Trump-Kirk Fan on CNN Gushes Over Charlie Kirk’s ‘Martyrdom’: ‘Beautiful to Die for Your Beliefs’

A young Trump-Kirk supporter told CNN’s Elle Reeve that activist Charlie Kirk’s killing amounts to a “martyrdom,” which she called a “beautiful” thing.

The political and media world were stunned when news broke Wednesday afternoon that Kirk had been shot during an event at Utah Valley University by a gunman. Hours later, news broke that Kirk died from the injuries he sustained in that shooting.

Reeve — who specializes in deep dives on the nooks and crannies of politics and Trump culture — spoke to three of Kirk’s fans after the killing. In an interview that first aired on Thursday night’s edition of CNN’s OutFront, Madison Campbell said it’s “beautiful to die for your beliefs”:

MADISON CAMPBELL, YOUNG CONSERVATIVE: It was because of his quick wit, his debate style was much different than anyone really, in the conservative movement had.

REEVE: The 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA inspired young conservatives to forcefully defend their beliefs even when outnumbered.

CHRISTOPHER BRAY, YOUNG CONSERVATIVE: I think seeing someone that was willing to stand up to huge crowds at liberal schools, was really powerful. Going to a liberal arts college in New York City in Manhattan, of all places, it can be very difficult to, like, navigate what you can and can’t talk about.

LEONARD: It was just this place where I felt like I could be free and some of some of my closest friends in my life I met at these events.

REEVE: It’s hard to escape, especially in alternative media. The members of the MAGA movement, who are now talking about war.

ALEX JONES, INFOWARS HOST: We’re in a war.

REEVE: Good versus evil, and an American tipping point.

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing.

STEVE BANNON, PODCAST HOST: Charlie Kirk’s a casualty of war. We’re at war in this country.

CAMPBELL: Look, there is political violence on both sides and political violence on both sides is equally reprehensible.

MCCROSSEN: I think people are going to become a lot more radical. I think that goes without saying. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing, you could determine. But people are — people are upset.

REEVE: These young conservatives saw Kirk as a moderate and are unsettled that someone with his views would be killed.

LUCIAN WINTRICH, NEW YORK YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB: For somebody who I personally consider kind of a normie conservative to be murdered, to be assassinated, for those views — yeah. We’re all struggling to process it.

CAMPBELL: The next person who starts to take his place is going to be much more far right, because in order to do that, you have to almost be willing to die for your opinions.

I think that is, in a way, beautiful. It’s very, you know, it’s — it’s a martyrdom, right? Which is beautiful to die for your beliefs.

Watch above via CNN’s OutFront.