Erika Kirk Forgives Her Husband's Assassin in Powerful TPUSA Speech on Faith and Marriage

[00:00] The thing that blew everybody away, the

[00:01] moment that really I think shattered

[00:04] everyone was Erica Kirk's speech. Now, I

[00:07] I've only had the privilege of knowing

[00:08] Erica for a very short time. Actually, I

[00:10] only met her after Charlie was was

[00:12] murdered. She's an amazing person. I

[00:14] mean, truly a strong amazing person. One

[00:18] of the things that I found out is that

[00:19] when she gave the speech that she gave

[00:21] initially after Charlie's death, just a

[00:23] couple of days after his death, she

[00:24] actually did that live, which is

[00:26] unthinkable to have to give a 16 17

[00:29] minute address direct into camera 2 days

[00:31] after watching your spouse be shot to

[00:34] death in front of the entire world with

[00:36] two young children at home. Erica is a

[00:39] force for sure. She of course has now

[00:41] been appointed as the new head of TPUSA.

[00:44] And the thing about Erica, it's true of

[00:46] Charlie too, but Erica even more overtly

[00:48] is that she is a woman who is deeply in

[00:50] touch with her faith. I mean, this is a

[00:52] woman of faith at the deepest possible

[00:54] level. And that's really what she spoke

[00:55] about yesterday. It was incredibly

[00:56] moving. Truly one of the great speeches

[00:58] I think I've ever seen. She went for

[01:00] about half an hour and she spoke about

[01:03] what it means to be married, what the

[01:05] Bible calls us to do as husbands, as

[01:08] wives, what Charlie was trying to do by

[01:11] reaching out to young men. I mean tr

[01:14] truly astonishing stuff. So she talked

[01:17] about in her speech first of all I mean

[01:18] the audience was it was so moving and

[01:20] the audience was basically trying to

[01:24] reach out to her with with their love to

[01:26] uplift her in this moment of darkness

[01:28] for her and and for her family. He could

[01:31] feel the love in the arena. Just

[01:32] tremendous outpouring of love for Erica

[01:35] Kirk in the arena.

[01:38] She talked about Charlie's mission which

[01:39] she said was not just political. She

[01:41] said that Charlie Krook's mission was to

[01:43] save the lost boys of the West. Here's

[01:44] what she had to say.

[01:46] Charlie's mission above all

[01:50] was aimed directly at those who aren't

[01:52] married.

[01:55] He named his organization well.

[01:58] He knew things were not right with

[02:00] America and especially with young people

[02:03] and they needed a new direction.

[02:07] Charlie passionately

[02:09] wanted to reach and save the lost boys

[02:12] of the West.

[02:15] The young men who feel like they have no

[02:17] direction,

[02:18] no purpose, no faith, and no reason to

[02:21] live.

[02:23] The men wasting their lives on

[02:25] distractions, and the men consumed with

[02:27] resentment, anger, and hate.

[02:32] Charlie wanted to help them.

[02:36] He wanted them to have a home with

[02:38] Turning Point USA. And when he went onto

[02:41] campus, he was looking to show them a

[02:43] better path

[02:46] and a better life that was right there

[02:49] for the taking.

[02:51] He wanted to show them that.

[02:53] That culminated in one of the most

[02:56] moving things I've ever seen ever at any

[02:58] time. Erica on stage in front of a

[03:02] 100red million people forgiving the

[03:05] assassin of her husband. Now we'll talk

[03:08] about you the differences between

[03:10] personal forgiveness which is what Erica

[03:11] Kirk is doing here and public policy and

[03:15] how you how you ought to treat evil with

[03:17] regard to public policy. But what she

[03:19] does here is I mean truly an act of

[03:22] spiritual courage.

[03:25] My husband Charlie

[03:29] He wanted to save

[03:33] young men

[03:36] just like the one who took his life.

[03:41] [Applause]

[03:44] [Music]

[03:47] [Applause]

[03:56] That young man

[03:59] That young man

[04:01] on the cross, our savior said,

[04:08] "Father, forgive them for they not know

[04:12] what they do."

[04:16] That man,

[04:19] that young man,

[04:24] I forgive him.

[04:26] [Applause]

[04:34] very difficult to say that that Charlie

[04:36] and Erica and his movement is one of

[04:38] hatred as she stands up there and says

[04:39] that she in a spiritual sense forgives

[04:43] his killer. Now, there are a lot of

[04:45] people who are contrasting that with

[04:46] President Trump's speech because later

[04:47] President Trump did a pretty funny riff

[04:50] about how he is he's not the kind of

[04:51] person who forgives his enemies. But the

[04:54] truth is that what she is doing there is

[04:56] obviously a value system deeply rooted

[04:58] in her biblical faith. It's it's hard to

[05:01] think of anything more powerful than

[05:04] what Erica did right there than what she

[05:07] did right there. Again, she doesn't mean

[05:10] that as a society we ought to ignore sin

[05:12] or that his murderer shouldn't be

[05:14] punished to the full extent of the law

[05:16] and receive the death penalty. That's

[05:17] not what Erica is saying right there.

[05:18] She's saying something very different.

[05:20] She's saying that as all human beings

[05:22] are sinners

[05:24] that all human beings require

[05:27] forgiveness for their sins, which is an

[05:30] amazing amazing statement. This again,

[05:32] she's a a young woman, mother of two

[05:34] young children

[05:38] really one one of the most

[05:40] I would say jaw-dropping moments in

[05:42] American political history. What what

[05:44] Erica did right there. Pretty

[05:46] incredible. We'll get to more on this in

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[06:51] show. She made the point also a point

[06:54] that's been made pretty frequently by a

[06:56] lot of people on the right. That after

[06:58] Charlie's murder, it wasn't as though

[06:59] the right broke into spasms of violence.

