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American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)
Fact-checking and reporting show Charlie Kirk repeatedly made statements critics call antisemitic and racist, notably saying Jews “have been some of the largest funders of cultural Marxist ideas” and ...
No simple yes-or-no answer resolves this question. FBI surveillance materials and later reporting contain allegations that Martin Luther King Jr. had multiple extramarital sexual encounters and that F...
The Insurrection Act has been invoked intermittently since the early republic, with sources counting roughly 30 separate invocations over U.S. history and attributing those uses to somewhere between 1...
Charlie Kirk publicly said “MLK was awful. He’s not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn’t believe,” while speaking at a Turning Point USA event in December 2023, a quote first repor...
Charlie Kirk amassed a record of public remarks that critics say attacked Black people, affirmative action, critical race theory and Martin Luther King Jr.; outlets and advocacy groups document quotes...
Available reporting shows the FBI surveilled Martin Luther King Jr. from the late 1950s into the 1960s and collected tapes and memos that allege he had multiple extramarital sexual relationships; jour...
Donald Trump did not "swap" the date of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday, but his administration removed MLK Day (and Juneteenth) from the National Park Service’s list of fee‑free admis...
Federal employees have 11 official paid federal holidays in 2026; several sources list the calendar dates and note weekend‑observance rules (if a holiday falls on Saturday it is usually observed Frida...
The Trump administration removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the National Park Service’s 2026 list of fee‑free entrance days and added President Trump’s birthday/Flag Day in their p...
President Donald Trump did abolish Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday in the United States; multiple contemporaneous analyses and reporting show that while some federal agencies temporari...
No credible reporting in the provided documents shows a leaked memo claiming President Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act specifically on Martin Luther King Jr. Day; the only “leaked memo” in the ...
Charlie Kirk built a national profile as a provocative conservative influencer whose social-media posts and public remarks drew repeated controversy for racism, Islamophobia, COVID-19 misinformation, ...
The earliest public reporting that crystallized the modern “rape allegation” narrative about Martin Luther King Jr. traces to historian David J. Garrow’s 2019 article in Standpoint, which relied on FB...
Reporting and declassified FBI files show long‑standing allegations that Martin Luther King Jr. engaged in multiple extramarital sexual relationships and that the FBI collected and publicized sexually...
Charlie Kirk publicly said “we made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s,” and tied that view to claims the law spawned a “permanent DEI‑type bureaucracy” and limits on free...
Coretta Scott King did publicly respond to rumors about Martin Luther King Jr.’s alleged infidelities, generally downplaying them and expressing faith in her marriage even when FBI surveillance materi...
Charlie Kirk has publicly said “we made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s,” and repeated variants of that critique in speeches and events, framing the 1964 law as having ...
Charlie Kirk did publicly say “MLK was awful. He’s not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn’t believe,” a line reported from a December 2023 America Fest speech and documented by mul...
Charlie Kirk said “We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s” during a speech at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in December 2023; multiple fact-checkers and news outlets...
Charlie Kirk publicly denounced Martin Luther King Jr. as a figure unworthy of veneration, saying King was “not a good person” and at times “awful,” and arguing that idolizing King and passing the Civ...