The Charlie Kirk Show - Trump Never Forgot Benghazi, and We Won't Forget Springfield, Ohio

Episode Date: February 6, 2026

The Benghazi attack that killed four Americans in 2012 was long forgotten by most of Washington. But it wasn't forgotten by President Trump. The team reacts to the surprising arrest of a suspect Benghazi mastermind after a 14 year wait.  Blake rips into Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine for his defense of mass Haitian immigration into Springfield, Ohio. Plus, Georgia State Sen. Greg Dolezal explains the glaring evidence he's found of illegal voting in Fulton County and how it's gone unpunished despite GOP domination of the state government.   Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I got to keep it. I can't give away the, you know. Lasers are involved. Are pyrotechnics involved? There's all, the production values and say, it's really good. And I just want to say,

this Sunday. Will there be any sharp people in shark costumes? No shark costumes. I can, I can confirm that. This Sunday, approximately around 8 p.m. Eastern.

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And throw us some of these. tweets up from Charlie back in the day. There was one from 2012 mocking Madonna. That's the same year he started Turning Point USA. And the one in, uh, from 2014 had one like, one like. And he just, that like was from God. Yes. Because it was yes. Because it was, uh, it was true. It was true. So, so there you go. There's there. This is Charlie one like clothing optional half time performance. Question mark. One like there. And, uh, it was. probably his mom. It was probably, you know, family member trying to throw him some support. But listen, that and then, you know, of course, Charlie had five, six million ex-followers,

Twitter followers by the time he was killed. So, I mean, he was a grinder. He saw the vision. He wanted to play in the cultural space. So God bless him. So that's just huge story of this weekend. And we've got the White House getting asked about it, President Trump and Caroline Levitt getting asked about it and big news big news all right so this morning there was something else and i just love this storyline because president trump is a guy who remembers things okay he remembers benghazi he remembers 9-11 he does not forget about these things and if for those of you who don't know what benghis people may i was just thinking like our staff here the 20 to 22 year olds yeah they don't know they they might truly not know and i guess

What I can tell you is, is especially in it was that window just before Trump started running, I think that it peaked. And then just in the early stages of his candidacy. It happened right before the 2012 election. It was the 2012 of elections. So Benghazi is a city in Libya. And in 2012, just a few weeks before the presidential election, the United States ambassador to Libya and two other Americans were killed in an attack on, it wasn't the embassy, but it was the consulate. Yeah. Well, I can go through the timeline here.

It's worth it's worth doing the history. lesson here because the man who was responsible, or at least one of the main key people for this attack has now been captured. And I love this. So that's the full story. I'm going to tell you the end. And now I'm going to start at the beginning. On the evening of September 11th, 2012. So it was a September 11th anniversary. It was 11 years after. Militants from the Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia, linked to al-Qaeda, launched a coordinated attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, breaching the gates and setting buildings on fire and overwhelming security. U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and State Department Officer Sean Smith would die

from smoke inhalation and injuries inside the burning main building during the assault. A nearby CIA annex, about one mile away, came under attack hours later around 4 a.m. on September 12th, including heavy mortar fire. CIA contractors Tyrone Woods and Glendority were killed while defending the site. The attacks were premeditated and terrorists in nature. So a lot of the leaders at the time, Hillary Clinton, we'll play these clips. Barack Obama, they suggested that it was spontaneous. It was a reaction to a controversial video on YouTube. Yeah, it was this video called The Innocence of Muslims, I think is what it was. It was a pretty baffling video. And they basically, if I remember right,

The man who made that video technically, like very technically violated, like, parole or something he'd done it. He was in the U.S. and they arrested him over this. It was actually very flagrant that you would have never done it in a million years in any situation other than they needed some sort of, like, way to cover their butts over this attack. It was extremely sinister how that unfolded. The lying afterwards made this really, really a nasty situation. Surviving U.S. personnel were eventually evacuated with the help for the whole. from local Libyan militias. And broader controversy over the security failures,

intelligence and U.S. government's initial response and explanations have raged on. And because it's important, we have the clips of this morning, Cash Patel, Pam Bondi, they have captured this guy, 529. We will prosecute this alleged terrorist to the fullest extent of the law. He'll face charges related to murder, terrorism, arson, among others. Let this case serve as a reminder. If you commit a crime against the American people anywhere in this world, President Trump's Justice Department will find you.

