ever reached, let alone reached in politics. We do a lot at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action. From the high school chapters that we start, to our college chapters, to Turning Point Academy, to Blexit, to all of the outreach events that we do on college campuses, to our productions team, to our social media team, the staff at Turning Point and this incredible team of change makers has been working their tail off all year. Then, of course, on the Turning Point Action side, from ballot chasing, to voter registration, to the youth outreach events, to the Bring Your Own Ballot event, it's hard to even grasp the enormity of everything that Turning Point does. But on top of all of that, while most other organizations are resting for Christmas, while most other organizations are taking days off, when most organizations are taking it easy, when most other organizations would never dream of doing something just days before Christmas, what does Turning Point do? Turning Point hosts and hosted the largest multi-day event in the conservative movement's history. Over 23,000 tickets sold, packed breakout rooms, full media row, an energy level the likes of which we've never seen before.

But I just hope you understand and can we play some of the b-roll please from the event? Just the logistics that go into getting the speakers to confirm, to getting them all in specific timing, to building out the stage, to making the audio visual correctly, to the graphic design, to managing all the students, to making sure that our donors are well taken care of, to making sure that you then promote it and making sure people are there, then to the security side of it. I mean, you look at the imagery that you've seen from America Fest there, that's not your typical conservative event. And as quickly as it started, it ended. I mean, it is four quick days of this massive takeover of Phoenix, Arizona, this conservative takeover in Phoenix, Arizona. Not to mention just getting all of these human beings to Phoenix. And this was not a majority Arizona audience. These were people from all across the country. And when I said, who's from Arizona in our members only lounge? I'd say that maybe 10% of people were from Arizona. They were from Idaho. They're from Kansas.

They were from Iowa. Just the logistics of putting on an event like this is difficult, let alone on top of all the other things we did this last year at Turning Point. Yesterday, President Donald Trump gave the keynote at America Fest. President Donald Trump traveled across the country in a remarkable sign of affirmation and support. And he's just the greatest. He's the best. Traveling all the way from Palm Beach to Phoenix, back to Palm Beach to give support, to give encouragement for the ranks at Turning Point Action and the great work that we are doing.

This is cut 30, President Trump, live from America Fest. It's been amazing. Turning Point's been amazing. It's really been tremendous numbers of American patriots.

It's really been great. And you saw what happened last month. We had Turning Point's grassroots army.

It's an army. They turned out to vote and they voted in record numbers and everybody else voted in record numbers too, I have to tell you. And we did something that was really epic. We won a battle that a lot of people thought was very hard to win. You know, too big to rig.

Remember what I said? Too big to rig. We'll make it too big to rig. We're going to win. President Trump continued his praise of Turning Point Action and what we did this last election cycle. And for those of you that watch the Charlie Kirk show every day, you know, we've been talking about ballot chasing, voter registration every single day. This is a very, very sweet clip.

And I think it was ad libbed, too. We took so much incoming from so many people. In fact, there's a very favorable New York Times article out today that is worth highlighting in a second. I just I can't say enough good stuff about President Trump. You know how many politicians that you help out and they just forget a lot of those guys. Oh, you win.

Thanks so much. The president flew nearly 10 hours, woke up at four thirty to go thank the great people of Arizona. To fill them up, he said, Charlie, I'm only going on one condition that you call it a tribute to Arizona. And I hope you understand this is more than an event. This was a deployment.

In fact, let me read this to you from our team. We started well over 100 new turning point chapters at this event. A hundred new turning point chapters. Remarkable. Play cut.

Thirty one. The Democrats and the media said the turning point could never run a ground game. They weren't experienced.

They didn't know Charlie, right? But when the ballots came in, the other side really didn't know what the hell hit them. They got hit hard. The victory was such an outstanding one, such a big one. And the other side now and I was very, very confident. The other side now and I we don't want this.

We want people to be happy and healthy. But they did. They lost their confidence. If you watch television now, they're all befuddled. They don't know what the hell happened. They're befuddled.

He is quite a nice word that my mother used to use years ago, talking about somebody that's a mess. But they did. They've lost their confidence. And hopefully they'll lose it for a long time and then come over to our side because we want to we want to have them. We want to have Donald Trump just won his second term. He could just chill, forget about everyone who helped get him there. But he is on a tour to be grateful and ensure his promises will be kept. President Trump come in Arizona was a tribute to you, to the great people of state 48 and a tribute to the whole nation. And I think we did him. I think we gave him the introduction that he deserves. Do we have a video of just kind of him walking out with the 47? I think it was rather, rather legendary. President Donald Trump continued his speech yesterday on how he won the youth. Actually, I think I played the youthful one.

