The political assassination of Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk
“When people stop talking, really bad stuff starts. When marriages stop talking, divorce happens. When civilization stops talking, civil war ensues. When you stop having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to want to commit violence against that group.” – Charlie Kirk
Birth name	Charles James Kirk
Born	14 October 1993(1993-10-14) Arlington Heights, Illinois, U.S.
Died	10 September 2025 (aged 31) Orem, Utah, U.S.
Occupation	Political activist Businessman
Organization	Turning Point USA (2012–2025) Turning Point Action YouTube (2018–2025)
Party	Republican
Movement	Conservatism Trumpism
School	High School Intellectual autodidact
Spouse	∞ 2021 Erika Frantzve
Children	2

Charles "Charlie" James Kirk (1993–20205) was an American political activist, conservative commentator and free speech advocate as well as YouTube personality with 4.05 million subscribers and 1.10 billion views (as of 11 September 2025) and Republican youth organizer. He was often categorized as "right-wing", a term he proudly embarrassed, or even, wrongly so by leftists, as "alt-right". On 10 September 2025, the deeply religious evangelical Christian and family father was assassinated and became a blood martyr of freedom and decency. The U.S. Senate (18 September 2025) and House of Representatives (19 September 2025) unanimously approved a resolution marking 14 October 2025, Kirk's 32nd birthday, a "National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk."

Life

"Americans needs to understand that the election of Donald Trump has forestalled our slide into the abyss of cultural Marxism and the surrendering of our national heritage and identity to that of the global community."

Charlie Kirk ...

... only minutes before his death.

Kirk was a member of the Boy Scouts of America, wrote for Breitbart as a teenager, and appeared on Fox Business. In 2010, he volunteered for the successful U.S. Senate campaign of Illinois Republican Mark Kirk, to whom he was not related despite sharing a similar name. Kirk had co-founded "Turning Point USA" (TPUSA), a nonprofit conservative advocacy group, when he was just 18. Kirk’s group grew into the country’s largest conservative youth movement, and over the years, he became a central player in a network of pro-Trump influencers, often described as the face of the “Make America Great Again” movement. Kirk later wrote:

"I started a college campus-based nonprofit in June 2012 called Turning Point U.S.A. to target millennials in college. Our mission was to create a powerful conservative grassroots activist network on campuses and identify, educate, train and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets and limited government."

His provocative style won him a loyal support base but also fierce opposition. Kirk became a close friend of the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. He also emerged as an early supporter of Vice President James David "JD" Vance as Trump was deciding whether the senator would be his running mate. Kirk had 5.5 million followers on the platform X and hosted The Charlie Kirk Show, a podcast and radio program that reached more than 500,000 listeners each month. He made regular appearances on Fox News, including a recent guest co-hosting slot on Fox & Friends.

According to a report by The New York Times, Kirk never pursued a role within the administration. His aim was to reshape the Republican Party and, more broadly, US politics. Kirk, disappointing for many, was a strong supporter of the Israeli regime and backed its inhuman war on Gaza. On one occasion, he questioned whether Palestine even exists. In May 2025, while debating a pro-Palestinian student at Cambridge University, Kirk justified Israel’s two years of war on Gaza, saying: “When you declare war on Israel, expect a firestorm in reaction.” On the bright side, he criticized the Black Lives Matter terror movement, wokeism, cancel culture, transsexualism, abortions and affirmative action laws. Kirk once compared Islam’s Prophet Muhammad with another child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein.

In April 2024, successfully campaigning for Trump and Vance, Kirk, a staunch advocate of Western Civilization, created a TikTok account after previously expressing skepticism of the social media platform. Kirk's account gained popularity on the platform after he posted numerous videos of him talking to college students during his campus tours, with some videos garnering as many as 50 million views. In February 2025, Kirk signed with Trinity Broadcasting Network to host a weekday talk show, Charlie Kirk Today.

Death

Assassination crime scene overview

Kirk gunman was reportedly pro-trans and antifascist. Legacy media has pushed these leftist ideologies for years now. There are no coincidences.

Kirk was on a speaking tour, and his stop at Utah Valley University (UVU) was the first of at least 15 scheduled events at universities around the country as part of his “American Comeback Tour”. Before the shooting, he was seated at his “Prove Me Wrong” debating table, taking questions from an audience outdoors. Videos show that Kirk was going back and forth with a student about mass shootings and the rise of gun violence by heavily armed transgender advocate groups when he was shot.

“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” Kirk was asked by Hunter Kozak (29), a far left TikToker.

“Too many,” Kirk responded as the crowd clapped.

“Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”

Kirk replied: “Counting or not counting gang violence?”

Seconds later, at 12:23 p.m., a shot rang out. Kirk briefly clutched his neck before collapsing from his chair, sending attendees fleeing. Kirk was taken to the Timpanogos Regional Hospital in critical condition, where he was pronounced dead later that afternoon. He was 31 years old. According to reports, Kirk was shot about 20 minutes after he began speaking at approximately 12:10pm (18:10 GMT). No one else was shot during the event. Kirk’s wife and children were present during the incident.

