Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk, wife of the organization’s assassinated founder Charlie Kirk, has finally broken her silence about late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel’s comments on the shooting. She spoke in a new interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters that airs Wednesday. ABC suspended Kimmel on September 17 after he made nasty comments about conservatives denying that the killer, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, belonged to the MAGA movement.
“We hit new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said during the episode. His comment was inappropriate and unnecessary, especially after a politically motivated assassination that further divided Americans along party lines.
In the interview, Kirk told Watters that Sinclair Broadcasting, which owns over 50 ABC affiliates, contacted her to ask what they could do to resolve the situation.
“Jimmy Kimmel lied about your husband’s murder and didn’t really apologize,” the Fox News host said in a clip from the interview. “What would you say to Jimmy Kimmel?”
“Same thing I told Sinclair. They asked—I haven’t really told anybody this—they asked, ‘Do you want Jimmy to apologize? Do you want to be on his show? How can we make it right?’” Erika Kirk replied. “Through our team, I responded, ‘Tell them thank you, we received their note. This isn’t our issue, not our mess. If you want to say sorry to someone who’s grieving, go ahead. But if it’s not in your heart, don’t do it. I don’t want it. I don’t need it.’”
Kirk is a strong woman who stands even further to the right politically than her late husband, a fact that comes through loud and clear in the interview excerpt. She’s already proven herself an excellent role model for young women—something sorely needed in a culture rotting from the inside out thanks to radical feminism.
Kimmel isn’t the only media voice punished for spewing vile takes about Charlie Kirk’s assassination. MSNBC political analyst Matthew Dowd and Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah lost their positions after posting comments that celebrated, mocked, or justified the TPUSA founder’s murder on social media.
However, Kimmel’s suspension didn’t last long. He returned to the air on September 23 and, true to form, offered no apology for his twisted remarks. That would require human decency—something we can’t expect from a guy who once hosted a show that openly sexualized and objectified women. Instead, he tried to justify his earlier statement, claiming he didn’t intend to “make light” of the assassination.
“I want to make something clear because it’s important to me as a human, and that is—you understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man,” Kimmel said during his monologue. “I don’t—I don’t think there’s anything funny about it.”
The only thing he got right was that murder over political beliefs is no joke. Radical leftists keep using violence to silence their opponents. Shortly before Kirk’s murder, a transgender shooter opened fire on children during a Catholic school Mass. And we can’t forget the transgender shooter who killed children at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2023.
Since Kirk’s death, several shooters have targeted Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities and officers—some inspired by Tyler Robinson. Radical progressivism has become a clear danger to society, and the last thing we need is celebrities like Jimmy Kimmel throwing gasoline on an already raging inferno.
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