If he could do it over again, Hunter Kozak says he wouldn’t ask that question.

When he stood at the microphone in Utah Valley University ’s courtyard Wednesday, facing Charlie Kirk, he had no way of knowing the next 16 words he said would change his life.

“I had been fluctuating between different ones,” Kozak told The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday. “Now that I know, for sure I would’ve asked a different one. I just would’ve. 100%.”

He’s since received hundreds of death threats; messages labeling him a terrorist; accusations that he’s part of a conspiracy or the leader of an assassination plot — all because Kirk was responding to Kozak’s ask when the political commentator was fatally shot .

Now, Kozak says, he’s stuck hearing his own words repeat across the internet and replay o

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