One day after the conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot in an event at an event at Utah Valley University organized by his non -profit political organization, President Donald Trump announced that he would grant Kirk to Kirk the presidential medal of freedom.
Kirk, the co-founder of the conservative organization Turning Point USA, was fatally struck in the neck by an assassin ball on Wednesday. He discussed mass fire in the United States when he was shot.
Trump made these remarks at the start of a commemoration service on September 11 at the Pentagon, marking 24 years since the attacks of September 11, 2001.
“Charlie was a giant of his generation, a champion of freedom and an inspiration for millions and millions of people,” said Trump. “We are missing a lot, but I have no doubt that Charlie’s voice and the courage he put in the hearts of countless people, especially young people, will live.”
Trump had announced Kirk’s death on social networks, praising the 31-year-old man as “brilliant, and even legendary”, adding: “No one understood or had the hearts of young people in the United States of America than Charlie. He was loved and admired by all, especially me, and now he is no longer with us. ”
In a video address on Wednesday evening of the Oval Office where he paid tribute to Kirk, the president aimed at the “radical left”, declaring: “For years, those on the radical left compared wonderful Americans like Charlie Kirk to the Nazis and the worst mass murder of the world and the criminals. This type of rhetoric is directly responsible for terrorism that we see in our country today, and it must stop right away. ”.
The person who shot the shot who killed Kirk generally remains at the time of the publication of this story, after two distinct people were placed in police custody and then released. The Associated Press reported Thursday that the authorities had recovered a high power rifle and that the shooter seemed to be of “collegial age” and would have mixed on the university campus.
“I can tell you that it was a targeted event,” said Robert Bohls, the best FBI agent at Salt Lake City, in The Outlet.
