>> The target has a target on their back.
The pain of crossing the line to pervert our children and grooming them,
it's going to be a lesson.
I hope corporate America watches, because ordinary America is pushing back.
Brian Cornell who is a groomer and a very sick person, very twisted.
He loves money, and he really has a fetish for going after children.
Groomers can't reproduce.
So instead, they recruit.
So they go serve on school boards and they go do drag queens and
they do all this other sort of disgusting, nauseating stuff.
>> No surprise that Charlie Kirk, head of Turning Point USA,
absolutely loves to accuse others of being groomers, dangerous toward children.
Weird that he failed to mention that one of the sponsors of a recent
Turning Point USA event quite literally happened to be a convicted groomer.
And we're gonna give you the details about that individual as reported by
Rolling Stone.
So Turning Point USA's pro-Christianity group just held its annual or
second annual, I should say, pastor's summit in Nashville,
Tennessee where speakers talked about the dangers of wokeism,
the typical stuff you could experience while listening to right-wingers.
They also talked about the need for Christian nationalism, but
here's where things get super interesting.
According to Rolling Stone, one of the sponsors for this summit is Rightside Up,
a Christian lifestyle apparel company that sews tags reading BSITL which stands for
Be Strong in the Lord into its T shirts and other clothing.
The company's website declares, quote, we all have a life story and
it doesn't matter where we've been, it's where we are going that counts, end quote.
Okay, well, the life story of the company's founder, his name
is Shawn Bergstrand is that he's a convicted sexual predator of minors, okay?
And I wanna emphasize convicted.
So in 2014, he was put in a North Dakota federal prison for
attempted coercion and enticement of a minor.
The details of the criminal complaint are sealed, but a redacted indictment
shows that Bergstrand was originally charged with attempting to entice and
coerce a minor female to engage in prostitution and sexual activity.
I mean, sounds like grooming and also much worse.
Since the record has been sealed, we have very few details about
the conviction itself, but reporting out of North Dakota at the time
of his arrest noted some pretty gruesome details and allegations.
So a complaint in the case accuses him of attempting to obtain another person for
sex, knowing that person would be subject to human trafficking and
that person was less than 18 years of age.
Meaning that it was a minor, okay?
I'm gonna pause for a comment.
Thoughts on this, Cenk?
Yeah, so first of all, right-wing hypocrites talking about groomers,
actually, being groomers themselves.
Of course, most obvious thing in the world.
It only happens every time and they're always saying, we're so
concerned about the children.
What about the children, right?
And that's why we have to protest Target.
How about the Catholic church where there was thousands and thousands and
thousands of cases of child molestation?
Nah, it's not that big a deal.
Okay, so it's not the children.
It's not the children, you just hate gay people.
Anyway, all right, I got more- >> More details.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah, so the former Bismarck Sergeant,
Mark Bushina said in a police report that Berkstrand initiated email correspondence
with a woman believed to be sex trafficking her minor daughters for money.
He allegedly made arrangements to pay for a sexual encounter with an underage girl
through email and text message correspondence.
So I mean, just absolutely disgusting and gruesome.
So that's who this guy is, right?
Now he was facing a maximum of 20 years in jail, but
he received a sentence of only 1 year in prison and 5 years of supervised release.
He was discharged from supervised release more than a year early in 2018.
Now, he is a registered sex offender in North Dakota and
will remain a registered sex offender until 2030.
So he's a registered sex offender, okay?
And Turning Point USA allowed Rightside Up which he is the head of,
to be a sponsor for their religious event.
Okay, now- >> What does Rightside Up mean?
>> Now let's get to the defense, okay?
Turning Point USA through their spokesperson says,
it's outrageous to criticize us.
This is a man who has atoned for his sins.
>> No, of course. Right, except it's interesting.
Because in a video that he put out, he constantly talks about how he
once almost lost everything because of something that he had no control over.
Let's watch that.
>> He writes that up a perilous born out of my testimony,
some of the darkest days of my life.
At one time in my life, I lost absolutely, completely everything.
And all these things started to keep happening that I had no control over, but
more and more things kept happening in my life I had no control over.
And as these things kept happening and
happening in my life that I had no control over, I questioned my faith.
Really questioned my faith if God was even real,
because all these different things were happening I had no control over.
>> Does it sound like that guy has a tone for his sin?
>> It sounds like he's no model of personal responsibility.
>> What could he do?
I mean, he thought a mother was offering up her minor daughter for prostitution.
He just wanted to take advantage of it out of, I mean, no fault of his own.
What could he do?
He couldn't control it.
>> There was nothing he could do, right?
He had no control over.
>> Absolutely disgusting, okay?
So Charlie Kirk and everyone providing cover for this guy discussed me.
In fact, let me give you the statement from Charlie Kirk.
Graphic nine, what a joke.
Let's set the record straight, Charlie Kirk says.
First, I've never met this person.
He was one of the many exhibitors at our event, I'm sure he was.
He's not a corporate sponsor, but
rather a small business trying to market his company.
I'm told from the team that coordinates exhibitors that he's a nice person who
did something wrong over a decade ago.
And unlike Target, he repented and the experience led him to his faith.
Good for him, that's the gospel.
I mean, it's such a typical reaction after someone gets
caught doing terrible things, right?
>> Yeah. >> I found Jesus, I found God.
Yeah, it's a lie every time.
Okay, it's a cover for doing it again.
So my favorite story about that is Randall Duke Cunningham gets caught doing
corruption.
He's a republican legislator.
He says on his way to jail, he does a press conference saying he found Jesus.
Must have found it in the car halfway through the car ride.
Because on the way to the press conference, he took a laundry bag full of
money that he had stolen and threw it from the car onto his wife's lawn.
>> My God.
>> And then on the other half of the drive, he must have found Jesus.
Okay, so Jesus always a cover.
When Republicans do awful things and get caught, they gotta get caught.
>> They gotta get caught.
>> And then all of a sudden, they find Jesus, okay?
Find a better way to find Jesus, okay?
So now, of course, no personal response.
If you notice he says, well, that was over a decade ago that he was trying to take
little girls and have sex with them, right?
Notice that when my blogs from 25 years ago that said slightly
inappropriate jokes, they're like, no, he has to be held responsible now.
A little different standard,
interesting, but I think there's something more interesting too.
It's their turn to Christian nationalism.
Charlie Kirk said, it's not my turning point, it's the Lord's turning point.
I'm both a Christian and a nationalist.
But most importantly, I'm a Christian.
So he's openly embracing Christian nationalism, why?
Cuz they tried free market crap and no one liked it.
So they're going to religion to trick people that way and
then lead them to tax cuts for the rich.
>> Scintillating, I'm sure that'll work.
>> Yes, so every way to try to trick young people into working for the rich, okay?
That's who Charlie Kirk is and it's disgusting in every way imaginable.