Trump Announces He’s Awarding Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: 3:05pm- On Wednesday, conservative political commentator Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at a Turning Point USA event on Utah Valley University campus. On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that he will posthumously award Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 3:10pm- According to a report, DC Comics announced it has cut ties with Gretchen Felker-Martin after the trans writer made social media posts celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk. Sadly, there have been a number of far-left accounts on X and TikTok celebrating Kirk’s death. While political disagreement is healthy, vilifying political rivals and endorsing violence is abhorrent. Rich wonders, will the left finally call out some of their own? 3:15pm- Flashback: While visiting a college campus, Charlie Kirk memorably spoke with a student who baselessly called him a “racist.” Kirk calmly denied the allegations and asked the student to cite an example. The student was unable to and stormed off. 3:30pm- Brett Eagleson—President of 9/11 Justice, he lost his father in the terrorist attacks on September 11th—joins The Rich Zeoli Show on the 24th Anniversary of September 11th and offers reaction to investigative journalist Catherine Herridge who now suggests that declassified FBI and CIA reports reveal “two Saudi government employees may have serves as an advance team for 9/11 hijackers.” You can learn more about 9/11 Justice here: https://www.911justice.org.

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr. with Osperity Private Wealth.
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0:15.8	Any minute now, we're going to jump into a news conference.
0:19.8	Law enforcement says they have some significant
0:23.7	developments in the hunt for Charlie Kirk's assassin. We will obviously take that live for you
0:30.2	as soon as it happens. Welcome to the show. Glad you're here today. We're also going to be,
0:35.7	obviously, remembering 9-11, 24 years ago today. And with that,
0:41.5	we're going to be talking about the new developments around Saudi Arabia's role and what we've
0:46.7	uncovered and what we've learned, what Catherine Harage, the investigative reporter, has also
0:52.9	learned. And we're going to be talking to Brett Eaglson about this.
0:55.7	He, of course, has been a guy who lost his father, 9-11, has not stopped for a second in trying
1:01.1	to get justice and answers around Saudi Arabia's involvement in those terrorist attacks.
1:07.4	So we're going to talk about that as well. We're also going to get some comment from
1:11.0	the Philadelphia Young Republicans and the chairwoman of the college Republicans at the
1:17.5	University of Pennsylvania, both of whom have a lot to say about Charlie Kirk's impact on
1:25.0	young people and his life.
1:29.7	Look, I'll be honest with you.
1:30.9	I mean, yesterday it's surreal.
1:32.6	It still doesn't feel real.
1:34.3	It doesn't feel real that any of this happened.
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