Ex-Turning Point Employee Believes She Was Fired for ‘Questioning the Narrative’ of Charlie Kirk’s Murder

A former Turning Point USA employee is speaking out after she was allegedly terminated from the organization under Erika Kirk’s leadership and following Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Aubrey Laitsch — who, according to her LinkedIn, was with the company for four and a half years, and worked as a public relations manager — shared a nearly 13-minute video to her social media accounts and said, “I can’t ignore what I witnessed.”

In Laitsch’s lengthy statement, she explained what it was like working at the organization and said she had mostly positive experiences until there was a shift in leadership around 2022 or 2023. According to her, everything truly began to crumble after the right-wing political activist was assassinated on September 10 at age 31.

“Obviously, it was an extremely traumatizing day for everyone,” Laitsch said. “I worked nonstop. My phone received hundreds of phone calls on September 10, thousands of text messages, and multiple times, I kind of got reprimanded for not being responsive enough for people.”

Laitsch claimed the “20-hour days” were “very real” for the months following Charlie’s unexpected death, and the work only continued as the organization went straight into their AmericaFest convention in the fall.

She claimed that there was “no extra compensation [and] no breaks” and felt that they were not able to “grieve as a family.”

Laitsch’s allegations against the company echo similar claims made by Candace Owens, who shared leaked alleged phone and Zoom calls of Erika, 37, calling her late husband’s memorial the “event of the century” and seemingly trying to keep morale up before making cuts.

According to Laitsch, when she was allegedly let go, she was told that one of the reasons for her termination was because an Uber driver supposedly told an unnamed Turning Point executive that she had cast the company in a negative light and said no one liked their new CEO, Erika.

After denying that she made such comments about Turning Point, Laitsch said, “I have a gut feeling that I was terminated from Turning Point because I am questioning the narrative of what happened to my role model and CEO, Charlie Kirk, on the day of his assassination.”

Owens, 36, has also implied numerous times that there is something off about Charlie’s murder.

“What is being told to us in the mainstream media just really doesn’t add up to me, and I’m really hopeful that one day it will,” said Laitsch. “I have a lot of concerns and a lot of questions about what took place that day and the events leading up to that day. It is from my own experience that you can’t question the narrative and work at Turning Point. That is how I feel. That is how other people I’ve talked to feel. It goes against everything that Charlie ever stood for.”

“The purpose of me coming on here and speaking with you today is to just bring light to the situation of the treatment happening inside the organization,” she said. “All of these people who have been terminated were the most hardworking, loyal, honest employees that Turning Point has ever had, and I know that because I’ve actually been at Turning Point longer than most people.”

In the caption of the post, Laitsch wrote in part, “This video is the beginning of me telling the truth, as much as I legally can.”

Following Charlie’s assassination at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, as part of his American Comeback Tour, Laitsch shared a lengthy statement to Instagram, telling followers, “I promise we will never let the world forget you.”