It might not happen overnight, but it will happen. You can run, but you cannot hide. Cash Patel goes on, said Trump never forgot Benghazi. 534. Never forget. Pam never forgot. The president never forgot. This FBI never forgot. And certainly U.S. Attorney Piro never forgot. When an act of terrorism of this magnitude strikes at the heart of our nation, we go to work. President Trump has given us the full resources at the FBI and across the interagency to make sure we deliver justice. I love this story because you consider this in contrast to Afghanistan where we just like bail, we just leave, you know, to hell with the consequences

It doesn't matter what the, you know, who gets away with what. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's the sort of issue where it was a huge, it was a huge cause a decade ago. A lot of people paid attention to it then. It got a lot of focus on it. And then most people moved on. And like, there's not really a big political reward to pursuing it. But you know it really mattered to a few people that this get finished. One of the reasons I love that FBI press conference so much is because to Blake's point, there wasn't an immediate.

at pressing political need to do that. There wasn't. The payout for them is going to be minimal, whatever. I like it because it was the right thing to do, because it was vengeance for a wrong committed against Americans. And that's a big deal to me, actually. We have this ethic of no man left behind. When you're on the battlefield, no American left behind. And we always need to keep that front and center because that is what strikes fear into the heart of the enemy. That is why they know we mean business because we have these values that are unimpeachable. And those got impeached by a president who didn't get impeached, ironically. Joe Biden.

I mean, everything went by the wayside. And by the way, Obama lied about this. Hillary Clinton lied about this. This is 2012 with Obama lying about this on lettermen of all places, 549. Here's what happened. You had a video that was released by somebody who lives here, sort of a shadowy character, who is an extremely offensive video directed at Muhammad and Islam. This caused great offense in much of the Muslim world. But what also happened was extremists and terrorists used this as an excuse to, attack a variety of our embassies, including the one, the consulate in Libya. So that wasn't true.

And here's Hillary Clinton saying, what does it matter? 547. The fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? That one ran on loop for a long time. For a long time.

Again, I want to drive home, I guess, if you're, a younger viewer. This was constant drumbeat, circa 2014, 2013. I remember it going viral. There was a site called Rikaze. I wonder if it's still around.

I should check. And I remember a viral post that was like rallying the troops after the 2012 defeat. And it was like, I am Spartacus. Like you're going to keep fighting. It was like, I am Spartacus because of Benghazi.

It went deep. It went deep because the flippant attitude, what does it matter? What difference does it make? That's not the America that elected Donald Trump. We care and we don't forget. I like this story as well because it's part of a broader law and order narrative that I think we need to do a better job telling on our side.

Antifa Kyle, who had been terrorizing ICE agents and trying to rile people up to attack them, to kill them, has been arrested as well. A little fofo story. 520. Here's Antifa Kyle. It's not pleasant viewing, but you need to know what you're dealing with. 520. up, ready to go.

Okay? Not talking about peaceful protests anymore. We're not talking about having polite conversations anymore. Sorry, but welcome to America, 2026, where Second Amendment is the only thing that's going to keep you protected from literal Nazi gunmen that are killing innocent people in the street with impunity. This is not a f***ing joke. There's nothing fun to chant about it.

Get your guns and stop these people. Pleasant guy, he's now been arrested, which I'm very excited about. Anyways, I mean, this guy's a real creep. I mean, you could see these videos are just too good. 543, him getting arrested. He's outside. 542, getting escorted down the stairs here, screaming like a crazy person. Sorry, you threaten law enforcement.

