Erika Kirk Describes Seeing Her Assassinated Husband’s Body

Turning Point USA (TPUSA) CEO Erika Kirk described seeing a “smirk” on the face of her assassinated husband, TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, in an interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters set to air Wednesday.

Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Sept. 10 during a “Prove Me Wrong” event at Utah Valley University sponsored by TPUSA, while debating a student on transgender issues. Erika Kirk described traveling and then requesting to see his body in the morgue during an advanced excerpt from the interview that will air on “Jesse Watters Primetime” at 8:00 p.m. EST on Fox News. (RELATED: ‘Not Our Mess’: Erika Kirk Speaks Out On Jimmy Kimmel’s Crass Comments About Husband’s Assassination)

“You wanted to see Charlie immediately and came up. Take us through that,” Watters said.

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“We walked into that room. He had this smirk on his face,” an emotional Erika Kirk responded. “That smirk to me is that look of, ‘You thought you could stop what I’ve built. You thought that you could end this vision, this movement, this revival; you thought you could do that by murdering me. You got my body, you didn’t get my soul.’”

TPUSA continued Kirk’s college tour following his assassination, with Vice President J.D. Vance and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a co-founder of the Daily Caller and Daily Caller News Foundation, among those taking the stage in place of the late conservative activist. Vance transported Kirk’s body back to his home state of Arizona on Air Force Two ahead of his memorial service.

Kirk founded TPUSA, an organization for conservative college and high school students, in June 2012, according to the group’s website. He also hosted “The Charlie Kirk Show,” a podcast that later became a radio show on the Salem Radio Network, according to his biography on TPUSA’s site.

State Farm Stadium, where the National Football League’s Arizona Cardinals play their home games, filled up rapidly for the Sept. 21 memorial service for Kirk, with organizers of the event using the Desert Diamond Arena, which formerly housed a National Hockey League team, to house attendees who couldn’t fit in the stadium that can hold up to 73,000 people.

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