“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 job
Do 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.

>>1488812
Unfounded 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.

>>1488756
lol 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.

>>1488756
I 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.

>>1488844
Are 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."

>>1488872
So much projection I've been blinded.

>>1488872
trump 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

>>1488850
Is Charlie the snake in this instance

>>1488960
This thread is 4 hours older

Friendly reminder that killing antiwhites isn't murder, it's self defense.

>>1489005
Better kill yourself, then. You're bringing all us whites down with you

>>1489005
>killing ICE is justified
Party Van coming in, prepare your anus
just 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
>unfounded
The 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 conspiracy
Perhaps 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 whatever
I've never cared.
>chudly kirk was assassinated
That's murder and is bad. Barely knew these fucks existed before he got murdered. Don't murder, it is bad.

I don't think the company is going to do well after charlie died the main product was charlie and now he's dead

>>1488756
Oh no the obvious Israeli front killed its frontman for pity points

In other news, Mr Scorpion stung Mr Frog again

Gushers: Official sponsor of Turning Point USA

>>1489044
We also know the 'shooter' isn't even center left because if he was, /pol/ and the entire right wing media would be bringing that up every second they have. The fact they dropped it entirely shows something is clearly amiss.

>>1489076
It is possible to think murder is bad and the world is better off without a right wing propagandist. Probably how you'd feel if you had heard of him before he blew up, unless you hate women, brown people and religious freedom.

I mean seriously, suicide is never the answer, but you don't have to feel bad about hitler's.

>>1489302
>Gaslighting this bad
Shut up retard

>>1488850
She was laughing and talking about merch sales less than 2 weeks after he got popped

>>1489314
I don't think he was a propagandist
It seemed like he would go to college campuses and engage with ideas, he would be asked questions and answer them honestly

>>1488935
>Kirk since he was one of their chief groomers and propagandists.
the irony and lack of self-awareness in leftist projection never ceases to amaze.

>>1489331
That is not a sane reading of his work. He asked loaded questions to idiot freshmen and cut around anyone who wasn't caught off guard. Congrats, you fell for it.

>>1489347
Fair, as a brainless right-wing retard I bet you're pretty easy to amaze.

>>1489314
>It is possible to think murder is bad and the world is better off without a right wing propagandist.
..no, it's actually not. Because he was killed for having political discussions with random people.
The only way you could think murdering someone for having wrongthink is if you feel very confident that your own political views are inherently correct. Which factually isn't true.

>>1489353
These are only "loaded questions" if you come from Academia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42ivIRd9N8E
To normal people asking "What is a woman?" is not a loaded question, it is a very simple question

>>1489356
Answer it, then.

>>1489321
Keep seething over the facts

Kikes killed kirk and I'm tired of pretending they didn't

>>1489404
Adult female woman. Has the parts for making a baby. No. The less than 1% outliers does not undermine the definition. No. Removing your womb does not unmake you as a woman. No. You cannot say gender isn't the same as sex and then adopt the sex term. No. Just because you can make yourself into such an image that you fool a woman does not make you a woman. No. You as a transwoman cannot have "periods" because of HRT.