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Progressive Podcaster Rips Into Erika And Charlie Kirk: 'Absolute Grifter'

Jennifer Welch, one half of the progressive podcast duo behind “I’ve Had It,” ripped into Erika Kirk, calling her a “grifter” and calling the late Charlie Kirk “racist and a homophobe.”

“This woman should be kicked to the curb,” Welch said about Erika Kirk in a video uploaded Sunday to the “I’ve Had It” YouTube page. “She is an absolute grifter. Just like Donald Trump and just like her unrepentant racist homophobic husband was.”

In the video, Welch shared a clip of Erika Kirk being interviewed Wednesday by The New York Times, where she said she doesn’t want New York City women to rely on the government and put off marriage and having a family, adding that she finds it “ironic” that a large percentage of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s voters were women.

Welch first called out Erika Kirk for toning down her look for the Wednesday interview, trading in her usual heavy makeup look for more subtle makeup and a high-neck grey dress. Then Welch called out Erika Kirk for “weaponizing” her gender when Erika Kirk is a “full-time working mother” and CEO of a company.

“You are an opportunistic grifter who weaponizes your gender to demean women, and you are a walking, talking, breathing example as to why nobody, number one, wants to be a Christian, and number two, wants to be a female hypocrite such as yourself,” Welch said.

Welch continued: “Your deceased husband was an unrepentant racist and a homophobe, and women are a lot more empathic than you are, Erika.”

Welch’s co-host, Angie Sullivan, added that “maybe there’s more to life than identifying yourself as someone’s wife or someone’s mother.”

After Charlie Kirk, founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, a conservative organization aimed at making college students conservative, was murdered in September, his wife took over the organization and has since been on a media tour, talking about her late husband. During Erika Kirk’s interview with The New York Times, she said she was still a supporter of the Second Amendment, even though Charlie Kirk was shot and killed, and said the issue is a “human problem.”

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During his life, Charlie Kirk spouted many racist, sexist and homophobic views, including that women should go to college to find a husband and that too many women are waiting until their 30s to have kids. Critics have pointed out the hypocrisy of Charlie and Erika Kirk, considering Erika Kirk earned a degree and founded a nonprofit before marrying Charlie and having kids in her 30s.