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Did TPUSA Spend $1,000,000 to "Support the Widow"? | Baron Coleman EXPOSES Adspend
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Do you remember Erica Kirk at the at the memorial with her I forgive him stick where she was like that young man I forgive him. Would you ever in a million years believe that TPUSA would have bought an advertisement to promote a short that young man I forgive him. OH CLIP THAT WE GOT to boost it put two grand on it scat that was beautiful. Everyone's going to fall in love with her. We're going to support the widow. Don't attack the widow. We have to honor the widow. >> [music] >> The last 90 days this is how much it cost to support the widow. The last 90 days Turning Point pack for example on meta this is Facebook and Instagram and threads the last 90 days a company that only has 1.9 thousand likes has spent 425 thousand dollars in advertisements on Facebook meta. TPUSA events 300 thousand so between the two they're at 730 thousand dollars. Turning Point USA another quarter We're at a million bucks give or take. Just those three just those three entities the last 90 days we're at a million dollars in Facebook ads. Then we get down to Turning Point action this is the political arm that is most of this 145 thousand dollars was spent that I can tell recruiting people to chase ballots whatever that means. Uh you have TPUSA students this Charlie Kirk page this is all I would go ahead and spoil this prize all 30 thousand dollars of that was paid for by from the Charlie Kirk page all 30 thousand of that was paid for by Salem Media. We just talked about Salem Media see uh uh executive Brad Parscale got $46 million They put 30,000 of that directly in the Charlie Kirk page. TPUSA Faith. And then you get this weird one down here, Andrew Kolvet. We're going to look at that one a little closer. And even Alex Clark, we're going to look at that very closely here in just a little bit. Alex Clark, of course, most famous for marrying a a very straight man. A very very straight man. Very manly, very straight. Maybe the manliest straightest man I've ever talked to. Or not I've never talked to him, but I've And she's very effeminate, too. So this is just sort of a general overview. You're looking well over a million dollars. Just the last 90 days spent by Turning Point USA entities. We included the Daily Wire in there so that you could have a comparison of how some other organizations are doing it. Keep in mind, the Daily Wire is a commercial organization. So I'll pull it back up if you didn't see the Daily Wire part as I went through it. The Daily Wire's trying to make a living. TPUSA is a non-profit entity, but the Daily Wire here uh 200,000 for their premium service, their Daily Wire Plus. Uh Ben Shapiro, another 67 trying to make it look like people watch his videos. And then the Daily Wire itself, another 11,000. So the the very commercial, very large commercial entity, Daily Wire, spent about a quarter million in the last 90 days. Our non-profit TPUSA that exists solely to I mean, it's a non-profit. It's supposed to benefit society. Has spent a billion dollars, a million dollars, in just 90 days. And so where are they spending the money? Well, let's just take a broader look here. So let's show you this tool. Uh this tool that Meta has where you can actually look behind the curtain. You can open the curtain and get a look at the Wizard of Oz or the Widow of Oz as Candace actually brilliantly labeled that today. So, you can open it up. You click on a button. You type in the name of the people you want to look at and you can get an idea of what they are advertising. So, for example, let's just take one particular ad. Do you remember Erica Kirk at the um at the memorial with her I forgive him stick where she was like, "That young man, I forgive him." You remember that? And it seemed like such an organic moment. Would you ever in a million years believe that TPUSA would have bought an advertisement to promote a short promoting that clip, I forgive him, sponsored by paid for by Turning Point USA? They only spent a couple of thousand dollars, to be fair. They anticipated that that spend would reach a million plus people. It only reached about 800,000 people, but it was gross to me. It was gross to me. Here's why it's so nasty. If you're going to forgive somebody, it should solely be because you forgive that person. That's like a Christian almost a sacrament, right? It's like sacramental forgiveness of somebody. I forgive you. God forgave me. We all We all get better together. Can you imagine forgiving someone, recording it, and then boosting that on social media? I cannot, for the life of me, imagine a scenario where that would ever cross my mind. It would never cross my mind to do that. It's disgusting. That young man, I forgive him. Oh, clip that. We got to boost it. Put two grand on it, STAT. THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL. EVERYONE'S GOING TO FALL in love with her. We're going to support the widow. Don't attack the widow. Well, the widow's advertising her forgiveness. It's a little weird if we're being honest. It wasn't just that, though. Um for example, Erica Kirk gave a brief little speech not too terribly long ago on finding rest in the midst of chaos. They put $30,000 behind advertising this to get a million people to watch it or more than a million people. >> Amidst of