Let's play cut 32. But something happened also in the election. All 50 states shifted toward the Republican Party, every single one of them. And together we won the largest share of African-American voters of any Republican in modern history. Actually, in history, we won more Hispanic American votes than any Republican ever. And we won the vote. You guys did it. This was celebrating him, celebrating the movement, the greatest accomplishment, and the greatest American comeback in history.

Nothing comes even close to it. From what we've been through, the indictments from him being shot, to the law fair, to the smearing, to the slandering, to the cancellations, to the censorship. And we overcame all of that. And in America Fest, for all of you that attended, I hope you guys had a wonderful time.

We're getting so many emails. Charlie, thank you. The events just keep getting better and better.

And better and better. Your staff was amazing. Merry Christmas. By the way, those of you watching and you say, I wish I could, you know, chip in. I want to say thank you to the staff.

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And on behalf of my friends at Hillsdale College, have a Merry Christmas. I mean, the team that we assembled at America Fest was just remarkable. Tom Homan. Michael Knowles. Brett Cooper. Tucker Carlson.

Just amazing. Tom Homan yesterday made some news. Donald Trump's borders are.

Let's play cut 46. President Trump's going to hold China accountable for creating the precursors he's selling to the cartels. President Trump's going to hold Mexico accountable for not doing anything about this criminal cartels. President Trump's going to designate them terrorist organizations. And we're going to wipe them off the face of the earth. Criminal cartels keep making I got numerous death threats.

Criminal cartels make death threats against me. Bring it because the greatest country on the face of this earth is going to put you out of business and put you in prison. If Mexico don't do it, the United States will.

President Trump will. We need a beachhead in Aurora, Colorado, New York City, Chicago, Illinois, to rid ourselves of this invasion. I had a great opportunity to spend time with Tom Homan this weekend.

He is serious about quelling this invasion and quelling this occupation of our land. What we saw at America Fest was a diverse movement, people with different focuses, different with people backgrounds. And we saw a Republican Party that is here to win, a Republican Party that is serious about governing, a Republican Party that is not going to go away. Tucker Carlson talked about the need for debate at America Fest.

Play cut 16. We'll have political debates going forward. You know, you've got your ideas. I've got my ideas.

We can debate them. But I honestly don't think ever again in my lifetime will the richest people in the country be able to point a finger in your face and say your position is too immoral to discuss. And if you keep talking, we're going to put you in jail. That has been their position. And they will never again get away with that ever. They can never again just do exactly what they want by waving away your concerns with an epithet. Shut up.

Racist won't work anymore. Our movement understands the psychological operations that are being conducted by the mainstream media. What we saw, I mean, we had 4000 just turning point students there, 4000.

But it was all ages, all backgrounds. We had a whole faith coalition there, a TPUSA faith pastors coalition. We had our ballot chasing coalition. We had faith night, our Turning Point Academy team. What we have built at Turning Point is a comprehensive one stop shop of a machine, is a movement to be able to hold our leaders accountable, to take more terrain, to take more ground. We saw that all on display at America Fest. And it's just I'm just so thankful for what the team has been able to accomplish. Ben Shapiro had some very nice things to say about America Fest.

Let's play cut four. Thanks to Charlie Kirk and Turning Point. We've done such extraordinary, extraordinary work. I actually met Charlie Kirk when he was 18 years old.

He's younger than many of the people who are currently in this room. And Charlie was going around a conference in Florida, in Palm Beach, Florida, looking for donors for Turning Point. I remember turning to my business partner, Jeremy Boring, saying, that's what we're going to do. We're going to return to my business partner, Jeremy Boring, saying that guy is going to be the head of the RNC one day.

And instead, Charlie built his own RNC. It's astonishing, very kind. And it was good seeing Ben at our event and give a great speech was also did Ben's podcast while we were there. And the movement is only going to strengthen. 2025 is going to be a year where we are able to advance even further. But look, let's be cool.

Let's just be honest. There may never be a moment like this ever again in our lifetime. We are living through the greatest of all the times. The fact that we were able to win this election with all these odds up against us.

And to be able to celebrate that was just I was just looking at the crowd and President Trump was there on stage was just glory be to God, truly. And then we got to get back to work. Keep the base engaged to grow the base, to keep making those arguments. That's why I told the team I'm still going to be doing 17 college campus stops this spring.

Foot on the gas, full speed ahead, full acceleration. I'm not going to say I'm going to work as hard in 2025 as I did in 2024, but it will be in the same ballpark. I mean, I lost my voice twice. I got sick like every 10 days. That's like hard to repeat.

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I don't know how this keeps on happening, but it is. Do we have Ken Paxton in our studio? Is that right?

Am I properly informed? There is Ken Paxton in my studio. Attorney General Paxton, how are you doing? I'm just kind of wishing you were here. Every time I show up at your studio, you're somewhere else.

I think the last time you were in North Dakota. This is crazy. And I believe you were supposed to be here.

