My husband Charlie wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life. That young man, that young man . . . I forgive him.


I forgive him because that is what Christ did and what Charlie would do.”


— Erika Kirk


the 21st century, sometimes it doesn’t even seem humane. How else to explain late-night TV


host Jimmy Kimmel’s brazen asser- tion that the killer, whom Utah GOP Gov. Spencer Cox said had adhered to “leftist ideology,” was somehow a MAGA member — simply be- cause he came from a conservative Mormon family. On Capitol Hill, 58 Democrats op-


posed a House resolution to honor Kirk’s life and legacy. The resolution passed anyway. Democrat Rep. Alexandria Oca-


sio-Cortez branded Kirk “ignorant,” charging he had “sought to disenfran- chise millions of Americans.” Two days after his assassination,


Vice President JD Vance, who cred- ited friend Charlie with persuading Trump to put him on the GOP tick-


et, escorted his casket back home to Phoenix aboard Air Force Two. Not long after touching down,


Vance was shocked to see a vicious, anti-Kirk hit piece published online by The Nation, headlined “Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning.” The Nation had to amend the piece


because it had misquoted Kirk, but you’ll still fi nd it on the internet today. It called the murdered victim


“vile,” and slurred him as “a white Christian nationalist provocateur” while claiming that he somehow sowed “hate, bigotry, and division.” How Americans felt about the ug-


liness was evident 10 days after Kirk was shot. A great wave of humanity attired in red, white, and blue queued up at State Farm Stadium. The esti- mated crowd of 200,000 souls spilled over into the nearby Desert Diamond


Arena, fi lling it to capacity as well. They heard Erika do perhaps the


bravest thing many of them had ever seen. “My husband Charlie wanted to


save young men just like the one who took his life,” she said, gazing up to heaven for strength. “That young man, that young


man . . . I forgive him,” she said. “I for- give him because that is what Christ did and what Charlie would do.” Trump, himself the target of not


one but two assassination attempts, told the crowd, “We have to fi ght. We’re saving our country, and Charlie was a big factor.” Trump announced he would hon-


or Kirk posthumously with the Presi- dential Medal of Freedom. It soon became evident that people in the media, on college campuses,


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