President Donald Trump posthumously awarded Charlie Kirk the highest civilian honor following his horrific assassination on a college campus in September.

Trump honored Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday, the day that would have been the conservative activist's 32nd birthday. Erika Kirk, Charlie's widow, accepted the award at the White House Tuesday afternoon on his behalf.

'You have given him the best birthday gift he could ever have.'

"Five weeks ago, our nation was robbed of this extraordinary champion," Trump said during the address.

"It was a horrible, heinous, demonic act of murder," Trump added. "He was assassinated in the prime of his life for boldly speaking the truth. ... He loved this country. And that's why, this afternoon, it's my privilege to posth

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