President Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the government's highest civilian honor — to conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Tuesday, over a month after he was fatally shot on a Utah college campus.

During a ceremony in the White House's Rose Garden on what would have been Kirk's 32nd birthday, Mr. Trump called Kirk a "fearless warrior for liberty" and credited the political activist with helping him win a greater share of the under-30 vote in last year's presidential race.

The president also spent part of his speech railing against "radical left violence" — a frequent theme for his administration in recent weeks, particularly since Kirk's assassination.

Mr. Trump also argued that the fight over the governm

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