Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, vowed to keep her husband’s movement alive with college tours and podcasts.
“The evildoers responsible for my husband’s assassination have no idea what they have done. … But they should all know this — if you thought that my husband’s mission was powerful before, you have no idea,” Mrs. Kirk said in a video statement Friday.
“You have no idea what you just have unleashed across this entire country,” she said. “In this world, you have no idea.”
Mr. Kirk, the co-founder of the conservative organization Turning Point USA, was speaking on the first stop of “The American Comeback Tour” at Utah Valley University in Orem on Wednesday when he was fatally shot. A 22-year-old Utah resident, Tyler Robinson, is in custody.
Mrs. Kirk thanked law enforcement, first responders, the followers and supporters of Turning Point USA, President Trump, and Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, both of whom flew Mr. Kirk’s casket and family to Arizona from Utah on Air Force Two on Thursday.
“My husband laid down his life for me, for our nation, for our children,” Mrs. Kirk said.
She said her husband’s campus tour will continue this fall and for years to come along with his radio and podcast show.
“And in a world filled with chaos, doubt and uncertainty, my husband’s voice will remain, and it will ring out louder and more clearly than ever, and his wisdom will endure,” she said.
She urged young Americans to get involved with Turning Point USA or start their own movement.
She spoke of her children and that her 3-year-old daughter asked where her father is and how she hasn’t found a way to tell her that he died, saying he’s on a “work trip with Jesus.”
On Instagram, Mrs. Kirk posted several photos of herself with his casket and videos of the casket being brought back on Air Force Two.
“The world is evil,” she wrote in the caption.