That's what's going to happen. And everybody needs to know that that is going to be the result if you threaten law enforcement. But listen to this. This is a huge, huge success story. There has been a historic 20% drop in the nationwide murder rate. Now we are at 4 per 100,000. That is the lowest level in recorded history, certainly by 1900, since 1900. Are we just going to act like this is business as usual?

are we going to give President Trump some kudos here? It's crazy what happens when you deport a lot of people that like to cause crime. I know this is one of your pet issues. When you actually arrest people, this very small percentage of the population that commits most of the crime, it goes down. It goes down. It really is crime is a solved problem. It has actually been solved multiple times. And then people just, they forget the lesson because they find it unpleasant.

Because the real truth is, is crime goes away. if you take the people who commit the most of it and you promptly and efficiently and quickly and just punish them. And if you get them out of the streets, there are people who just cannot control themselves. They will commit crimes if they're out in public. There was one, I think, just another arrest in New York the other day where a man, I think he raped a 14-year-old. And that was his 27th felony or some such. And it's just over and over, there are these people who obviously should not be out in public. They should just not be allowed to participate in society.

They're too dangerous. They'll never get better. 100% increase in violent crime arrest year to year. 1,800 gangs and criminal enterprises have been disrupted. That's a 210% increase. 2,000 kilos of fentanyl has been seized, enough to kill 130 million people. 490% increase in FBI-affiliated nihilistic violent extremist arrest. A plus 20% increase in FBI arrest related to the 764 network. Over 6,000 child victims located.

1,700 child predators arrested. That's up 10%. 300 plus human traffickers arrested. Down and down it goes. It's just amazing what happens when you unshackle law enforcement and you say, hey, go get the bad guys. We don't care what color they are. We don't care if they're a privileged class. Just go arrest the bad guys and deport the rest. Howdy, Blake here.

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There you are. Yeah, great to see you. Great to be with you guys. Great to have you. You know what? I was reading your biography here. This is small aside. but you were used to be a tour manager for Chris Tomlin.

I did that. I spent a decade on the road with Chris traveling all over the world from 2005 to 2015 as his tour manager. That's wild. I have a weird memory from Seattle where Chris played a show in, I want to say 2006. But I don't know. I'm just curious of our paths ever crossed there. But Chris was played at Charlie's Memorial. So that's why I took note.

and that's fantastic. So we love Chris and appreciate him, you know, making the time to honor Charlie in that way. It was amazing, amazing day. I texted him, Andrew, I texted him the morning of that event. And I told him, I'm like, man, I'm so proud you're doing this. And that morning, we didn't know what the event was going to be. We didn't know it was going to be the greatest thing that most of us have ever seen

in our lifetime. And the conventional wisdom would be for management, like stay away from political stuff. So I just sent him a text, like, man, I'm so proud of you. And he's like, it's time. Bolt. And it was really fun for me to watch, not only Chris, but Brandon Lake and Phil Wickham and a bunch of friends that I've been around the world

with or been with a patching conference, which I've produced for 20 years now. And watching those guys lead the world and worship was unbelievable. Yeah, you know, people don't realize that that was probably, this is not why we had you on here, by the way. We will get into the story. But people don't realize

that that was probably the largest proclamation of the gospel to the largest audience at any one event, any one moment in the history of humanity. There was hundreds of millions of people watching around the world. And they were singing to Jesus. And everybody at home and everybody in that stadium were singing to Jesus all at the same time. And I don't think people understand just the significance of it.

I don't know that we ever will, actually, Greg. Yeah, so I actually texted Chris afterwards. I said, man, we traveled the world for a decade. and you led worship for more people today than you did in those 10 years combined. Then you had Marco Rubio give the clearest presentation of the gospel that I've ever seen in my lifetime with no notes, probably one of one the most impressive things I've seen. And then the thing that floored everyone was Erica Kirk and her proclamation of forgiveness, which really put skin on the gospel message for anybody who would have been watching that day.

