Trump ally’s stunning request: 'If this election doesn’t go our way the next day we fight'
Christian nationalist and far-right political activist Charlie Kirk, a top influencer and Trump ally, urged supporters at a faith-based event on Sunday to “fight” if Donald Trump doesn’t win the 2024 presidential election.
“I want to make sure that we all make a commitment that if this election doesn’t go our way, the next day we fight,” Kirk told the audience at “Freedom Night,” hosted by Pastor John Randall.
“It’s a very important thing,” Kirk added before saying, “a lot of people don’t want to hear that. They say, ‘What do you mean it doesn’t go our way? It has to go our way. We have to win.’ I agree.”
Kirk is a member of the highly-secretive Council for National Policy, a purveyor of Donald Trump’s “Big Lie,” and has repeatedly promoted the false claim that U.S. elections are “rigged.”
Pastor Randall, of California’s Calvary South OC, had told Kirk, “I know on the minds of these freedom loving people tonight is the election. We were talking tonight before about some of the things that are going on and what you were sharing and I was listening, I found encouraging talk about this upcoming election how important this is, how critical this is, and what the church can be doing to make a difference. So well, you know, so that this doesn’t happen again.”
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In Kirk’s response, he reminded the audience, “there were a lot of people by the way that were all on board of the American Revolution as long as it was 73 degrees and sunny, and as soon as they had to march through the winter and fight a smallpox epidemic, they said, ‘Forget this. You know, Liberty sounds nice, but I liked, I liked King George a lot.’ So they kind of got out of the way.”
“I’m a big supporter of President Trump. I think he’s in a great position. I really do,” Kirk added, before issuing a warning.
“Mark my words, put it in your phone, they got something planned for us, and it’s going to be nasty, and it will be asymmetric. And so if only elections aren’t in mid-March, right, you know, if only it wasn’t the Ides of March and we have elections it would be great how to best unpack this.”
He went on to say there’s a “50-50” chance President Joe Bide will be the Democratic nominee. “It looks like he will be the nominee but anything can change. They’re running out of time. If they were going to do it. It probably would have already been done by now.”
“It’s not Trump versus Biden. It’s Trump versus Biden versus RFK versus Cornell West versus Jill Stein.”
The Atlantic’s Norman Ornstein, a political scientist and emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), commented on Kirk’s remarks: “Yeah, sure, the ‘bloodbath’ comments by Trump were only about cars. Wake up, America. Violent insurrectionists are open about their plans.”
The Daily Beast’s Jose Pagliery observed, “Prominent right wing voices keep vowing to fight if they lose the 2024 election this November. They are rooting for a failure of the American democratic system.”
Journalist and SiriusXM host Michelangelo Signorile added, “He’s clearly talking about an insurgency, weapons and war.”
Annika Brockschmidt, a German journalist and author who writes about the Christian right in America, responded to Kirks comments and called it a clear “incitement of violence.”
“Listen to them,” she added. “This is not just talk. They mean it.”
Watch a short clip of Kirk’s remarks below or at this link.
'Hunters will become the hunted': Convicted J6er running for Congress makes a new promise
On Halloween, Derrick Evans posted on social media a picture of himself in an orange prison jumpsuit and his wife in a police uniform.
“As a J6 Political Prisoner,” Evans wrote, “this is still my favorite Halloween costume.”
In January, he posted a photo of an ID badge and wrote, “Found this today: It's my Prison ID from when they held me hostage as a January 6th Political Prisoner.”
Evans, an admitted felon and Donald Trump acolyte, who spent three months in federal prison, now wants to get back to the Capitol — but this time, as an elected lawmaker.
Evans is running for the Republican nomination in West Virginia’s 1st Congressional District — an overwhelmingly conservative area where the Republican nominee is all but assured to win.
He is running from the right of incumbent Rep. Carol Miller, a Republican who Evans dismissed in a recent social media post as “worse than a RINO,” the political slur for “Republican in name only.”
Added Evans: “She is an undocumented Democrat.”
This week, Evans touted an endorsement from presidentially pardoned Trump operative Roger Stone, who said, “Derrick did time in prison and even in solitary confinement for standing with President Trump and protesting Joe Biden's stolen election.”
Evans also has endorsements from Trump loyalists Michael Flynn, the retired general, and Mike Lindell, the bombastic pillow peddler.
Neither Evans nor Miller responded to Raw Story’s request for comment.
Evans has embraced January 6 as his primary brand. But he sprinkles racism and Christian Nationalism into his public missives, as well.
A recent post by Evans on X invoked the racist “replacement theory” that non-white immigrants are part of a plot to replace white political and social power.
Another, seemingly random post, said, “Put Aunt Jemima back on the syrup bottle,” a reference to the Quaker Oats company changing the name and label of its famous brand by eliminating the racist caricature of a Black woman.
He has also posted of the former first lady, “Who thinks Michelle Obama is really a man?”
In a recent post, Evans complained that “Christian tax dollars” were being used to paint rainbow sidewalks, and another post said, simply, “You can follow the science. I’m going to continue following Jesus.”
Go to Evans’ website and you’ll find a page that might cause you to believe the site is hacked.
“J6 PRISONER running for U.S. CONGRESS,” it says under a photo of a man in a gray hoodie leaving a building and looking down. “Standing U.S. Legislator Arrested and Imprisoned. MEET DERRICK EVANS.”
But it isn’t a hack. It’s Evans’ sales pitch.
A fundraising page on Evans’ campaign website says, “When I take my seat in Congress, we will turn the tables and the hunters will become the hunted. Mark my words, they fear Patriots like President Trump and myself. Bogus charges are all they have left.”
