Donald J. Trump

To kill anybody, but to kill a man like this, 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 mind.

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 very ideas that virtually everyone in this arena and most other places throughout our country deeply believed in.

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.

And it's rare that such a thing happens, but Charlie is bigger today than he was — think about it — just two weeks ago.

He's bigger today than he was two weeks ago.

Now, that may not help his friends and loved ones, of which there are so many.

It may not help Eric and those beautiful children who have to suffer so horribly through this moment, but they know it's true.

He's bigger now than ever before, and he's eternal.

He's eternal.

And I just want to say we love him.