Kirk’s Outfit Partners With Registered Sex Offender

Rolling Stone reports:

Turning Point USA CEO Charlie Kirk is cheerleading the far-right boycott of Target over the retailer’s Pride collection — which included trans-friendly youth apparel and other LGBTQ-positive gear — for what Kirk decries as “their support for grooming kids.” Kirk’s condemnation of the retailer coincided with TPUSA’s second-annual Pastors Summit in Nashville, Tennessee, this past week, where Kirk also denounced Target, telling a crowd of hundreds of religious leaders: “If you love God, you must hate evil.”

Yet in delivering these fevered messages about morality and child welfare, Kirk had an odd benefactor, a man whose criminal history opens up TPUSA to charges of hypocrisy. Rolling Stone has learned that one of the TPUSA summit’s corporate sponsors is a Christian fashion company that is led by a registered sex offender, Shawn Bergstrand, who served time in federal prison for attempted “coercion and enticement” after trying to persuade “a minor female” to “engage in sexual activity.”

Read the full article. Last night Kirk responded: “I’m told from the team that coordinates exhibitors that he’s a nice person who did something wrong over a decade ago, and unlike Target, he repented and the experience led him to his faith. Good for him. That’s the Gospel.”

New: Charlie Kirk, who keeps smearing LGBT people as “groomers,” is now holding a “pastors summit” sponsored by a company run by a registered sex offender. (@7im) https://t.co/x9eVtzOLYt

— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 27, 2023

Charlie Kirk decried the sexualization of children at his Pastors Summit this week.

One of the event’s corporate sponsors is run by a man convicted of “coercion and enticement” of a minor.https://t.co/abUPkTCiWl

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) May 27, 2023