The shooting took place in the UVU courtyard, about 64km (40 miles) south of Salt Lake City. Founded in 1941 as a vocational school for war production training, UVU enrolled more than 46,800 students in 2023. First FBI agents were on scene at 12:39 p.m., according to Director Kash Patel during a press conference in the morning of 12 September 2025.

Several prominent political figures from both parties echoed the sentiment while condemning the act of political violence, as well as a number of international heads of state. Tributes to Kirk also came from celebrities, influencers, and athletes across the political aisle. The President issued an order for all US flags to be flown at half-staff throughout the United States in his honor until September 14 at 6:00 p.m. US President Donald Trump described the assassination of political commentator and conservative activist Charlie Kirk as a "dark moment for America" and rightly accused the "radical left" of inciting such political violence across the country.

President Donald Trump expressed his “grief and anger” about the killing of Charlie Kirk and blamed rhetoric from the “radical left” in a direct-to-camera video from the Oval Office. “I am filled with grief and anger at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah. Charlie inspired millions and tonight all who knew him and loved him are united in shock and horror,” the president said in a four-minute video released this evening. This is a dark moment for America,” the president added. Kirk, the president said, has become “a martyr for truth and freedom,” going on to express his prayers for the Kirk family. The president connected Kirk’s death to his own shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, and other high-profile instances of violence, including the shooting of a UnitedHealthcare executive in New York in December and the 2017 shooting of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise as he railed against “radical left political violence.” “This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now. My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity,” Trump said. He suggested that Americans and the media need to “confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree.” Trump vowed further action, previewing a broader plan to crack down on political violence. “My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges, law enforcement officials and everyone else who brings order to our country,” he said.

Utah Governor Cox

"This is a dark day for our state. It's a tragic day for our nation. I want to be very clear that this is a political assassination! [...] We are celebrating 250 years of the founding of this great nation. That founding document, the Declaration of Independence, that this great experiment on which we embarked together 250 years ago—that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights. The first one of those is life. And today, a life was taken. Charlie Kirk was first and foremost a husband and a dad to two young children. He was also very much politically involved, and that’s why he was here on campus. Charlie believed in the power of free speech and debate to shape ideas and to persuade people. Historically, our university campuses in this nation and here in the state of Utah have been the place where truth and ideas are formulated and debated, and that’s what he does. He comes on college campuses and he debates. That is foundational to the formation of our country, to our most basic constitutional rights. And when someone takes the life of a person because of their ideas or their ideals, then that very constitutional foundation is threatened. [...] Our nation is broken. We've had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination on the governor of Pennsylvania, and we had an attempted assassination on a presidential candidate and former President of the United States and now current President of the United States. Nothing I say can unite us as a country. Nothing I can say right now can fix what is broken. Nothing I can say can bring back Charlie Kirk. Our hearts are broken. We mourn with his wife, his children, his family, his friends. We mourn as a nation. [...] If anyone in the sound of my voice celebrated even a little bit at the news of this shooting, I would beg you to look in the mirror and see if you can find a better angel in there somewhere. [...] I want to make it crystal clear right now to whoever did this — we will find you. We will try you, and we will hold you accountable to the furthest extent of the law." And I just want to remind people that we still have the death penalty here in the state of Utah." – Spencer James Cox, lawyer, politician and governor of Utah, only hours after the assassination

Media

U.S. conservative activist Charlie Kirk, an influential ally of President Donald Trump, was fatally shot on Wednesday while speaking at a Utah university, sparking a manhunt for a lone sniper who the governor said had carried out a political assassination. Authorities said they still had no suspect in custody as of Wednesday night, some eight hours after the midday shooting at Utah Valley University campus in Orem, Utah, during an event attended by 3,000 people. The lone perpetrator suspected of firing the single gunshot that killed Kirk, 31, apparently from a distant rooftop sniper's nest on campus, remained "at large," said Beau Mason, commissioner of the Utah Department of Public Safety, at a news conference four hours later. State police issued a statement on Wednesday night saying that two men had been detained and one was interrogated by law enforcement, but both were subsequently released. "There are no current ties to the shooting with either of these individuals," the statement said. "There is an ongoing investigation and manhunt for the shooter."

In a video message taped in the Oval Office and posted to Trump's Truth Social online platform, the president vowed that his administration would track down the suspect. "My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it," Trump said. Cellphone video clips of the killing posted online showed Kirk addressing a large outdoor crowd on the campus, about 40 miles (64 km) south of Salt Lake City, around 12:20 p.m. MT (1820 GMT), when a gunshot rang out. Kirk moved his hand toward his neck as he fell off his chair, sending onlookers running. In another clip, blood could be seen gushing from Kirk's neck immediately after the shot. Jeff Long, chief of the university police department, said he had six officers working the event and coordinated with the head of Kirk's private security team, which was also on site.

