Charlie Kirk dropped out of college at 18 to co-found Turning Point USA. By 31, he had built a $92 million-a-year political empire, with millions of followers online and a direct line to President Donald Trump like few others.

Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, died on Wednesday , Sept. 10.

The conservative activist was speaking into a microphone at Utah Valley University, sitting beneath a white tent emblazoned with the slogans “The American Comeback” and “Prove Me Wrong,” when he was fatally shot.

The attack comes just days after the start of the trial of a man charged with attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump—and Kirk’s reach was so vast that it was the president himself who announced his death.

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