‘I Did See Him Fall’: Jason Chaffetz Gets Choked Up Describing Scene At Tragic Charlie Kirk Event

Former republican representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah described on Wednesday of the founder of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk on Fox News.

Kirk was killed while organizing an event at the University of Utah Valley. The shaken chaffetz described the commercial texts with Kirk before the incident.

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“He took a first question, which was a religious question. And then he came to the second question, which was about 30 minutes after his presentation, at 2:30 p.m., the local time, and the question concerned the transgender shooters, the mass murder, compared to transgender people, and when it happened, when this question appeared, you know, going to have the interaction,” said Chaffetz. “I was looking at Charlie. I can’t say that I saw blood. I cannot say that I saw him being touched, but I saw him immediately falling into his left. And I can just hope and pray for him to survive that. ”

Kirk founded Turning Point USA, an organization for conservative colleges and high school students in June 2012, according to the organization’s website. It also welcomes “The Charlie Kirk Show”, a podcast which later became a three -hour radio program on Salem Radio Network, according to its biography on the USA Turning Point site.

“I exchanged sms with him. I try to send sms with him in advance, and I said” hey, Charlie, I hope to have the chance to see you. Our family would like to see you again “,” said Chaffetz, the co-enthusiast of “America Reports”, Sandra Smith. “And we still want to see him again. He – He said he was going to go for a few hours. Maybe we could see him afterwards. But my God is right – he’s there to do the right thing, you know?

Kirk’s state is unknown to date.

“This is the situation of the best of our knowledge that Charlie Kirk, who was invited by a group of students, Turning Point USA spoke on campus today from noon at around 120, a shot was fired from a building at around 200 meters. We believe that the individual Charlie Kirk has been shot down and we have a suspect in the Custody Campus campus.

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