Trump Just Retweeted a Former Breitbart Writer Who Leads a Non-Profit Accused of Racial Bias

President Has Praised Charlie Kirk in the Past

President Donald Trump Friday morning retweeted four posts by Charlie Kirk, a highly controversial former Breitbart writer who leads a non-profit accused of racial bias and illegally assisting political campaigns. Kirk founded and heads Turning Point USA (TPUSA), a group dedicated to stomping out liberalism on college campuses while supporting conservatives in student government. 

Here are the posts Trump retweeted:

Kirk just spent three days with Donald Trump Jr., who spoke at TPUSA’s conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, according to a widely-read report in The New Yorker last week by Jane Mayer, titled, “A Conservative Nonprofit That Seeks to Transform College Campuses Faces Allegations of Racial Bias and Illegal Campaign Activity.”

Turning Point touts its close relationship with the President’s family. The group’s Web site promoted Don, Jr.,’s appearance for weeks, featuring a photo of him raising a clenched fist. Its promotional materials include a quote from the younger Trump praising Turning Point: “What you guys have done” is “just amazing.” Lara Trump, the wife of Don, Jr.,’s brother Eric, is also involved with the group. In West Palm Beach on Wednesday, she hosted a luncheon promoting Turning Point’s coming Young Women’s Leadership Summit. The group’s twenty-four-year-old executive director and founder, Charlie Kirk, told me that he counts Don, Jr., as “a personal friend.”

In The New Yorker, Mayer also reports 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, ‘i hate black people. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story.'”

Media Matters reports that earlier this year Kirk “made an appearance on Fox News’ Hannity with Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. to discuss how college campuses are ‘islands of totalitarianism & intolerance’ for students with ‘conservative or freedom beliefs.’ Kirk has publicly aligned himself with Milo Yiannopoulos in the past, and college chapters of Turning Point USA sponsored several stops on Yiannopoulos’ ill-fated campus harassment tour earlier this year. Turning Point USA is also closely affiliated with the dangerous ‘citizen journalist’ vigilante work of James O’Keefe and Project Veritas, and the group recently delved into its own warped citizen journalism project with the launch of a McCarthyist ‘Professor Watchlist’ project in late 2016.”

Just last week Trump posted a tweet praising Kirk:

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