Trump honors Charlie Kirk by calling him one of "the greatest patriots" of the U.S.

Glendale.- US President Donald Trump on Sunday called the assassination of Charlie Kirk "an attack against the U.S." at a large ceremony to honor the activist's memory, whom he defined as "one of the greatest patriots" of the country. The leader said that the assassination of Kirk, whom he also called "a giant of his generation" and a "great evangelist of freedom", "was an attack against our entire nation".

"It was a terrible attack against the United States of America. It was an attack against our most sacred freedoms and our fundamental rights, granted by God. The weapon was aimed at him, but the bullet was aimed at all of us, at each one of us," Trump cried.

Before the approximately 73,000 people who packed Arizona's Farm State stadium, the Republican, in an event that ended up certifying the total coupling between Christian conservatism and Trumpism, said that the activist's name "will be immortalized forever in the history of the greatest patriots of the U.S."

"Charles James Kirk was brutally murdered by a radicalized and ruthless individual, simply for expressing the truth he carried in his heart," Trump explained about what happened to the activist.

Trump said that on September 10th the "greatest evangelist of American freedom became immortal". The president praised Kirk and how he founded Turning Point at the age of 18, an organization through which he organized debates and events at universities and which made him a recognized spokesperson for the ultraconservative Christian conservatism of the U.S.. He also recalled how he was one of the people who put him in contact with his current vice president, JD Vance.

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In any case, Trump's intervention, like many of the speeches offered at the memorial, came closer to a political rally than a funeral event. The president assured that Kirk perfectly understood his government program, from his policies on health to the tariff war or the need to bring back "borders, public order and religion" to the U.S..