Eric Trump said Tuesday that his father viewed Charlie Kirk as “a second son,” calling his assassination “the biggest mistake” that will damage the left for “generations.”
He noted that Kirk had known the Trump family for more than a decade, beginning with his pitch for Turning Point USA, which Eric Trump said played a key role in mobilizing young voters and twice helping propel Donald Trump to the White House.
Kirk’s movement became “exactly what he described to me 10 years ago when he became obviously dear friends with [President Trump],” the president’s son said.
“He became … probably a second son to my father,” Eric said. “He fought beside us. I was on that stage with him a hundred times. I mean, he was an amazing person.”
Kirk, 31, was fatally shot last week while speaking at Utah Valley University. Tyler Robinson, 22, of Utah has been charged with seven counts in his murder.
His killing comes after two attempts on Donald Trump’s life before the 2024 election — one when he was grazed by a bullet at a rally in Butler, Pa., and another during a golf outing in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Eric Trump blamed all three attacks on left-wing extremists and predicted the latest would damage his father’s opponents for generations.
“I always talk about the law of unintended consequences in the world, and they made the biggest mistake of their life,” Eric Trump said. “They tried to do it to my father in Butler, they tried to do it to him on a golf course — now they did it to Charlie,” he said, per the New York Post.
