The 31-year-old Podcaster and Trump supporter Kirk was fatally hit by a ball on the neck at a appearance at a university in the state of Utah. Kirk was a co -founder of the ultra -conservative organization Turning Point USA (about: turning point USA) and Trump’s mouthpiece for the youth.
Trump used the national commemoration of the 24th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 to appreciate Kirk. The president called him a “giant of his generation” and a “advocate of freedom” in a ceremony in the Pentagon.
He also announced Kirk posthumously lending the presidential medal of freedom. Previously, Trump had ordered US-wide mourning for his supporter Kirk in an unusual step, and the flags were also at half mast at the White House.
Meanwhile, the FBI continued the search for the assassin. The investigators published recordings of a suspect, possibly in student age. A person with a dark baseball cap and sunglasses and black top can be seen in the blurred pictures, and a logo with a US flag seems to be emblazoned.
In addition, the investigators found the alleged weapon in a forest area near the crime scene. It was a “high-performance bolt rifle,” said FBI agent Robert Bohls responsible. Such weapons are used in the hunt for large game or as a precision weapon of the military snipers. They make it possible to hit goals from a great distance. Kirk had apparently been fatally injured on the neck from a distance of around 180 meters with a single shot.
Martial tones could be heard from the Trump camp after the attack. “Charlie Kirk is a victim of war,” said former presidential advisor Steve Bannon. “We are in the war in this country.” According to the “New York Times”, the former spokesman for the House of Representatives, the Republican Newt Gingrich, spoke of a “cultural civil war” with liberal forces. Fox-News commentator Jesse Watters said that the right warehouse would “avenge” for Kirk’s death.
Left -wing users sometimes expressed satisfaction about Kirk’s death in online media and called him a “hate speaker”. The opposition Democrats, on the other hand, had sharply condemned the attack on Kirk. “There is no place in our country for this type of violence. It has to stop immediately,” wrote Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden in the online service X. California governor Gavin Newsom called the attack on Kirk on X “disgusting, hideous and reprehensible”.
The political climate in the USA has been heated for a long time. In July of last year, Trump was injured on a campaign appearance in the US state of Pennsylvania on the ear, the shooter was killed by security forces. In June of this year, a man in Minnesota committed attacks on Parliamentarians of the Democrats and killed two people.
Trump has further fueled the mood since taking office in January. He takes an unprecedented way against immigrants, political opponents, universities and media and used soldiers in Democrat strongholds such as Los Angeles and Washington – supposedly to fight violent excesses. He threatened cities such as Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans with similar missions.
