I haven’t chimed in on the whole video saga yet because I find the entire thing absurd. But since this community note is 100% factually wrong and is now impacting how Grok answers legitimate questions, it needs to be corrected.
1. This entire debate only exists because a handful of bad-faith actors have spent months trying to attack Erika, destroy the organization her husband built, and divide the movement. Most, if not all, of these people attacked Charlie when he was alive, and they found a new target since Charlie is now off-limits. You can rebut lies with all the facts you want, but they don't care, and they won't stop. Next, it's a chin mole is missing, next it's AI, etc. etc.
2. There is a pattern continually playing out and people need to see it for what it is. They launch a conspiracy theory, they say it's the smoking gun, it falls apart, a new theory appears, and the cycle repeats. Meanwhile, the people making these claims have no obligation whatsoever to prove them. They and their followers condemn the accused as guilty and demand a response to clear their name. The accused is then expected to respond, defend themselves, produce documents, provide explanations, and somehow prove a negative. But the response is never sufficient because the response was never the objective. Goalposts move instantly. The answer was too defensive, too dismissive, or they find some irrelevant tidbit to pick apart and the cycle repeats. It's a sucker's game.
3. I find the video largely irrelevant. Boards do not determine succession based on whether someone can produce a random clip. Boards evaluate leadership, governance, organizational continuity, and the wishes of the founder. In this case, Charlie hand-picked the board, communicated his wishes to them, to me personally on three or four occasions, to Erika, to Don Jr. (who has gone on the record), to pastors, friends, and colleagues. That board voted unanimously to make Erika CEO. That should be the end of story.
4. Yes, Charlie was asked about this once when a camera was on him and he said exactly what he always did: Erika would take over should something God-forbid happen and that she would do a great job.
5. This did not happen at ActCon 2023 in West Palm as @CommunityNotes wrongly says. He said this in Aspen in 2025 at Investors. ActCon was a large convention with a massive blue stage and thousands of attendees. Investors was a small hotel ballroom with a few hundred attendees and a white and red backdrop. I was at both.
6. The "Building the Machine" claim is also wrong. In 2023, the theme of ActCon was "We are doing the work to save America." When we titled CK's opening speech for a podcast episode, we just came up with a random title "Building the Machine" that Charlie liked. Charlie was from Chicago and always talked about the Democrat Machine. He wanted a machine built for the right. It was just an episode title but over time it became something Charlie said more and more. So, in 2025, after Trump won the election, Charlie wanted to expand the Chase the Vote "machine" that proved so effective, so he made the theme for Investors 2025 "Building the Machine."
7. I think Community Notes has been a force for good and I fully support its purpose and mission, but for whatever reason, it’s been weaponized in this case to spread disinformation. Hopefully whatever went wrong here will be corrected both on this note, and in the future.
Images of the two very different events attached. Blue backdrop is ActCon 2023, while the white and red is Investors 2025.
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Saturday was yet another traumatic example of the evil in our country and the continued rise in political violence. I’m taking time to spend with my family.
I will be joining The Charlie Kirk Show Wednesday at 12PM ET to briefly address what took place. Enough is enough.
Just had Jay Town, former U.S. Attorney and career prosecutor, break down the newly released ATF report from the Tyler Robinson trial.
The bullet pulled from Charlie was a .30 caliber round. It matches the operable .30-06 rifle found at the scene, which was loaded with Tyler Robinson's DNA.
Tool marks prove the spent shell casing came from that gun. All cartridges were Remington with matching bunter marks from the same batch.
The DailyMail's "bullet didn't match" narrative ended up being total media malpractice as predicted. The report said it could not be identified OR EXCLUDED, but they ignored that when trying to get clicks.
This is an absolute garbage headline from CBS, which didn't even bother to reach out to us for comment.
1 - Of course there was no issue with the venue, if there was we would have canceled the entire event. The venue was deemed secure and we trusted the Secret Service to protect the VP and secure the perimeter, but protecting Erika is not the Secret Service's job, that's what our security is responsible for.