Trump ordered all government U.S. flags flown at half-staff until Sunday in Kirk's honor. The killing was the latest in a series of attacks on U.S. political figures, including two assassination attempts on Trump last year, that have underscored a sharp rise in political violence. "This is a dark day for our state, it's a tragic day for our nation," Utah's Republican Governor Spencer Cox said at the press conference. "I want to be very clear that this is a political assassination." With the suspect still at large, there was no clear evidence of motive for the act of violence. Trump, who routinely describes political rivals, judges and others who stand in his way as "radical left lunatics" and warns that they pose an existential threat to the nation, decried violent political rhetoric. "For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals," Trump said in the video. "This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now." On Capitol Hill in Washington, an attempt to observe a moment of silence for Kirk on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives degenerated into shouting and finger-pointing. Kirk's appearance on Wednesday was the first in a planned 15-event "American Comeback Tour" at universities around the country. He often used such events, which typically drew large crowds of students, to invite attendees to debate him live.

Seconds before he was shot, the married father of two young children was being questioned by an audience member about gun violence, according to multiple videos of the event posted online. "Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America in the last 10 years?" Kirk was asked. He responded, "Counting or not counting gang violence?" He was shot moments later. Kirk and the group he co-founded, Turning Point USA, the largest conservative youth organization in the country, played a key role in driving young voter support for Trump in November. After winning his second presidential term, Trump credited Kirk for mobilizing younger voters and voters of color in support of his campaign. "You had Turning Point's grassroots armies," Trump said at a rally in Phoenix in December. "It's not my victory, it's your victory." Kirk had 5.3 million followers on X and hosted a popular podcast and radio program, "The Charlie Kirk Show." He had also recently appeared as a guest co-host on Fox News' "Fox & Friends." He was part of an ecosystem of pro-Trump conservative influencers – including Jack Posobiec, Laura Loomer, Candace Owens and others – who helped to amplify the president's agenda. Kirk frequently attacked mainstream media and engaged in culture-war issues around race, gender and immigration, often in a provocative style. At the White House, staff members, many of them young and admirers of Kirk, were ashen-faced as news of the shooting spread.

Republican and Democratic politicians alike expressed dismay over the shooting. Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said in a statement: "Political violence of any kind and against any individual is unacceptable and completely incompatible with American values. We pray for his family during this tragedy." The U.S. is undergoing its most sustained period of political violence since the 1970s. Reuters has documented more than 300 cases of politically motivated violent acts since [...] 2021. In July 2024, Republican Trump was grazed by a gunman's bullet during a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania. A second assassination attempt two months later was foiled by federal agents, with opening arguments in that suspect's trial set to begin on Thursday. In April, an arsonist broke into Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's residence and set it on fire while the family was inside. Earlier this year, a gunman posing as a police officer in Minnesota murdered Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and shot Democratic Senator John Hoffman and his wife. And in Boulder, Colorado, a man used a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails to attack a solidarity event for Israeli hostages, killing one woman and injuring at least six more. In 2022, a man broke into Democratic then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home and bludgeoned her husband with a hammer, leaving him with skull fractures and other injuries.

The FBI began investigating shortly after Kirk was shot. The two subjects questioned by the FBI were released after FBI Director Kash Patel said earlier on Wednesday that the suspected assassin had been taken into custody. Patel later said, “The subject in custody has been released after an interrogation by law enforcement. Our investigation continues and we will continue to release information in interest of transparency.” According to officials, the Utah Valley University Police Department had six officers working the Kirk event, which was in addition to Kirk’s security detail. Around 3,000 people were in attendance to listen to Kirk when a gunman fired a single shot from the roof of a building near where Kirk was speaking at approximately 12:20 p.m. local time, according to authorities. Kirk was taken to Timpanogos Regional Hospital, where he was pronounced dead “hours later.” The assassin is believed to have fired from the Losee Center building, which was at least 200 yards away from where Kirk was speaking in a courtyard on campus. Law enforcement has not released a description of the suspected assassin, other than saying the suspect was “dressed in all dark clothing.”

Further media reactions

22-year-old Tyler James Robinson from Washington in Washington County, Utah in custody; on 13 September 2025, many media outlets, quoting FBI sources, reported that the "roommate" of far-left shooter Tyler is a man who likes wearing women's clothes, a romantic "transgender partner in the process of transitioning from male to female". This would explain the transsexual reference on on of the bullet casings. The homosexual young man, 22-year-old Lance Twiggs, residing at the same address where Robinson lived, is fully cooperating with the FBI. Tyler Robinson joked with pals on Discord about how his image in FBI photo was his ‘doppelganger’.

