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====== Charlie Kirk dead after shooting ======


"Charlie, we love you."


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|Turning Point Founder and conservative trailblazer Charlie Kirk has passed away after a fatal shooting at a student event on Wednesday. \\ \\ "The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead," Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social. \\ \\ "No one," the president continued in his tribute to the man who did more than perhaps anyone to mobilize young Americans for conservative values, "understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you."\\ \\ "May God rest his soul," Convention of States President Mark Meckler posted. "Please pray for his widow and kids."\\ \\ "Like all of you, I am utterly stunned and heartbroken and sick to my soul today," Ben Shapiro wrote on X. "It is unimaginable to write these words."\\ \\ "I met Charlie Kirk when he was 18 years old, a young man so eager and determined that I immediately turned to a friend and said, 'That kid is going to be the head of the RNC one day.' Charlie became even bigger and more important than that. It was a privilege to watch this principled man stand up for his beliefs and create the single most important conservative political organization in America. But more importantly, Charlie was a good man, a man who believed in right and wrong, who stood by his Biblical values. All of us will miss him, and I can’t imagine the pain of his beautiful young family, and we must all pray for them. And we must pick up the baton where Charlie left it, fighting for the things he believed in so passionately. And we must fight for a better America - an America where good people can speak truth and debate passionately without fear of a bullet. I weep for Charlie’s family, and I weep for my country today. Most of all, I weep for Charlie."\\ \\ "I’m totally devastated," added Matt Walsh. "Charlie was a friend and a very good man. I always worried that it would come to this eventually. I never thought it would be Charlie. He will be dearly missed. I’m praying for his family."\\ \\ Other world leaders, including Vice President JD Vance, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden posted tributes to Kirk as well.\\ \\ **[[https://conventionofstates.com/news/charlie-kirk-shot|Read more about the shooting here.]]**|


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|Created:                 |2025-09-10 20:51 GMT|
|Updated:                 |2025-09-16 07:00 GMT|
|Published:               |2025-09-10 20:00 GMT|
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