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After spending a week in a Provo, Utah, courtroom for the preliminary hearing of Tyler Robinson, the 23-year-old accused of killing her husband, Erika Kirk stood in front of thousands of similarly aged Americans telling them they have a choice. <\/p>\n

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\u201cI just want to encourage you how important your choices are,\u201d Kirk said at the close of Turning Point USA\u2019s Chapter Leadership Summit on Sunday. \u201cLazy people attract lazy people. Driven and motivated people attract driven and motivated people. So every day you have a choice, just like that man that was in the courtroom who murdered my husband.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her husband, Charlie Kirk, co-founded the nonprofit organization Turning Point USA in 2012. Following his death last September, Erika Kirk was named CEO, and has since been no stranger to online criticism of her every move.<\/p>\n

But she told her audience on Sunday that she doesn\u2019t let it faze her. <\/p>\n

\u201cThroughout this whole time, I have had so many people ask, \u2018Why are you doing this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued, \u201cWhen you have commitments, especially those that your loved one has made, you follow through on them, and it doesn\u2019t matter how hard it is, doesn\u2019t matter how tough life is, you gave your word, and between my husband and I, our word is our bond.\u201d<\/p>\n

She encouraged the young TPUSA leaders to keep showing up, to have conversations with those they disagree with and to be courageous. <\/p>\n

Regarding the weeklong court proceedings, Kirk said she was still processing the evidence she had seen. <\/p>\n

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On the final day of the proceedings, 4th District Judge Tony Graf allowed an enhanced compilation of security footage to be played to the gallery but not to the media, after the Kirk family\u2019s legal counsel pushed for all the evidence to be made public. <\/p>\n

The footage showed a man lying on the roof of Utah Valley University\u2019s Losee Center, then getting up to run in the opposite direction, where he jumped off the roof and fled the scene.<\/p>\n

As Erika Kirk watched the footage, she began to cry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis past week, I have seen something I\u2019m still trying to unpack and put into words,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

When asked if she still wanted to go to the leadership summit, she knew she would, but what solidified her decision, she said, was, \u201cI would much rather our country look like this room than the inside of that courtroom. So that means having hard conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou do the hard thing. You do the right thing, and that\u2019s what my husband did every single day. Every day, and that\u2019s what you guys do every day,\u201d Kirk added. \u201cYou all flew here from across the country. I can take a plane too to be here after I\u2019ve been through hell this past week.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis past week, I have seen something I’m still trying to unpack and put into words, and someone asked me, \u2018Do you still want to go to the Chapter Leadership Summit?\u2019… And I thought to myself, \u2018You know, if you don’t fight for what’s right\u2014I would much rather our country look\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/9iG5zLHLIn<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) July 12, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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