"Charlie Kirk, who rose from a teenage conservative campus activist to a top podcaster and ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed Wednesday during one of his trademark public appearances at a college in Utah. He was 31. Kirk died doing what made him a potent political force - rallying the right on a college campus, this time Utah Valley University. The event was kicking off a planned series of Kirk college appearances from Colorado to Virginia dubbed "The American Comeback Tour.""
"His assassination was one of an escalating number of attacks on political figures, from the assassination of a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota to last summer's shooting of Trump, that have roiled the nation. Trump announced Kirk's death on his social media site, Truth Social. Kirk personified the pugnacious, populist conservatism that has taken over the Republican Party in the age of Trump."
Charlie Kirk, 31, was shot and killed during a public appearance at Utah Valley University while launching a college tour called The American Comeback Tour. Kirk rose from a teenage conservative campus activist to found Turning Point USA in 2012 and became a prominent ally of Donald Trump. Turning Point targeted younger people on liberal-leaning campuses, claims more than 250,000 student members, stages events with strobe lighting and pyrotechnics, and helped run get-out-the-vote efforts for Trump’s 2024 campaign. The killing occurred amid an increase in attacks on political figures nationwide, and Trump announced Kirk's death on Truth Social.
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