"He combined social media-era lingo, campus activism and a readiness to embrace controversies to drive young conservatism. Conservative American activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Wednesday at a university event in Utah. Kirk, 31, was a close ally of United States President Donald Trump and was widely credited for helping galvanise support for the Republican Party and Trump's MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement among American youth, including through regular engagements with university students."
"The conservative media personality grew up in Chicago and attended a community college there before dropping out to pursue political activism. He became friends with Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, and the pair travelled together to Greenland in January. President Trump had made clear by then that he wanted to absorb the Danish territory into the US even though Denmark and Greenland had both pushed back."
"Kirk wrote a post on his X account on Tuesday in response to the fatal, unprovoked stabbing of a white woman by a Black man. He said: The numbers tell the truth. Black attacks on white people happen 3X more often than white on black crime, despite blacks being only 13 percent of the population. On September 1, he wrote on his X account that America does not need more visas for people from India."
Charlie Kirk combined social media-era lingo, campus activism and a readiness to embrace controversies to mobilise young conservatives. He cofounded Turning Point USA and regularly engaged with university students to galvanise support for the Republican Party and Trump's MAGA movement. Kirk grew up in Chicago and attended a community college before dropping out to pursue political activism. He developed a friendship with Donald Trump Jr and travelled with him to Greenland. Kirk was a vocal critic of mainstream media and amplified culture-war debates on race, gender and immigration, endorsing claims that the 2020 election was stolen. He faced accusations of racist, Islamophobic and misogynistic positions and was shot and killed at a university event in Utah at age 31.
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