Inside Charlie Kirk’s investment portfolio
The late Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and a close ally of President Donald Trump, was widely known for his outspoken views on politics and culture, but he was also an avid investor and a supporter of digital assets. Kirk told The Iced Coffee Hour podcast that up to 80% of his wealth came from investments back in July. He described his strategy as “boring,” mentioning private equity firms, mutual funds, and indexes such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) as his team’s primary focus. The activist occasionally took bigger risks, however. In the same episode, he reflected on the “tariff stuff” and the COVID-19 pandemic, saying he “went all in” on triple-leveraged NASDAQ exchange-traded funds (ETFs), calling it the easiest bet of his life: “I went all in and bought the dip during the tariff stuff and COVID. During COVID I bought triple-leveraged QQQ. It was the easiest bet I’ve ever made in my life. My whole premise at the time was: this is so se...