Charlie Kirk had been receiving death threats in the lead-up to his assassination on Wednesday afternoon, according to a journalist who had recently met with him.

New York Times reporter Robert Draper said he noticed that the conservative influencer had security with him when they dined in Washington D.C. about a “month or two ago.”

“He told me that he had been receiving death threats, but he seemed to just act like that was … that came with the territory,” Draper recalled on The New York Times’ podcast “The Daily.”

Kirk was fatally shot on Wednesday at Utah Valley University during his “America Comeback Tour.“ The conservative influencer and CEO of Turning Point USA leaves behind his wife, Erika Lane Kirk, 36, and their two children.

“I really grieve for her at this moment… and his

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