President Trump said his 19-year-old son Barron “was very hurt” by the murder of Charlie Kirk.
“He was very hurt when he saw this. But, I mean, every everybody was,” Trump said on “Fox & Friends.”
Trump said that his youngest child, who recently moved back to the White House to attend NYU’s DC campus, had admired Kirk and even once asked for an introduction.
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“Baron came to me and he said, ‘Dad, I’d like to meet somebody that you know, Charlie Kirk.’ … I thought he was gonna say he wanted to meet like King Charles or something… and he came back said, ‘That guy’s great, Dad. That guy’s great.’ It was cute.”
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Trump added: “Charlie had a magic over the kids and large numbers of them, and very diverse, black, white. I mean, everybody, the young women and boys, and I’ve never seen anything like it.”
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