Vice President JD Vance personally accompanied Charlie Kirk’s body from Utah back home to Arizona — a touching final tribute in a long friendship that helped launch the former President Trump critic into the White House and onto the international stage.

Vance cancelled plans to attend a 9/11 commemoration at Ground Zero in Manhattan at the last minute Thursday, opting instead to travel to Utah with his wife, Usha, aboard Air Force 2 to be with Kirk’s family and friends. 5

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From there, the Turning Point USA founder’s remains were loaded onto the vice president’s plane and flown back to Phoenix with Vance at their side.

The presidential transport is a touching close to a friendship that began around 2017, when Vance was just coming around to Trump after staunch opposition during

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