Erika Kirk had a powerful moment this week when she fiercely called out people who have been exploiting Charlie Kirk’s death and attacking her family since he was fatally shot three months ago.
“Here’s my breaking point. Come after me, call me names, I don’t care. Call me what you want, go down that rabbit hole, whatever. But when you go after my family, my Turning Point USA family, my Charlie Kirk Show family, when you go after the people that I love and you’re making hundreds and thousands of dollars every single episode going after the people that I love because somehow they’re in on this, no!” Kirk charged.
“Can my children have one thing? Everything was public. Can my babies have one thing where we hold it sacred, where my husband is laid to rest, where I don’t have to be worried about some secular revolutionary coming and destroying my husband’s grave while my daughter is sitting there praying?” she shot back.
“I do not have time to address the noise. My silence does not mean that I am complacent,” she declared.
“This is righteous anger because this is not okay. It’s not healthy. This is a mind virus. Just know that your words are very powerful, and we are human. My team are not machines and they’re not robots. They are human. We have more death threats on our team and our side than I have ever seen,” Kirk said
“I have kidnapping threats. My poor team is exhausted, and every time they bring this back up, what are we supposed to do? Relive that trauma all over again? They watched my husband get murdered,” Kirk said as other co-hosts were vocally giving her support and encouragement.
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The man who is accused of killing Charlie Kirk will appear in court for the first time in person on Thursday, almost three months after he was arrested.
The hearing is the most important thing that has happened in the case so far. It comes at a time when Kirk’s widow and the media are worried about how secretive the proceedings are becoming.
Tyler Robinson, who is charged with aggravated murder and several other felonies related to Kirk’s shooting death at a Utah Valley University event on September 10, has appeared in previous court hearings via video or audio from jail.
Since then, a lot of the case has happened behind closed doors, which has led a group of media organizations, including Fox News, to call for more openness.
That group asked that prosecutors and defense attorneys give notice ahead of time whenever they want to seal filings or limit public access. This way, people can challenge those limits before they go into effect.
The judge has said that the hearing on Thursday must be in person and as open to the public as possible, but no information from the Oct. 24 hearing may be shared.
The court has also set strict rules for how Robinson can be shown. He can’t be photographed or filmed while in shackles, and he can only be shown sitting down.
Pictures of his family are not allowed, and reporters must follow the court’s order about how to behave.
These restrictions are similar to ones that have been put in place before, such as the postponement of a previous hearing because there were disagreements about whether Robinson could wear jail clothes and how that might affect how people see him.
He said that the hearing on Thursday will be important but not very broad.
He said, “It’s going to be a bit of a one-trick pony. It’s going to be about this order to seal.”
He said that the court set the hearing “specially” to deal with media objections that the secrecy goes against First Amendment rights.
