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allegorical oracle

(5,748 posts)
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 03:32 PM Sep 15

"Why I Quit Working for Charlie Kirk"

By Caroline Stout

Texas native Caroline Stout said she began working with Kirk at his nonprofit organization in 2014. She is currently an attorney.

A former Turning Point USA employee has claimed conservative activist Charlie Kirk was a “never-Trumper” until Donald Trump was elected president for the first time in 2016.

She said Kirk’s decision to support Trump was "strategic" in order to grow the organization and his "position of power within the government.”

"Charlie said he could never vote for Trump," she added. "It kind of flipped when he decided, he saw, I think, the writing on the wall that Trump was what was the next figurehead of the Republican party."

Of the change, she said: "And so that's kind of when I left because it wasn't a direction that I was comfortable with going, especially just the rhetoric and the immigrant and anti-women rhetoric is just not something that I was comfortable with."

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/charlie-kirk-flipped-opinion-trump-139125

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Gaugamela

(3,009 posts)
5. Kirk was a phony, an opportunistic grifter like the rest of them. He sold his soul
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 05:50 PM
Sep 15

to the devil and the devil called in his chit.

Kids, don’t be like Charlie.

allegorical oracle

(5,748 posts)
13. The same cut of cloth as some of those mega-church preachers who make their
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 07:30 PM
Sep 15

fortunes -- and travel in Rolls Royce and private airplanes. (Kirk's wife graduated from Falwell's Liberty University.)

maspaha

(655 posts)
6. The entire GOP is a bunch of empty vessels...
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 05:59 PM
Sep 15

…they have no center or core beliefs. They’ll promote whatever is in their own best interest; fu(k everybody else. They’re disgusting. Looks like I’ll be off to the gulag :-/

muriel_volestrangler

(104,807 posts)
9. Trump was an epiphany for many on the right - they realised "my god, our voters really are as dumb as pigshit
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 06:15 PM
Sep 15

and will let us get away with anything. Quick, cash in before the country falls apart."

William Seger

(11,827 posts)
10. "...Kirk's decision to support Trump was 'strategic' ..."
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 06:22 PM
Sep 15

Huh, who could have guessed that about Charlie, but I'm sure it doesn't apply to other media personalities and politicians and VPs who also support him, right?

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