Just days after saying her late husband’s detractors have “no idea what you have unleashed,” Erika Kirk — the widow of the slain Charlie Kirk — has been elected CEO of Turning Point USA.
On Thursday, the board of TPUSA, founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk, who served as its chief executive until his assassination last week, announced it had unanimously voted for Erika Kirk to assume her husband’s role at the helm of the organization.
Relying on the wisdom from the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes, the members of the TPUSA board, David Engelhardt, Doug DeGroote, Mike Miller, and Tom Sodeika wrote in a joint statement that it was “the honor of our lives to serve … at Charlie’s side.”
The board alluded to Ecclesiastes 3:18, which states, “I also said to myself, ‘As for humans, God tests