Lance S. Twiggs (like Tyler, unemployed), who adopted the name "Luna" in December 2024, is described by his family as an "aggressive agitator" who had cut all ties to the family. Tyler Robinson also began to distance himself from the family. Kash Patel reported on 15 September 2025 that the Robinson family had confirmed that Tyler "subscribes to left-wing ideology that had become more extreme over the past couple of years." Patel also confirmed that Robinson's DNA has been identified on a screwdriver found on the rooftop and on the towel the Mauser rifle was wrapped in. Dan Bongino, deputy director of the FBI since 17 March 2025, told "Fox News" no stone would remain unturned investigating left-wing groups in Utah for possibly aiding the assassin.

The logo of the American Iron Front with an American styled design to it featuring the three arrows labeled after the German Iron Front

• "By every measure, Charlie Kirk is an American martyr. A Christian soldier. He died as he lived: fighting for light in the darkest corners of America. In the moment he died, Charlie was engaging young people, debating calmly, answering questions about the rising tide of violence and radicalism in our country. Charlie was illuminating the path forward for a lost generation of Americans. Then, in an instant, a faceless coward ended Charlie’s life with a single shot. Charlie died defending peaceful free speech and debate. Charlie is a true American martyr, taken home by the Lord God before his time. I don’t know why this happened. I don’t have the answers. But I do know what Charlie would want right now is for Jesus Christ to be glorified." – Benny Johnson, Fox news

• "Let’s be clear here, the murder of Charlie Kirk is not an aberration, no more than the near murder of President Trump was. Violence is not an aberration, it’s at the heart of what the Left is. The Left is a terrorist movement. Period. The Left exists in two states. 1. In power. 2. In terrorism. That’s it. When the Left is in power, then it kills people legally, and when it’s out of power, it strives to take people by killing people ‘illegally’. Charlie Kirk was murdered by a Left that is not currently in power. If the Left were fully in power, it could have done so legally as it did to so many in Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea and across so much of Latin America. Charlie’s death, like Trump’s attempted assassination, reminds us of what the real stakes are. We are up against people who want to kill us. Not just Trump or Charlie Kirk. All of us who defy them." – Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center as well as an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism

• “Political violence has been unleashed. We can talk about this attempt or that attempt or that assassination. It’s happening both on the left and right and rational people know that, they know what the data shows. The commonality we need as a nation is to understand that a free society only exists when people feel they can enter the political arena as Charlie Kirk did, and say things that people like, that they dislike, and not get killed for it. This is an attack on the United States as well as Charlie Kirk.” – Juliette Kayyem, a senior CNN national security analyst, on “Erin Burnett OutFront”, 10 September 2025

• A dean at a university in Tennessee was fired on Wednesday after she said she had “zero sympathy” following the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. Middle Tennessee State University Associate Dean of Students Laura Sosh-Lightsy was fired for “inappropriate and callous” social media posts about the killing of Kirk, the university confirmed to The Daily Wire. According to screenshots of posts shared online by Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Sosh-Lightsy wrote, “Looks like ol’ Charlie spoke his fate into existence. Hate begets hate. ZERO sympathy.” Sosh-Lightsy’s posts were first flagged by Matthew Hurtt, an MTSU alumnus and director of the Leadership Institute. According to another post shared by Hurtt, Sosh-Lightsy wrote, “I’m not celebrating the loss of Charlie Kirk’s life. Violence is not the answer. I’m celebrating the loss of his message of violence in an increasingly violent world, which is partially because of him.” Those comments came after Kirk was gunned down while speaking at Utah Valley University. A manhunt is still ongoing for the individual who shot Kirk. Many leftists took to social media to mock Kirk or celebrate his death. Sosh-Lightsy’s firing was announced by Middle Tennessee State University President Sidney McPhee, who said that she was fired “immediately” and that she had done damage to the university’s credibility with students and the public.

Tyler Robinson (assassin)

As of the early morning hours of 12 September 2025, the FBI reported 11.000 well-founded leads in the case. All the more impressive is the fact that the assassin was arrested the evening before. On 11 September 2025 at around 10:00 p.m. local Utah time, 22-year-old Antifa activist Tyler Robinson was taken into custody in his hometown of Washington in Washington County, Utah. A "friend" and roommate had reported him to law officials, after Robinson asked him on Discord, a popular online chatting platform, to retrieve a rifle from a "drop point, leaving the rifle in a bush."

Robinson had left his special and expensive imported German bolt action rifle of the Mauser Model 98 type (de) with telescopic sight rapped in a dark towel near the crime scene. Robinson's mother, Amber Jones Robinson, attended the University of Utah and is a social worker. She and Tyler had visited Utah State University in 2021.

"We can confirm that the individual responsible for the murder of Charlie Kirk is now in custody. We are profoundly grateful to the men and women of law enforcement who worked with such urgency, dedication, and courage to bring this person to justice. Their commitment has brought an important step toward closure in this incredibly painful time. Please continue to keep Erika, the Kirk family, and our entire Turning Point community in your prayers."

