Small-faced MAGA activist Charlie Kirk’s right wing “youth” organization’s books sure look awfully scammy per a review by the Associated Press finding at least $15.2 million spent on self-dealing to vendors owned and operated by Kirk and pals since 2016. Among these shady payouts were a total of $6.6 million to creepy Arizona state Senator and fake Trump elector Jake Hoffman for who the hell knows but at least $2.4 million went to his 2020 election social media propaganda operation.
Another $999,000 payment was made to a Nevada LLC called “Clocktower” for a “research project on educational outputs” in 2020, only for “Clocktower” to dissolve in 2022. The lone officer listed on its registration documents did not return the AP’s request for comment. Three LLCs controlled Turning Point’s “senior advancement director” Stacy Sheridan have been paid a total of $2.7 million since 2018. She didn’t respond to the AP either. Turning Point COO Tyler Bowyer also chairs the board of Superfeed Technologies, a company seeking to develop a mobile app to run TPUSA’s canvassing operations in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin next year. The “non-profit” is looking to raise $108 million for the effort, a sum considerably more than they would realistically need.
“$108 million? I can’t even fathom it,” said former John McCain aide Jon Seaton, now a GOP consultant specializing in get-out-the vote efforts. “There’s not even enough doors” to knock on.