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Trump calls Kirk ‘righteous and noble’ but repeatedly wanders into unrelated topics during speech memorializing slain MAGA activist
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday posthumously awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor to Charlie Kirk, the late Turning Point USA founder, calling him “a true American hero” whose name would be “entered forever into the eternal roster of American heroes” on what would have been Kirk’s 32nd birthday.
