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At a supplication vigil for Charlie Kirk connected Sunday astatine the Kennedy Center successful Washington, DC, Kari Lake, Trump's Senior Advisor to the United States Agency for Global Media, gave a plea to mothers crossed the nation.

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Lake urged that unit has to halt earlier launching into an onslaught connected "the different side" and universities. "I'm not gonna accidental our broadside is perfect, but dammit, this is coming from the different side," she said to a circular of applause.

"How does a 22-year-old go truthful filled with hate?" she asked.

"Five years earlier, I was told helium was a Trump supporter. And we nonstop our kids disconnected to college, and they brainwashed 'em."
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For context: Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old Charlie Kirk shooting suspect, reportedly supported President Donald Trump up of the 2020 election. Per CNN, Robinson concisely attended Utah State University for 1 semester successful 2021, but took a permission of lack earlier enrolling successful Dixie Technical College successful St. George, wherever helium is presently a third-year pupil successful the electrical apprenticeship program.
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Lake past gave her plea: "I americium making a plea to mothers retired there: Do not nonstop your children into these indoctrination camps. Don't bash it. Do not bash it." Lake was met with different roaring applause.
She went on: "By each accounts, his parents did a bully occupation raising him," she said of the suspect’s puerility — "until helium was sent disconnected to beryllium brainwashed."
She past argued: "We person lived done the astir horrific brainwashing run successful the past of mankind. And the precise information that we're each present means we person someway survived it. We've survived it. But excessively galore youngsters are not surviving it. And we gotta basal up. Because immoderate things are non-negotiable. Our children's minds and futures are non-negotiable."
A information of the clip rapidly went viral connected X (formerly Twitter).
Lake: How does a 22-year-old go truthful filled with hate? Five years earlier I was told helium was a Trump protagonist and we nonstop our kids disconnected to assemblage and they brainwashed them. I americium making a plea to mothers. Do not nonstop your children into these indoctrination camps. Do not bash it pic.twitter.com/DC0d1S7043
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 15, 2025C-SPAN / @acyn / Via Twitter: @Acyn
Here's what radical had to say:
"Translation: support your kids dumb truthful they ne'er question us."
"Everyone should beryllium incredibly skeptical of anyone who says not to let your children to entree higher education, which is inactive 1 of the biggest builders of generational wealthiness and economical advancement. They privation you mediocre and stupid. Don't springiness it to them."
Everyone should beryllium incredibly skeptical of anyone who says not to let your children to entree higher education, which is inactive 1 of the biggest builders of generational wealthiness and economical advancement.
They privation you mediocre and stupid. Don't springiness it to them. https://t.co/WDf3By0JFA
"The 22-year-old she’s referring to went to USU, 1 of the astir blimpish universities successful the nation, for ONE semester."
"Kari. He was a pre-engineering large for 1 semester astatine Utah State. He was a pupil successful an electrical apprentice programme astatine the clip of the shooting. You are choosing to beforehand a mendacious communicative for governmental gain. Shame connected you."
Kari. He was a pre-engineering large for 1 semester astatine Utah State. He was a pupil successful an electrical apprentice programme astatine the clip of the shooting. You are choosing to beforehand a mendacious communicative for governmental gain. Shame connected you. https://t.co/VGlvgEdKQA
— Trump Lie Tracker (Commentary) (@MAGALieTracker) September 15, 2025"But... Kirk was astatine colleges.... So was helium trying to indoctrinate? This rhetoric is insane."
And lastly, "Meanwhile each their kids be college."
@DanMicovic / Via Twitter: @DanMicovic
Lake posted astir her lad being a assemblage sophomore successful July 2024, penning that she was "worried astir his future" successful "Joe Biden’s America."