Erika Kirk said that if she harbored any anger in her heart over her husband Charlie Kirk’s murder, she would not be able to focus on “what Charlie entrusted to me.” Kirk joined political commentator Megyn Kelly in Glendale, Arizona, for the last stop on Kelly’s live tour. The interview comes out Monday, Nov. 24, and Kelly published some clips ahead of the release.
“And if I had any amount of anger in my heart and spirit, the Lord would not be able to use me,” Kirk told Kelly. “And every single day, just how Charlie did, [he] stood on stage, he would say, ‘Here I am, Lord, use me.’ And if I had that anger in my heart, that foothold from the enemy, [God] wouldn’t be able to.”
Erika Kirk Joins Megyn Kelly for Interview
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) cofounder Charlie Kirk, 31, was shot and killed on Sept. 10 while he was speaking during his The American Comeback Tour stop at Utah Valley University. His widow, Erika Kirk, has since taken over as CEO and board chair of TPUSA. Her public forgiveness of the person who killed her husband has drawn admiration from people across the political spectrum.
In one clip of Kelly’s interview with Kirk, Kelly asked if Kirk was angry at God. “I know you don’t ever feel angry against God, but I kind of do,” said Kelly, acknowledging feelings Kelly previously expressed in an interview with apologist Dr. Frank Turek. Turek was a close friend and mentor of Charlie Kirk.
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“I understand,” Kirk replied.
“How do you make sense of that?” Kelly asked. “And do you have any anger when you think about it, towards the Lord, but in general?”
“The enemy would love for me to be angry,” Kirk answered. “He would love it. He would love it because it would distract me from building what Charlie entrusted to me: raising our babies, Turning Point, being there for the team, being there for what the future holds.”
Erika Kirk joined political commentator Megyn Kelly in Glendale, Arizona, for the last stop on Kelly’s live tour.Click to PostKelly mentioned “that extraordinary moment” during Charlie Kirk’s memorial service when Erika Kirk “forgave his accused killer.”
“That’s the most powerful, strongest thing I’ve ever seen anybody do in my life,” said Kelly. “I thought…I could never do it. I could never do it. And somebody said to me, ‘Forgiveness is an action, not an emotion.’”
