Charlie Kirk “wanted to go to places that a lot of people wouldn’t go,” Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) said during a discussion on Breitbart News Daily .
“It’s a tragic, tragic event,” Schmitt said of Kirk’s political assassination. “I knew Charlie and was on the show quite a bit, and he was just a pretty unique voice in our movement.”
“He decided that he wanted to go to places that a lot of people wouldn’t go. And he wanted to, you know, have an open mic and have … the free exchange of ideas. He wanted to persuade people. He had strong opinions, but that — that’s very American,” the senator pointed out. “That’s a very American concept, that you would believe in something and try to bring more people along with you.”
“And I think the fact that he was, he was murdered for that, I mean, reall