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WATCH: Stephen Miller Brings Down The House With Fiery Tribute To Charlie Kirk
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller honored Charlie Kirk and vowed that the Trump Administration will continue to carry on his mission in a fiery speech at Kirk’s memorial service in Phoenix Sunday.
“The day that Charlie died, the angels wept. But those tears have been turned into fire in our hearts. And that fire burns with a righteous fury that our enemies cannot comprehend or understand,” Miller told the crowd. He then turned to Charlie’s widow, Erika, and praised her for the courage she has displayed since her husband’s murder.
“When I see Erika and her strength and her courage, I’m reminded of a famous expression. ‘The storm whispers to the warrior that you cannot withstand my strength. And the warrior whispers back, I am the storm.’ Erika is the storm. We are the storm, and our enemies cannot comprehend our strength, our determination, our resolve, our passion,” Miller went on to say, drawing cheers from the crowd.
“Our lineage and our legacy hails back to Athens, to Rome, to Philadelphia, to Monticello. Our ancestors built the cities. They produced the art and architecture. They built the industry. Erika stands on the shoulders of thousands of years of warriors, of women who raised up families, raised up city, raised up industry, raised up civilization, who pulled us out of the caves and the darkness into the light. The light will defeat the dark,” he continued.
“We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil. They cannot imagine what they have awakened. They cannot conceive of the army that they have arisen in all of us. Because we stand for what is good, what is virtuous, what is noble. And to those trying to incite violence against us, those trying to foment hatred against us, what do you have? You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness. You are jealousy. You are envy. You are hatred. You are nothing. You can build nothing. You can produce nothing. You can create nothing. We are the ones who build.
“We are the ones who create. We are the ones who lift up humanity. You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk? You have made him immortal. You have immortalized Charlie Kirk. And now millions will carry on his legacy. And we will devote the rest of our lives to finishing the causes for which Charlie gave his last measure of devotion. You cannot defeat us. You cannot slow us. You cannot stop us. You cannot deter us. We will carry Charlie and Erika in our heart every single day and fight that much harder because of what you did to us.”
Miller was one of several prominent Trump officials to speak at the event, which was attended by more than 200,000 people.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. credited Kirk for bringing himself and President Trump together ahead of the 2024 presidential election. “Charlie’s overarching passion was his Christianity and his devotion to his God. He believed what St. Francis taught us almost a thousand years ago. We should strive to live our lives in perfect imitation of Christ. We should turn every day and every moment and every interaction into a prayer,” he said.
“And Charlie understood the great paradox that it’s only by surrender to God that God’s power can flow into our lives and make us effective human beings. Christ died at 33 years old, but he changed the trajectory of history. Charlie died at 31 years old, but because he had surrendered, he also now has changed the trajectory of history.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed that just days before the assassination, he received a text message from Kirk in which he detailed his recent trip to South Korea and the concerns he had. “I just came from overseas, and every country I stopped, they gave us their condolences for his passing. Impactful, in just 31 years of life he made a difference. He mattered and he will matter now more than he ever has before.”
