FROM DAILY MAIL: President Donald Trump apologized to Charlie Kirk’s wife Erika for refusing to join her call to forgive the man who assassinated her husband in cold blood.
Trump delivered a fiery 45-minute eulogy to the late conservative activist, 31, who was fatally shot on September 10 while debating students at the Utah Valley University college campus.
In Trump’s speech – delivered to a crowd of 60,000 inside State Farm Stadium in Arizona and tens of thousands more tuning in virtually – Trump revealed the key component of Kirk’s message that he disagreed with.
‘He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them,’ Trump said of Kirk. ‘That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them.
‘I’m sorry. I am sorry, Erika, but now Erika can talk to me, and the whole group, and maybe they can convince me that that’s not right, but I can’t stand my opponent.’
TRUMP: “He didn’t hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them – that’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I HATE my opponent and I DON’T want the best for them.”💀😂 pic.twitter.com/9X7N1aLWR8
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) September 21, 2025
Just before Trump took the stage, Erika had declared that she had forgiven her husband’s killer.
“He [Charlie] wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life,” Erika said, adding, “That man, that young man, I forgive him.”
Erika made the declaration with tears in her eyes, and the crowd stood and applauded.
Erika also shared that Kirk “was ready to die.”
‘”Even though Charlie died too early, he was ready to die,” she said. “Charlie died with incomplete work, but not unfinished business.”
“There was nothing that was too hard or too painful or nothing that he just felt like he didn’t want to do,” she said.
WOW 💔 “While Charlie Died far too early, he was ready to die” – Erika Kirk
Heartbreaking 🙏 pic.twitter.com/qt3lhoL7i2
— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) September 21, 2025
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