The Left's Coup d'Etat Fantasies + What Drives a GOP Backstabber?
The Charlie Kirk Show
September 22, 2026
With six weeks to election day, why is a top hobby for Republicans still helping the left? The team reacts to a ridiculous backstab from Utah Sen. John Curtis and dissects his real motivations.
Speakers Charlie Kirk, Andrew Kolvet, Rich Baris, Blake, Hassan Piker, Patrick Clancy, Allie Beth Stuckey, Nicholas Leone
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Charlie Kirk (0:03)
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Andrew Kolvet (1:17)
All right. Welcome, everybody. September 22nd, 2026 here at the Y Reef Eye Studios in Phoenix, Arizona. The show is just beginning. But Blake, you were gone yesterday. I was. I have to just show the audience there. There's a ton of news. There's a ton of stuff that we're going to get to.
But I want to show this glamorous shot of Blake and Jeremy Boring, 139 Throw it up. If you're wondering where Blake was yesterday, wonder no more. This is...
I mean, that's fierce, Blake.
Rich Baris (1:50)
That is fierce.
Blake (1:53)
I probably could have done with a couple of different shots in my facial expression there.
Andrew Kolvet (1:57)
And it comes with the caption of Charlie called Blake his secret weapon in, you know, boy oh boy, something along those lines. Anyways, I look forward to listening to it. I don't know if you want to give us a little preview of what you talked about or what you can expect. Yeah, well, I mean, if you guys want all the tea.
Blake (2:18)
Go support his thing so that it's a highly viewed episode.
Andrew Kolvet (2:21)
And then yes, yes. So anyways, that's exciting.
Blake was like, hey, I'm going to miss a day. I'm like, for what? And he's like, well, I got this thing in Nashville.
Blake (2:33)
I told you about that a month ago.
Andrew Kolvet (2:35)
It was great. I'm happy you did it. I'm looking forward to it. I'm just razzin him. I'm just razzin him a bit, but the picture is worth a thousand words. It's a great photo. There was a little bit of mockery online, but we'll leave it at that. I don't care. I don't care. Exactly. You shouldn't.
The trolls will come no matter what you do, and sometimes that means you're over the target.
Blake (2:54)
I should have had a s'mores latte.
Andrew Kolvet (2:55)
Yeah, exactly.
Blake (2:56)
An officially large s'mores latte. I should go get a s'mores latte today.
Andrew Kolvet (2:59)
Exactly. Let's make it happen. All right. So there's a lot of news. Obviously President Trump has addressed the UN. That's happening in New York. He was doing a press conference with Mom Donnie.
I'll just be honest, I don't really love it. Mom Donnie is a socialist, probably more like a communist, and he's transforming New York before our very eyes. Don't love it, but it is what it is. And President Trump is a big fan in New York, so obviously he wants to do his part to make sure the city is doing well. But it is what it is. All right. So we're going to get into a lot of this polling about political violence. Got to get to that. But this morning, start up first thing I saw when I woke up this morning was the blessed senator from the state of Utah, the junior senator, the second senator, Mike Lee will always be the senior and the first.
Blake (3:55)
The good senator and the bad senator.
Andrew Kolvet (3:56)
The good senator and the bad senator. It's the tale of two senators out of the state of Utah. There is, so there was a ProPublica article rather, that came out alleging that Don Jr. had done some nefarious things related to his wedding.
The ProPublica report stated that a Putin-linked Russian oligarch named Umar Kremlin secretly covered hundreds of thousands of dollars for Don and Bettina's May 2026 Bahamas wedding including a private island rental and fireworks. This is total to about a couple of hundred thousand dollars. So then the article also states that White House aide Peter Navarro, a friend of Don Jr., Don's friends with everybody. This is ridiculous, initiated a $620 million Pentagon loan to Vulcan Elements, a rare earth magnet startup that Don Jr.'s VC firm, 1789, I mean Don's involved, but it's whatever, capital had invested in just three months earlier. It was the only such deal pushed by a top presidential aide. Now, this was the start of it. Now, his spokesman, Don's spokesman, said that he had no involvement in the Vulcan loan. By the way, I would totally believe that this to be the case, because Don hasn't been really involved in politics much.
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