It was hatched off your team because it was amazing. You all pulled that off within a week. I'd produce live events for a living. And what your team did, I've never seen anybody do anything like it. It was a miracle on on on so many levels. Yeah. And it, you know, to that point, I would say potentially, I mean, not on the same level of miracle, but the fact that we saw action in Fulton County is, is another miracle, I would say.

You live in Georgia. You're a state senator there. You're doing a lot of work. I've heard your name mentioned a number of times in the midst of everything that's going on. I know you're making waves down there. And you were early on this. And I watched a video of yours going around to all these locations where you have registered voters, dozens of them in some locations at ineligible, illegal locations. So you've been on kind of the voter roll story. You've been on the what's happening in Fulton County story for a long time. So what were the findings that you know of? And why do you think the FBI and even Tulsi Gabbard were there in Fulton County? Yeah, and there's so much to unpack here, but for your viewers, just, you know, Georgia's unique. You've got a massive state with one capital city, Atlanta, Georgia, in the middle of Fulton County, and about half of the people live in that metro area of the entire state.

And so what happens in Fulton County is very, very, very significant. And going all the way back to 2020, one of the reasons that a couple of us stood up and called for a special session of the General Assembly after the 2020 election is we knew that essentially there was all sorts of craziness happening all over the state, but it was Fulton County was kind of the epicenter of it. And we did this recount here. And everybody likes to talk about the fact that, well, you had three recounts. We had three recounts, but we had a bunch of ballots in the mix that probably never should have been in the mix. No matter how often you count a fraudulent ballot or an illegal ballot, it's still an illegal ballot. And so we knew at the time, first and foremost, that drop boxes had been invented out of thin air.

meaning that we had deployed drop boxes all over the state that was nowhere in Georgia law. But since we were under a COVID executive order, the Secretary of State had the ability to do that, we had this mobile voting unit driving all around Fulton County, collecting ballots from people who would show up at a precinct, then maybe it wasn't a precinct that would be open on that day, but they used Zuckerberg money to deploy these mobile voting units to 80% Democrat precincts, of course. But then if you fast forward to today, you've got all of these illegal voters registered to vote, UPS stores, pack mails, empty lots, abandoned buildings, homeless shelters that have been closed since 2017. It's just, it's madness. And so Fulton County is an incompetent county. And the reason I think that the FBI came was because the FBI's been kind of kicking the tires around here for the last couple weeks.

And they got, they went to a judge. They got probable cause using what evidence we don't know. The judge looked at that and said, there's probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed here. And so that's the real interesting thing here is what is the crime, who, how many criminals were there, and what charges may come out of this? That's what we don't know. But what we do know is there were double-scan ballots in Fulton County. Their recount numbers never reconciled. And then all of the other things in the essentially the execution of that election, there were nowhere in Georgia law.

Here's a video that you put on social media that I think is really powerful because it's almost like a Nick Shirley moment where you go around and you show them how many people have been registered to vote at these locations that are completely illegal locations to be registered at 568. All right, y'all. This is 850 Oak Street in Fulton County. And there are 19 people registered to vote at this abandoned house. All right, so we are at 1445 Woodmont Lane, Physical Address.com, 138 people registered to vote. I mean, you can go right on their website. They don't have that many beds. This is 477 Peach Tree Street. There's 70 people registered to vote here. It's a homeless shelter that closed in 2017. 26, 25, Piedmont, another UPS store, 96 registered voters right here in direct violation of George Law. not hard to find for us,

apparently pretty hard to find for Fulton County. Just unbelievable. So it does flabbergast me a little. I can look. Georgia has had a Republican Secretary of State since 2007. You guys have a Republican legislature, a Republican governor, kind of, yeah, we lose some of these federal races,

