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Trump awards Charlie Kirk with posthumous Medal of Freedom

President Donald Trump posthumously awarded Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday, calling the slain conservative activist “an American patriot of the deepest conviction.”

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