Charlie Kirk e Donald Trump
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk, ally close to President Donald Trump, died on Wednesday after being shot at a university event. Trump attributes death from Charlie Kirk to the “radical left” speeches.
Em 2023, Charlie Kirk said that, in order to guarantee the law of Americans to arms, “The deaths are worth it”.
“I think it is worth having the cost of, unfortunately, some firearm deaths every year to have the 2nd amendment to protect the rights God has given us. I think It is a prudent agreement, it is rational“, These.
The 2nd amendment in the US protects the right for people to have a weapon to self -defense.
This Wednesday, Charlie Kirk was victim of what his himself waswhen deadat an event at the University of Utah Valley. I was only 31 years old.
Kirk was talking about shootings before being killed; and, curiously, “Violence” was the last word that uttered.
Kirk had been questioned by a student attending the lecture on whether he knew “how many mass gunmen has had in the US in the last 10 years.” Here are the last words of the activist, before being shot around his neck: “Counting or not telling the violence of gangs? [Counting or not counting gang violence?]”.
Weapons apart, Donald Trump attributed guilt of this death to the words.
Specifically, the US President accused the speeches of the “radical left” to have contributed to the murder of one of their faithful political allies, who qualified “Martyr of Truth and Freedom”.
“A formidable American”
Charlie Kirk, voice of an influential podcast and Pró-Trump Youth spokesmanwas shot, at a time captured by videos and quickly disseminated on social networks.
The videos show him, hit in his neck, falling from his chair, and panic screams in the audience. According to the investigators, the isolated shot was fired from the roof of a campus building by a man dressed in black, in what appears to be a targeted murder.
“ radical left compares formidable Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the worst mass criminals and killers in the world. This type of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism we live in today In our country, and this has to stop immediately, ”accused the US President in a video published on his social network Truth Social.
“My administration will find all those who contributed to this atrocity and any other political violence, including the organizations that fund them and support them,” he said.
The US authorities began to stop a suspect, who in the meantime have released, and have no one detained related to the case.
Before Trump, several figures from the Maga (Make America Great Again) movement had qualified Charlie Kirk of “Mártir”claiming that he died in defense of conservative and Christian values.
Trump ordered US flags to be raised in half mast In honor of an important piece of his last presidential campaign.
The former candidate defeated in the 2024 presidential, Kamala Harrisreacted to the murder, considering that “Political violence has no place in America”.
Also the former president Joe Biden asked this type of violence to “cease immediately”in unison with other left figures, including Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders and the governor of California, Gavin Newsom.
Had an “army” of militants
Born in the suburbs of Chicago, Christian and defender of the possession of weapons, father of two, Kirk abandoned studies to devote to activism.
He currently led a youth movement: Turning Point USA. Founded in 2012 by the 18-year-old influencer, this association became, in a decade, the largest group of young conservatives in the United States.
Has a Army of enthusiastic militantssome of which were sent from bus to Washington to the demonstration of January 6, 2021, which culminated in Capitol Invasion.
With 6.9 million followers on Instagram and 3.8 million on Youtube, its Kirk’s influence widely served Donald Trump to seduce young people Americans, promoting an ultra-draft family conception.
