The State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona was packed to its 73,000 capacity, and a nearby overflow stadium holding 20,000 people was also filled with the crowd who came to mourn the death of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who was gunned down by an assassin while speaking to students at a Utah university on September 10.
The speakers list included President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
Office of National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson, Stephen Miller, and Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk who praised the Turning Point supporters for not rioting, said: “My husband, Charlie. He wanted to save young men, just like the one who took his life. That young man. That young man on the cross. Our Savior said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’ That man. That young man. I forgive him. I forgive him because it was what Christ did in his [sic] What Charlie would do. The answer to hate is not hate. The answer we know from the gospel is love and always love.
“Love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us.”
