(The Hill) – President Donald Trump on Tuesday awarded the nation’s top civilian honor posthumously to conservative activist Charlie Kirk, describing him as a “martyr for truth and for freedom.”

Trump was joined in the Rose Garden by dozens of administration officials to posthumously give the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Kirk, who was killed last month during an event at Utah Valley University.

In lengthy remarks, Trump praised Kirk as a political visionary, while calling his killing a “demonic” act and accusing those on the far-left of having “the devil’s ideology.”

"Today, we're here to honor and remember a fearless warrior for liberty, beloved leader who galvanized the next generation like nobody I've ever seen before, and an American patriot of the deepest conviction, the finest

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