Charlie Kirk Memorial Crowd Surpasses Expectations –See Reside Video as Spouse Erika, Trump, Vance Converse

With some attendees tenting out Friday evening, Turning Level USA was anticipating 100,000 or so individuals, however on Sunday informed CNN that greater than 200,000 had registered on the location. That is the identical quantity the Glendale Police Division informed the outlet they had been anticipating.

Legislation enforcement is treating the large occasion at a Tremendous Bowl stage relating to safety. “The Division of Homeland Safety has designated the upcoming funeral and memorial service as a Particular Occasion Evaluation Score (SEAR) Degree 1 occasion,” a DHS Senior Official informed TMZ Sunday morning. “This designation is reserved for occasions of the best nationwide significance and permits the federal authorities to supply the complete vary of regulation enforcement and safety sources essential to assist native officers in guaranteeing a secure and profitable occasion.”

Seating inside State Farm Stadium rapidly reached capability, in response to The New York Occasions. The stadium can accommodate greater than 63,000 individuals and may be expanded to suit an extra 10,000. Overflow venue Desert Diamond Area’s capability is round 19,000, per CNN, that means greater than half of the anticipated attendees wouldn’t get a seat inside both facility.

The high-security occasion (livestreamed above by way of TMZ) had a large lineup of key political figures from the Trump Administration, together with President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance. It’s being livestreamed by way of a number of shops and stations, together with Fox Information, CNN, NewsNation, ABC Information, and CBS Information.

Additionally anticipated to talk are White Home Chief of Employees Susie Wiles, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secret of Well being and Human Providers Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secret of Warfare Pete Hegseth, Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, White Home Deputy Chief of Employees Stephen Miller, Donald Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson, and Sergio Gor, Trump’s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to India.

The deadly capturing of Charlie Kirk occurred throughout signature debate format at Utah Valley College on September 10, which noticed him seated on a stage as college students spoke to him from a microphone positioned in entrance of him. He was debating with one pupil about gun violence when he was shot and killed.

Two days later, Tyler Robinson, 22, was recognized because the suspected shooter. He was taken into custody on September 11 and has been charged on a number of counts, together with aggravated homicide, for Kirk’s dying. The prosecution has said its intention to pursue the dying penalty.

After his dying, Kirk’s spouse Erika was elected to switch him as CEO of TPUSA, vowing that the “motion my husband constructed won’t die.” She was additionally amongst these anticipated to talk at Sunday’s service.

An surprising arrival, coming in shortly after 2 p.m. ET, was Elon Musk, who reportedly arrived to cheers. Musk had a really public falling out with the Trump administration after his controversial tenure as head of DOGE (Division of Authorities Effectivity), however CNN notes that Kirk had been working to reconcile the 2 after their fallout hit social media in June.

Musk posted to X from the stadium, “Charlie was murdered by the Darkish for exhibiting individuals the Gentle.” He additionally shared a brief clip of the capability crowd on the stadium, saying he was “honored to be right here.”

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