[07:01] Precisely the opposite. that that on the

[07:04] left when somebody dies or is killed in

[07:07] disputed circumstances think George

[07:09] Floyd here you get riots sometimes for

[07:12] months Charlie who's one of the most

[07:15] high high-profile conservatives in

[07:16] America one of the most high-profile

[07:18] exponents of Christianity in America

[07:21] she says that that Charlie his death did

[07:24] not drive mass violence in the streets

[07:26] far from it drove prayer it drove

[07:28] reflection it drove a great coming

[07:30] together.

[07:33] After Charlie's assassination, we didn't

[07:36] see violence.

[07:39] We didn't see rioting.

[07:43] We didn't see revolution.

[07:46] Instead, we saw what my husband always

[07:48] prayed he would see in this country. We

[07:51] saw revival.

[07:54] This past week, we saw people open a

[07:56] Bible for the first time in a decade.

[08:00] We saw people pray for the first time

[08:02] since they were children.

[08:04] We saw people go to a church service for

[08:06] the first time in their entire lives.

[08:10] And that is obviously true. I mean, I've

[08:12] been talking with all of my Christian

[08:13] friends. The the attendance last week at

[08:15] church was significantly higher than it

[08:18] had been previously. Google searches, I

[08:20] believe, for church went up. And that is

[08:23] because of the the tremendous

[08:25] outpouring. And and I think that, you

[08:28] know, for for folks who are under the

[08:29] age of 30, Charlie was a monster

[08:31] presence in their lives. I mean, truly

[08:33] like a very large presence in their

[08:34] lives. For people above the age of 50,

[08:36] maybe they didn't know Charlie as well.

[08:38] Charlie was a dominant force on some of

[08:40] the social media that particularly young

[08:42] people use. If you go and talk to a

[08:43] 17-year-old in America, the chances they

[08:45] didn't know who Charlie was are almost

[08:46] zero. Charlie was, I believe, the most

[08:49] viewed political account on Tik Tok

[08:50] during the entire 2024 election cycle.

[08:52] He had something like 15 billion views

[08:54] on Tik Tok. And so the fact that he was

[08:56] spreading those values and then was shot

[08:58] while spreading his values on camera for

[09:01] everybody to see

[09:03] that that simple fact meant that I think

[09:05] a lot of people wanted to see what made

[09:07] Charlie tick and then go and experience

[09:08] what made Charlie tick which was

[09:10] obviously his faith. Erica talked quite

[09:13] beautifully I thought about marriage.

[09:15] Her statements on marriage were quite

[09:16] wonderful and she talked about how a man

[09:18] and a wife are supposed to relate to one

[09:20] another that that men are protectors and

[09:22] providers that is their job in the

[09:23] world. when she was talking about young

[09:24] men who have abandoned purpose, she said

[09:26] it was your purpose to get married, have

[09:28] children, defend those children, be

[09:30] bold, that that was a thing that that

[09:33] you are designed to do and for young

[09:34] women that young women should get

[09:37] married, that they are to be helpers in

[09:38] the sense that you are one unit. And

[09:41] then she talked about her personal

[09:42] relationship with Charlie. Again, this

[09:44] stuff is it's it's heartbreaking and

[09:45] moving and yes, uplifting.

[09:49] Someone once asked me how Charlie and I

[09:54] how we kept our marriage so strong when

[09:57] he was busy traveling.

[10:02] In our little secret,

[10:05] it was love notes.

[10:10] Every Saturday,

[10:12] Charlie wrote one for me and he never

[10:14] missed a Saturday.

[10:18] And in every single one of them, he'd

[10:21] tell me what his highlight was for the

[10:23] week,

[10:25] how grateful he was for me and our

[10:27] babies.

[10:29] And always at the end, he would always

[10:32] end it with asking the most beautiful

[10:36] question.

[10:39] He'd always end it by asking, "Please

[10:41] let me know how I can better serve you

[10:43] as a husband."

[10:46] And uh as I commented to some of my

[10:48] friends in a in a sort of you know

[10:53] wistful moment I said well he must have

[10:55] had an amazing relationship with with

[10:56] his wife. I know that um you know for

[10:58] for most spouses if you write a note

[10:59] that would end. What can I do

[11:01] differently? What you get back is a a

[11:03] five inch binder of of suggestions. So

[11:07] you they must have had an incredible

[11:10] incredible relationship. Erica said that

[11:12] Charlie died doing what he loved which

[11:13] obviously was true. I mean, one of one

[11:15] of the small mercies, she said this as

[11:17] well, is that Charlie's death was

[11:18] essentially instantaneous, that he went

[11:21] from one moment doing the thing that he

[11:23] loved to the next moment being with God.

[11:25] Here, here's what Erica had to say.

[11:28] One moment, Charlie was doing what he

[11:30] loved,

[11:32] arguing and debating on campus,

[11:36] fighting for the gospel

[11:39] and truth

[11:41] in front of a big crowd.

[11:44] And then he blinked.

[11:47] He blinked

[11:50] and saw his savior in paradise.

[11:55] That is

[11:57] I mean

[11:59] it was it was so much I mean in the

[12:01] arena it was so much watching it again

[12:03] it's so much obviously everyone is

[12:06] standing with Erica Kirk and with her

[12:09] family and as she said TPS USA is only

[12:13] going to grow from here become stronger

[12:15] and become more powerful because of what

[12:17] was done to Charlie Kirk.