Charlie Kirk, who rose from a teenage conservative campus activist to a top podcaster, culture warrior and ally of President Donald Trump , was shot and killed Wednesday during one of his trademark public appearances at a college in Utah . He was 31.

Kirk died doing what made him a potent political force — rallying the right on a college campus , this time Utah Valley University. His shooting is one of an escalating number of attacks on political figures, from the assassination of a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota to the attempted Trump assassination last summer, that have roiled the nation.

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Trump announced Kirk's death on his social media site, Truth Social: “No one understood

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