all of this grief and all of the busyness and all of the activities and you know keep the chaos of planning, um how do you find rest? >> This job title is not a job title to me. This is not a 9-5. This is something that I watched my husband build with his blood, sweat, and tears and gave his life for. This organization is a piece of my husband that lives on. Rest for my soul, that's something that I intentionally carve into and that's reading God's word, but that's also surrounding myself with people that are sending me Bible verses every day, that are praying over me, praying with me. I am the type of person that instead of running and retreating, I find my rest in my purpose and running towards what other people would run away from and I again feel closer to my husband running towards the discomfort of what is set before me because I am literally living out a piece of Charlie's book where it says, "Just keep moving. Trust the Lord. Keep going. It might not make any sense, but one day when you get to heaven and you're standing face-to-face with our savior, it will." >> Put 30 grand behind it. People are going to love her Christian stick. Make sure everyone sees it. Get Get it up to a million people. So, we're advertising I forgive him, that young man, I forgive him. We're advertising that and now we're advertising how great of a Christian I am. It's a little weird. Um frankly, the more I think about it, it's kind of strange and the the morbid talking about your husband with the weird up talk. I mean, that's you know, it is what it is, but 30 grand? $30,000? That's almost the median salary of an American. You could have employed somebody for that money. I want you to zoom in on this woman to the right here of Erica. This is the mother of the um the international girl who was on the the the train in Charlotte and she got kind of violently taken out. Uh neck wound. And uh she grief mugged Erica. She grief mugged her. I've never I didn't even know grief mugging was a thing. They put money behind that. They put money. They paid people to They paid people to watch Erica get honored. Now keep in mind, what is the purpose of advertising? It's to ask someone to do something. You're trying to get something out of it. Um if I advertise uh Nike sneakers, I want to sell some sneaks. I I'm I'm a Subway. Like I advertise some sandwiches. So I hire a pervert and he loses a bunch of weight and everybody rushes out to buy sandwiches cuz they want to lose weight like the pervert. Whatever it is. Like you're asking someone to do something. And so you got to think, what is the intent behind each advertisement? It wasn't like join TPUSA. It was just we've got to support this woman. Uh obviously her reputation is destroying the organization. So we've got to build her up by showing her in positions where she looks better than she does most of the time. Did anybody buy the Charlie Kirk freedom shirt? Did anybody buy the Charlie Kirk freedom shirt? Kind of morbid, right? Come get a piece of history. You can wear the same shirt Charlie Kirk was slain in. Maybe you won't end up with the same fate while wearing it. Maybe your neck will stay whole. It's kind of a weird thing to put money towards, but not not for TPUSA cuz they put 80 to 90,000 dollars behind this advertisement to buy the freedom shirt. 80 to 90,000 dollars to remind people to buy the shirt Charlie Kirk was killed in. 80 to 90,000 dollars. Where did it go? Again, men. This time at least young men, not old men. But they Oh yeah, you do get a little geographic breakdown of all of them But yeah, would you like to wear the shirt Charlie Kirk died in? Well, we think people will. We're going to pay $90,000 to move some merch. We're going to You guys accused me of profiting off his death? This is literally profiting off his death. This was the shirt he died in. You find it so profitable, you actually advertise it. It's weird. It's beyond weird. Beyond weird. What about the memorial speech? What about Erica Kirk's memorial speech? Who doesn't want to see a grieving widow. After all, we have to support the widow. We have TO HONOR THE WIDOW. THE VERY manly Dana Lash reminds us, honor the widow. If you don't believe me, there are clips of her saying it online. They paid $15,000, ish, within 5 hours of her giving the speech. She gave the speech, they immediately clipped it and started sending it out as an advertisement. >> After Charlie's assassination, we didn't see violence. >> Kind of a weird thing to cheer for. I mean, hopefully you don't see rioting, typically. >> Instead, we saw what my husband always prayed he would see in this country. We saw revival. >> Support the widow. Support the widow. You know what a lot of people were thinking of 5 hours after the memorial? They were still in shock. They were grieving. They were grieving. It was a I mean, I watched it. A lot of people watched it. It was frankly pretty impressive to see that many people come together. I have nothing negative to say about the memorial, almost negative to say, almost nothing negative to say about the memorial whatsoever. You know what I would have never done if I was TPUSA, never. I would never have clipped the grieving widow and profited off of it. Again, advertising brings you return. I'm going to show you something very interesting about this. If you If you want to understand why Erica Kirk did not show up to the University of Georgia event, if you're one of