00:00Bernie Kirk became a star of the MAGA movement by going where other conservative activists
00:04would not, college campuses, like the one where he was killed.
00:09From the age of 18, Kirk toured universities with his organisation Turning Points USA,
00:15spreading the message that it's cool to be young, evangelical and pro-Trump, all the
00:20while amassing countless clips framed as him humiliating left-wing students.
00:25What is a woman? This is not a trick question, everybody. You're in college, paying for an education. What is a woman?
00:32The far-right activist attacked abortion rights, gun control, homosexuality and minorities and promoted conspiracy theories about vaccines and the 2020 election.
00:44Of course it was stolen and we're going to win this time. When you sign a letter that says the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, that was stolen from the American people and information warfare.
00:54In Utah two years ago, he made one of his more controversial statements.
00:59I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.
01:09Raised in a politically moderate household in a rich suburb of Chicago, Kirk owed his political awakening to the financial crash of 2008.
01:18A college dropout, Kirk was personal aid to Donald Trump's son during his first campaign in 2016.
01:25Soon he was a regular presence on Fox News and Turning Point began raking in tens of millions of dollars in donations.
01:33Kirk's college campaigning and huge internet following helped drive the critical youth vote in favour of Donald Trump in last year's election.
01:42Have a great day.
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