Charlie Kirk and fine people over at turning Point.
Usa have sent a cease and desist letter to abc after
the ladies of the view hurt their fifi.
They did a segment and they didn't like the segment.
So they sent this season desist letter, which by itself is hilarious.
Like the letter was sent by a lawyer counsel, professional counsel for
Turning Point UsA And the errors in the letter, like I'm just talking about
spelling not good, maybe reconsider your legal counsel spend some of that
money that you guys are taken from billionaire donors by a better lawyer.
But anyway, what happened?
What did the letter say?
Well, you know, recently Turning Point, USA held their, you know,
youth summit situation.
They had all sorts of speeches by people.
We can't stand laura ingram matt Gates who wanted to call women.
He doesn't agree with ugly.
You know, the the use the use and
when the ladies of the view were covering it, they talked a little bit
about the neo Nazi March that was happening outside of the conference.
And turning point, USa like I get it like they really don't want to be associated
with white supremacists and Nazis, even though oftentimes they do things that make
it abundantly clear that they're associated with white supremacists.
And I'll make that point in just a moment.
But here's what the cease and desist letter said, the false statements of fact,
intentionally made during the views july 25th segment were unquestionably harmful
to Turning Point USa his reputation and brought the organization and
its student affiliates into disrepute with the public, potential donors and
current and future business partners posing a significant financial loss
to the organization there, they'll be fine As long as they're advocating for
workers to work for free, 20 hours a week as Charlie Kirk did recently,
those billionaire donors, their gooch, they're happy.
Okay, let me give you more.
The letter continues to say the view co hosts mocked
the elaborate event for taking a page from the W W E.
Simply because of special effects, inaccurately portrayed.
Well, let's just stop before I get to the rest of it.
You're triggered by that.
They just make a comment about like, look at the special effects at this event.
It's like the WWE.
That hurt your feelings.
Is that what you're worried about when it comes to destroying your reputation?
What?
Okay, let me continue, inaccurately portrayed the group
as being officially tied to the GOP because they are.
And I'll provide the proof of that in just a moment.
And Joy Behar criticized the group because neo Nazi protesters were outside
the venue.
So, but a better look at this letter does show that there are some issues
with the legal counsel.
And it also leads me to believe that maybe there's no merit between this threat.
So it continues to say the view host insidiously insidiously and
cavalierly stated that turning point USa let neo Nazis in to
the SAS event metaphorically they wrote, embarrassed,
it's, you know, they meant to say embarrassed, but
even if they meant to say embarrassed, it was anyway, embarrassed them.
And that the neo nazis were in the mix of people.
Okay, so let's be clear about something, the view they're having a conversation,
there was really nothing wrong with the conversation they were having.
They made a few errors as they were discussing this summit.
But since we're talking about abc here,
we're talking about a real legal department that's terrified of lawsuits.
So, literally, during the same broadcast, they had to correct their errors and
they did.
So.
So let's start with the first example where the legal disclaimer
informing viewers that there was a mistake made,
literally happened again in the same broadcast.
Let's watch.
>> I've got a legal note.
The conservative I know I know this is our knockoff lawyer.
The Conservative group Turning point, USa has condemned the group of neo nazis and
said they have nothing to do with the organization.
>> But you let them in.
You let them in and you knew what they were.
So you are complicit.
>> All right, So, during that disclaimer, Whoopi Goldberg made an error.
And the error was that turning point usa allowed the Neo Nazi marchers into
the conference, which they did not, at least there's no evidence that they did.
And so did they just leave that error, or did they correct it in the same broadcast.
I don't know, let's watch the next video and figure that out.
>> Make a quick clarification about the neo nazis at the turning point event.
They were outside protesters.
My point was more metaphorical that you embrace them at your thing.
I felt so I just they were not in the building, you know, but you know,
you know what if this so called Antifa, who are anti fascist, that's what Antifa
stands for would go there in protest, then Antifa would get a bad reputation.
>> That's why when I hear that Antifa is right, but that's not.
>> But let me just make sure that everybody, because you know,
misunderstanding what people say is very big, you know, so
we want to make sure I know they were not in the building.
>> All right, So they corrected that error as well.
So as far as I can tell, they have corrected the small errors that they made.
So what is the cease and desist letter about?
What do you want them to cease and desist?
Like what do you want them to further correct on the air?
Now, they allege that they're not in any way associated to
the Associated with the GOP.
They're not in any way associated with some of these unsavory white supremacists,
except I don't know, past reporting would indicate that's not true.
