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Memorial service for Charlie Kirk to be held at State Farm Stadium

The plans for Charlie Kirk's memorial service were announced by Turning Point USA, the company he co-founded, on Saturday afternoon.

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PHOENIX — The plans for Charlie Kirk’s memorial service were announced by Turning Point USA, the company he co-founded, on Saturday afternoon.

The group said that Kirk’s funeral will be held next Sunday, Sept. 21, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale. Doors for the service will open at 8 a.m. and the program will begin at 11 a.m.

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Turning Point also created a website called Fight for Charlie focused on remembering Kirk and the work that he did.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday that he plans to travel to Arizona to attend the funeral.

“They’ve asked me to go and I think I have an obligation,” Trump said.

Who is Charlie Kirk and what happened to him?

Kirk, 31, was one of the founders of Turning Point USA, a non-profit political action group headquartered in Arizona.

He was shot in the neck and killed on Wednesday at Utah Valley University during the kickoff event for the group’s American Comeback Tour of college campuses.

Kirk’s casket was transported back to the Grand Canyon State on Thursday aboard Air Force 2 and accompanied by Vice President J.D. Vance.

On Friday, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson was arrested and booked on charges for the assassination of Kirk.

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Degasu 11 months ago

Trump's leading cabinet member, Scott besset (treasure secitary, highest ranking non elected federal employee in history), is a gay man. Trump was the first president to who first ran on marriage equality,(in 2008 Obama ran on traditional marriage before he did on marriage equality in 2012). Peter thill spoken at the rnc at his convention. I believe it was him and Ivanka that went to countries that killed people for being guy to argue for human rights (including gay rights).

You have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. Nothing new. You're person that is full of hate purely cause others thing differently than you. If you had any humility and looked around the world at the millions and million of people supporting charlie, wether it's at the Yankees game, Cubs game, Packers game, matches in London, Korea etc, you realize how wrong you are. Of course, you have no humility and perfer hate.

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Mike Michael 11 months ago

Deflection if I’ve ever seen one.
Back to the story at hand. You don’t see the billions in damage or murders occurring. You see classless comments from people saying “good that he is gone”. And you want to deflect and talk about hot pockets.

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Dr Death 11 months ago

Trump is not Hitler and his supporters are not naz*s.
Stop with that nonsense, someone believed you and assassinated a man who only wanted to have peaceful conversations and was never ever hateful, his countless video's attest to this.