Trump Says Country Will Heal After Kirk Slaying

President Donald Trump offered a glimmer of hope Thursday for a nation in shock from the killing of Turning Point USA co-founder and CEO Charlie Kirk.

Joe Kernen, co-host of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” said he talked to Trump by phone and that the president was “devastated” by Kirk’s murder.

“He’s devastated about Charlie Kirk and said that what a great individual [he was],” Kernen said. “And he said he helped him greatly in the last election and thinks that Charlie Kirk could have been president someday.

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