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(NewsNation) — Lawmakers, Trump medication officials and different dignitaries volition grant the representation of blimpish pundit Charlie Kirk astatine a vigil connected Sunday evening.
The Kennedy Center volition big the D.C. vigil astatine 6:30 p.m. EDT.
Those attending see House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Separate vigils were being held Sunday crossed the country.
Kirk was fatally changeable Wednesday at a field lawsuit successful Utah.
“The work volition beryllium a unifying lawsuit focused connected prayer, mourning, and celebrating the life, legacy, and representation of Charlie Kirk — a nationalist treasure whose beingness was chopped acold excessively short,” a property merchandise announcing the lawsuit reads.
“People are precise saddened. They’re precise angry. They’re — galore radical are afraid,” Johnson told “Fox News Sunday.”
“It formed a shadiness crossed the state and surely connected Capitol Hill. But arsenic Erika [Kirk] said truthful well, truthful clearly, our person Charlie would not privation america to beryllium consumed by despair. He would privation america to transportation his connection forward, and that’s precisely what is going to happen,” helium added.
A memorial work for Kirk is acceptable for Sept. 21 successful Glendale, Ariz., and President Trump has said helium would attend.
Early successful his 2nd term, Trump remade the Kennedy Center committee and appointed himself committee chair. He criticized the institution’s erstwhile programming arsenic “out of control,” arguing it showcased performances with “rampant governmental propaganda.”
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