How Trump's MAGA movement helped a 29-year-old activist become a millionaire

[Nevilledog]

https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-trump-turning-point-maga-d08a98e439fa4e902cb756d7e35153db

WASHINGTON (AP) — Charlie Kirk’s $4.75 million Spanish-style estate is tucked away in a gated Arizona country club that charges nearly a half-million dollars for a golf membership. It boasts a guest casita, a “resort-style” pool and striking views of the Sonoran Desert.

The Make America Great Again political movement has been lucrative for Kirk, the 29-year-old CEO and co-founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point.

The nonprofit rocketed to prominence by latching on to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and has raised roughly a quarter-billion dollars since, much of it spent cultivating conservative influencers and hosting glitzy events. The organization also enriched Kirk and his allies, according to an Associated Press review of public records, which found top Turning Point officials collected pricey salaries, enjoyed lavish perks and steered at least $15.2 million to companies that they, their friends and associates are affiliated with.

But for all that money, the group has struggled to help Republicans win general elections. That’s particularly true in Turning Point’s adopted home of Arizona, where its slate of deeply conservative candidates in the longtime Republican stronghold lost statewide races last year, among them Kari Lake’s unsuccessful bid for governor.

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[CurtEastPoint]

1. what is with these fuckers and their giant empty heads?

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2. and close set eyes

[CurtEastPoint]

4. and little mouths.

[MagickMuffin]

3. The Grifting will collapse soon enough, it might take a little while

Look what happened to Project Veritas. They were the new kids on the block until the grifting was too hard to resist the temptation of all that dough. What’s his name couldn’t resist, and he is a no body. I can’t even remember his name.


This Charlatan Charlie is directly on the path of learning his grifting will catch up to him. They are not kingpins of politics. The younger generation are not conservative as they think they are. Especially when they want to limit our freedoms and the ability to govern our own bodies.

It’s just a matter of time.

[2naSalit]

5. Everything...

That touches the ooze of orangeness gets what it deserves in the end. It's all going to start looking up real soon, by Halloween-ish first week of November, things will be moving in a positive direction. I have a strong feeling about it, that is all.

[FelineOverlord]

6. Charlie Smirk

I loved when the kids at an Arizona university told him what they thought of him.

[Aristus]

7. He seems to have profited very heavily from a non-profit organization.