Charlie Kirk, the far-right, anti-LGBTQ+ commentator who founded Turning Point USA and became a defining figure of the American right’s youth movement, died Wednesday after being shot during a campus event at Utah Valley University in Orem, President Donald Trump announced. He was 31.
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"The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday at 4:40 p.m. Eastern. "No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!"
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