Jd Vance To Host 'the Charlie Kirk Show' In Tribute To His Close Friend And Ally

Vice President JD Vance will big an version of "The Charlie Kirk Show" Monday nighttime successful tribute to the blimpish activist who was shot and killed astatine a assemblage event past week aged 31.

Announcing nan move connected X Sunday night, Vance said hosting nan show would beryllium a an grant and an opportunity to "pay tribute to my friend." The show will beryllium posted astatine 12 p.m. ET.

Vance has already paid tribute to Kirk arsenic a cardinal fig successful nan MAGA activity and credited him pinch helping him go vice president and introducing him to President Donald Trump.

Vance and his woman Usha were adjacent to Kirk and accompanied his casket connected a formation to Phoenix, Arizona, past Thursday, a time aft nan shooting.

Turning Point USA, nan influential youth-focused governmental group founded by Kirk, will clasp an tremendous memorial work for him astatine State Farm Stadium successful adjacent Glendale connected Sept. 21.

Charlie Kirk and J.D. Vance astatine a run rally successful 2022 successful Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.Drew Angerer / Getty Images file

On Friday, police arrested and charged 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, from Utah, connected suspicion of murdering Kirk during a speaking arena Wednesday astatine Utah Valley University.

He faces charges of aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm causing superior bodily wounded and obstruction of justice.

Members of nan Trump Administration and Congress said astatine a dream vigil held for Kirk astatine nan Kennedy Center connected Sunday night.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said that Kirk’s decease formed a "dark shadow" complete Capitol Hill, calling his bequest "immeasurable."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt credited Kirk and Turning Point pinch helping "fuel" Trump’s triumph successful nan 2024 predetermination and said that she speaks connected behalf of nan president successful saying that he "loved" Kirk.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called Kirk his "spiritual brother" and said that nan 2 bonded complete their guidance to stay-at-home regulations during nan Covid pandemic.

Referring to Kirk's alleged killer, Kari Lake told nan arena that colleges had go "indoctrination camps" acknowledgment to nan "most horrific brainwashing run successful nan history of mankind."

Some of nan speakers became affectional while remembering Kirk, specifically Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and Andy Biggs (R-AZ). Both told individual stories astir clip spent pinch Kirk and offered prayers for his family.

Kirk's widow, Erika, vowed connected Friday to continue her precocious husband's mission. "If you thought that my husband’s ngo was powerful before, you person nary idea,” she said successful a video. "You person nary thought what you conscionable person unleashed crossed this full state and this world."