"Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, died on Wednesday, Sept. 10. The conservative activist was speaking into a microphone at Utah Valley University, sitting beneath a white tent emblazoned with the slogans "The American Comeback" and "Prove Me Wrong," when he was fatally shot. The attack comes just days after the start of the trial of a man charged"
"trial of a man charged with attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump-and Kirk's reach was so vast that it was the president himself who announced his death. "The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead," Trump wrote on Truth Social, later adding that he was ordering all American Flags throughout the U.S. to fly at half-mast until Sunday evening."
Charlie Kirk dropped out of college at 18 to co-found Turning Point USA and rapidly built a nationwide conservative youth movement generating roughly $92–100 million annually by his early 30s. He amassed millions of online followers and cultivated a close relationship with President Donald Trump, who credited him with mobilizing youth voters in 2024. Kirk was born in 1993 in Arlington Heights, Illinois, grew up in a conservative household, became an Eagle Scout, and aspired to West Point. He was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University beneath a tent bearing movement slogans, and Trump publicly announced his death and ordered flags at half-mast.
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