Robinson is a registered voter in Utah, but does not have a party affiliation. Social media photos from Robinson’s mother, Amber, depict a tight-knit family where Tyler was the oldest of three sons. Tyler wore a Donald Trump-related Halloween costume in 2017, according to Amber’s social media. This myth of a "Trump costume", spread by the legacy media, has been debunked (among those sources who have done so the prominent analytical YouTube channel "Liberal Hivemind"). 14-year-old Tyler wasn't "wearing" a costume, as the wide-spread picture clearly shows, but instead was sitting on an inflatable Donald Trump effigy like a donkey, mocking the then-active president.

The eldest Robinson son graduated from Pine View High School in St. George in 2021, according to Amber Robinson's social media. Tyler is photographed at Utah State University and was offered an academic scholarship to attend the Logan, Utah-based university according to a letter he read aloud in a video posted to Amber’s social media. Utah State University said the suspected shooter "briefly attended Utah State University for one semester in 2021." He therefore knew the buildings and the layout. He later enrolled at Dixie Technical College, an online apprenticeship program.

Charlie Kirk’s assassin Tyler Robinson, 22, killed him because he hated his opinions and thought he was a 'fascist'. Yet ironically, HE was the fascist, killing someone to silence their opposing views! The woke left love to say ‘speech is violent.’ It’s not – violence is. "They don't ban hate speech, they ban speech they hate". [...] This case underscores urgent concerns about online radicalization, Antifa-inspired extremism, and the rise of political violence in America.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox told reporters that Robinson was taken into custody after a family member contacted a family friend, who then informed authorities that Robinson had "confessed to them or implied that he committed the incident." Cox said "his family and a friend helped to deliver him into the custody of law enforcement in Washington County.”

"I hope he's gonna be found guilty, I would imagine, and I hope he gets the death penalty for what he did." – Donald Trump, 12 September 2025

President Donald Trump, without naming Robinson, first announced his capture during a Friday morning appearance on Fox and Friends. Trump said that a minister was involved in identifying the suspect. Neighbors of the Robinson family told USA TODAY that they attended the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, whose members are colloquially known as Mormons. His own family confirmed that Robinson had been radicalized in recent years (possibly during his year at university) and was full of hate. At the dinner table on the eve of the assassination, he railed against Charlie Kirk and stated that Kirk would be at an event at Utah Valley University.

“To my friend Charlie Kirk: Rest now, brother. We have the watch. And I'll see you in Valhalla!” – Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Kash Patel, press conference in Orem, Utah, 12 September 2025

Bullet casings

• "Notices bulges OwO what's this?"
  • This was on the fired casing; an apparent transgender and/or LGBTQ+ reference (a man in women's clothes but with a "bulge" due to his penis). "Woke" leftists are not allowed to "notice", as opposed to the "right". The OwO is possibly meant to mimic an unserious face emoji.
    • New York Post, 13 September 2025: The accused gunman went on to mock the FBI’s investigation, referencing the “trans” scribblings found on the ammunition and claiming it was all fabricated by some “dude in the briefing room.”
• “Oh bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao.”
  • The lyrics reference the anthem of the murdering Italian partisans during World War II.
• “Hey fascist! Catch!”
  • This unfired casing is said to also have three engraved arrows. Three downward pointing arrows was the symbol of the socialist Iron Front, but also of the former Anti-Fascist Action and the current radical left wing American Iron Front.
• “If you’re reading this, you’re gay LMAO.”

Family

On 8 May 2021 in Scottsdale, Charlie married his fiancée Erika Lane Frantzve (b. 20 November 1988), German Americam beauty queen (Miss Arizona USA 2012), political scientist (Arizona State University), businesswoman, podcaster and philanthropist. They would have two children: a daughter, Sarah Rose, born on 23 August 2022​​, and a son born in May 2024. On 10 September 2025, Erika had attended an event with her two children at Utah Valley University, where her late husband Charlie was assassinated while speaking in front of over 3,000 people.

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  Dr. h. c. Charlie Kirk with wife Erika and their two young children (1 and 3); immediately after Charlie Kirk's death, Elon Musk intervened and pledged to cover all living and educational expenses of Kirk's two children. Metallica singer James Hetfield has also publicly announced his intention to sponsor the education of the Kirk family's children.

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  Left: mourning wife Erika Kirk saying her last farewell to her beloved husband; right: martyr Charlie Kirk in Valhalla (honorable commemoration on X)

Quotes

The USA has long been the lone beacon of freedom and sensibility in a chaotic world. Now, she is under threat from a lethal ideology that seeks to humiliate and erase anyone who does not bow at its altar. The threat in question? Wokeism. In Right Wing Revolution: How to Beat the Woke and Save the West, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk drags wokeism out of the shadows and details the exact steps needed to stop its toxic spread. Right Wing Revolution is not a cautionary tale. Wokeism has already seeped into every aspect of American society. Instead, Charlie Kirk looks to inform and prepare every reader for the coming confrontation against one of the most existential threats the United States has ever faced.

