WashingtonL’influencer From the far right Charlie Kirk died on Wednesday after being shot, as confirmed by Donald Trump in Truth Social. “The great and legendary Charlie Kirk is dead. No one understood as he the heart of the United States Youth,” wrote the American President shortly after he knew that the activist had been shot in his neck during an event at Utah University Valley. Kirk was a reference figure among Trump’s youngest followers, which had made him a narrow ally of the president. During the last election he played a key role in spreading the theories of electoral fraud through its Turning Point USA platform (TPUSA).
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Kirk’s death will probably have a similar effect to the Trump attack on Butler. It could become a new political agglutinator in the midst of divisions within the foundations of Trumpism by the news of the Epstein case and a new catalyst for hate speech against Democrats and the left in general. In fact, the Trumpist bubble in X is already accusing the left. Elon Musk has repudiated a post stating “the left -wing media, as well as figures like Gavin Newsom who claims that Trump plans to be a dictator, they have created a hysterical climate against the right.” The American President has ordered the flag to be hoisted mid -pole in mourning until six o’clock on Sunday afternoon.
In the videos traveling on social media you can see how Kirk receives the impact of the shot while talking in a tent mounted on the courtyard of the university. Just as he received the shot, the activist was answering a question about massive shootings. L ‘influencer Maga was participating as the speaker of the The American Comeback Tourorganized by TPUSA. Although police had detained a suspect at the beginning, it was later reported that this was not the perpetrator. Agents are still looking for the shooter.
University spokeswoman Ellen Treanor said that Kirk was shot about 20 minutes after he started talking. According to Treanor, the shooter would have fired from the Losee Center building, which is about 182 meters (200 yards) where the activist was sitting. After the incident, Kirk’s safety has been taken away. A spokesman for Turning Point USA, Andrew Kolvet, has confirmed to the New York Times that the shot has injured Kirk on his neck.
Kirk, 31, has more than five million followers in X and is one of the faces known in the Trumpist Bases, especially among young people. As it had increased its influence between the Maga Bases, Kirk climbed positions within the Trump orbit, to the point that the President participated in events organized by his Turning Point Action platform. The far-right activist founded it in 2012 along with William Montgomery, another activist from the Ultra-Conservative Tea Party movement, with the aim of fostering conservative ideology among university students.
At first, TPusa’s acts were more facing tax cuts and limiting the power of the state, but with the emergence of Trump and the metamorphosis of the Republican party, Kirk joined the new far-right wave and the Maga ranks. Since the Foundation of TPUSA, Kirk has been in charge of the university campuses of the country, where he organizes talks such as this Wednesday in Utah.
Kirk’s murder is a new episode of political violence in the United States. Last June, two Democratic State Legislators of Minnesota and their respective couples were also victims of an attack. Melissa Hortman and her husband died, while John Hoffman and his wife were seriously injured.
Both figures of the orbit Maga and members of the Democratic Party have come to condemn the facts. Newmsom has been one of the first to react. “The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile and reproved. In the United States of America we must reject political violence in all its forms,” XD Vance has shared Trump’s confirmation of Kirk’s death, and added: “Grants him, Lord, eternal rest.”
