(Los Angeles) Erika Kirk, the widow of pro-Trump influencer Charlie Kirk, murdered last week in the United States, will replace him at the head of Turning Point USA, the organization he had created to attract young Americans to the Republican Party, his officials announced on Thursday.
“The movement that my husband created will not die,” said Mr.me Kirk in a speech two days after the murder of her husband in Utah.
Created by Charlie Kirk when he was 18 years old, Turning Point USA won over the years as the first political association of youth in the United States.
It has antennas on more than 800 campuses across the country, and its founder was perceived as an essential cog in the reconquest of the White House by Donald Trump last year.
After the death of the far-right influencer at 31 years old, “the board of directors of Turning Point has unanimously elected Erika Kirk as a new director” of the organization, announced Turning Point USA on X. Mme Kirk, 36, was also appointed as president of the board of directors.
“In the past, Charlie had expressed to several officials that it was what he wanted in the event of death,” added the organization.
Martyr
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the American right erected it as a “martyr” of freedom of expression and called to censor any person deemed disrespectful towards his memory.
Donald Trump had ordered that the flags were put at half mast. His vice-president JD Vance had gone to Utah to recover the body of the influencer and animated his podcast in his place.
Honors who say the special place occupied within the Trumpist Galaxy this ally without government function or electoral mandate.
Nationalist Christian, fierce defender of the traditional family, Mr. Kirk was both adored and hated for his proarms, anti -avoration, antimigrants or his virulent rhetoric towards ethnic minorities and the LGBT+community.
In recent days, dozens of people have lost their jobs because of messages celebrating his death on social networks, or criticizing his intellectual heritage.
On Wednesday the comedian Jimmy Kimmel, a famous TV host, was deprived of antenna by the ABC channel after his words accusing the American right of using the assassination politically. A decision made a few hours after the boss of the American telecoms gendarme (FCC) threatened to withdraw the license from the channels that would continue to broadcast his program.
