Podcaster causes outrage after calling Erika Kirk a ‘grifter’ and her late husband an ‘unrepentant racist’
A podcaster has ignited an internet firestorm after branding Erika Kirk a “grifter” and Kirk’s late husband as an “unrepentant racist.”
Jennifer Welch, one of the co-hosts of the I’ve Had It podcast, also said that the widow should be “kicked to the curb” in an episode released on Sunday.
Welch tore into the Erika, after the CEO of Turning Point USA claimed that women had voted for Zohran Mamdani to become the mayor of New York City because they wanted the government to become a “replacement” for relationships.
“What I don’t want to have happen is women, young women, in the city look to the government as a solution,” Kirk said at a New York Times event last week. “To put off having a family or a marriage, because you’re relying on the government to support you, instead of being united with a husband.”
The furious host said that Kirk’s message was hypocritical, pointing out the disparity between the right-wing influencer encouraging women to stay home to start families while also headlining an event in Manhattan.
“You are an opportunistic grifter who weaponizes your gender to demean women,” Welch said. “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.
“For you to prance into Manhattan and lecture women who are abundantly aware of the coattails of which we have ridden… to be able to be heard.”
Welch also blasted Charlie Kirk as being “racist” and “homophobic.”
Her co-host, Angie Sullivan, suggested that there was more to life than “identifying yourself as someone’s wife or someone’s mother.”
The pair’s comments ignited a firestorm on social media, with one user describing Welch as one of the “most unlikeable and despicable people I’ve ever seen.”
“They’re both jealous. Old washed up feminists with many regrets,” another angry comment read.
“Jealousy is a terrible trait. Jennifer clearly needs to do some soul searching,” one user wrote.
However, there was also a wave of support for Welch on social media, with one person saying that they “couldn’t agree more.”
Another described them as “telling it like it is.”
