Right wing infighting goes public as conservatives fear Kirk death 'also killed Turning Point'

A rift within the far-right organization founded by slain MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk over leaked antisemitic texts is deepening, according to a report in The Bulwark.

Just before his murder, Kirk was debating whether or not to invite former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, "an increasingly vocal critic of both America’s support for Israel and some prominent Jewish conservative donors," to Turning Point USA's annual AmericaFest conference, The Bulwark explains.

“Just lost another huge Jewish donor,” Kirk wrote, according to text message screenshots released earlier this month by podcaster Candace Owens, which were later confirmed as real by TPUSA. “$2 million a year because we won’t cancel Tucker," read another text.

"Jewish donors play into all the stereotypes,” Kirk added in a follow-up text message.

The conference is slated for December 18 in Arizona, and, says The Bulwark, with Carlson and other "critics of the traditional Republican stance on support for Israel, like Steve Bannon and Jack Posobiec, still on the bill, the tensions Kirk was dealing with privately are spilling out into public."

Now, they write, a fight is raging, ignited by a tweet last week from Washington Examiner contributor Kimberly Ross.

“No, it’s not good that Carlson, Bannon, Posobiec, and [Texas Attorney General Ken] Paxton are speaking at TPUSA’s AmFest in December,” Ross wrote. “It’s bad, actually. The cancer should be cut out.”

The fight escalated, The Bulwark says, when TPUSA's staffers took the fight public on X.

Gabe Guidarini, an Ohio staffer for TPUSA’s campaign arm, said the organization wasn’t concerned with “exterior interest groups”—an apparent reference to conservative supporters of Israel.

“This movement is not a playground for exterior interest groups to carve concessions,” wrote Guidarini. “We’re doing this for the American people.”

Guidarini, "sounding like Kirk himself, said that Israel supporters were at risk of alienating young American voters and accused them of trying to tone-police the right," The Bulwark reports.

“You know, if the slightest skepticism of U.S. involvement in Middle East affairs wasn’t met with this type of wild vitriol from Israeli surrogates, maybe you wouldn’t have a generational support crisis among young Americans,” Guidarini tweeted. “Might warrant some introspection. Just my thoughts.”

Ben Larrabee, TPUSA employee, "seemed to echo Guidarini’s rebuke of Ross. He quipped that people 'crying' about Kirk’s legacy had never contributed to the organization or supported TPUSA in the past," The Bulwark says.

Jewish conservatives were outraged, The Bulwark says.

"They interpreted TPUSA’s willingness to serve as a platform for more criticism of Israel as an indication that the organization was going in a wild new direction without Kirk as its leader," they write.

“The death of Charlie Kirk also killed Turning Point,” conservative Jewish author and Northeastern University political science professor Max Abrahms wrote on X.

This fight, The Bulwark says, "comes as TPUSA seems riddled with factionalism and as it tries to position itself for a post-Kirk future" and "the intense infighting is producing real-world consequences."

Zack Bonfilio, a conservative pundit who goes by the name “Misfit Patriot”, wrote on X that he was done with TPUSA.

“Whatever TPUSA is breeding, I want no part of it until it gets back to what Charlie created,” Bonfilio said.