Charlie Kirk Hammered With Hard Questions At Wild Ohio U 'Culture War' Event

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Oct. 30, 2019

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk forcefully defended his support for green card giveaways, drag queens and Israel while facing off with young culture warriors during a wild Q&A at his "Culture Wars" event Tuesday night at the University of Ohio.

Kirk was joined by gay Army vet Rob Smith, a former Democrat who "came out" as a conservative Republican on Fox News in July 2018 and joined with TPUSA in March 2019.

WATCH:

[Embed and Q&A starts at 43:25.]

Here's some highlights shared on Twitter:

Cringe. @charliekirk11 triples down on stapling green cards to F-1 diplomas, falsely claims green cards only provide "temporary" residency and no path to citizenship, and falsely claims F-1/OPT workers pay taxes. Stabbing US grads in the back is not America First. #openbordersinc https://t.co/QRtMFEufUI
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) October 30, 2019

I didn’t know if Groypers even really existed. But they DO, and people are starting to notice! pic.twitter.com/ewUs3tlxmC
— Jolly Jacobite ✞🍁 (@JacobiteJolly) October 30, 2019

BASED Catholic questioner asks Charlie Kirk and Rob Smith why the mainstream conservative right keeps pandering to homosexuals and how the mainstream right can win the “culture war” by accepting sexual degeneracy pic.twitter.com/5otCLpVL2k
— Catholic Groyper 🇺🇸 ✝️ (@catholic_goy) October 30, 2019

Patrick Casey DESTROYS Charlie Kirk pic.twitter.com/AFvPimSxGp
— american nationalist (@NationalistTV) October 30, 2019

TPUSA plant who cut America First patriots in Q&A line pictured with Charlie Kirk pic.twitter.com/sBU8KqAmfD
— ZoomerNat (@ZoomerNat) October 30, 2019

Turning Point's Rob Smith responded to the event by smearing all his and Kirk's questioners as "white supremacist racists."

This is a completely reasonable question on immigration.

Wrong for Kirk and Turning Point to suggest this young Trump supporter’s views are “racist.”

They already get that every day from their leftist professors.pic.twitter.com/C4QT0gGsgy
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) October 30, 2019

This is so wrong.

You don’t know these kids, you don’t know their views.

But you know damn well how the charge of “racism” can destroy a career. pic.twitter.com/PHeiPGwrND
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) October 30, 2019

Just before the event, Smith was bashing conservatives for being "boring" and "behind the times" for disliking this photo of The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles posing with drag queen "Lady Maga."

Anyone attacking @michaeljknowles for this photo with @LadyMagaUSA is:

Boring
Behind the times
EXACTLY why conservatives are left out of the culture

We’re out here trying to shake things up. You don’t like it? Go to team @MittRomney and be “respectable” https://t.co/CqwQzS1uDh
— Rob Smith 🇺🇸 (@robsmithonline) October 29, 2019

Kirk was similarly pictured with "Lady Maga" at Politicon earlier this week:

Conservatism in 2019... pic.twitter.com/VLIeetECCN
— Zoomer Loyalist 🎃 (@ZoomerClips) October 29, 2019

TPUSA chief creative officer Benny Johnson, who rushed to smear the students of Covington Catholic high school as "despicable" and suggested they were filled with "hate," also rushed to smear these young men as racist:

There were a number of trolls who sabotaged the Q&A portion of tonight’s @tpusa event.

Many of the questions were abhorrent and were not asked in good faith.

White nationalism and anti-gay hatred have no place in our movement.

This is what the Left wants.

It’s time to Wake Up
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) October 30, 2019

Nick Fuentes pushed back against TPUSA's attacks on Twitter:

Turning Point shills are saying that Charlie Kirk’s event last night was “sabotaged” by “trolls.” What did those mischievous trolls do to allegedly “sabotage” the event? They sat respectfully through Kirk’s speech & then asked questions... during the *Question & Answer* session.
— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) October 30, 2019

When Charlie Kirk goes to a college campus and gets challenged in the Q&A by socialists or left wing students, nobody panics, because it’s all part of the plan.

But when a Groyper asks one little question about Dancing Israelis... well then everyone loses their minds!
— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) October 30, 2019

Regardless of where one stands on these issues, many of the topics raised by these questioners are debates conservatives need to have to determine the future of the right in America.

At the top of Drudge on Tuesday was an article from Axios saying Republicans fear they're going to face a "total wipeout" in 2020.

Have they considered trying to serve the interests of their base instead of their donors?

Throwing open our borders, championing our wars in the Middle East and giving giant tax cuts to megacorporations that hate you probably isn't the best strategy. https://t.co/LY3MOPSWWN
— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) October 29, 2019

Charlie Kirk's brand of "Neocon 2.0 Donor First Nationalism" which Trump has foolishly signed on to is not selling. Smearing everyone who doesn't like it as "white supremacist racists" is not going to make these issues go away.

UPDATE:

Do you guys remember that time @robsmithonline played the identity politics game just so he could get on CNN and called Trump's Joint Chiefs of Staff racists?

Now, he's miraculously working for Turning Point USA and @charliekirk11 where he pretends he's conservative. pic.twitter.com/gBd84ZMUcw
— Brett MacDonald (@TweetBrettMac) October 30, 2019

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