but at the state level, it's very Republican. So it feels like you should be able to send that video to somebody in the state government and cause things to happen. Is that not occurring? Yeah, to be perfectly transparent with you, we in the General Assembly have really been at odds with our Secretary of State. And our Secretary of State has kind of promulgated and then gone all in on this lie

that the 2020 election was the most secure election in American history. And it's demonstrably false for all the reasons I just told you guys, I could roll out five more reasons that's demonstrably false. And so the media is all too happy. happy to get behind him and say, yeah, yeah, most of the perfect election. They scanned the ballot three, they scanned the ballots three times. There were three recounts. There was a hand recount, and they don't talk about the fact that the state election board has heard cases since then that proved that the recount was inaccurate. And then you go really upstream of that. You're like,

well, how did people vote? And one thing, if you guys could look at my exfee, that's pretty wild. Back in 2020, we didn't have photo ID law in Georgia for absentee ballots. And we had one point. 3 million people vote absentee. So the way that you get an absentee ballot is you would sign your name to a ballot request form, send it, and they'd send you a ballot. They're supposed to check the signatures. Well, we know essentially that they didn't check the signatures because myself and a number of friends botched our signatures, had kids signed signatures, do all that, send our ballots

in, ballot requests forms in. And in every case, we got a ballot back. So, yes, we do have essentially Republican governor, secretary of state. General Assembly. We've moved the needle a good bit. We did move on voter ID, and we have passed some good things, but there has been really no interest in looking at what happened in 2020, looking at the fact pattern of 2020 objectively from some of the highest people in the state, and frankly, just to name him, one of those as the Secretary of State. That's wild. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of people that want to see an investigation. I don't think I'm being too bold to

saying to Rothensberger, but it's wild to hear you say it. This picture went viral. This is Tulsi Gabbard, 569, lurking at this event, or this, I guess this raid, if you will. That's Tulsi Gabbard on a phone there. And President Trump has said, you know, listen, there could be foreign interference in this situation in Fulton. So, you know, and he made a good point. He said the Democrats are always saying it was Russia. They're always saying whatever. Could be China. could be Serbia whatever so yeah send Tulsi down there

Tulsi's smart Tulsi's smart she's not going to mess around here here is a video and I want you to explain this to us we have two minutes left here 574 does the investigation confirm

that there are missing ballot images yes do you know why 380,761 valid images from election day machine count are not available We subpoenaed Fulton County for all of their ballot images. We received approximately 518,000 ballot images.

No ballot images for 380,761 ballots from Election Day, correct? What was subpoenaed was the ballot images for the recount. What's going on there, Craig? Got to remember how we vote here in Georgia. You get a ballot that's printed by a ballot marking device. When it gets sent to the tabulator, the tabulator takes a, essentially a JPEG file. It's actually a TIF file. It takes an image of that ballot. And that is what you use, so that the public can use to see and verify votes.

Thousands and thousands and thousands of those ballot images are missing, which I think is why the FBI wanted to go get their hands on the actual ballots. Fulton County has tried to have the ballots destroyed. They're now fighting to get them back. They are hell-bent on making sure that nobody can see these ballots. We now have destroyed them. Yeah, why would you want to destroy them? I mean, okay, save some space. You can go buy a warehouse for, you know, space in a warehouse for a couple of bucks. Like, this is sketchy. There's no doubt about it.

This is really sketchy. Greg, I don't mean to cut you off. Just in the interest of time, what happens next? We're going to wait and see what the FBI comes back with. We're going to continue to do work in the state Senate on changing laws to ensure that our elections moving forward have some modicrum of integrity. We've got to get rid of these voting machines in Georgia. We want to follow what Trump has said. in terms of moving to paper ballots, and we're actively working on that.

