https://www.thebulwark.com/p/candace-owens-tpusa-charlie-kirk-death-conspiracy-theories-elijah-schafferTURNING POINT USA COMMUNICATIONS staffer Aubrey Laitsch was called into a meeting last month and abruptly told she was being fired, according to a video she posted online last week.In her telling, the reason Laitsch was given for being let go involved a convoluted story about an Uber ride. It went like this:A TPUSA executive had taken an Uber and asked his driver what he thought of the organization. The driver replied that he had heard it was in chaos in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination—and that no one inside TPUSA liked Erika Kirk, Kirk’s widow and now TPUSA’s CEO. Then the Uber driver revealed to the TPUSA executive that the source of his information was Laistch, who the driver claimed was a high school friend of his daughter’s.A strange story, and one Laitsch said she didn’t buy. She then offered up another explanation—one she said didn’t come up during her discussion with TPUSA executives but which she sensed was a factor in her termination.Laitsch, as she outlined in her video, seems to genuinely believe that her own organization had something to do with its founder’s murder or an ensuing coverup.The unfounded claim that Charlie Kirk’s assassination was some sort of inside job is growing in popularity on the right after being promoted by YouTuber and former TPUSA employee Candace Owens. Laitsch claims that others at TPUSA are suspicious about Kirk’s murder too—and that they had been discussing among themselves how they couldn’t raise the issue internally.
“I just have a gut feeling that I was terminated from Turning Point because I am questioning the narrative of what happened to my role model and CEO, Charlie Kirk, on the day of his assassination,” Laitsch said in the video.Laitsch did not respond to a request for comment.Neither did TPUSA. But in fairness to the group, there aren’t many jobs where you’d still be employed if you started telling people you thought your bosses murdered someone.In that regard, Laitsch’s firing—for whatever the reason—isn’t noteworthy. What is, though, is how widespread Owens’s ideas around Kirk’s death have become.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.
Owens already received a cease-and-desist order from TPUSA in January, for spreading conspiracy theories about Kirk’s death. But she seems undeterred by it. Nor does she seem tripped up by the nondisparagement agreement she signed with the organization (from when she was employed there) that could make her theories even more legally perilous. On her Tuesday show, Owens quipped that, if Erika Kirk had been killed instead of Charlie—and if Charlie then acted as Erika Kirk is acting now in the wake of his assassination—he would be on trial for his wife’s murder.“Erika Kirk should be dragged into a police precinct for questioning,” she said.OWENS’S CONSPIRATORIAL IDEAS ideas have become so widespread, they’re even starting to derail Trump administration task forces. On Monday, the White House Religious Liberty Commission convened what should have been a mild-mannered meeting on fighting antisemitism. But the gathering went off the rails when one panelist, former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean Boller, chastised Babylon Bee satirist Seth Dillon for calling Owens an antisemite.“I would really appreciate it if you would stop calling Candace Owens an antisemite,” she told Dillon. “She’s not an antisemite. She just doesn’t support Zionism. And that really has to stop.”As panelists as august as Dr. Phil McGraw shifted uneasily in their seats, Prejean Boller echoed Owens’s attacks on Israel, and cited her own conversion to Catholicism just ten months ago to explain why she couldn’t support the country.“Catholics do not embrace Zionism, just so you know,” she said. “So are all Catholics antisemites?”
On Wednesday, Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick (R), the head of the commission, announced that he had decided to fire Prejean Boller. But in a twist, Prejean Boller responded on X that she didn’t consider Patrick’s move legally valid, and planned to show up at the next meeting anyway.Meanwhile, Laitsch’s story has taken a turn of its own. On Wednesday, she posted a video of her husband confronting a man near their house who Laitsch claims was photographing the property and their cars. The man, whose face isn’t shown in the video, appears to be a private investigator or process server taking the photos to aid in some kind of potential legal action against Laitsch.In other words: Expect plenty more fuel for these Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories coming soon.
>>1488756>>The unfounded claim that Charlie Kirk’s assassination was some sort of inside jobDo they ever realize that they're fucking up their journalistic integrity by making it so obvious that they're telling us how we should feel, or do they have some means of justifying it?Also, someone inside the org constantly interacting with how they decided to follow up on Kirks death seems like a really good source. Certainly from the outside it was obscene how quickly they capitalized on his death and martyred him.Also also, such a transparently obvious cover story of "oh, I heard it from an Uber driver" tells me they were doing some snooping on her private communications (or she was an idiot and talked on work devices) or otherwise trying to protect how they really zeroed in on her.
>>1488812Unfounded doesn't mean false, dipshit. You should feel the claim is unfounded because it literally is. Welcome to reality. Facts don't care about your feelings.
>>1488756lol snake eats its own tail. Promote conspiracy theories and suddenly you'll be part of them.Definitely doesn't help that she moved on in under a month and literally is on audio celebrating how much money she made at the memorial.
>>1488756I wouldn't put it past them to do shit like this. If not TPUSA, then possibly the government itself. Just another incompetent attempt to stir up violence or justify totalitarianism.
>>1488844Are the catchphrases like a warm blanket for your or something?>feelings!Yes, that was my point, the article isn't sticking to facts and is trying to give a specific feeling of "this lady is crazy, but it's fun watching them tear themselves apart."
>>1488872So much projection I've been blinded.
>>1488872trump and miller would absolutely kill someone to further consolidation of their power. But I doubt it would be Kirk since he was one of their chief groomers and propagandists. If anything expect trump to stage a false flag against some ICE goons closer to the midterms to then try to cancel the elections if his plan to force through the law that will let republicans steal the election if forced through.
Someone already made a thread about this and why would a CEO position go to a dead CEOs wife she's not qualified
>>1488850Is Charlie the snake in this instance
>>1488960This thread is 4 hours older
Friendly reminder that killing antiwhites isn't murder, it's self defense.
>>1489005Better kill yourself, then. You're bringing all us whites down with you
>>1489005>killing ICE is justifiedParty Van coming in, prepare your anusjust kidding, the FBI doesn't investigate Indian nationals overseas
>>1488756>>1488844>The unfounded claim that Charlie Kirk’s assassination was some sort of inside job>unfounded claim>unfoundedThe foundation is its incentive, timing, and plausibility. Stretching "unfounded" this far is a shill move, and a faggot one at that. Your source is garbage and you're a literal homo.
>>1488756>Turning Point USA purges staff over Charlie Kirk conspiracyPerhaps they should have purged Charlie from TPUSA right at the start. Why? He ultimately leaned to the left
>who gives a fuck rightwing media company is whateverI've never cared.>chudly kirk was assassinatedThat's murder and is bad. Barely knew these fucks existed before he got murdered. Don't murder, it is bad.