2 - The threats were related to Erika's travel, not the venue. There are lunatics following her around constantly.
3 - In the days leading up to the event we had to constantly change her itinerary and locations because threats where made against her specifically and her location was getting doxxed.
4 - The threats were ultimately deemed severe enough that her security said "we cannot guarantee your safety, we recommend you don't move forward with doing the event." When they say that to a woman whose husband has just been assassinated, you listen.
🚨HUGE NEWS: After working on this behind the scenes for awhile now, we are excited to announce that EVERY EPISODE of The Charlie Kirk Show is now available.
You asked, we delivered.
From the first few episodes in May 2019 where it was just me and CK with a mic and a Zoom recorder to our first interview with Don Jr., through the 2020 election and into 2024 and the Trump transition, listen to all of your favorite Charlie episodes at your leisure.
This took some doing, so please take advantage of the CK back catalogue.
Charlie will never be forgotten.
A few recent interviews with John Yep ( @USAYep ) are circulating the claim that Charlie Kirk ( @charliekirk11 ) was in the process of converting to Catholicism. That claim is not accurate, and it needs to be corrected.
As the Senior Director of TPUSA’s Faith division and someone who served directly under Charlie’s leadership during the final year and a half of his life, I am in a position to speak plainly about this.
I have personally communicated with Charlie’s wife, @MrsErikaKirk, and I also spoke directly with Father Kline, the priest referenced in these discussions. After those conversations, the facts are straightforward:
• Charlie was not in the process of converting to Catholicism
• He never took Catholic conversion classes (OCIA)
• His marriage was never convalidated in the Catholic Church
• He was baptized Presbyterian and remained a Bible believing evangelical throughout his life
Father Kline indicated concern that his prior comments have been misconstrued and that the current public narrative is not accurately representing his conversations with Charlie’s intentions.
Let me be clear, respect for Catholicism is not the same thing as moving toward conversion. Charlie respected many people across denominational lines. Like many evangelicals, including myself, he read widely, including Augustine and Aquinas. None of that constitutes a conversion trajectory.
In my own conversations with Charlie, he was firm on justification by grace and did not believe he could biblically reconcile certain Catholic doctrines, including Mariology and the invocation of the Saints. In the few instances he was present at mass, he found it peaceful and beautiful. Charlie enjoyed sitting inside the empty sanctuary to worship in peace without being asked for selfies etc. That is a long way from entering OCIA.
If there had been an active conversion process, there would be documentation. There is none.
Charlie loved all true Christians, whether Catholic, Orthodox, or Evangelical. Again, that is a long way from entering OCIA.
That this even has to be addressed is bizarre.
An occasional “fist bump” does not equate to intimate friendship nor give @USAYep the authority to speak on behalf of the dead. I would caution him to take care not to overstate what the facts simply do not support. This is not about scoring theological points. It is about honoring Charlie’s actual life and faith with accuracy and refusing to let speculation rewrite his story.
Trump wouldn’t be President without Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) and the TPUSA team, which means 92 million Iranians would not have a shot at freedom and the gospel without Charlie Kirk and the TPUSA team. It also means the world would not be safer without Charlie Kirk and the TPUSA team. The ripple effect is at work. Help Erika (@MrsErikaKirk) keep Charlie’s legacy of defending FREEDOM going!
Candace Owens and I are meeting for a private, in-person discussion on Monday, December 15. @RealCandaceO and I have agreed that public discussions, livestreams, and tweets are on hold until after this meeting. I look forward to a productive conversation. Thank you.
TPUSA was and is Charlie Kirk’s baby, a child birthed through sacrifice, vision, sweat, tears, and ultimately his own blood. Today, that child is being dragged into the court of public opinion for a full-on spiritual custody battle with everyone claiming to know what’s best while pulling it in opposite directions.
It’s easy to get swept up in the cultural chaos, but 1 Kings 3 gives us a spiritual lens for moments exactly like this. Two women stood before Solomon, both insisting the child was theirs. One was the true mother. The other a deceiver.