European Lawmakers from conservative parties wanted the EU Parliament, like the U.S. Congress, to observe a silent tribute to the 31-year-old. “Our right to freedom of speech cannot be extinguished,” Charlie Weimers of the Sweden Democrats wrote to Speaker Roberta Metsola in requesting the gesture. When Charlie Weimers, an MEP from the patriotic Sweden Democrats party who described Kirk as a “loving father and patriot” called for a minute of silence in commemoration of Kirk’s assassination, Katarina Barley, the German vice-president of the Parliament, who was leading the session, spoke out to say Roberta Metsola of Malta, President of the European Parliament, “had said 'no'”. Weimers tried to observe the tribute by yielding his speaking time on the floor, but he was cut off by the session chair. Many lawmakers erupted in protest by banging on their desks, while some leftists of the hemicycle applauded the chair’s intervention. Questioned by AFP, Weimers accused the European Parliament of “bias.” He pointed to the contrast with other cases. Italy’s nationalist Northern League likewise attacked Parliament’s decision as “politically shameful and morally unacceptable.” The centrist French lawmaker Nathalie Loiseau posted on X in response: “Charlie Kirk didn’t deserve to die.” Questioned on the incident, the European Commission said only that it “condemns all forms of violence, and we offer our sincere sympathies to the families of the victims.”

"Unbelievable: The President of the European Parliament rejected our request to hold a minute's silence for Charlie Kirk, who was murdered yesterday. Minutes of silence are apparently only for violent criminals, as was the case for George Floyd in 2020." – Alexander Jungbluth, German politician (AfD), Member of the European Parliament

Spontaneous commemoration of Charlie Kirk by Germans in front of the American Embassy at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, 11 September 2025; In front of the American Embassy in Vienna Charlie Kirk and Iryna Zarutska were also commemorated; source: Martin Sellner, x.com, 12 September 2025.

Quotes by Charlie

• "Political correctness is the deadliest of political weaponry."

• "When you deliberately distort and selectively present the truth, you lie."

• “Liberal-socialist women generalize about women as if they are some sort of monolithic voting block of disenfranchised, victimized citizens.”

• "I know many young conservatives all across the country that are isolated and ostracized due to their beliefs. They are portrayed as bigots, misogynists and ignorant just because they are conservative."

• "Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America [...] Islam does not believe in freedom of speech, Islam does not believe in freedom of religion, and Islam does not believe in separation of mosque and state." – Charlie Kirk, a life-long critic of religious influence on politics and the state

• “It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. No one talks about that.” – Charlie Kirk speaking at an event in April 2023 at the Salt Lake City campus of Awaken Church in Utah

• "One of the most horrifying and surprising evolutions we have witnessed among our widespread campus network is the rapid movement away from tolerating opposing ideas and respectful debate to the deployment of obscene bully tactics from the left."

• "It is part of our human nature to want to be liked. It is part of our human nature to worry about what others think of us. It is an attribute of greatness and of American exceptionalism to not surrender to our nature, but to be guided by an inner calling to persevere and to prevail, no matter the personal cost."

• "We have been propagandized by liars and fakers in the media to believe that America is a vicious, racist country and indiscriminate attacks on black people by whites happen all the time. But the numbers tell the truth. Black attacks on white people happen 3X more often than white on black crime, despite blacks being only 13 % of the population. Why won't the media just tell the truth? Why lie when those lies result in innocent people dying?" – Charlie Kirk on the attempted Iryna Zarutska coverup by legacy media, x.com, 9 September 2025

Quotes commemorating Charlie

• “Everyone please stop what you are doing and pray for Charlie Kirk. Please." – Candace Owens, like millions with her, still hoping her like-minded friend and comrade would survive

• “On behalf of Utah Valley University, we are shocked and saddened by the tragic passing [sic!] of Charlie Kirk, a guest to our campus. Our hearts go out to his family." – Utah Valley University (UVU)

• "To my great fellow Americans, I'm filled with grief and anger at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah. Charlie inspired millions and tonight all who knew him and loved him are united in shock and horror.” – US President Donald Trump

• "When someone takes the life of a person because of their ideas or their ideals, then that very constitutional foundation is threatened." – Spencer James Cox, governor of Utah

• "Charlie, we love you! Know that you have heard the Lord’s words. Well done, good and faithful servant. Full heart, clear eyes, like those on 9/11, you will never be forgotten." – Peter "Pete" Brian Hegseth, 29th United States secretary of defense

• “Today, a young man was murdered in cold blood while expressing his political views. It happened on a college campus, where the open exchange of opposing ideas should be sacrosanct. Violence and vitriol must be purged from the public square.” – Former President George W. Bush, 10 September 2025

• "The murder of Charlie Kirk is a tragedy, and a sign of the utter desperation and cowardice of those who could not defeat him in argument. Charlie Kirk has been killed not for espousing extremist views – because he didn’t. He has been killed for saying things that used to be simple common sense. He has been killed because he had the courage to stand up publicly for reasonable opinions held by millions and millions of ordinary people both in the US and Britain. The world has a shining new martyr to free speech. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and loved ones." – Boris Johnson, x.com, 10 September 2025

