Tag Archives: Turning Point USA

The New York Times reports: At the two-day gathering, with thousands of pro-Trump activists in attendance this weekend in South Florida, jeers flew on Sunday at the mention of Rupert Murdoch, the Fox media mogul, as well as Speaker Kevin McCarthy. And after Mr. Trump spoke to this crowd on Saturday, any of his Republican rivals for the party’s 2024 …

Newsweek reports: A furious crowd of Donald Trump supporters chanted “let us in” after being denied entry to see the former president speak in Florida. Many complained about waiting for hours to enter the Palm Beach County Convention Center, in West Palm Beach, for the Turning Point Action Conference on Saturday, July 15. A woman who spoke to the camera …

The Daily Beast reports: Months after fully severing ties with CPAC, Fox News appears to have distanced itself from another major conservative powerhouse: Turning Point USA. In years past, the cable network maintained a close, nearly symbiotic relationship with the Charlie Kirk-led MAGA student group, with Fox News stars regularly appearing at TPUSA events and Fox Nation livestreaming the entirety …

The Guardian reports: Australia’s home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, has called Donald Trump Jr “a big baby” after his tour of the country was postponed. Trump Jr’s promoter blamed “cancel culture”, even though he was granted a visa to travel to Australia. He was scheduled to speak in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, with the first of the events to be …

The Sydney Morning Herald reports: Donald Trump’s eldest son has cancelled a planned speaking tour of Australia just days before he was due to arrive in the country amid doubts over whether the Albanese government would grant him a visa. Donald Trump Jr was scheduled to make appearances in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne between July 9 and July 11, but …

“The truth is, is we got here from women. The transgendered movement has been ushered in by women. I was explaining this to Charlie just now on his radio show. I said every ill that we are fighting right now in society has been brought forth by women.” – Candace Owens, speaking at Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit. …

Semafor reports: Fox News is keeping one of its most visible figures on a tight leash as she promotes her new book, infuriating her publisher and some Christian conservative activists. Over the last several weeks, The Five co-host Jeanine Pirro has been on a tour to promote her new book Crimes Against America: The Left’s Takedown of Our Republic. But …

The Space Coast Rocket reports: Moms for Liberty member and featured speaker Kaylee Campbell Layton has become a recent viral virus. Her bio says she’s located in “rent free” and is “Governments biggest fear.” Her husband, Ryan Layton is a United States Marine. They are recently married, and live on base at 29 Palms in California. Although she’s new to …

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 …

NBC News reports: A retired firefighter who went to a “cult deprogramming” expert to figure out how he came to believe Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 presidential election was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison on Tuesday for chucking a fire extinguisher at police officers as they protected the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Robert Sanford, …

“I actually even think we’re even more divided, in some ways, than we even were leading into the American Civil War. At least it was a Christian country back then, now we have different metaphysics and we have all sorts of different types of views. “But we have some things working in our favor which is the great hope is …

Kristen Doerer reports at Right Wing Watch: Brandt Wiggins is a follower of Nick Fuentes’ white nationalist America First movement, and this January, the TPUSA chapter at University of Alabama announced that Wiggins had assumed the role of vice president. Wiggins has peddled the great replacement theory and urged white people to “HAVE WHITE BABIES!!!” He’s advocated for men to …

Media Matters has the transcript: Okay, couple things, people say, Charlie, what’s the solution? What’s the solution? Well, actually I’ve laid out a solution, and it’s very simple: you must acknowledge it’s a sad day in America, number one. The number two: you must suck it up and you must call on every attorneys general and every DA to say, …

The Washington Post reports: As the 2024 presidential election cycle gets underway, the political arm of Turning Point USA, the influential right-wing nonprofit run by Charlie Kirk, is losing a key asset: Students for Trump. The separation follows a failed effort by Kirk’s main deputy, Tyler Bowyer, to assert greater control over the Students for Trump accounts. The changes floated …

The Chicago Sun-Times reports: The work of Homeland Security Investigations in Arizona, dubbed Operation Swipe Left, led agents to Norris “Nick” Stauffer, 27, who is charged here with disseminating child pornography, records show. It also resulted in criminal charges against more than a dozen people elsewhere — including at least two with political ties — amid allegations of livestreamed abuse, …

Current reports: For many MAGA Americans, Bolsonaro’s Christian nationalism, strong anti-LGBTQ beliefs, and disagreement with the scientific consensus on climate change make him a hero. One of those people, apparently, is Charlie Kirk. On February 3, Bolsonaro will come out of exile and travel to Miami to speak at a Kirk event called “Power of the People.” Charlie Kirk never …

“We have been warning about Ukraine, and this being a waste of money, and a waste of time, since the very beginning. And now they want to spend another 45 billion dollars. “Where is this money going? Where are the weapons going? Is it being audited? The answer is no. We are doing direct bank transfers into the treasury of …

Media Matters has the transcript: JAMES LINDSAY (TURNING POINT USA PANELIST):  This is what they do in unconventional warfare. They make these provocations. Drag queens are a provocation. It’s been an escalating provocation. First, they’re just dressing up in kind of somewhat you know, careful dress with their clown makeup, groomer clowns or whatever reading stories. They’re dancing, they’re grinding, …

The Arizona Republic reports: In the contract Turning Point USA executed for AmericaFest, the four-day convention scheduled for Dec. 17 in Phoenix, the nonprofit dedicated to free market and capitalistic principles asked for the city’s help in keeping competing organizations away. Turning Point USA asked the Phoenix Convention Center not to lease space to organizations it considered direct competitors in …

“I think the American family’s breaking because of this subsidized, prolonged adolescence of infant boy — of like infant men of 26, 27-year-olds. I’m telling you, young men need to be treated a lot harsher than they are right now. “And I know this, that sounds bad. They need to be challenged, put out into the wild, figure it out. …