00:00To my great fellow Americans, I am filled with grief and anger at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah.
00:10Charlie inspired millions, and tonight all who knew him and loved him are united in shock and horror.
00:18Charlie was a patriot who devoted his life to the cause of open debate and the country that he loved so much, the United States of America.
00:28He fought for liberty, democracy, justice, and the American people.
00:33He's a martyr for truth and freedom, and there's never been anyone who was so respected by youth.
00:40Charlie was also a man of deep, deep faith, and we take comfort in the knowledge that he is now at peace with God in heaven.
00:50Our prayers are with his wife, Erica, the two young, beloved children, and his entire family who he loved more than anything in the world.
01:01We ask God to watch over them in this terrible hour of heartache and pain.
01:07This is a dark moment for America.
01:11Charlie Kirk traveled the nation, joyfully engaging with everyone interested in good faith debate.
01:18His mission was to bring young people into the political process, which he did better than anybody ever,
01:26to share his love of country and to spread the simple words of common sense.
01:32On campuses nationwide, he championed his ideas with courage, logic, humor, and grace.
01:39It's long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day, year after year,
01:54in the most hateful and despicable way possible.
01:57For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals.
02:09This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.
02:20My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it,
02:32as well as those who go after our judges, law enforcement officials, and everyone else who brings order to our country.
02:41From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania last year, which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on ICE agents,
02:50to the vicious murder of a health care executive in the streets of New York,
02:54to the shooting of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and three others,
03:00radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives.
03:06Tonight, I ask all Americans to commit themselves to the American values for which Charlie Kirk lived and died,
03:14the values of free speech, citizenship, the rule of law, and the patriotic devotion and love of God.
03:23Charlie was the best of America, and the monster who attacked him was attacking our whole country.
03:29An assassin tried to silence him with a bullet, but he failed,
03:33because together we will ensure that his voice, his message, and his legacy will live on for countless generations to come.
03:42Today, because of this heinous act, Charlie's voice has become bigger and grander than ever before,
03:50and it's not even close.
03:52May God bless his memory, may God watch over his family,
03:56and may God bless the United States of America.
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