“The world needs a group that will point young people away from the path and misery and sin. And so, I promise you today, every part of our work will become greater.”

Trump has since announced Kirk will be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

And in another striking detail, TPUSA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet revealed what a surgeon told him after working on Kirk: the bullet that killed him behaved in a way it never should have — a “miracle,” the doctor said, that prevented others standing behind him from also being struck.