Good for you. We'll have you back on, Greg. As more news emerges from this, and we find out what they're actually going to charge with and all the things, but we're watching. Thank you so much. Thank you. Every day, Americans make choices that shape our country's future, right down to which cell phone provider we support. Here's what most people don't realize. Patriot Mobile isn't just a wireless provider. They're an activist organization funded by selling top-tier cell phone service. They've been on the front lines defending our freedoms long before it was cool to do so,

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Charlie or call 972 Patriot and make the switch today. We have to hit Governor DeWine out of Ohio. Yes, we do. We do. We do. So we have a Republican governor in Ohio. Quotes very much. Yeah, we cannot put enough quotation marks around that since 2020, basically. But a story that's been going on in the background here is the saga of temporary protected status.

That is a program that exists in this country for some reason where illegal immigrants from various countries can receive TPS, temporary status. And the idea of this was created so that. countries hit by hurricanes, for example, like you wouldn't be deported to your country if it had literally just been hit by a hurricane because it was unreasonable for you to leave immediately. That's what it was created for. But if there is a tool to keep someone who doesn't belong in the United States in the United States, the left will find this, fixate on it, and find a way to make it permanent. So we had asylum claims.

Now everyone claims asylum. And we have temporary protected status. You can go check, and the left will get temporary protected status on a country and they'll keep it there. for literally decades. It's worse than that. We will fund the NGOs that learn how to game these loopholes. Exactly. So you pay for it.

For example, Haiti got hit by a devastating earthquake in 2010 or 2011 around then, and they've been in temporary, temporary status, anyone illegally from Haiti ever since has benefited from that program. You know, just a little temporary thing until Haiti gets back on its feet. Well, shocker hasn't really happened because the country was never really on its feet. So anyway, the Trump administration, one of the many things that's been, aiming to do besides ice, besides securing the border, they've been trying to roll back this TPS so that these people should go home. Go home. And this is of course created all manner of backlash.

And so this dates us back to a big story from the 2024 election, which is the saga of Springfield, Ohio. You'll remember more than 10,000 Haitians have been settled in this small Ohio town a little bit north of Dayton, I believe, or around near Dayton I believe. They're eating the dogs. That's the mean thing. But setting aside that specific claim, they've totally transformed

this town with over 10,000 deeply foreign people who don't speak English have a lot of cultural differences. One of your new neighbors. Exactly. And if they haven't killed dogs and cats, they seem to have killed the geese. They killed all the geese. But anyway,

and this county swerved dramatically towards Trump in that election, I will note, 63% for Trump. But Governor DeWine is very upset at the prospect that they light lose TPS, and he said this on CNN, of course, the other day. Let's play 554. We're looking

at people who are working hard every day. The Haitians in Springfield are one example of that, under temporary protected status that here legally, and they're working. And what the employers have told me time and time again is we hired

Haitians year or two, three years ago, frankly, because we couldn't fill these jobs. Springfield has been moving forward. Sprinfield is coming back. Part of the reason they've been able to come back is because of these Haitians who are there. They're not only working, but of course they're spending money in the community. If we lose all those, if they lose temporary protected status, then they no longer can work and companies can't employ them, that's a blow to the economy. That's a blow to the state.

So I really want to fixate on this because that is a specific thing that dominated the 2024 election, the fact that they'll just take super foreign populations and drop them in the middle of America and offload all the externalities, all the problems this causes. Springfield has enough problems and now their local school district has to make sure they can hire experts in Haitian Creole, the local FBI offices in these places and law enforcement, they need to get these Haitian Creole speakers because they have. endless problems with it. And he says they're like enriching the economy. Well, first of all, apparently not because Springfield, other than these people, is not really growing. People move away from the effects of this kind of resettlement. They are not all rushing to this newly thriving place. They are leaving. The county is still shrinking, despite all the influx of these Haitians. But I also want to highlight what the actual economic system works, because a lot of people don't realize who specifically is benefiting from this. So I'm reading the Springfield News Sun.

