Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, fatally shot on Wednesday at Utah Valley University, gave his final television interview the previous day on Fox News’ The Will Cain Show, hosted by Dallas-based anchor Will Cain.
Kirk, 31, was the founder of Turning Point USA, a nonprofit organization established in 2012 to engage and mobilize young Republicans. Known for his provocative “Prove Me Wrong” campus forums, Kirk debated polarizing social and political issues, often sparking viral confrontations with opponents. His final event at Utah Valley University, where he was killed, followed this format.
A polarizing figure, Kirk was admired by some Republicans, including President Donald Trump, who praised him on Truth Social after his death, writing, “No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie.”
During his Tuesday appearance on The Will Cain Show, Kirk discussed the media’s handling of a late August fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian woman on a Charlotte, N.C., train by a Black suspect with prior convictions and reported mental health issues.
Kirk argued the story received little attention, stating, “If a white attacker was minding his own business and a perfectly law-abiding Black individual is minding her own business and that white attacker took out a knife and was relentlessly hacking a law-abiding Black girl, you and I both know, Will, this would be national headlines.”