Turning Point USA seems to be in crisis, with several firings, because many staffers believe Candace Owens' accusations that TP had some role in the assassination of their founder, Charlie Kirk.The Bulwark:
Laitsch is just one of several Turning Point staffers who has been fired amid what’s been dubbed a “purge” of employees. While it’s not clear how many have been let go, Owens has played audio on her show of another staffer who claimed to have been fired without explanation. Owens also claimed that a TPUSA executive showed up at a third staffers home to fire her and demand the immediate return of her company devices. A GoFundMe for staffers booted in the “TPUSA Purge” has raised more than $71,000 as of Thursday morning.
It’s hard to say if these firings are being driven by the (very sensible) disapproval of staff talking about their company killing its founder, or paranoia about Owens having credible information about internal TPUSA activities—or both. But clearly, someone within the organization is leaking to Owens. Just this year, the highly controversial podcaster posted videos of Erika Kirk on internal videochats in the wake of Kirk’s assassination that were interpreted on the online right as insufficiently mournful.
The young people one presumes are the future leadership of MAGA believe Candace Owens.
Sigh.
And poor Erika Kirk; first her husband is murdered, and now members of her own organization think she did it. The very definition of "adding insult to injury."
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