Left-Wing Podcaster Jennifer Welch Says With Straight Face Charlie Kirk Justified His Own Murder

Left-wing podcaster Jennifer Welch claimed that Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk’s pro-Second Amendment advocacy justified his death during an episode of her podcast “I’ve Had It” airing Saturday.

TPUSA CEO Erika Kirk held a town hall meeting with CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, broadcast Saturday, in which she criticized those who justified her husband’s killing. Welch and former CNN host Don Lemon attacked Kirk for his support of the Second Amendment and his opposition to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. (RELATED: “Look in the Mirror”: Erika Kirk Tells the Last Person to Talk to Her Husband Who Needs to Calm Down the Rhetoric)

“The person I heard that justified his death was him,” Welch said. “He’s the one who said on tape that if school kids die, but that means he gets a second amendment, so that’s… that’s what it’s going to be. He’s the one that justified it and I believe at the time of the shooting he was talking about gun violence at the time. That’s crazy to me, number one.”

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“And then for her – I want to get your opinion on this as a black man – for her to say that people are dehumanizing Charlie Kirk, I remember him dehumanizing a black pilot,” Welch continued. “He wouldn’t want to fly on a plane if the pilot was black, which is, you know, Turning Point, Turning Point, Turning Point, everywhere he went, it was the dehumanization of black people. So, I want to get your perspective on both of those things.”

During the CBS News town hall, Weiss noted that Kirk’s comments about hoping for a black pilot to qualify were part of a larger discussion.

“I just got off a plane and I never thought about the color of the pilot, you know, and I don’t care what color they are. I don’t care what their ethnicity, what gender they are, as long as they have the skills to fly the plane,” Lemon said. “So I don’t see it that way. And I think it’s ridiculous. He also said that black women don’t have brains, enough brain processing power. I don’t know if you remember that.”

Lemon’s claims took out of context Kirk’s comments during the July 13, 2023 episode of his show. Kirk had discussed former MS NOW host Joy Reid, Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, former First Lady Michelle Obama and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. During the show’s episode, which aired weeks after the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action programs in college admissions, Kirk played a clip of Jackson Lee proclaiming that she was hired because of affirmative action. (RELATED: ‘He Gave Them a Microphone’: Erika Kirk Tears Down Her Husband’s ‘Incited Violence’ Allegations)

“First of all, like I said, I don’t know anyone who justified Charlie Kirk’s death, who said, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m so glad he died and he deserved to die.’ I don’t know anyone who said that,” Lemon said. “Now the internet can be cruel. I agree with her on this, and you know it. People in the comments can be cruel. However, I believe the gist of his question or the wording of his question was wrong, because no one did it. And those are two things – they’re separate things. “

ABC suspended late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on September 17 after broadcast station ownership groups Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcasting announced they would not air his show following Kimmel’s comments about the Kirk assassination. Other comments celebrating, mocking, or justifying Kirk’s assassination occurred on various online social networks, particularly on platforms like BlueSky, leading to the firing of several people, including MSNBC political analyst Matthew Dowd and Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah.

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