{"id":5115,"date":"2025-10-17T10:39:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/erika-kirk-shows-tpusa-staff-charlies-medal-of-freedom-you-guys-are-all-part-of-the-legacy\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:39:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:39:59","slug":"erika-kirk-shows-tpusa-staff-charlies-medal-of-freedom-you-guys-are-all-part-of-the-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/erika-kirk-shows-tpusa-staff-charlies-medal-of-freedom-you-guys-are-all-part-of-the-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Erika Kirk shows TPUSA staff Charlie\u2019s Medal of Freedom: \u2018You guys are all part of the legacy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">A video shared on X shows Erika Kirk at the Turning Point USA office surrounded by staff members, proudly showing them the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to her late husband, Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In the clip posted by Mikey McCoy, Charlie Kirk&#8217;s former chief of staff, Erika speaks movingly to the assembled team.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the clip, she can be heard saying, &#8216;I wanted you guys all to see the Medal of Freedom and be able to look at it and the back of it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You guys are all part of the legacy. Thank you,&#8217; she says warmly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award in the U.S. It was awarded posthumously to Charlie Kirk by President Donald Trump on Oct. 14, 2025, a date that would have been Kirk\u2019s 32nd birthday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Erika accepted the award on her husband\u2019s behalf at a ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House. She also delivered remarks highlighting her husband&#8217;s beliefs and sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Kirk was assassinated on September 10, 2025, while speaking at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley State University in Orem, Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Following her husband&#8217;s death, Erika was unanimously appointed CEO and chair of Turning Point USA\u2019s board.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on X shows Erika Kirk at the Turning Point USA office surrounded&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}