Roger Stone, Charlie Kirk and more to address Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk initiated a moment of silence for Corey Comperatore at the end of the third day of the Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida.

Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of the first assassination attempt on then-former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pa. Comperatore, a former fire chief attending the rally, was fatally shot while shielding his wife and two daughters.

"As we're closing out this conference, I think we just need to just remember how far our nation has come in the span of one year, of how much has changed And thanks to the goodness and glory of God that Donald Trump turned his head at that very moment," Kirk said, recalling how he was with his daughter when he saw a TV screen on July 13, 2024, saying Trump was shot.

"You all remember where you were when you first heard the news, and then what a sigh of relief when we saw him rise up and he said, 'fight, fight, fight' one year ago to this day," Kirk said.

"We also lost one of our own patriots that day, Corey Comperatore. And we should just do a moment of silence for 10 seconds to remember Corey Comperatore [who] lost his life a year ago today," Kirk said, before taking the pause.

"I know that so many of you have been to MAGA rallies," Kirk said. "He died a hero's death. He put his body in the way and saved his daughters' lives. That they may live. For the men out there, that is the best of MAGA masculinity. And Corey, we remember you today here in Tampa, Florida."

Andre Bauer, the Republican former lieutenant governor of South Carolina, explained his decision to take on Sen. Lindsey Graham in the 2026 primary during a speech at the Turning Point USA summit.

"We need to cut the head off the biggest snake, the biggest two-faced viper of them all, and that's liberal Lindsey Graham," Bauer told the Tampa, Florida, crowd, arguing Graham is among Republicans who've been disloyal to President Donald Trump. "We want him to join the McConnell retirement party."

"When he's not pushing amnesty, he's pushing globalist foreign policy and more military intervention," Bauer said. "I couldn't believe just a few weeks ago, I turned on the TV and he said, our military men and women would be happy for regime change in Iran. He wants to put boots on the ground. What a disgusting thing to say. Can you imagine the forever wars to foreign aid he's been a cheerleader for? They haven't just cost us American lives, they've contributed to the national debt."

Graham, a longtime Trump ally in the Senate, notably told Fox News last month that the United States should "absolutely not" intervene in Iranian regime change.

"The people of South Carolina deserve a senator who shares conservative values, who truly is an ally of President Trump," Bauer said Sunday. "Liberal Lindsey gets applauded in Ukraine, but he gets booed in Pickens [County], South Carolina, where he was born. It's time to deport him from the United States Senate. It's time that he joins McConnell's retirement party."

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier slammed progressive “Squad” member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., and other “communist caucus” members for opposing the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans, while also touting the successful opening of the immigration detention facility in the Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

“Speaking of crying, AOC and the communist caucus, they want to cry at every ICE facility. They want to cry and mourn the traffickers and the rapists and the horrific individuals that are victimizing so many American families,” Uthmeier said. “Let them cry. But I tell you what, you know where they can't cry. Alligator Alcatraz. That's right. They can't cry there because they can't get there.”

The state attorney general said he first realized the remote location’s potential when President Trump Donald first floated reopening the original Alcatraz in California.

“We've got a great piece of land in Florida. An old, abandoned runway from the 70s and 80s, 30 square miles, the largest 11,000-foot runway in the state, great for big deportation planes, completely surrounded by the Everglades,” he said of Florida detention site. “So if the gators don't get them and the pythons don't get them, the mosquitoes just might.”

Uthmeier said it was a privilege to work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem “had the great observation that the Biden administration was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on fancy New York hotels for immigrants, so we've just repurposed that money to alligator, Alcatraz, and some other sites that will be revealed soon."

"We’re going to get them out right away," he said.

Uthmeier noted the increased attacks against and the doxxing of federal immigration enforcement agents, vowing protections for them and their families in Florida.

“We told our law enforcement if people throw rocks at you, if they obstruct traffic, use as much force as you can. We are going to be rule of law,” Uthmeier said. “You see the left freaking out, coming to the defense of these dangerous, dangerous people crying outside of these facilities, attacking ICE agents. And the reality is this they are realizing and panicking because they now know the jig is up.”

Attendees of Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit told Fox News Digital whether they agree with President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi on the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Trump took to TRUTH Social on Saturday to stand by his attorney general and alleged that the Epstein files were a hoax perpetuated by the Democratic Party similar to the "Steele dossier."

“I think that Pam has brought a secretive energy to the administration and that it is not a good look for the president at all and not a good look for our party in general” one student told Fox News Digital at the Turning Point USA summit in Tampa, Florida.

“I do not agree with the president on that,” another student said. “I think that there’s a lot of instances where the president should just keep his mouth closed and not give out such opinions, especially on something like this where the misspoken words from President Trump will absolutely affect how his fan base looks at him.”

“It’s clear that she’s kind of in it for the glam, in it for herself. I kind of side with Bongino and Patel in this situation, and I know that it’s basically come down to either Bongino is going or Bondi is going and I would much rather keep Dan Bongino.”

“I do not,” one student, wearing a Trump ’47 white baseball cap, said. “She had come out in the past saying they had thousands of videos they were just waiting to release. And then all of a sudden now they’re saying, ‘yeah, there’s nothing.’”

“It’s disappointing. I don’t trust her,” he added of Bondi.

“As much as I like the president, I think that’s a little bit of mistrust put into the people because he did say that was something he was going to deliver on in his campaign speeches that we would see the Epstein list," another student said.

Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Heckman contributed to this post.

Evangelist Daniel Kolenda, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, longtime Trump ally and GOP strategist Roger Stone, Savannah and Todd Chrisley and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk are among those scheduled to close out the third and final day of Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida, on Sunday.

On Saturday, attendees heard from celebrity trainer Jillian Michaels, former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and border czar Tom Homan, among others. Click here for previous Fox News Digital live coverage.