Conservative activist Charlie Kirk mourned as a ‘martyr for truth’ after assassination
President Trump on Wednesday night said that he was “filled with grief and anger” at the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a Utah college campus, and called Kirk a “martyr for truth and freedom.
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