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By Jenna Sundel
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Charlie Kirk's widow Erika addressed "words, accusations, assumptions, and slander" in an Instagram post on Tuesday.
"I’ve kept everything in the home still the same after these several months, your socks still on the floor, your shoes by the door, your vitamins everywhere on the counter," Erika Kirk wrote.
"That’s how it’ll stay. I don’t say that because I need one more thing for this world to judge me on, quite frankly they’re already at capacity and none of it shakes me. Their words, accusations, assumptions, and slander don’t land, they don’t burn. Never will. I owe the world nothing."
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Why It Matters
After the assassination of her 31-year-old conservative activist husband, who co-founded Turning Point USA, Erika Kirk became CEO and board chair of the organization. Charlie Kirk was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University on September 10.
Social media users have criticized Erika, questioning her decisions to make public appearances versus spending time in private with her family, USA TODAY reported. Erika recently appeared at AmericaFest, a conference founded by Turning Point USA.
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Some social media users criticized the use of pyrotechnics at the event and a sparkly suit worn by Erika. Past years of AmericaFest also utilized pyrotechnics, and Erika has previously worn a sparkly outfit at a Turning Point USA event.
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Newsweek reached out to Erika and Turning Point USA for comment.
What To Know
Erika’s Instagram post featured photos and videos of her children, with the caption beginning, “…life is a little different. it’s this rhythm of maintaining our traditions mixed in with creating new ones to harmonize into a normalcy for the babies. It’s new, but strange. Familiar, but not."
Erika said, "when the world acts like the world, I’m not surprised."
"When your heart is set on letting your love story be one of deep devotion and self-sacrifice instead of self-serving, the Lord will use your marriage in ways completely hard to explain. I know that because I felt that, I still feel that. And I pray you always do too," Erika wrote.
What People Are Saying
Erika Kirk, on Instagram: "This Christmas we tucked away. And while the world, again, kept being the world, I loved settling into a space of continued healing where silence is golden and is a statement in itself. The outpouring from our loved ones, has been a sacred and holy balm to our hearts."
One X user wrote: "Erika Kirk has been on stage with pyrotechnics and shiny suits since Charlie Kirk died… Is she grieving or celebrating?!"
Another X user wrote: "Here was Erika Kirk taking the stage last night with pyro… you’re basically watching a WWE script…What is she thinking right now?"
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