At a subsequent speaking engagement at Benedictine University's "Youth Empowerment Day," Kirk met Bill Montgomery, a retiree more than 50 years his senior, who was then a Tea Party-backed legislative candidate. [19][20], Kirk has spread false views about claims of voter fraud[21][22] and on the coronavirus outbreak. The cited videos were from a far-right protest in London. In his junior year in 2010, Kirk volunteered for the successful U.S. Senate campaign of Illinois Republican Mark Kirk (no relation). Charlie Kirk is an American conservative activist and writer. "[13] In 2018, the conservative website NewsMax ranked Kirk as the seventh most influential Republican under the age of 30. In an interview with Wired magazine during the convention, Kirk said that while he "was not the world's biggest Donald Trump fan," he would vote for him, and that Trump's candidacy made Turning Point's mission more difficult. [4] When he was a senior at Wheeling High School in 2012, Kirk wrote an essay for Breitbart News alleging liberal bias in high school textbooks which led to an appearance on Fox Business. Turning Point USA co-founder dies of coronavirus-related complications. Politics. He is the founder and spiritual leader of Toilet Paper USA Turning Point USA (TPUSA), which organizes bizarre conservative stunts on college campuses and (according to an exposé at the conservative leaning Washington Examiner) has a long history of teen underage drinking … serves as its executive director.[1]. According to The New York Times, Kirk's rhetoric "[walks] the line between mainstream conservative opinion and outright disinformation. Turning Point USA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk. [18], In defending the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic, Kirk repeatedly spread falsehoods that the Obama administration responded slowly to the H1N1 swine flu pandemic. 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[17], Kirk spread his conspiracy theories and disinformation about COVID-19 on social media platforms, such as Twitter, in 2020. [9][6], Kirk addressed the 2016 Republican National Convention. [18] This falsehood was retweeted by Rudolph Giuliani whose account was then suspended by Twitter as well. Sean Spicer joins The Charlie Kirk Show to discuss his new book, "Leading America: President Trump's Commitment to People, Patriotism, and Capitalism" which he researched deeply before publishing, and which describes why a second term of President Trump is so necessary. "[23], In the report of ProPublica's 2020 investigation into the finances of Turning Point USA, which claimed that the organization made "misleading financial claims," that the audits were not done by an independent auditor, and that the leaders enriched themselves while advocating for President Trump, ProPublica noted that Kirk's salary from TPUSA had increased from $27,000 to nearly $300,000 and that he had bought a $855,000 condo in Longboat Key, Florida. [8], In 2012, when he was a high school senior, Kirk wrote an essay for Breitbart News claiming to document liberal bias in high school textbooks that led to an appearance on the Fox Business Network. Montgomery encouraged Kirk to get engaged in political activism full-time. [18] Kirk also spread rumors that the public health measure of social distancing prohibitions in churches was a "Democratic plot against Christianity" and made the unfounded assertion that authorities in Wuhan, China, were burning patients. [15], In May 2019, Kirk was awarded an honorary doctorate from Liberty University, a private evangelical Christian university co-founded by Jerry Falwell.
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