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"Regular people celebrating somebody getting murdered in front of their wife and kid on television in front the whole world..."
Telling false stories like that is what is contributing to the division.
Kirk's wife and kids had no idea it happened, they weren't there and were told after the fact.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/us/politics/erika-kirk.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20250921094802/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/us/politics/erika-kirk.html
"Originally, Erika had planned to join Charlie Kirk in Utah, but her mother’s medical treatment in Phoenix kept her at home. “Home needs you,” Charlie told her, reassuring her they’d travel together for the next stop at Colorado State University.
At 11:23 a.m., while sitting in her mother’s hospital room, Erika’s phone rang. It was Michael McCoy, Charlie’s longtime assistant. She didn’t need to hear the words before she knew what had happened. “In retrospect, I knew it before he screamed it,” she recalled. “‘He’s been shot!’”