Erika Kirk Says She Forgives The Man Accused Of Killing Her Husband - Beritaja

Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk's widow, speaks astatine the memorial work for the right-wing activistic astatine State Farm Stadium successful Glendale, Ariz., connected Sunday. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Erika Kirk, widow of blimpish activistic Charlie Kirk, said she forgives her husband's alleged killer.

"That man, that young man … I forgive him," Kirk said, wiping distant tears arsenic the assemblage astatine Kirk's memorial astatine State Farm Stadium successful Glendale, Ariz., erupted successful applause connected Sunday.

"I forgive him because it was what Christ did and is what Charlie would do," she said. "The reply to dislike is not hate. The reply we cognize from the gospel is emotion and ever love. Love for our enemies and emotion for those who persecute us."

Last week prosecutors filed execution charges against 22-year-old Tyler Robinson. Officials said Robinson had admitted to shooting Kirk to his roommate, saying successful a matter message, "I had capable of his hatred."

Erika Kirk, who is 36 and the mother of 2 young children, tearfully described the infinitesimal she saw her husband's assemblage astatine the infirmary successful Utah, hours aft he was changeable successful the cervix while debating assemblage students astatine Utah Valley University.

"I saw the coiled that ended his life … I felt shock, I felt scary and a level of heartache that I didn't moreover cognize existed," Kirk said. "But moreover successful death, I could spot the man that I loved. I saw the azygous grey hairsbreadth connected the broadside of his head, which I ne'er told him about. I besides saw successful his lips the faintest smile. It revealed to maine a awesome mercy from God successful this tragedy. When I saw that, it told maine Charlie didn't suffer."

Speaking to tens of thousands of group astatine the stadium, Kirk said she had recovered comfortableness successful dream and besides successful the measurement group had responded to her husband's death.

"We didn't spot violence, we didn't spot riots. We didn't spot revolution. Instead we saw what my hubby ever prayed he would spot successful this country: We saw revival. We saw group unfastened a Bible for the first clip successful a decade," she said, urging group to proceed doing so.

"Pray again, publication the Bible again, spell to religion adjacent Sunday, and the Sunday aft that and break free from the temptations and shackles of this world," Kirk said.

Her remarks came successful striking opposition to some the vice president and president, who bookended her speech. Vice President Vance said that "evil still walks among us" and that nine "shouldn't disregard it for a clone kumbaya moment." President Trump said: "I dislike my opponents and I don't want the champion for them."

Emphasis connected the family

Kirk had different connection for the crowd, saying that the "greatest origin successful Charlie's life was trying to revive the American family."

"When he said to young people, he was ever eager to show them about God's imagination for matrimony and really if they could conscionable situation to unrecorded it out, it would enrich each portion of their life successful the aforesaid measurement that it enriched ours," she said.

She told the men successful the assemblage to travel her husband's illustration successful a Christian matrimony wherever they are the belief heads of the family, who emotion and lead their wives and protect their children.

"Please beryllium a leader worthy following," Kirk said. "Your woman is not your servant. Your woman is not your employee. Your woman is not your slave. She is your helper. You are not rivals. You are 1 flesh, moving together for the glory of God."

Kirk compared her hubby to a martyr who died doing the will of God. She said, while her hubby had died acold excessively early, "he was fresh to die, he near this world without regrets" because he had done "100% of what he wanted to do each day."

"He died pinch incomplete activity but not pinch unfinished business," Kirk said.

Last week, Kirk was named the caller CEO of Turning Point USA, the right-wing younker statement that her precocious hubby founded.