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So Erica's struggling with this, and of course that's terrible, unspeakable, most of us cannot

even put ourselves in her shoes, while at the same time, you know, she's trying to make

sure that Charlie's legacy doesn't die.

And in that context, everybody is attacking her over everything, and they're lying about

her, and it's one of the most disgraceful things that I've ever seen in public life.

And I've seen a lot of crazy stuff in my life as a political leader, and I will tell you

that the people who tell you I was there with her, I was holding her hand, my wife was hugging

her while we loaded Charlie's body onto Air Force Two and said the Lord's Prayer, the

people telling you that Erica wasn't grieving her husband are full of shit.

And we need to be honest about that fact.

Excuse my language, my wife says I gotta work on my language, she's been telling me that

for 12 years, and it still hasn't taken, but the thing is, look, when you become a

public figure, the natural thing, and I've talked to Erica about this privately, is a

ton of crazy people say a ton of things about you that simply aren't true.

But the thing that makes it so egregious with Erica is that she's a grieving person who's

trying to carry on her husband's legacy, and look, we all do things that are wrong.

If you want to criticize Turning Point USA for not taking this position, or having this

political disagreement, or maybe it should do this or that, that's all above board.

But to say that Erica Kirk wasn't grieving her husband on that day, to say that Erica

Kirk was somehow complicit in it, is so preposterous and so disgusting, and it's one of the things

that has broken, I think, the American public conversation over the last six months.

I mean, you know, Andrew, we could talk about this for a long time.

Charlie's absence, I felt it so many times in so many different ways.

There have been so many times where I wanted to call Charlie and say, man, you've got to

call this person, or man, you've got to put this event together so we can help this candidate,

or just to bounce ideas off of as a friend.

There have been so many ways in which I felt that void, but one of the ways in which I

felt that void is that it's like the response to Charlie Kirk dying, the response to Charlie

Kirk getting assassinated by a left-wing furry lover, is the response should have been, let's

go after left-wing violence and terrorism.

Let's defund the networks of left-wing violence and terrorism.

That's what we've been doing in Washington, D.C., and that's what we've been fighting for

every single day.

You know, Savannah Hernandez, of course, was assaulted in Minnesota a couple days ago.

I talked to Kash Patel on the way down here, and I said, I assume that we're doing something

here, and he said, yes, we've had multiple agents on the ground.

We've already talked to Savannah.

We're going to use the video to try to go after the people who assaulted her, and then

try to defund the networks that fund those radicals who are going around assaulting activists.

That's what we should be doing.

Thank you.

And I know that politics is hard, and I know that it's challenging, and I know that things

aren't always easy, and we're going to have disagreements even within our coalition, but

if you're going after Erica Kirk, and not the people who are trying to destroy the United

States of America, you're part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Yeah, amen.