• “My mind is filled with the horrendous images yesterday of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I absolutely believe in free speech but we all understand there are limits to free speech.” – Nigel Farage, the British MP and leader of the Eurosceptic Reform UK

• “We can’t solve our problems if we can’t talk to each other, and we can’t solve our problems if we are going to kill each other.” – Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a professor and cardiologist who treats many members of Congress, CNN, 10 September 2025

• "We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children." – Former President Barack Obama, x.com, 10 September 2025
  • We know the motivation. It was to silence MAGA. It’s a continuation of the censorship and violence the Democrat Party has promoted for many years now. You’re all to blame. And you’ll all keep promoting violence because your ideas are terrible. Shame on you. Shame. – Political activist Paul A. Szypula answering Obama

• "God Bless Charlie Kirk. A true PATRIOT. Pray for him." – Robert James "Kid Rock" Ritchie, American musician, singer, rapper, and songwriter, x.com, 10 September 2025

• House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said this was a moment for Americans to unite "not as Democrats or Republicans, as Blacks or Whites or Latinos or Asians but as Americans. We need to come together as Americans."

• “Like enough of this. This is horrific. This is awful, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk risks an uncorking of political chaos and violence that we cannot risk in America. We cannot risk it.” – Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

• In France, Marion Maréchal, the leader of the patriotic Identity–Liberties (IDL) and vice-president of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) in the European Parliament conceded that the suspect of Kirk’s murder was still “at large”. Maréchal also acknowledged that “here, as in the United States, the radical left wants civil war. And now, it even resorts once again to political assassinations.”

• "Everyone should know that he was, without a doubt, the best of men." – Scarlett Johnson, conservative activist, White House New Media Reporter, Social Media Director Moms for Liberty, x.com, 11 September 2024

• "He was a good, strange Christian man. Dear God please comfort his family. This may be the Turning Point he dedicated his short life to. RIP 'Right-Wing Rainman'.” – Russell Edward Brand, English comedian, actor, podcaster, political activist and media personality, x.com, 11 September 2025

• "A friend to all, a hater of no one. He criticized people, but he did not have hatred in his heart. [...] The left blaming the victim, right, he deserved it, what he said. By the way, he wasn't an alt-right figure, he was a mainstream Republican, right? He believed in family values, he believed that if you're a woman, you're a woman, if you're a man, if you're a man. [...] he was about openness. [...] This is another example of the truth that the political violence we've seen mostly, not exclusively, but mostly comes from the left. What we see on the right, what that actually is, is the exception that proves the rule, right? [...] Everytime I think of Charlie's death, I think of Luigi Mangione [the left-wing murderer of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare], that to me was really, and the pun is intended, the turning point to this. [...] They've unleashed something dark and terrible, and I'm afraid of what's to come." – Jewish documentary filmmaker Ami Horowitz during in an interview with Sky News host Rita Panahi, 11 September 2025

• "Charlie Kirk is an American martyr. Charlie gave his life for God and country. May we rise up with a full heart and defeat the evil that stole Charlie Kirk from us. God help us. This is the Turning Point." – Benny Johnson, Facebook, 11 September 2025

• "My condolences to the family of Charlie Kirk and to all the young people in the world who admired him and listened to him. A formidable disseminator of the ideas of freedom and staunch defender of the West. He was the victim of an atrocious murder in the midst of a wave of left-wing political violence across the entire region. The left is always, at all times and places, a violent phenomenon full of hatred. The entire world lost an incredible human being. Goodbye." – Argentine President Javier Gerardo Milei, x.com, 11 September 2025

• "For millions of young conservative Americans between the ages of 13 and 30, Charlie Kirk was at least so important and influential as Martin Luther King was for millions of American negros during the civil rights movement. His standard must be raised high and visible for all in the political struggle of the next 50 years with the aim of a patriotic renaissance and only then allowed to fly at half-mast on 'Charlie Kirk Day', which will hopefully soon be established by the President." – Andreas J. Voigt, on behalf of the Deutschherrenklub, 11 September 2025

• "The execution of Charlie Kirk is a disgrace for the 'free' West. Kirk was a young, peaceful family man who held a clear viewpoint, but as a Christian, he always sought encounters with those who think differently. I am appalled. My deepest sympathy goes out to his wife and children. Rest in peace." – Björn Höcke, German politician (AfD), x.com, 11 September 2025

• "Professional terrorists slaughtered Charlie Kirk in front of his audience to deter the love of God and the American way of life. We cannot normalize the slaughter in public of Americans." – Randy Quaid, Hollywood actor

• "I'm heartbroken. Charlie Kirk passing away is a hard pill to swallow. I never imagined typing this out, it hurts so much. Things will never be the same without him. He was a great friend to me, he treated me like a brother, opened doors for me and so many others and inspired us all with his unwavering spirit. He leaves behind two kids and a wife who he cherished deeply. Charlie was a great American, fighting for what he believed in every day. Rest in peace, brother." – Terrence K. Williams, prominent black conservative and author, x.com, 11 September 2025

