Slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk probably would have run for president, his widow, Erika Kirk, revealed Tuesday at a White House ceremony awarding him the country’s highest civilian honour on what would have been his 32nd birthday.

“Not out of ambition,” she said. “He would only have done it if that was something that he believed that his country needed, from a servant’s-heart standpoint.”

And Kirk prayed for his enemies, she said, drawing a chuckle from President Donald Trump during a Rose Garden ceremony to posthumously award her husband the Medal of Freedom. Trump has expressed skepticism about the notion of Kirk following the biblical principle of loving one’s enemies — a nod not only to the president’s own proclivity for revenge but also to Kirk’s passionate conservative vie

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