Donald Trump called Charlie Kirk “one of the brightest lights of our time” and the “greatest evangelists for American freedom” during his speech at the public funeral service for the conservative activist in the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Several speakers noticed that the event had the energy of a tent.
Investigator in Glendale
Kirk, the right -wing extremist influencer and founder of Turning Point USA, who contributed to strengthening republican support among young people, was shot at an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Uem.
“His voice on earth will be resolved by the generations, and his voice will be in the eternal chronicle of America’s greatest patriots,” said Trump at the funeral service on Sunday and added that Kirk was killed by a “radicalized cold -blooded monster”.
Before leaving for the event in Phoenix, Trump said reporters in the White House, he is looking forward to the commemoration as “a time of healing, a time of whatever”. According to the NBC News, around 95,000 people took part in the event in the stadium and in an overflow hall.
Kirk as a martyr & crowd
In his speech, Trump praised Kirk as “inspired by faith and love for freedom”. He and several other speakers, including Vice President JD Vance, described him as “martyr”.
“Our biggest evangelist for American freedom became immortal,” said Trump. “He is now a martyr for American freedom.”
Call for “spiritual awakening”
Trump argued for a “spiritual recovering” in harmony with Kirk’s vision. “We have to bring religion back to America, because without limits, law and order and religion you actually have no country. We want to bring religion back to America. We want to bring God back to our beautiful USA like never before. We want God back.”
Vance called the event “A revival to celebrate Charlie Kirk and his Lord Jesus Christ” and thus repeated the words of many speakers who had addressed the crowd before him. Near voter registration forms, flyers announced: “Pray not only for change, vote for it!”
“I have spoken more about Jesus Christ in the past two weeks than throughout my time in public life,” said Vance. “This is an undeniable legacy of the great Charlie Kirk.”
“Above all, Charlie brought the truth that Jesus Christ is the king of kings,” added the Vice President. “And that every truth flows from this first and most important truth.”
Observations of NYT & Comments at FOX
As Elizabeth Dias from the “New York Times” observed, the commemoration was a “summit event that reflects how conservative Christianity merged with Republican politics in Trump era”.
Even the Fox News commentator Kayleigh Mcenany, who served as a press spokeswoman in Trump’s first government, commented on the religiosity of the speeches. “To see how the Foreign Minister gives an Evangelical message and the Minister of Defense gives a message of gospel, and the son of the President, Donald Trump Jr., tells the history of the first martyr, St. Stephanus, told – surprisingly,” she said in the station’s reporting about the commemorative celebration. “I don’t think we have ever seen anything like this from an administration.”
Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr. compared Kirk directly to Christ: “Christ died at the age of 33, but he changed the trajectory of history,” he said. “Charlie died at the age of 31, but because he gave himself, he too has changed the trajectory of history.”
“Each of us has to be a warrior like Charlie,” said the director of the national intelligence services, Tulsi Gabbard, to the crowd.
“Our civilization will exist. The United States will survive. For Charlie we will continue the mission … Turning Point USA will last for Charlie,” said Posobiec. “And we will see that in the end the western civilization by Charlie’s victims was saved in the only possible way by attributing the people to God the Almighty.”
Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff of the White House, gave a speech with his characteristic theatrics and compared the political opponents of his party with evil and corrupt forces: “We will see the powers of malice and evil,” he said. “You cannot imagine what you have aroused. You cannot imagine what army you have unleashed in all of us. We stand for the good, for the virtuous, for the noble. And those who try to stimulate violence against us who try to fuel hatred against us – what do you have? You have nothing. You are not anything. You can do nothing. You can’t create anything.”
Forgiveness vs. retaliation
Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, who will inherit her husband as CEO from Turning Point USA, said that Charlie “wanted to save young men, just like the one who committed him to life”.
“This young man,” said Kirk, visibly moving about the man Tyler Robinson, who reported her husband. “I give him. I give him because Christ did it and because Charlie would do it.”
Trump’s sharp tone & unused allegations
Trump struck a different, less conciliatory tone. “”[Charlie] Didn’t hated his opponents. He wanted the best for her, “he said.” I disagree with Charlie. I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for him. I’m sorry. I’m sorry, Erika. “
Trump also claimed without evidence that “violence is mainly based on the left” – just a few days after his Ministry of Justice had removed a study from his website, which came to the conclusion that right -wing extremists “far more” violence than extremists who support the extreme left or radical Islam.
Investigation & attributions
In the case of the Murder of Kirks, the authorities announced that Robinson had said that Robinson’s mother said that he had lived with his roommate, a trans woman. According to the authorities, Robinson confessed to his roommate that he killed Kirk, and when the roommate asked why he did it, he replied: “I had enough of his hate. You can’t negotiate some hatred.”
“The Ministry of Justice also examines a network of radical left -wing crazy people who finance, organize and commit political violence. And we believe that we know many of them,” said Trump.
According to reports, federal investigators have not found any evidence that Robinson had connections to left -wing groups.
The president did not miss the opportunity to praise himself and his government. He praised the money that the United States would take thanks to the tariffs raised by its government and promised an impending announcement on the subject of autism, with the claim: “I think we have found an answer to autism … So we will no longer let it happen.”
At this point of the speech, hundreds of visitors began to move towards exits, the New York Times reported. Many had been in line for hours since the early hours of the morning in order to be able to take part in the funeral service, since the public access was granted according to the principle “Whoever comes first”.