Tens of thousands of mourners, many in red MAGA hats, gathered around Glendale, Arizona's State Farm Stadium in Sunday's pre-dawn hours to honor slain conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk. Washington emptied much of the executive branch for the event, with President Donald Trump , Vice-President JD Vance , Secretary of State Marco Rubio , Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth , Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard , White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller all expected to appear at the memorial.

The event rates the top-level security usually reserved for events like the Super Bowl, with Homeland Security, FBI, local police and even TSA manning the magnetometers, a securi

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