Isn't that nuts? I was supposed to be here, but someone, I had to do some things out east very quickly and someone offered me a ride. So I'm sure you can. I heard. I heard. I was there. I was sitting in the front row watching.

You saw the whole thing. So General Paxton, first and foremost, let's talk about your speech at America Fest. What was your message to the great patriots at America Fest? I think part of it was just that our work is not done. We have issues that we need to resolve that are significantly important. And some of those issues that I talked about are dealing with the justice system and the injustice that have been done by the FBI and Department of Justice. Those things have to be resolved. And fundamentally, if we don't deal with our election issues, election integrity issues, we might win this election because it was so overwhelmingly won. But there'll be other elections that are close. And if we don't resolve the mail on ballot issues and some of the other issues we have, which I know we have because I deal with them in Texas.

So I know this is not made up. We used to prosecute. We had like a thousand prosecutions going before that power was struck down, which we're going to get back. So I know that these are issues that maybe don't seem important now, but they are going to be important in the future.

And the time to get them fixed is now. So the audience loved you and you were kind of teased in your speech a little bit that you might primary Senator John Cornyn. Tell us about that. So I actually didn't bring it up.

I opened it up for questions. I gave a few minutes and the very first question was about John Cornyn. Look, I've known John Cornyn for a long time. He started out as a Supreme Court justice, actually a district judge, Supreme Court justice, AG of Texas, and then a senator. And I just don't think he's accomplished the things we need to accomplish.

And I don't think he's actually gone left on some issues that were pretty important. He actually created judicially in our state what's called Robinhood, which is a wealth redistribution system of school finance that has hurt our schools and made him mediocre, which is why it's so important we have school choice now. But he was a creator of that and he did it by judicial fiat.

It should have been done legislatively if it was ever going to be done at all. Yeah, absolutely. So I want to now just shift gears here to President Biden's, let's just say, clemency and the commutations that he is doing. Have you been following this, General Paxton? He is on a commutation spree right now, for example, and Blake is sending them.

Blake, all these are the bios you're sending me are the ones he commuted. I'm reading this. I want to make sure I can't believe this. Is that right? So seven criminals were among the ones on death row inmates that were just given clemency by Joe Biden.

I'm reading some of this right here. I just I have to double check this. The team says, yes, Jorge Avila Torres kidnapped and murdered an eight year old Laura Hobbs and nine year old Crystal Tobias, two girls in his neighborhood who were out riding their bicycles together. He sexually assaulted both of them before stabbing them to death.

Before being caught, Avila Torres joined the Marines and strangled a fellow soldier who was only caught when he tried to murder a fourth woman who miraculously survived and identified him. So today, 37 out of 40 death row inmates in the federal system have been given clemency by Joe Biden. Your reaction, Attorney General Paxton? Look, I think he's given more commutations than anybody ever.

I think it's up to fifteen hundred total. And it's for all kinds of things that you're talking about. None of this is surprising to me, given that his record over the last four years on everything, whether it's the economy, whether it's our border, whether it's international relations, it's all been bad decisions. I can't think of one good decision or one good thing he's done for America.

So not surprising. This is a constitutional power in Article two, Section two of the U.S. Constitution. So he does have the power to pardon for past crimes, federal crimes, not state crimes. And he has the ability to commutate sentences so that they're they're basically ending their sentences. As bad as this is, that is a constitutional power. And it does not surprise me that Joe Biden is making poor decisions.

So let's now speak about Texas and kind of your workload going into the next year. What now that we have a favorable Department of Justice, what cases, specific cases that you've been working on, do you think can finally maybe get the government's help that you guys can settle that you that can you just walk us through? Because the way the Democrats operate and they have a sue and settle strategy, you know this, General Paxton, where they will sue the federal government in a jurisdiction and then they'll almost force a settlement from a federal government that they also control. Now, we would never do something that outrageous. However, I'm sure there are cases where you were fighting the Biden administration tooth and nail that you then could get, let's say, reasonable settlements.

Am I correct in that estimation? If so, give us some details. That's true. So I'm going to give you an example. We had over 100 lawsuits against the Biden administration in four years on all kinds of different issues. Prior, I was suing Obama before Trump came into office.

And I'll give you an example. We had a DACA lawsuit which related to immigration issues and President Obama allowing people to come into the country that weren't legally allowed to be here and then almost giving them amnesty. And then we also had sued over Obamacare.

Well, in those two cases, President Trump switched sides, despite the fact that he had some staff saying don't do it. That's what we're hoping on some of these 100 cases. We've got immigration cases, we have transgender issue cases, you know, men and women's sports.

Matter of fact, we sued the NCAA yesterday for that particular issue. And so I am very hopeful that we can work with the Trump administration to settle these in a way that we stop these bad policies that were initiated by the Biden administration illegally. What can we expect from a legal standpoint on the border?