This was the local news coverage while the whole dogs and cats things was unfolding. What happens is there's temporary staffing agencies, and they've done this in Springfield. They had someone who got imprisoned who was convicted of a crime for this in Pennsylvania and Charleroy, another city that got Haitians. All of these Haitians are showing up in Florida. A lot of them would arrive there and claim asylum during the Biden years. And then these staffing agencies will swoop in with buses and vans, and they will pick them up and say,

hey, do you want to work somewhere? And they'll haul them up into these Midwestern states. And then they'll house them in like a dilapidated property they own at like an extremely low rate. They'll house them there. They'll rent them out as temp workers to all these different companies. And it's basically like they systematically cut out all of the actual locals who could work in this place. And instead they brought in low wage labors who will live in horrible. conditions because they can tolerate that. They're from Haiti. They'll work for incredibly low wages.

In the Pennsylvania case, at least, they caught them with a tax evasion dimension where they were just not paying any of the required taxes on all of these workers. And it's just an entire operation to replace American workers in American cities. That's a conspiracy theory. Oh, yeah, massive conspiracy theory until they get literally convicted in federal court, which one of them was in early 2025 in Pennsylvania. And I suspect if you looked really hard in Springfield, you'd find a very similar pattern of behavior. Even when the owner of one of these businesses in this article, he's defending himself, it's called First Diversity Staffing, by the way. It really drives it home for you. First diversity staffing. And he says, yeah, I get why people are mad.

I'm an outsider who's helping outsiders. Like, you're not revitalizing Springfield Governor DeWine. You are just, you're creating a skin suit of Springfield. Well, that's when it gets really grading. to me to listen to a governor, a Republican in name only governor defending this. And, you know, I want to put up J.D. Vance's tweet. This is about something similar, but he makes a good point here. Take your eye down to the lower paragraph here. He says, because you hear this claim all the time. Well, these are legal asylees. They're in the country legally.

J.D. Vance rejects that premise. So should you. Final paragraph here said, the Biden Harris administration literally created an app, the CBP1 app to digitize the violation of federal immigration law and allow anyone who claimed asylum to stay indefinitely. This is illegitimate, illegal, and the American people rejected it. Just because you used an app to get into the country, just because you claim asylum, does not mean any of that was done on the up and up. I completely agree with the vice president here. Reject the premise, these people are illegitimate assailees, okay? Illigitimate, and they all need to go. Yes, and just as a general rule, you are not revitalize.

revitalizing your country. If you replace all the people in it with new people living a completely different way. You are elected to help Americans. And if you want to revitalize Springfield, you help the Americans there. You don't drive them out, replace them, let them die of ODs and then say, oh, it's magical, this new prosperity we've created. Look at Somali lands. Totally outrageous.

This is not what the people of Springfield voted for. It's not what the people of that county voted for. Haitians and Somalis. It's your neighbors. It's the Democrat vision. We just got an email from a resident in Springfield, Ohio. This is from Melissa. I live in Springfield, Ohio, and I have my whole life.

The city officials are dipping into the taxpayers' money until they have broke us. They have overvalued our homes to add more property tax. The illegal immigrants here are ruining my city. My car insurance has gone up to where it's unaffordable because everyone here gets a license. It's like handing out Halloween candy. They have open businesses. and one specifically, the owner, has a warrant for not filing sales tax. The thing is, the businesses that are being opened are not benefiting our city.

The illegals shop at these stores and the money gets sent back to wherever they are from. American citizens do not matter around here. People have been banned from our city council meetings and called racist because of what they say there. Nobody is helping us, and the city officials are corrupt. The illegals that are here do not try and learn English or conform to any of our law. laws, they get away directly by committing crimes, and several court documents could be obtained to prove this. This place is disgustingly dangerous.

I am embarrassed to call it my hometown. That's the city that Governor DeWine has been celebrating the progress in. That is what a local says is happening on the ground, and I think we should listen to people like Melissa. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.