Breaking: Charlie Kirk is Dead

President Trump just announced the passing of the young man who welcomed debate and never advocated violence. No arrest has been made.

JUST IN: President Donald Trump says Charlie Kirk is dead after the young man was shot at an event at Utah Valley University earlier today.

The suspect in the shooting is not yet in custody, according to a spokesperson from Utah Valley University, despite saying earlier the police did have someone in custody.

Charlie Kirk was a brave and decent young man, husband, and father. He often visited college campuses and encouraged debate. He was famous for fielding extremely hostile questions and answering them civilly—the antithesis of those, such as his killer, who silence their opponents with violence.

In recent years, many college campuses have become dark, atavistic places of ideological possession and rage. I am not surprised he was assassinated on one of them.

To underscore the abyss of stupidity in which the political Left has sunk in this country, MSNBC Host Katy Tur said on her show—while breaking the news—that Kirk is “divisive” and “polarizing.”

One of Tur’s guests on the show, Matthew Dowd—who ran for Lieutenant Governor of Texas as a Democrat in 2021— said, “We don’t know . . . if this was a supporter shooting their guns off in celebration.”

Dowd, who was the chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign, is an expression of the creepy alliance between Bush era ghouls and today’s Democrat establishment. Good Lord, Charlie was up against a formidable array of awful people.

The good guys in this country have lost one of our strongest and most promising young hands. Our condolences to Charlie’s wife, child, and parents.