• "I thank Charlie Kirk from the bottom of my heart for everything he has done and what he stood for. He gave me the opportunity to appear on his show, The Charlie Kirk Show, twice. Most recently, in February of this year. I was able to talk about how I was wrongfully convicted, how freedom of speech is dying more and more in Germany every day, the measures being used to silence critics, and why the AfD is experiencing a resurgence as a result. He is another item on my long list of reasons to continue this fight and never give up." – Marie-Thérèse Kaiser, German conservative activist, x.com, 11 September 2025

• "I'm truly heartbroken by the loss of Charlie Kirk. He wasn't just a public figure–he was a friend, an ally, and a beacon of courage. He stood firmly for what he believed in [...] His light will continue to guide those who value conviction." – Sir Michael „Mick“ Philip Jagger, lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones

• "If you aren’t already following Turning Point USA, it’s important that you do now. They murdered the man, but they’ll never murder his message. Note: I’m using the pronoun “they,” because Charlie was not killed by a lone assassin, but by the massive campaign of hate by the insane left." – James Woods, legendary Hollywood actor, x.com, 12 September 2025

• "I’d like to know the names of the professors who radicalized this young man. I wonder if they too could be charged with abetting this political assassination." – Dinesh D'Souza, author, filmmaker and host of the Dinesh D’Souza Podcast, x.com, 12 September 2025

• “To my friend Charlie Kirk: Rest now, brother. We have the watch. And I'll see you in Valhalla!” – Director of the FBI Kash Patel, press conference (8:16 a.m. local time) in Orem, Utah, 12 September 2025

• "Charlie Kirk is dead. Murdered not only by a radicalized lone gunman, but also by a system that first dehumanizes those who think differently and then is surprised when someone thinks the dehumanization through to its logical conclusion." – Gerald Georg Grosz, former member of Austrian parliament, party chairman (BZÖ) and presidential candidate, x.com, 13 September 2025

• "I knew Charlie Kirk personally. Worked with him for nearly 10 years. He doesn't have a racist bone in his body. These low life negros just mad cause a white man out here saying what they don't have the courage to. Charlie was a man of God. Preaching the gospel more than them all." – Brandon Tatum, former police officer and black conservative political activist, contradicts a black preacher who publicly belittles Charlie Kirk, x.com, 15 September 2025

• "Charlie Kirk has championed broad corridors of opinion [...] at a time when authoritarian leftists are trying to increasingly narrow the boundaries of what can be said." — Johannes Volkmann, German politician (CDU) and member of the Bundestag, 15 September 2025

• "I was very, very upset that someone’s life was taken because they have a different opinion. I mean, it's just unbelievable. I mean this was a great communicator a great advocate for the right for Republican causes — and he had such a great way of communicating with the students. It’s a human being, a human life is gone — and he was a great father, a great husband and I was thinking about his children. They will only be reading about him now, instead of him reading to them bedtime stories.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger, 15 September 2025

Honours

• Kirk was listed on the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Law & Policy.
• In May 2019, Kirk was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities (D.Hum.) from Liberty University.
• Kirk was appointed by Donald Trump in 2020 to a commission promoting "patriotic education".
• Presidential Medal of Freedom (posthumously)

Writings (excerpt)

• Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations, with Brent Hamachek, Simon & Schuster, 2016
• Campus Battlefield: How Conservatives Can WIN the Battle on Campus and Why It Matters, foreword by Donald Trump Jr., 2018
• The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future (2020 bestseller)
• The College Scam: How America's Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth, 2022
• Right Wing Revolution: How to Beat the Woke and Save the West, 2024
  • Charlie Kirk's "Right Wing Revolution" critiques "woke" culture as a threat to Western values and offers strategies to resist it. It's a passionate call to action based on his views.

External links

• Charlie Kirk Quotes (Archive)
• DC Comics Cancels Batman Spinoff Series After Creator Celebrates Charlie Kirk’s Murder, Daily Wire, 11 September 2025
• Charlie Kirk’s assassination is the latest act of political violence in a febrile United States, The Conversation, 11 September 2025
• Charlie Kirk assassination latest shooting committed by trans people and advocates, New York Post, 13 September 2025
• ‘It was me’: Suspect in Charlie Kirk shooting appeared to confess in Discord chat, The Washington Post, 15 September 2025

Videos

• Charlie Kirk's wife, Mrs. Erika Kirk, addresses the Nation (12 September 2025), YouTube (start: 13:43 min.)
• To My Friend, Charlie Kirk (Candace Owens), YouTube
• Shooter Caught & Shooting Eyewitness joins to Discuss What He Saw (Steven Crowder), YouTube
• Charlie Kirk's Legacy of Faith, Freedom, and Patriotism (Megyn Kelly is joined by Tucker Carlson), YouTube