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Erika Kirk said that arriving at the hospital shortly after her husband Charlie Kirk was fatally shot was like a “scene from a horror film,” with friends, colleagues and even law enforcement left stunned by the incident.
Kirk, now the CEO political advocacy group Turning Point USA, said she had been advised not to see the MAGA commentator’s body, but had wanted to see “what they did to my husband.”
The 36-year-old recalled the horrifying events during a sit down with “Jesse Watters Primetime,” which aired Wednesday night. The emotional TV interview was her first since Kirk’s assassination at a college campus in Utah, on September 10.
Kirk recalled that everyone in the hospital had seemed “rattled” by the brutal shooting and she had been advised by a police officer to wait until her husband’s body had been taken to the mortuary to visit him.
“He’s very sweet, but what do you say to someone whose husband just was assassinated so publicly?” she told Watters. “He said, ‘I will never tell you that you cannot see your husband… but I in my professional opinion, think that you should wait to see him… Because I don’t think you want to see him like this.
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Erika Kirk said that arriving at the hospital shortly after her husband Charlie Kirk was fatally shot was like a ‘scene from a horror film,’ with friends, colleagues and even law enforcement left stunned by the incident (Fox News/ Jesse Watters Primetime)
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The emotional TV interview was her first since Kirk’s assassination at a college campus in Utah, on September 10 (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
“And I responded back to him… ‘with all due respect, sir… I want to see what they did to my husband, and I want to give him a kiss, because I didn’t get to give him a kiss this morning.”
She also said that her husband appeared to have a “smirk” on his face.
“That smirk to me is that look of ‘you thought you could stop what I’ve built,” she said. “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.”
More to come.
