President Trump: Biden ‘weaponized’ DOJ for kill shot against Turning Point USA long before Charlie Kirk assassination
President Donald Trump is forcefully asserting that former President Joe Biden weaponized the U.S. Justice Department to silence civil rights leader Charlie Kirk and cancel his conservative organization Turning Point USA.
In a late-night post on Truth Social Tuesday, Trump wondered: “Why was the wonderful Turning Point under INVESTIGATION by ‘Deranged’ Jack Smith and the Corrupt & Incompetent Biden Administration.”
“They Weaponized the Justice Department against Sleepy Joe Biden’s Political Opponents, including ME!”
The president’s remarks were posted only hours Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, revealed files indicating the FBI had subpoenaed 92 Republican-affiliated groups during its “Arctic Frost” election probe into Trump, including Turning Point USA, which was co-founded by Kirk in 2012.
That FBI investigation in 2022 was later given to Special Counsel Smith, who eventually charged Trump for allegedly hiding top-secret files at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, and trying to overturn the disputed presidential election of 2020.
“Some examples of the groups the [Christopher] Wray FBI sought to place under political investigation included the Republican National Committee, Republican Attorneys General Association and Trump political groups,” Grassley said.
“On that political list was one of Charlie Kirk’s groups, Turning Point USA.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley revealed this morning that corrupt FBI agents were TARGETING **92** peaceful conservative individuals and groups like Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA
We have to do more than just expose them. They must be ARRESTED.
THERE MUST BE CONSEQUENCES. OR THEY’LL DO IT AGAIN… pic.twitter.com/5u6SslFALZ
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 16, 2025
Appearing on “Jesse Watters Primetime” Tuesday night, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said Biden’s FBI was investigating Kirk “to try to intimidate him.”
“Charlie had said to me a couple of years ago … ‘I think that we are being targeted. I think TPUSA is being targeted … Can you help us?'”
Hawley explained: “This has got to be what he was talking about. And now we know that Joe Biden once again weaponized the FBI to go after his political opponents.
“It’s nothing but terrorism. It’s an attempt to silence and intimidate. I’m so glad that Charlie was not intimidated right up to the last day that he had on this Earth. That is why he is such a sterling example.”
NEW: Senator Josh Hawley say’s Biden’s FBI was “INTIMIDATING” Charlie Kirk @HawleyMO: “Charlie told me a couple years ago, “I think we’re being targeted. I think Turning Point USA is being targeted. Can you help us?”
“Now we know Joe Biden once again weaponized the FBI to… pic.twitter.com/MCL09Bw1Cf
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) September 17, 2025
“What Joe Biden did in his administration, we can’t ever allow to happen again. You look at the climate they created,” Hawley continued.
“We’re reaping the fruits of that now. The climate of hate and division and suspicion that they deliberately created for years to try to hold onto power. It’s despicable and it’s time to turn the page on it.”
Turning Point USA has been inundated with more than 54,000 new chapter requests since Kirk was gunned down while speaking in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10.
The surge came in the wake of an appeal by Charlie’s widow Erika Kirk. Before her plea, the group had 9,000 college chapters and 1,100 high-school chapters.
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