{"id":82413,"date":"2026-04-26T08:23:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82413"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:23:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:23:37","slug":"kirk-widow-led-from-dinner-in-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/kirk-widow-led-from-dinner-in-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Widow Led From Dinner In Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Mirror\u00a0<\/em>[caution tabloid]:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.themirror.com\/article1795866.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200f\/0_GettyImages-2271273356.jpg\" alt=\"Erika Kirk\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\">Erika Kirk was reportedly escorted off the premises in tears as shots rang out during the White House Correspondents&#8217; dinner on Saturday night.\u00a0The event erupted into chaos, and security swept the entire top table, including President Trump, Melania, and heavily pregnant Karoline Leavitt off the main stage. The rest of the room was put on lockdown, with guests crouching down under their tables for safety. Guests were not allowed to leave the room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\">Erika Kirk, the widow of the late Charlie Kirk, was reportedly backstage at the time. A video showed the Turning Point USA CEO being led away in tears.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1777191817\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Kirk Widow Led From Dinner In Tears\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Mirror\u00a0[caution tabloid]: Erika Kirk was reportedly escorted off the premises in tears as shots rang out during the.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82414,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82413\/revisions\/82414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}