The US president has announced he will award Charlie Kirk a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Speaking at the memorial services marking the 24th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, Donald Trump said the date of the ceremony would be announced soon.
‘I can only guarantee you one thing, that we will have a very big crowd,’ he said. Kirk was a ‘giant of his generation, a champion of liberty and an inspiration to millions and millions of people’.
Footage posted online showed Kirk being questioned by an audience member about gun violence in the moments before he was shot
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