Few faces have become so identifiable with support for President Trump as Charlie Kirk's. Frequently found grinning like a Cheshire cat beneath the gilded wing of this or that member of the Trump family, Kirk brags in his new book that he was "MAGA before it was cool." Trump has even given Kirk’s book the presidential seal of approval on Twitter. There is, however, a small problem with Kirk’s latest claim to fame: it's a lie.
In an interview with Newsweek last April, Kirk asserted that "he's been a supporter of Trump's presidential ambitions since at least 2011." A few months later, he contradicted himself in an op-ed: "Yes, it's true, a year before the 2016 election," he wrote last November, "I was still skeptical that a billionaire from New York City with no real political record was going to be as conservative as some of the other candidates." The diehard pro-Trump Kirk of 2011 would like a word with the snarky anti-Trump Kirk of 2016.
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