On Wednesday, Dec. 10, Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, passionately defended her family and Turning Point USA (TPUSA) against the onslaught of conspiracy theories surrounding her husband’s assassination.
Erika’s comments came during an interview with Harris Faulkner on Fox News’ “Outnumbered.”
On Sept. 10, TPUSA cofounder Charlie Kirk, 31, was shot and killed while he was speaking during a stop of his The American Comeback Tour at Utah Valley University. Following Charlie’s death, Erika was named TPUSA’s new CEO and chair of the board.
Charlie’s assassination has led many, including well-known political commentator and former Kirk family friend Candace Owens, to share conspiracy theories relating to Charlie’s death.
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“Talk to me about this part of the conspiracies that are out there, this disturbing part that people are trying to guess where Charlie is [buried],” Faulkner asked Erika.
“Can I have one thing? Can I have one thing? Can my children have one thing?” Erika replied. “Everything was public.”
“We will be building the most beautiful memorial for my husband at Turning Point USA,” she said, “and it will be for the world to see, and it will be spectacular, and it will have basically a museum style for our Charlie, for my Charlie.”
“But can I have one thing?” she reiterated. “Can my babies have one thing where we hold it sacred, where my husband is laid to rest, where I don’t have to be worried about some secular revolutionary coming and destroying my husband’s grave while my daughter is sitting there praying?”
Erika added, “He was Charlie Kirk to the world, and I know so many people loved my husband and I am grateful for that. But this is my husband, and I want to be able to have one thing left that is sacred to our family, to my in-laws, to my babies, and to my parents. One thing.”
Erika told Faulkner that she isn’t allowing those who have spread conspiracy theories about her husband’s death to take anything from her.
“I will tell you what they are doing. It reminds me so much of Chapter 6 in the book of Nehemiah. He is building a wall, and the townspeople are at the base of that hill saying, ‘Nehemiah,’ calling him all these names, saying all these things, ‘Come on down,'” she said. “Every single time, he had the same message, four times in a row: ‘I cannot come down, I am busy building.’”
