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On Sunday, Riley Gaines praised Erika Kirk as she spoke in front of thousands of people in mourning during a commemorative service for her husband, Charlie Kirk, Arizona.
Erika Kirk is mounted on the podium of the State Farm Stadium in Glendale – housing the Cardinals of the Arizona of the NFL. She showed immense courage and thanks while she was talking about her husband, who was murdered during an event at Utah Valley University almost two weeks ago.
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Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow, arrives on stage to speak during the public commemorative service for the political activist Charlie Kirk at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, September 21, 2025. (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)
“The remarks of Erika Kirk … I have no words,” wrote the female sports activist on X. “This is exactly what America needed to hear. Filled with love, strength, compassion, honesty and forgiveness. It is the most powerful speech that I have ever heard.”
Kirk told the crowd that she would forgive her husband’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, and said that the conservative influencer’s mission reached young men in search of management.
“Charlie passionately wanted to reach and save the lost boys of the West. The young men who have the impression of having no direction, no goal, no faith and no reason to live. Men wasting their lives on distractions and men consume with resentment, anger and hatred,” she said. “Charlie wanted to help them. He wanted them to have a house with Turning Point USA. And when he went to the campus, he sought to show them a better path and a better life. It was right there for the catch. He wanted to show them this.
Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, wiped tears on stage during a commemorative service for the conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at the State Farm Stadium, in Glendale, Arizona, September 21, 2025. (Reuters / Daniel Cole)
The Browns pay tribute to Charlie Kirk while the commemorative services take place in Arizona
“My husband, Charlie. He wanted to save. Young men, just like the one who took his life. This young man. This young man on the cross. Our Savior said it. Father. Forgive them, because they don’t know what they are doing,” she continued. “You, this man. This young man. I forgive him. I forgive him because that was what Christ did. And that is what Charlie would do. The answer to hatred is not hatred. The answer that we know of the Gospel is love and love always. Love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us.”
Gaines praised his bravery.
“Only God can give a widow in mourning the heart, the serenity and the strength to forgive the assassin of her husband only 11 days after shooting on the host” Outkick “Gaines for Girls” added. “Only God.”
The commemorative service presented several speakers while more than 70,000 people were on site.
