Erika Kirk, the widow of the influential Pro-Trump Charlie Kirk, murdered last week in the United States, will replace the Turning Point USA head, the organization she had created to attract young Americans to the Republican Party, announced their officials this Thursday, September 18.
“The movement that my husband created will not die,” said Erika Kirk in a speech two days after her husband’s murder in Utah (west).
Created by Charlie Kirk when he was 18, Turning Point USA won over the years as the first young political association in the United States. It has antennas in more than 800 campus throughout the country, and its founder was perceived as an essential gear in the reconquest of the White House by Donald Trump last year.
After the death of the influencer at the age of 31, “Turning Point Board of Directors unanimously chose Erika Kirk as a new director” of the organization, announced the US turning point. UU. In X.
Erika Kirk, 36, was also appointed president of the Board of Directors. “In the past, Charlie had expressed to several officials what she wanted in case of death,” the organization added.
Charlie Kirk, erected as “martyr”
After the murder of Charlie Kirk, the American right erected it as a “martyr” of freedom of expression and called to censor anyone considered disrespectful towards their memory.
Donald Trump had ordered the flags to be placed in a mast medium. His vice president JD Vance had gone to Utah to recover the body of the influencer and encouraged his podcast instead. Honors who say the special place occupied within the Trumpist galaxy this ally without government function or electoral mandate.
The nationalist Christian, fierce defender of the traditional family, Charlie Kirk was worshiped and hated by his prarmes, anti -abortion, antimigrants or his virulent rhetoric towards ethnic minorities and the LGBT+community.
In recent days, dozens of people have lost their work due to messages that celebrate their death on social networks or criticize their intellectual inheritance.
On Wednesday, comedian Jimmy Kimmel, a famous television presenter, was deprived of Antena for the ABC channel after his words accused American right to use the murder politically. A decision made a few hours after the head of the American Telecoms Gendarme (FCC) threatened to withdraw the license from the channels that would continue to transmit their program.
Source: BFM TV
