Trump Addresses Charlie Kirk Assassination: ‘Darkish Second for America’

President Donald Trump launched a video addressing the assassination of Turning Level USA founder Charlie Kirk and referred to as Kirk’s loss of life a “darkish second for America.”

In a video posted to Reality Social, Trump acknowledged that he was “crammed with grief and anger on the heinous assassination” of Kirk. Trump continued to spotlight how Kirk was a “man of deep, deep religion.”

“To my nice fellow People, I’m crammed with grief and anger on the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk on a school campus in Utah,” Trump mentioned. “Charlie impressed hundreds of thousands, and tonight all who knew him and beloved him, are united in shock and horror. Charlie was a patriot who devoted his life to the reason for open debate, and the nation that he beloved a lot, the US of America.”

“He fought for liberty, democracy, justice, and the American folks,” Trump continued. “He’s a martyr for reality and freedom, and there’s by no means been anybody who was so revered by youth. Charlie was additionally a person of deep, deep religion, and we take consolation within the information that he’s now at peace with God in heaven. Our prayers are together with his spouse, Erika, the 2 younger, beloved youngsters, and his whole household, who he beloved greater than something on this planet.”“It is a darkish second for America,” Trump added. “Charlie Kirk traveled the nation, joyfully participating with everybody desirous about good religion debate. His mission was to carry younger folks into the political course of, which he did higher than anyone ever — to share his love of nation, and to unfold the easy phrases of widespread sense. On campuses nationwide, he championed his concepts with braveness, logic, humor, and beauty.”

“It’s gone time for all People and the media to confront the truth that violence and homicide are the tragic consequence of demonizing these with whom you disagree, day after day, yr after yr, in probably the most hateful and despicable means doable,” Trump added. “For years, these on the unconventional left have in contrast great People, like Charlie, to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This sort of rhetoric is immediately liable for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our nation in the present day, and it should cease proper now.”

Trump continued to ask that “all People” commit themselves to the “American values” that Kirk “lived and died,” which Trump famous have been “the values of free speech, citizenship, the rule of regulation, and the patriotic devotion and love of God.”