Donald Trump Leads Prayers for Charlie Kirk After Shooting at Utah Rally

Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, caput of Turning Point USA, was changeable successful the cervix during a Q&A league astatine Utah Valley University connected Wednesday, leaving the governmental satellite successful shock.

President Donald Trump called for prayers, posting connected Truth Social: “We indispensable each commune for Charlie Kirk, who has been shot. A large feline from apical to bottom. GOD BLESS HIM!” The White House shared Trump’s station alternatively of an authoritative statement.

Vice President JD Vance wrote connected X: “Say a supplication for Charlie Kirk, a genuinely bully feline and a young father.” Attorney General Pam Bondi, upon proceeding the news, prayed with her squad and posted, “FBI and ATF agents are connected the scene. PRAY FOR CHARLIE.”

Former Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, contiguous astatine the event, described the incidental connected Fox News, saying Kirk was answering a question astir transgender shooters erstwhile a azygous changeable was fired. “I saw him autumn instantly backward,” Chaffetz said, expressing anticipation for Kirk’s survival.

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed agents were on-site, stating, “Our thoughts are with Charlie, his loved ones, and everyone affected.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom condemned the attack, calling it “disgusting, vile, and reprehensible,” and urging rejection of governmental violence.

Progressive influencer Hasan Piker, acceptable to statement Kirk aboriginal this month, expressed fearfulness connected his Twitch stream, urging followers to halt joking astir the incidental and voicing concerns astir imaginable retaliation.

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene prayed for Kirk’s survival, describing him arsenic a “married young antheral and father” who encourages blimpish values. Reps. Brian Mast and Cory Mills expressed grief, with Mills praising Kirk’s enactment and calling the incidental “horrific.” Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said helium was “saddened” by the shooting, urging an extremity to hatred and division.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a erstwhile Turning Point USA employee, lashed retired connected X, blaming inflammatory rhetoric for the attack: “EVERY DAMN ONE OF YOU WHO CALLED US FASCISTS DID THIS. Your words caused this. Your hatred caused this.”

The shooting occurred astatine UVU’s field successful Orem, with footage showing attendees screaming arsenic Kirk was hit. A root told Daily Mail that Kirk was rushed to the hospital, wherever doctors are inactive treating him. A antheral is successful custody, per a assemblage alert.

Minutes earlier the incident, Kirk posted connected X: “WE. ARE. SO. BACK. Utah Valley University is FIRED UP and READY for the archetypal halt backmost connected the American Comeback Tour.”

Kirk, 31, is joined with 2 children.