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‘Lost boys’: why Charlie Kirk’s widow forgives his alleged killer · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines Grief, vengeance and mercy. Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: JD Vance and a vast stadium packed with supporters have
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  Speaker 1: joined to mourn conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Arizona, with
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  Speaker 1: Trump embracing Kirk's widow, Erica, on stage as she delivered
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  Speaker 1: a powerful memorial to her husband and a rallying cry
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  Speaker 1: for America to change a man. Tyler Robinson, has been
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  Speaker 1: charged with murder and could face the death penalty if convicted.
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  Speaker 1: Erica Kirk said she didn't believe in an eye for
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  Speaker 1: an eye.
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  Speaker 2: I forgive him because it was what Christ did and
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  Speaker 2: is what Charlie would do. The answer to heat is
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  Speaker 2: not heat. The answer we know from the Gospel is
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  Speaker 2: love and always love, love for our enemies, and love
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  Speaker 2: for those who persecute us. Charlie passionately wanted to reach
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  Speaker 2: and save the lost boys of the West, the young
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  Speaker 2: men who feel like they have no direction, no purpose,
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  Speaker 2: no faith, and no reason to live. The men wasting
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  Speaker 2: their lives on distractions, and the men consumed with resentment,
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  Speaker 2: anger and hate. Charlie wanted to help them. He wanted
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  Speaker 2: them to have a home with Turning Point, USA, and
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  Speaker 2: when he went on to campus, he was looking to
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  Speaker 2: show them a better path and a better life that
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  Speaker 2: was right there for the taking.
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  Speaker 1: Erica Kirk, a former Miss Arizona who has a three
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  Speaker 1: year old daughter and a one year old son, said
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  Speaker 1: she'll now become a chief executive of Charlie's organization, Turning Point.
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  Speaker 1: She's an entrepreneur in her own right. Erica Kirk runs
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  Speaker 1: businesses selling Bible themed clothing and running online Christian courses,
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  Speaker 1: but now she's stepping outside the home in a way
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  Speaker 1: that just a fortnight ago she wouldn't have envisaged. Since
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  Speaker 1: her marriage, Erica Kirk had espoused wifely submission to her
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  Speaker 1: husband and spoken of Charlie Kirk as the family's spiritual head.
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  Speaker 2: Your wife is not your servant. Your wife is not
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  Speaker 2: your employee. Your wife is not your slave. She is
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  Speaker 2: your helper. You are not rivals. You are one flesh
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  Speaker 2: working together for the glory of God.
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  Speaker 1: Vice President Jadie Vance said Kirk's death should turn Americans
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  Speaker 1: back to faith.
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  Speaker 3: My friends, for Charlie, we must remember that he has
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  Speaker 3: a hero to the United States of America. And he
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  Speaker 3: is a martyr for the Christian faith. May Our Heavenly
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  Speaker 3: Father give us the courage to live as Charlie lived.
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  Speaker 3: That is what we must do for Charlie.
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  Speaker 1: You ran a good race, my friend.
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  Speaker 3: I love you. We've got it from here.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump praised Charlie Kirk as a potential future president
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  Speaker 1: of the United States and signaled an expanding crackdown on
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  Speaker 1: what he called the Lunatic Lift and its encouragement of
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  Speaker 1: political violence.
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  Speaker 4: The more success Charlie had, and he was getting more
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  Speaker 4: and more successful, the more dangerous his mission became. On
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  Speaker 4: campuses all over the country, his quest for open dialogue
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  Speaker 4: was met with menacing hate. There were bomb threats, pulled
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  Speaker 4: fire alarms, and countless rage filled radicals who tried to
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  Speaker 4: shout him down.
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  Speaker 3: It was nasty. Many of these people, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: are paid a lot of money to do this. They're agitators.
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  Speaker 3: They're paid agitators. Remember that.
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  Speaker 4: At another college, Antifa terra shattered windows, through rocks and
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  Speaker 4: tried to storm the building where Charlie was speaking.
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  Speaker 3: Often dozens of police officers were needed to prevent left
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  Speaker 3: wing violence. And the violence comes largely from.
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  Speaker 4: The left and virtually every day for years before he
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  Speaker 4: was murdered, Charlie received these horrible death threats.
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  Speaker 3: People don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Trump said Kirk would be posthumously honored.
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  Speaker 4: But that's why I will soon award Charlie the nation's
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  Speaker 4: highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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  Speaker 3: It's the highest civilian honor.
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  Speaker 1: He also had a message that should resonate with Anthony Albanesi,
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  Speaker 1: who's in America right now to get a meeting with
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  Speaker 1: the President.
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  Speaker 4: Tariffs are making us rich again, richer than anybody ever
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  Speaker 4: thought was possible. And the only one challenges you and
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  Speaker 4: them are people that hate our country or foreign countries
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  Speaker 4: that are paying a price because they did the same
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  Speaker 4: thing to.
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  Speaker 3: Us for years.
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  Speaker 4: They took advantage of us, but we're making money.
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  Speaker 1: Check out that story live right now at the Australian
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  Speaker 1: dot COMU and come back to the front first thing
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  Speaker 1: in the morning for a look at the other issue
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  Speaker 1: consuming Trump's attention, the formal recognition of Palestine by Australia, France,
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  Speaker 1: Canada and the UK, and how that squares with Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Albanesi's desire to meet Trump in person for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: This week