President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the bullet that killed Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk had been aimed “at all of us” and was “an attack on our entire nation.”

Trump made the remarks as part of his eulogy for Kirk, who’d been assassinated 11 days earlier at a campus event at Utah Valley University, and he said that the attack on Kirk had been “an assault on our most sacred liberties and God-given rights.”

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.@POTUS: “Charlie’s murder was not just an attack on one man or one movement — it was an attack on our entire nation.” pic.twitter.com/KH143fYf28

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“Every single American should take a long, hard look at the twisted soul and dark spirit of anyone who would want to kill a young man as good as Charlie, to kill anybody, but to kill a man like this,” Trump said. “He didn’t deserve this. He didn’t deserve this. Our country didn’t deserve this.”

“And anyone who would make excuses for it are just out of their minds,” Trump added. “Charlie’s murder was not just an attack on one man or one movement — it was an attack on our entire nation. That was a horrible attack on the United States of America. It was an assault on our most sacred liberties and God-given rights. The gun was pointed at him, but the bullet was aimed at all of us. That bullet was aimed at every one of us.”

“Indeed, Charlie was killed for expressing the ideas that virtually everyone in this arena and most other places throughout our country deeply believed in,” he continued. “But the assassin failed in his quest because Charlie’s message has not been silenced. It now is bigger and better and stronger than ever before, and it’s not even close.”

Erika Kirk said on Sunday that she forgave her husband’s suspected assassin, explaining that she believed he would do so as well.

Speaking at the memorial service for her late husband, conservative commentator and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, she told the massive crowd that Charlie’s greatest wish was to help save young men — young men just like the one who ultimately ended his life.

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Erika Kirk forgives the man who murdered her husband:

“My husband Charlie…he wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life…that young man…

I forgive him.

I forgive him because it was what Christ did and is what Charlie would do.” pic.twitter.com/Pd1yGRMRVw

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“That young man, that young man,” she said. “On the cross, our savior said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’ That man, that young man, I forgive him. I forgive him because it was what Christ did, and is what Charlie would do. The answer to hate is not hate. The answer we know, from the Gospel, is love and always love.”

Kirk also shared details of the first moments after she’d learned she’d been widowed — in a recent interview published early on Sunday by The New York Times, and she said that she’d needed to “see what they did” to her husband’s body.

“With all due respect,” Ms. Kirk told the sheriff who escorted her to the hospital, despite his warning attempting to dissuade her from viewing the body, “I want to see what they did to my husband.”

“His eyes were semi-open,” Ms. Kirk said of her husband, noting that she was somewhat surprised by how he appeared. “And he had this knowing, Mona Lisa-like half-smile. Like he’d died happy. Like Jesus rescued him. The bullet came, he blinked, and he was in heaven.”

She told the same story from the stage at her husband’s memorial service on Sunday afternoon, adding a few details about the moment she saw him.

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ERIKA KIRK: “[I looked] directly at my husband’s murdered body. I saw the wound that ended his life…But there was something else. Even in death, I could see the man that I love. I saw the one, single grey hair on the side of his head, which I never told him about. Now he… pic.twitter.com/aYngTxITFN

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“[I looked] directly at my husband’s murdered body. I saw the wound that ended his life,” she explained. “But there was something else. Even in death, I could see the man that I love. I saw the one, single grey hair on the side of his head, which I never told him about. Now he knows. Sorry baby, I’m telling you now.”

“I also saw on his lips the faintest smile. And that told me something important. It revealed to me a great mercy from God in this tragedy. When I saw that, it told me Charlie didn’t suffer,” Kirk added. “Even the doctor told me – it was something so instant … One moment Charlie was doing what he loved, arguing and debating … he blinked … and saw his savior in paradise.”