Erika Kirk on Wednesday accused the press of breaking the cardinal rule of journalism during last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. (Watch the video below.)
Kirk was addressing the alleged assassination attempt of President Donald Trump on “The Charlie Kirk Show,” which still carries the name of her conservative activist husband who was assassinated in 2025.
At Saturday night’s dinner, the suspect sprinted through a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton and shot a Secret Service agent in his bulletproof vest. That set off what Kirk called “utter chaos” inside the ballroom as Trump and other dignitaries were whisked away by armed officers.
An understandably shaken Kirk was shown on camera crying and saying she just wanted to leave.
“Everyone is asking why I even went to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” she said on the Real America’s Voice show Wednesday. “And it was because many of the journalists in that room have attempted to dehumanize me, and I wanted to meet some of them face-to-face, quite frankly. Why have a conversation about me when you can have a conversation with me?”
