NEWS: President Trump, Erika Kirk address crowd of thousands at Charlie Kirk memorial service

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NEWS: President Trump, Erika Kirk address crowd of thousands at Charlie Kirk memorial service   Thousands of mourners filled State Farm Stadium in Arizona on Sunday for the funeral of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, held 11 days after his assassination at Utah Valley University.  President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and other high-profile figures delivered emotional tributes, praising Kirk’s influence on young people, his faith, and his lasting political and cultural impact.  Erika Kirk, his widow, received a standing ovation after sharing a deeply personal remembrance, while other speakers, including Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth, hailed Kirk as a "warrior" for truth, freedom, country, and Christ.  News, NEWS, BREKING, Podcast, 24x7, Politics, Current Events, Headlines, Newsmax, Opinion, Washington DC, Congress, The Trending News 10, the trending news 10  Live news today, FOX News live stream, 24/7 breaking news, Live US news, FOX News now, World news live, Real-time headlines, Political updates live, FOX live channel, Watch news online free,

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00:00of your sacrifice. We will prove worthy of your time on earth. We will make you proud. We will

00:09finish the job. We will defeat the forces of darkness and evil. And we will stand every day

00:16for what is true, what is beautiful, what is good. And we will achieve victory for our children,

00:24for our families, for our civilization, and for every patriot who stands with us.

00:31God bless you. God bless Turning Point. God bless Erica. God bless the Kirk family.

00:38God bless our heroes. And God bless the United States of America. Thank you.

00:54Please welcome to the stage, Susie Wiles.

01:16Good afternoon, and what an honor to be here with all of you.

01:20Those of you who loved Charlie and love Erica, I was blessed to work with Charlie these past

01:28few years. And I know he is looking down now, rejoicing, because his life, his words, his

01:36courage to speak the truth about God, family, and country built the most powerful youth movement

01:44in our time.

01:45Many of you knew Charlie better than I did. And if you did, you experienced the gift of being

01:59lifted by his conviction and his joy. For Charlie, making America great again meant bringing young

02:07people to this movement and making sure they knew they belonged. Like our president says, it's a movement

02:15of common sense, and it makes sense. Love your God, love your family, love your country, and help the next

02:26generation live into those values. Boldly.

02:32Through Turning Point, Charlie gave us countless young Americans who had their first Turning Point the

02:38moment they decided to stand up, speak out, and make America all that she could be.

02:45When the president's 2024 campaign partnered with Turning Point, Charlie did not just promise,

02:52he delivered. Charlie and his team embraced the assigned mission completely, and they didn't

03:00meet expectations. They shattered them and blew them out of the water. President Trump's victory,

03:09winning the popular vote in every swing state was powered by young people, most brand new to

03:15politics. That was Charlie's army, and he made sure they understood the stakes.

03:21They outworked, they out hustled, and outperformed everyone else. Charlie just didn't help. He made

03:37the winning difference. I promise you that. And I believe Charlie is still urging us on, urging us

03:47not to sit back, not to be quiet, but to carry on his mission forward loudly, proudly, and with the same

03:55conviction he showed. So I ask you, let us honor Charlie in the best way possible, by continuing his work,

04:05by building on the foundation he laid, and by making sure this generation knows that this movement is

04:14their home. May God bless Erica and their beautiful children, and may he hold them in the palm of his hands

04:24as always.

04:38Ladies and gentlemen, Tucker Carlson.

05:08Oh, that made me emotional, made me emotional to see that.

05:21Susie Wiles had tears in her eyes, which you don't often see in politics, but it's real.

05:27This is the most unbelievable thing I think I've ever seen.

05:35Whatever happens next in America, I hope it's in this direction because God is here and you

05:41can feel it.

05:42And Charlie would have loved this, not just because he loved large groups of people, but

05:46because ultimately he was a Christian evangelist.

05:50And it actually reminds me of my favorite story ever.

