The widow of Charlie Kirk said her final goodbye to her husband, with the tragic moments captured in a video she posted on her Instagram account. Specifically, Erika Kirk shared images and video as she cried beside her husband’s coffin, appearing to gently caress his hand and standing next to his body, which was placed inside a wooden casket. “Oh, I love you. I love you. I love you. God bless you,” she says while crying over his body. In another image, she appears to have collapsed and fallen onto her husband’s coffin.
Charlie Kirk’s widow’s first statements: You have no idea what you have unleashed – My husband’s voice will remain
These specific moments were published just hours after Erika Kirk, for the first time since her husband’s assassination on Wednesday, spoke in a live broadcast from her husband’s studio, next to his empty chair, sending the message that her husband’s mission will continue. “You have no idea what you have unleashed across the entire country and the world,” she said characteristically. It should be noted that Kirk, a conservative activist, was shot and killed on Wednesday during an event on a campus in Utah. The suspect in his murder was arrested Thursday evening after surrendering to police. Erika Kirk thanked the people who tried to save her husband’s life, as well as those who showed love to her and her family in the days following his death. She also quoted passages from the Bible and spoke about her husband’s love for President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, the United States, and the couple’s two children.
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In her statements, she emphasized: “My husband’s voice will remain.” The broadcast from the headquarters of Turning Point USA in Arizona began with several minutes of silence, while the camera showed Charlie Kirk’s empty chair. As Kirk’s widow began to speak, she looked up and whispered a silent prayer. She then thanked the first responders who tried to save him, her husband’s staff, and the White House. “Mr. President, my husband loved you. And he knew that you loved him too,” she said tearfully, also thanking Vance and his wife Usha who accompanied the coffin back to Arizona. “But above all, Charlie loved his children. And he loved me. With all his heart. And he made sure I knew that every day,” she noted.
“You have no idea about the fire you have ignited”
Addressing the “evil ones,” she stated: “You have no idea about the fire you have ignited within this wife, the cries of this widow will echo throughout the world as a battle cry”
“Everyone should know this: If you thought my husband’s mission was strong before, you have no idea, you have no idea what you just unleashed across this entire country and this world,” she added. Her husband’s campus tour across the US will continue throughout the fall and in the years to come, she said, without giving more details. His podcast will also continue.
Erika Kirk also spoke about their one-year-old son and three-year-old daughter, saying she didn’t know how to explain their father’s sudden death. “Baby, daddy loves you so much. Don’t worry. He’s on a business trip with Jesus,” she told their daughter. Erika Kirk, 36, and their children were reportedly in the audience when her husband was shot. She is an entrepreneur and former Miss Arizona USA winner who met her husband in 2018. The couple got engaged in 2020 and married less than a year later, according to the BBC. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Biblical Studies and hosts the Midweek Rise Up podcast focused on biblical leadership. She is also an actress and model, and has a faith-based clothing line. Although the couple’s children and family life are regular topics on their social media pages, they never post images showing their children’s faces.
Arrest of suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination
It should be noted that a man suspected of murdering conservative activist Charlie Kirk was arrested after a frantic manhunt, American authorities announced today, two days after the assassination of Kirk, this influential figure of Trump youth, an event that shocked the deeply polarized United States of America. The arrest was announced yesterday morning (US local time) by Donald Trump and confirmed by authorities at a press conference in Orem, the Utah city where 31-year-old Kirk was shot in the neck on Wednesday during a public discussion on a campus.
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