But how could anyone tell the difference?
Only one cried, “Give her the living baby… but don’t kill him!”
The true parent would rather lose the argument than watch the child be cut in half.
The false one only cared about winning, even if the child was destroyed in the process.
So in this moment, for all who truly love Charlie, his mission, and his life’s work, the real question isn’t: Who yells the loudest? Who says they have receipts? Who posts the most? Who claims the moral high ground?
The real question is…
Who wants the child to live?
Who wants the work to continue?
Who is fighting for unity within the conservative movement?
Who cares about the souls of the next generation?
And who did Charlie personally choose and entrust to steward what he built?
Those answers have a way of revealing themselves.
And for those of us still carrying Charlie’s mantle, the mission hasn’t changed, the calling hasn’t dimmed, and by God’s grace, the child will not die on our watch.
False accusation is one of Hell’s oldest tactics. The Bible shows the way forward walk uprightly, speak truth with grace, entrust yourself to God, and remember that Christ silences every voice of condemnation.
Our friends at @TPUSA are enduring, wicked, wicked attacks. Please pray for them. Pray for @MrsErikaKirk. And pray that they have the endurance of Paul to endure his thorn and Nehemiah to endure his saboteurs as they continue doing their good work.
When Charlie Kirk approached me 18 months ago to run @tpusafaith , I knew it was God — but I accepted the role cautiously. I needed to make sure the organization I was joining didn’t treat faith like a prop or a slogan. I wasn’t signing up for photo-op Christianity — I was already well-established as a Christian leader, and I needed to see true conviction and the freedom to fulfill the mission God had given me.
So I did my homework. In fact, Charlie graciously gave me my first several months on the job solely to audit the program and report back on what was truly happening beneath the surface.
And here’s what I found: I was humbled — even a bit embarrassed — to discover that this young team was outworking many churches I’ve seen in over twenty years of ministry. They were sharing the gospel, resourcing the church, and confronting cultural lies with solid biblical truth.
So as someone who came in with fresh eyes and zero prior affiliations, I’ll say this plainly: I will not sit quietly while people misrepresent this team or question their faithfulness. They are the real deal — committed, prayerful, and unashamed of the gospel — and I’m honored not only to stand with them, but to stand among them.
Today, TPUSA Faith is partnering with thousands of churches across America — from Reformed to Charismatic and everything in between — united in primary doctrine and standing boldly for biblical truth in a world that so obviously needs it.
We’re not slowing down. We haven’t lost our way. We are continuing the mission entrusted to us — and honestly, we’re just getting started.
When Charlie Kirk approached me 18 months ago to run @tpusafaith , I knew it was God — but I accepted the role cautiously. I needed to make sure the organization I was joining didn’t treat faith like a prop or a slogan. I wasn’t signing up for photo-op Christianity — I was already well-established as a Christian leader, and I needed to see true conviction and the freedom to fulfill the mission God had given me.
So I did my homework. In fact, Charlie graciously gave me my first several months on the job solely to audit the program and report back on what was truly happening beneath the surface.
And here’s what I found: I was humbled — even a bit embarrassed — to discover that this young team was outworking many churches I’ve seen in over twenty years of ministry. They were sharing the gospel, resourcing the church, and confronting cultural lies with solid biblical truth.
So as someone who came in with fresh eyes and zero prior affiliations, I’ll say this plainly: I will not sit quietly while people misrepresent this team or question their faithfulness. They are the real deal — committed, prayerful, and unashamed of the gospel — and I’m honored not only to stand with them, but to stand among them.
Today, TPUSA Faith is partnering with thousands of churches across America — from Reformed to Charismatic and everything in between — united in primary doctrine and standing boldly for biblical truth in a world that so obviously needs it.
We’re not slowing down. We haven’t lost our way. We are continuing the mission entrusted to us — and honestly, we’re just getting started.
For the past three months, we've received a flood of questions about Candace Owens and her claims attacking Charlie's closest friends. For three months, we preferred to remain silent, but the attacks have not stopped.
Today, I delivered this response.