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Topics: Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk, Politics, US News
Britt Jones
Topics: Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk, Politics, US News
People online have found a very strange link between Donald trump and Erika Kirk, and you’re going to be shocked.
Trump and Erika have been close as of recent times after her husband, and ally to the POTUS, was assassinated earlier this month in Utah.
Having delivered his memorial service on Sunday 21 September, the pair took center stage, sharing memories, tributes and even a hug.
Erika has been vocal about her husband and his untimely death, telling the New York Times of how she interpreted seeing his body.
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She said: “His eyes were semi-open, and he had this knowing, Mona Lisa-like half-smile. Like he died happy. Like Jesus rescued him. The bullet came, he blinked, and he was in heaven."
The mother-of-two is now the new CEO of Kirk’s company, Turning Point USA, and is dedicated to furthering his cause.
However, while she wasn’t always a CEO, she was an entrepreneur, which led to her becoming somewhat linked to Trump in her teenage years and early 20s - years before meeting Kirk.
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Online, an X user found bikini photos of Erika from her beauty pageant days, and made a link nobody expected.
They wrote: “Oooooh. Erika Kirk competed in the 2012 Miss USA competition, which was owned by Trump. Her talent portion for the Miss Arizona contest was performing a dribbling exhibition with two balls. Her website still lists contact info to book her for modeling and acting.”
Now, many people might know that Trump ran the Miss USA competitions from the 90s until 2015, but you might not know just how involved he was in the process.
According to reports, when Erika competed in the 2012 Miss USA pageant, it was co-owned by Trump through the Miss Universe Organization at the time.
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This also included the Miss Teen USA pageants, that she also competed in to further her charitable work, which included her Christian-based organisation Everyday Heroes Like You.
As per The New Yorker, preliminary judges revealed Trump would hand-pick winners, and also make comments on them.
Erika won Miss Arizona USA on her 23rd birthday in November 2011, which allowed her to compete in the 2012 Miss USA competition, owned by Trump.
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Before the contest, Frantzve told AZ Foothills that this was an opportunity for her to further her work.
“What really matters is making a difference, and I want to change the world,” she said. “The bling is just a bonus.”
While Erika participated in a State and National level, she may have been in the same venue as the POTUS at one point or another, and who knows if he selected her from the finalists to comment on her performance?
After all, she won a title for dribbling two basket balls, which isn’t a common thing to see at all. It clearly impressed the judges enough to place her at number one.
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Oddly, the tweet also claims that Kirk’s father was involved in the construction of the Trump Tower, which makes this a double whammy for how all three people could have been connected before having even met one another.
It really is a small world.