Charlie Kirk, the powerful right -wing activist and executive director of the USA Turning Point (Tpusa), was struck to death while participating in an event in Utah. In some videos circulating on social media, Kirk is seen that is hit while talking to the students, sitting under a tent in the courtyard of Utah Valley University. Kirk was there to participate in the American Comeback Tour, organized by the Tpusa section of the Utah Valley. There are also videos of students on the campus that run away from the noise of the shots.
Who is Charlie Kirk, the influencer loved by Trump
Charlie Kirk, 31, from Arlington Heights, Illinois, the conservative political activist killed in Utah, while participating in a public event, was a social star, with more than seven million followers on Instagram, an American author and radio conductor much loved by the President of the United States Donald Trump.
Kirk was known above all as a founder and president of the US turn -based touring point, a conservative student organization that promotes the principles of free market and limited government, present in over 3,500 high schools and universities in the United States.
After briefly attending Harper College, Kirk abandoned his studies to devote himself to full -time political activism, gaining consideration in the Trumpian galaxy. In 2019, he established Turning Point Action, the organization’s political arm, and subsequently created Turning Point Faith to mobilize religious communities on conservative themes.
He was also the conductor of “The Charlie Kirk Show”, a conservative radio program, where the president went several times as a guest, and had a significant presence on social media. He was the author of books such as “Battlefield Campus”. Complottista Novax, denialist of climate, anti -abortic change, recently had deployed against the concession of visas for people from India. Kirk has promoted conspiracy theories such as the idea of ”cultural Marxism”, criticized for its anti -Semitic content.