05:54So it's about 2000 years ago in Jerusalem and Jesus shows up and he starts talking about

06:01the people in power.

06:03And he starts doing the worst thing that you can do, which is telling the truth about people.

06:09And they hate it.

06:10And they just go bonkers.

06:11They hate it.

06:12They become obsessed with making him stop.

06:14This guy's got to stop talking.

06:16We've got to shut this guy up.

06:18And I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamp lit room with a bunch of guys sitting

06:22around eating hummus thinking about what do we do about this guy telling the truth about

06:27us.

06:28We must make him stop talking.

06:31And there's always one guy with the bright idea and I can just hear him say, I've got

06:34an idea.

06:35Why don't we just kill him?

06:36That'll shut him up.

06:38That'll fix the problem.

06:46It doesn't work that way.

06:49It doesn't work that way.

06:50Everything is inverted and the Beatitudes tell it, I think, the most crisply.

06:54Everything is sort of the opposite of what you think it's going to be.

06:58Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted.

07:00That is true and you can feel it here.

07:03The thing about Charlie's message, I thought a lot about it and I'm trying not to be emotional

07:07because in addition to everything else, he was a wonderful man and a decent man and one

07:11of those rare people you meet who you just groove with in conversation and have these very

07:15intense conversations that you don't stop thinking about, which is my experience with

07:19him.

07:20But the main thing about Charlie and his message, he was bringing the gospel to the country.

07:27He was doing the thing that the people in charge hate most, which is calling for them to repent.

07:35So how is Charlie's message different?

07:38And Charlie was a political person who was deeply interested in coalition building and

07:44getting the right people in office because he knew that vast improvements are possible politically.

07:51But he also knew that politics is not the final answer.

07:55It can't answer the deepest questions, actually.

07:58That the only real solution is Jesus.

08:04And the reason, it's really simple.

08:09Politics at its core is a process of critiquing other people and getting them to change.

08:17Christianity, the gospel message, the message of Jesus, begins with repentance.

08:24Christianity calls upon you to change.

08:29Our core prayer given to us by Jesus, the Lord's Prayer, demands that we forgive other people,

08:38but preceding that is a request for our forgiveness.

08:41In other words, forgive us, our sins, meditate on what we've done wrong, how we've fallen short,

08:47and then it becomes possible to forgive other people.

08:52That is a call to change our hearts from Jesus.

08:56And that is the only way forward in this country.

08:59That is the only solution to where we all know we're going.

09:03And Charlie knew where we were going without that.

09:06And that is not a call for being politically passive.

09:09Of course not.

09:10I stood on many stages with Charlie calling for various people to be elected, particularly

09:14Donald Trump.

09:15And I'm proud of that.

09:17It's only an acknowledgment that what Charlie was really saying is that change begins, the

09:22only change that matters, when we repent of our sins.

09:28We.

09:29Me.

09:31A recognition that the real problem is me.

09:33And how fallen I am.

09:35And that was the reason that Charlie was fearless at all times, truly fearless.

09:43To his last moment, he was unafraid, he was not defensive, and there was no hate in his

09:49heart.

09:50I know that because I've got a little hate compartment in my heart.

09:53And I would often express that to Charlie about various people.

09:56And he would always say, always say, that's a sad person, that's a broken person, that's

10:02a person who needs help, that's a person who needs Jesus.

10:06He said that in private.

10:09Because he meant it.

10:10So I guess I would just say, this gathering and God's presence, God's very obvious presence

10:16in this room, the presence of Jesus, is a reminder of what we've known for 2,000 years.

10:23Which is any attempt to extinguish the light causes it to burn brighter.

10:29Every single time.

10:31So as we proceed into whatever comes next, and clearly something's coming next, remember

10:46this moment.

10:47Remember being in a room with the Holy Spirit humming like a tuning fork.

10:53This is the way.

10:55Right here.

10:56This is the way.

10:58And that is what Charlie Kirk was saying underneath it all.

11:01And God bless.

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