Overview

• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard called Charlie Kirk a “warrior for truth and freedom” during a Sunday memorial in Arizona.
• She said he stepped into the arena armed with the Constitution and fought on the battlefield of ideas.
• Gabbard described his rhetoric as forceful yet principled, saying his “words were his weapons” that cut through lies and awakened minds.
• She cast schools as the primary arena for his mission and accused institutions of suppressing dissent on topics such as faith and biological sex.
• Her call to action urged mourners to take shelter in God, draw courage from faith, and defend free speech “at all costs.”