I know you've been and you've just been in the court nonstop on this kind of litigation. Give us some of the ideas of what you expect from this administration. Well, one, you know, you're going to release the catch and release is over. Now Border Patrol, if you'll remember, Joe Biden on day one, it wasn't like a week into it. It was the first day this was a high priority for them, said he wasn't going to deport anybody, which was designed to send a message to the cartels that they could start just bringing people to the Border Patrol instead of having to hide. And that's exactly what happened. We sued over that. We got an injunction, but they were doing it anyway.

And so you'll see that stop. You'll see the wall being built. There was money appropriated. We had a lawsuit over that. And Joe Biden, we at least stopped him from selling off assets, but he never actually started building the wall.

So we were trying to preserve assets for the future. I think you're going to see some of these other illegal immigration laws enforced just like they were four years ago. If you'll remember under Trump, the numbers dropped to the lowest level we'd ever seen. And under Biden, we've got the highest number we've ever seen.

So it's going to be complete reversal, including deporting people that are here illegally, especially the criminals. Can you give me an update on your big tech lawsuits? I haven't asked you about this for a while. And could a favorable federal government coming in with a talented solicitor general help you with such some of these cases?

Oh, absolutely. Because we can cooperate, which I think is, you know, these are issues that affect both the federal government and the state government. So we have we just settled one with Metta Facebook for stealing people's facial identity and their voice. And we settled for one point four billion dollars, which was the largest single settlement settlement between a state and a company in history of the country. We have three lawsuits going against Google.

We already settled two, but we've got three really big ones. One's an antitrust lawsuit based on the fact that they control the ad market on the Internet, about 97 percent of it. And then we have other lawsuits for them illegally tracking and censoring people.

And so we have a lot of lawsuits that I know the federal government actually copied one of our antitrust lawsuits. They're already they've been in litigation over the last month. And so I'm hopeful as they work that out to see how that goes. But I'm very hopeful with the Trump administration that we'll be able to work on these issues together.

I love it. Any other cases and ways things that the audience should be aware of? Attorney General Paxton, because you guys have been in the trenches and I think we're going to have some breakthrough coming soon. Yeah, I mean, yesterday, right before the national championship for volleyball, we sued the NCAA over promoting men and women's sports. We argued that under Texas deceptive trade practice that they don't have the right to offer up to consumers this idea that this is women's sports and yet sneak men into that, not even telling us. And so we have a lawsuit trying to enjoin them from allowing men in women's sports. And also we want to there's a there's a penalty for $10,000 per violation. So we're trying to collect damages and stop the NCAA from lying. Well, if they're going to do this, they have to at least tell the truth.

But they're going to be they're going to at least be accountable for the lies that they've already told. Ken, I wish I was there to say hello, but to do another business, you're the best. We're behind you 100 percent. Thanks so much. Thanks for the great event. It was awesome.

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First, let's play Cut 50, please. Reminds me how much I love all of you, how much I so appreciate everything you've meant to me and my family. You don't have any idea how I know so many people think this program has changed their lives for the better.

You have no idea what you all have meant to me and my family. The day is going to come, folks, where I'm not going to be able to do this. I don't know when that is. I want to be able to do it for as long as I want to do it. I want to.

But the day will come where I'm not going to be able to. And I want you to understand that even when the day comes, I'd like to be here. Rush and his spirit was at America Fest. He was a donor to Turning Point USA, a supporter of all of our work, an advocate, a believer in so many different ways. And Rush, the movement that we celebrated 2024 was made possible thanks in part to the great work of Rush Limbaugh.

No one comes even close to the impact, to the vision. Rush Limbaugh loved Christmas. He loved Christmas. And this Christmas, we always dedicate the last segment that we do live to the great and legendary Rush Limbaugh. And we do that in a way with that clip as the start and then Rush's favorite Christmas song. As we look back at this last year, time to be grateful, to be filled with gratitude. Rush Limbaugh always talked about his love of Mannheim Steamroller.

Mannheim Steamroller, one of the greats. This was one of Rush's favorite songs. We are playing it over with some of the highlights of 2024 and soak it in and say a prayer to God. Thank you for delivering us. Last year, it was a prayer.

Lord, please deliver us. And this time we say thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. So what a year this has been. We are watching this and saying what happened in 2024. We remember Rush. We say thank you for blazing the trail.

There will never be a year like 2024 ever again. So much to be thankful for as we celebrate the birth of our savior. Merry Christmas, everybody. We will see you guys this Friday.

And everything was possible through God who strengthens us. We have our civilization back. See you guys soon. Thanks so much for listening. Everybody email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com. Thanks so much for listening and God bless. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust go to charliekirk.com.