Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec took to the stage at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest on Saturday, talking about the importance of God in saving the United States and the West.
"There’s been this narrative that AmFest has been divisive, and AmFest has been about infighting and bickering and division and all of this. And when Benny and I heard about Grandma Jeanie, I brought it to Erika, and I said, 'you know something, this is an opportunity for us to take a year—a year that started off on such a high note, when I was here last year, we were on the top of the highest mountain. We’d won the election. We’d won the swing states, the popular vote. You all saw how happy Charlie was that night. I was sitting right there. Held his face in his hands, teared up a little bit, Charlie didn’t like to show that kind of emotion on air, none of us do. He was so happy because God had given our country a chance, because God had given our country a chance to succeed, and yet we didn’t realize that God had different plans for all of us."
Posoobiec said he’d be "lying to you if I tell you that I had it all figured out or understand what all of this means," adding, "I don’t but I have faith in God’s plan, I have faith in God’s will, and I have faith that God’s sovereignty is paramount, becase Jesus Christ is the king of the entire universe, and he is the author of all creation. Christ is King."
He recounted coming from the "top of that highest mountain" of the election win, to the "pit of the deepest valley, the valley of the shadow of death itself. As the Bible tells us, when you’re faced with something like that, you don’t know how you’re going to react. You don’t know what the rules are. There’s no playbook. There’s no manual. There’s no one coming to tell you, hey, this is what you do."
"But if you have God at the center of your heart, if you rely on the principles and teachings of the Holy Bible, and you listen, you listen to God’s voice in those low hours in the middle of the night when you can’t sleep, when you’re saying 'why God, why?' He’ll give you the answer. He will give you the answer. I promise that."
Posobiec said that it is "only through the firm reliance of God that any of us have been able to get through this, have been able to get through the murder of our friend, and it is only through—and we can see God’s grace imbued deeply in Erika Kirk and her strength as the cornerstone of Turning Point USA."
He continued after a round of applause for Erika Kirk, "you want to talk about the division, you want to talk about the infighting, 'whose side are you on? Are you on Ben’s side? Are you on Tucker’s Side? And Candace and Megan and all the rest of it.' and it’s like, guys, I’m on Charlie’s side, okay. I’m on Turning Point’s side. I’m on America’s side. I’m on Christ’s side. That’s the side. And behind the scenes, these are real people. These are real people with real lives. And at the center of that is a real family who lost their dad. Two little kids who lost their father, a wife who lost her husband,
"And in the midst of all these comments and confusions and divisions, and I'm not saying you can't ask questions, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not like that. I ain't about that. I'm about freedom of speech. I've always been about freedom of speech. And you know who else was about freedom of speech? Charlie Kirk was about freedom of speech. So we don't do the canceling and the de-platforming, and you can't talk to that person and this person disagrees, so I can’t—no, we're not about that. AmFest wasn't about that. Charlie wasn't about that. And I know Erika’s not about that.
"If Turning Point USA is going to succeed, it will do so—and it will—It will do so by resting on those same principles and values on which Charlie created it, yes. And don't come into the Turning Point USA AmFest house and try to tell us to change. We're not doing it. So all of that is to say, all that is to say that when I told Erika about Grandma Jeanie. She said, Jack, I want her at AmFest. And I said, Erika, I’m gonna make it happen. And I will not let down Erika Kirk, and I will not let down Charlie Kirk, and I will not let down the legacy of Turning Point, because this mission will continue. The worst thing we could do for Charlie's legacy, the worst thing we could do at all is to surrender, is to let the left win, the violent left, the violent left that took Charlie away from us."
Posobiec asked the crowd if they were going to "let them win," to which the crowd replied, "No." Posobiec asked the crowd, "Are you going to stand together and be that coalition that Donald J trump and Bobby Kennedy and Elon Musk and Charlie Kirk joined together in 2024? Are you going to form the coalition?" The crowd shouted "yes."
"Are you going to continue the mission of Turning Point USA?" he asked, with the crowd responding with cheers. "Are you going to stand firm on business to understand that we only have a little bit of time left to save this country," he continued, with the crowd once again cheering.
"Folks, it’s really simple, it’s really simple. They want to destroy us, and we want to save us. We believe that the only way to save this country, and I said it a year ago today, the only way the West will be saved is if we return our civilization back to Almighty God. It’s the only way."
He recounted a story from when he first officially came on board with Turning Point of him and Charlie Kirk taking a drive out to a Catholic church in Phoenix that had a display of one of the relics of Padre Pio. "The glove of Padre Pio was there, and we went. We went before that, we received it, and then Charlie and I sat down just in one pew. The whole church was empty. It was just me and Charlie and we knelt. And we just spent an hour sitting there, the two of us, kneeling there, the two of us in silent prayer before the Almighty God and before the cross, before the throne. That was how Charlie Kirk brought me into Turning Point through prayer, through worship, and through praise of Christ, Jesus."
He later added that "in that spirit, especially in this Christmas time, I was thinking, what could we do to possibly uphold that legacy? And so in the way that Charlie and I started this, I thought that’s what we should do today as well. In Prayer."
Posobiec brought out his wife, Tanya, and his two sons, to recite a prayer for the crowd. Concluding, Posobiec said, "Merry Christmas, everyone, God bless you. Keep God at the center of everything you do."
