WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Tuesday awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to slain activist Charlie Kirk, a prominent voice in the conservative movement before his assassination last month. “Today we’re here to honor and remember a fearless warrior for liberty, beloved leader who galvanized the next generation like nobody I’ve ever seen before,” Trump said in a Rose Garden event.

President presented award to Kirk’s widow, Erika, on what would have been the far-right commentator’s 32nd birthday

Trump calls Kirk ‘righteous and noble’ but repeatedly wanders into unrelated topics during speech memorializing slain MAGA activist