Which Charlie Kirk quotes about women have been independently verified and where can original audio/video be found?
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Executive summary
A handful of Charlie Kirk’s most inflammatory remarks about women and gender have been independently verified by fact‑checking and reporting: notably his July 13, 2023 on‑air line singling out specific Black women as lacking “brain processing power,” a set of anti‑feminist remarks made on his show in 2025 about women’s roles, and previously reported statements about pregnancy after rape and race‑qualified pilots that intersect with gendered topics; primary audio/video for at least the July 13, 2023 segment has been identified in show archives by Snopes [1] [2] [3]. Context and disputes over wording and scope exist — some outlets and analysts say quoted lines were clipped, summarized, or misrendered in secondary reporting [4] [5].
1. The clearest, independently verified quote — “brain processing power” about named Black women
Snopes located and verified a July 13, 2023 episode of The Charlie Kirk Show in which Kirk named Michelle Obama, Joy Reid, Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson and said language that Snopes summarized as asserting they lacked “brain processing power” to be taken seriously absent affirmative‑action‑style advantage; Snopes identified the archived audio segment and timestamps (segment begins at 53:45 in the archived episode) and concluded the clip is authentic [1]. Multiple outlets have since reproduced the same clip or transcribed the segment, and independent collections of Kirk quotes compiled after his death also list this same line [2] [3].
2. Where to find the original audio/video for the July 13, 2023 remark
Snopes points directly to the archived episode of The Charlie Kirk Show and gives a precise start point for the segment in question, making the original audio/video traceable to the show’s archive [1]. Reporting aggregators and quote compendia compiled by news organizations and fact‑checkers republished or embedded that same show audio or screenshots of the episode page, enabling independent verification of the line as spoken on air [2] [3].
3. Other gendered quotes that have been circulated and their sourcing
Fact‑checking collections and reporting list other verified or reported Kirk lines that touch on women and gender: a hypothetical answer he gave about a 10‑year‑old daughter forced to carry a pregnancy to term and remarks expressing hope that Black pilots were “qualified,” both documented in quote collections that cite specific show episodes or interviews [2]. The Guardian also compiled a range of Kirk’s anti‑feminist lines — including “Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge” — and attributed them to episodes of The Charlie Kirk Show during 2025 tour stops, pointing readers back to show recordings and media monitors [3].
4. Disputes over wording, context and misquotation
Analysts, including independent writers and a Medium summary, caution that some viral attributions compress, broaden or slightly alter Kirk’s phrasing — for example, noting that some reports transformed a line aimed at specific public figures into an apparent blanket statement about all Black women, changing the scope and harm of the quote [4]. The campus paper Observer and other commentators also critique clips for being taken out of conversational context even while acknowledging the underlying statements are offensive and documented [5]. Those debates do not erase the presence of original audio but do matter for how quotes are framed in secondary reporting [4] [5].
5. What reporting does not (yet) show and limits of available sources
The sources provided verify the July 13, 2023 audio and list other show quotations reported across outlets, but they do not provide a complete catalog of every episode’s raw video files within these links; some later quotes cited by The Guardian are attributed to show episodes whose raw files may be hosted in platform archives or third‑party monitors not reproduced in the supplied reporting [1] [3]. Where the record exists, Snopes and news outlets point to archived show audio or episode pages as the primary original sources [1] [2] [3].