First, let's start off with the speakers at this youth summit,
the student action summit that they did.
Okay, laura ingram happened to be one of those speakers and
here is a screenshot from the video laura ingram destroys liberal beta males.
Okay, from the turning point usA Youtube channel, you guys can check it out for
yourselves.
There's more high school conservatives have it the hardest.
Mm.
They have it so hard.
Everybody, but they're not in any way politically slanted.
They're not associated with the GOP, even though they got their initial seed money
from foster freeze of a billionaire mega donor,
which we'll get to in just a moment.
But more more.
This isn't from the youth summit, but here's another video that you can find on
their channel, why liberal parents want their kids to be trans.
You know, more of the culture war hysteria you can expect from people who want to
distract you with things that really have no impact on your life.
Here's a video of charlie Kirk.
He apparently spoke at the event as well.
The left thinks it's winning, but it's not.
Mm So was there any content that's critical of republicans?
I mean, Greg Gutfeld, you know, he spoke at the event.
Wait, conservatives are the funny ones.
Now, I bet this has nothing to do with supporting one party.
I bet it has nothing to do with being, you know, boot lickers for
the GOP supporters of the trump administration at any and all costs.
I'm sure that this is a fair non profit organization and
it is unfair to associate them with the GOP.
How dare you.
But what about their funding?
Let's get to their funding in addition to traditional funding, other organisms or
other organizations sponsored?
Turning point USA events usually within the range of 5000 to $10,000
sponsors have included the Heritage Foundation right wing organization,
Alliance defending Freedom, right wing organization, The reason Foundation
libertarian organization, don't agree with a lot of what they do, but
every once in a while they have some reporting that I think is pretty decent.
The Foundation for Economic Education Prager U the Job creators Network and
leaders of the Leadership Institute and the Generation Opportunity Institute.
I bet you guys can guess these aren't lefty organizations,
these aren't nonpartisan organizations, these are right wing organizations,
but there's more there's more the first big backer for
turning point USA was foster freeze.
The 77 year old Republican mega donor known for bankrolling rick Santorum's
2012 presidential campaign and for his strident critiques of Islam Kirk
approached Freeze at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa And
asked him to donate to a new student focused group he'd recently created.
He gave me $10,000 a couple weeks later, Kirk says, cool,
any donors on the left, any any anyone from, you know, the opposing political
views supporting this organization, working for this organization.
Doing any work.
It's just it's just right wingers, right wing politicians and right wing donors.
Okay. So
why are you offended the ladies of the view associated with you with the GOP.
What's what's offensive about that?
Please sue them.
I listen, lawsuits can be great because there's something known
as the discovery process and turning Point USa somehow,
even though they engage in all this political activism and
don't deserve what they're labeled as they're considered a charity, a nonprofit.
And when you're considered a nonprofit,
you don't have to disclose who your donors are.
Luckily we have some insight because charlie Kirk provided that insight
himself, but they don't have to disclose it.
And so if turning point USA wants to sue,
please sue because I'd love to know who the rest of your donors are.
That would be so, so wonderful.
I mean, it gives you an opportunity to prove yourself right.
I mean, it's clown show.
Do do do do do do do do do clown show.
That's but do it, go for it.
Please sue them.
And then a few other things Jane Mayer over at the New Yorker
reported back in 2012, A conservative nonprofit gee.
I wonder why she thought their conservative that seeks to transform
college campuses faces allegations of racial bias and illegal campaign activity.
This is the New Yorker, you guys can check out this piece from 2017 yourselves.
Perhaps the most troubling for an organization that holds
up conservatives as the real victims of discrimination in America?
Turning point UsA is also alleged to have fostered an atmosphere that is hostile
to minorities, screenshots provided to me by a source show that Crystal Clanton,
who served until last summer as the group's national field director,
sent a text message to another Turning Point employee saying, quote,
I hate black people like F them all, I hate blacks.
End of story.
While Kirk Served as the public face of turning point.
Clayton Clanton, its former field director acted as its hands on boss.
According to former employees in 2016 or
in a 2016 book that Kirk co authored with Brent hammer check time for
a Turning Point, sending a blah, blah, blah.
You guys get it. That's his book.
He described Clanton as the best hire we ever could have made.
He called her integral to the success of Turning Point while effectively serving as
its chief operating officer.
He added, Turning Point needs more crystals.
So does America Look, man, I can go on and on and on.
It's endless.
So do your little lawsuit.
I can't wait.
I'm super excited