{"id":71726,"date":"2026-04-14T17:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/erika-kirk-cancels-university-of-georgia-tpusa-event-appearance-over-serious-threats\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:56:24","slug":"erika-kirk-cancels-university-of-georgia-tpusa-event-appearance-over-serious-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/erika-kirk-cancels-university-of-georgia-tpusa-event-appearance-over-serious-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Erika Kirk cancels University of Georgia TPUSA event appearance over &#8216;serious threats&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erika Kirk canceled her planned appearance at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/erika-kirk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Turning Point USA event <\/a>at the University of Georgia on Tuesday after receiving what organizers described as &#8220;very serious threats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/tyler-robinson-judge-set-rule-whether-prosecution-team-should-disqualified-charlie-kirk-case\"><strong><u>JUDGE DISMISSES DEFENSE PUSH TO REMOVE PROSECUTORS FROM CHARLIE KIRK MURDER CASE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet said Erika Kirk, wife of late conservative icon Charlie Kirk, received &#8220;some very serious threats in her direction,&#8221; prompting her absence from the event in Athens, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President JD Vance said he had been concerned the event might be canceled and spoke with the Secret Service, adding he told Kirk to &#8220;do what she needs to do for her and her family.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erika Kirk canceled her planned appearance at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Georgia on Tuesday after receiving what organizers described as &#8220;very serious threats.&#8221; JUDGE DISMISSES DEFENSE PUSH TO REMOVE PROSECUTORS FROM CHARLIE KIRK MURDER CASE Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet said Erika Kirk, wife of late conservative icon Charlie &#8230; <a title=\"Erika Kirk cancels University of Georgia TPUSA event appearance over &#8216;serious threats&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/erika-kirk-cancels-university-of-georgia-tpusa-event-appearance-over-serious-threats\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Erika Kirk cancels University of Georgia TPUSA event appearance over &#8216;serious threats&#8217;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}