Meghan McCain issued a strong defense over the allegedly "evil" criticism of Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk (née Frantzve). "I do not understand why Erika Kirk, who saw her husband get brutally assassinated on live television, is a target of such evil and cruelty," McCain, 41, wrote via X on Friday, March 27. "Why are you all doing this to her? Have she and her children not suffered enough?" Charlie, a conservative political commentator, was shot and killed during a Utah speaking engagement in September 2025. He was 31 and is survived by Erika and their two young children.