{"id":420109,"date":"2025-09-13T03:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T03:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/420109\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T03:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T03:34:09","slug":"widow-of-charlie-kirk-says-her-cries-will-echo-around-the-world-like-a-battle-cry-charlie-kirk-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/420109\/","title":{"rendered":"Widow of Charlie Kirk says her \u2018cries will echo around the world like a battle cry\u2019 | Charlie Kirk shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erika Kirk, the widow of rightwing activist and provocateur Charlie Kirk<\/a>, said in a statement Friday evening that her late husband\u2019s message and mission will be \u201cstronger, bolder, louder and greater than ever\u201d and that her \u201ccries will echo around the world like a battle cry\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved knowing one of his mottos was \u2018never surrender\u2019,\u201d she said of her late husband. \u201cWe\u2019ll never surrender.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charlie Kirk, the co-founder of the hard-right youth organization Turning Point USA, died after being fatally shot while speaking at an event hosted at Utah Valley University (UVU) on Wednesday afternoon. The event was the first in the organization\u2019s fall tour of college campuses. Erika Kirk said that the campus tour will continue despite her husband\u2019s untimely death.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a world filled with chaos, doubt and uncertainty, my husband\u2019s voice will remain and it will ring out louder and more clearly than ever and his wisdom will endure,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Erika Kirk, speaking from her husband\u2019s Turning Point USA office on Friday evening, said Charlie had been killed because \u201che preached a message of patriotism, faith and of God\u2019s merciful love\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe evildoers responsible for my husband\u2019s assassination have no idea what they have done,\u201d Erika said. \u201cThey should all know this: if you thought that my husband\u2019s mission was powerful before, you have no idea what you just have unleashed across the country and this world.\u201d<\/p>\n

In what the organization described as her address to the nation, Erika Kirk thanked law enforcement officers and those involved in finding and arresting the suspect in her husband\u2019s murder. Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old, was arrested on Friday<\/a> in connection with the fatal shooting and is expected to be charged on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

She also thanked JD Vance, whom she called her husband\u2019s close friend, and Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cMister President, my husband loved you and he knew that you loved him, too,\u201d Erika Kirk said. \u201cYour friendship was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Erika Kirk talked at length about her husband\u2019s Christian values, saying that if he would have run for office, his focus would have been to \u201crevive the American family\u201d and that he spent much of his time encouraging young people to find spouses and start families. She said the struggle he had been dedicated to was not political but \u201cabove all it is spiritual\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpiritual warfare is palpable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Using divisive language and at times bigoted<\/a> rhetoric, Charlie Kirk played a crucial role in bringing young people, especially men, into the Make America Great Again (Maga) movement. He was known for his inflammatory and discriminatory views<\/a>, believed in no separation between church and state and said that Democrats \u201cstand for everything God hates\u201d. He claimed the west was in a \u201cspiritual battle\u201d with \u201cwokeism\u201d, Marxism and Islam, and called for a total ban on transgender healthcare, described immigration from Muslim countries as \u201ccivilizational suicide<\/a>\u201d, and peddled conspiracy theories about Trump\u2019s loss<\/a> in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

His wife used her speech to rally young people \u2013 calling out high school and college students \u2013 to continue his cause. She urged them to start or join Turning Point USA chapters at their schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wants you to make a difference and you can,\u201d she said. \u201cThe movement is not going anywhere and it will only go stronger when you join it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erika Kirk, the widow of rightwing activist and provocateur Charlie Kirk, said in a statement Friday evening that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-420109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115194892531515074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}