Erika Kirk promises that my husband’s voice will remain “in tribute to Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erica, gave a tearful address in which she thanked the first respondents for trying to save her husband’s life after he was fatally shot at University University in Utah.

In a vest standing next to her husband’s empty chair, which he uses during a podcast, she quotes the Bible and talks about her love for President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, the United States and the two children of the couple.

Kirk, a right activist, was shot dead on Wednesday during an outdoor speaking event in Orem, Utah. His suspected killer, Tyler Robinson, was arrested on Thursday night after surrendered to police.

In his remarks, Da Kirk promised: “My husband’s voice will remain.”

The broadcast from the Turning Point USA headquarters in Arizona started with a few minutes of silence as the camera framed Charlie Kirk’s empty chair.

As his widow began to speak, she looked up and whispered a silent prayer.

She then thanked the first respondents to try to save him, her husband’s staff and the White House.

“G -n president, my husband loved you.

“But most of all, Charlie loved his children. And he loved me. With all his heart. And he made sure I knew that every day.”

Turning to “Evil, Mrs. Kirk said,” You have no idea the fire you lit within this wife, the cries of this widow will echo the world as a combat cry.

“They all need to know this: if you thought that my husband’s mission was powerful before you had no idea, you have no idea what you have just unleashed throughout this country and this world.”

The tour of her husband from the university campuses in the United States will continue in the fall and in the coming years she said without offering further details. His podcast will continue.

Erika Kirk also talks about her one -year -old son and three -year -old daughter, saying she was in a loss of how to explain her father’s sudden death.

“Honey, Dad loves you so much. Don’t worry. He’s on a work trip with Jesus,” she told their daughter.

It is reported that G -j Kirk and their children were among the audience when her husband was shot.

Erika Kirk is a businesswoman, and former Miss Arizona USA winner, who met her husband in 2018. The couple was engaged until 2020 and married less than a year later.

She is currently studying for a PhD in biblical research, launches a ministry program and hosts a Rise Up podcast in the middle of the week, focused on the biblical leadership. Mrs. Kirk also works models and has a line of clothing based on faith.

Although the couple’s children and home life are regular gadgets on her social media pages, they never publish images showing the faces of their children.

31 -year -old Charlie Kirk, a controversial figure in American political discourse, is welcomed by many as the future of American conservatism with the ability to Energy of young conservatives.

By mobilizing the youth vote, he was an instrumental organizer in the Donald Trump Mag’s coalition and helped return Trump to the White House for a second term.

Kirk was a strong supporter of weapons rights, cruelly opposed to abortions, critical of transgender rights and encouraging false claims about Covid-19.

His views were polarizing at the college, where he had great events, and his provocative statements would attract crowds of voice opponents as well as fans.

His supporters said he was relaxing and understood their concerns. But his views caused fierce liberal criticism, and critics told him that Kirk’s rhetoric is hurting people – especially those in the LGBTQ+community.

Kirk spoke at the University of Utah Valley during the Turning Point USA to The American Return to the USA, a speaking engagement, which took him to several colleges in the campus in all the states.

He was shot dead during his viral, proved to me the wrong debate as he took a question about violence with weapons and transgender people in the United States.

Trump has announced that he will award Kirk a posthumous presidential freedom medal – the highest civilian honor that the president can give – describing his friend and ally as “the giant of his generation and champion of freedom.”

The President said that D -j Kirk “was absolutely devastated.”

Turning Point USA, the Charlie Kirk organization, founded when 18, also cited its co -founder as “martyr” and “pioneer”.

“Charlie was the ideal husband and the perfect father. First of all, we ask you to pray for the picks after the incomprehensible loss they have suffered,” the organization’s statement told the BBC on Thursday.

Vice President J.

Vance and the second lady Usha Vance traveled with the family of Kirk and some of his friends in Arizona.