those people out there who still believes in the security incident myth, like we went to the moon, Saudis took down the Twin Towers and building seven, and the plane that evaporated in Pennsylvania. If you still believe in all this stuff, boy do I have one for you tonight. Have one for you tonight. But first, let's just get a global look at TPUSA events. Just see the kind of things that they typically advertise and what kind of money they spend on it. Here is a TPUSA event at the University of Idaho. That was a very successful event, frankly, with Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles. They spent about $40,000 advertising that over the course of about a week and a half. So, you have here $35,000 over the course of 9 days advertising this Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles event. We'll get back to this J.D. Vance and Erica Kirk one at the University of Georgia in a second. What about Ohio State University with Savannah Chrisley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Lauren Jones. It was a pretty good event. They spent about $20,000 advertising that. Then you kind of look down and you could see some of the other stuff that they've done here. So, let's go up and look at this one. We have three different ads for this University of Georgia event. Remember, nobody showed up to it. This this Ohio State, pretty good. The Idaho University of Idaho, great. They did a great job up there. Let's check this one out. Let's see if we see a panic anywhere. Here's the normal spend. We take our $30 to $35,000 and we put it in and we say we're going to get enough people here with this advertising. We're going to fill up the arena. We got the Vice President of the United States, potential future Vice President Erica Kirk, the widow. We're going to blow the doors off of this place. So, they spend their $35,000 here. They reach between 100 and 500,000 people. And then by April 14th, they think, oh man, nobody's showing up. Let's run another ad. Let's run another ad. So, they dump another 10 to 15,000 dollars into this. By April 12th, they can't get enough money into this thing. They They had this thing running for 15 hours on full blast. They got 300, 350,000 impressions, blew through another 10 or 15,000 dollars. We got to get more. We got to go for another 15 to 20,000 dollars poured into this thing. Another half million to a million impressions or another 700 to 800,000 impressions. All total, 35 plus 15 is 50 plus 20 is 70. They spent 60 to 70,000 dollars on this ad buy over three different ad campaigns including two emergency add-on ad campaigns at the end and nobody showed up. When they got there, there were like a few hundred people there in the audience. The whole back of the place was empty, all the sides were empty, most of the floor was empty. 70,000 dollars. Not to mention the 150,000 she spent flying back and forth to to the event on a Gulf Stream 5, but that's a different discussion. And nobody showed up. This is unusual for TPUSA because what they've learned is what the Russians learned. If you pour money into advertising, if you just get social media going, the organic component will come in and it will lift it up and it will sort of take off. Well, here's what the stadium looked like after they spent their 60 to 70,000 dollars advertising this event. TPUSA people show up, they get all set up, they open the doors and this happens. Nobody showed up. Nobody showed up. You remember how at UVU they said they sent a picture of the venue to Charlie because that was their normal thing that they did. They would send a picture out to Charlie of what the venue crowd looked like so he would know what to expect. Is there any reason to believe they don't do that still to this day? Is there any Is there any reason to believe that they're like, "No, but with Erica we're not going to do that. We're not going to send a picture of the venue. We're just going to let her show up and see what happens." No. Almost assuredly they still send a picture of the venue. That's the venue. That's the venue. That's what it looked like. Don't believe me? We have video. This is video of the venue seconds before it kicks off. I'm going to mute it because it's got a little bed behind it, but here is the venue. Look at all those empty seats. That place was supposed to be raucous. The Vice President, the widow. $70,000 in advertising. All the money flying people back and forth. All the money on the set design, Nobody wanted to see her. This was in the wake of the Drusky skit. People don't want to go to see someone Drusky's like getting 150 million views making fun of. And I'm sure they took a look at it and like, well, we tried. We spent a bunch of money. We can't get anybody here. I will tell you right now, if any of you has a spouse who died, this goes for my friends, family, people I support, people I follow on social media. If any of you has a spouse who dies and you're having a particularly intimate moment in the coffin with the corpse and you're crying on the corpse and kissing it and you allow someone to record it and then post it to your social media, I will never talk to you again. Like I will be done with you. I will not follow you on anything. I will think you are one of the worst human beings I've ever encountered. I will I just I will have nothing to do with you. I will think you're manipulative, shameless, morbid, disgusting. I mean, I can't I can't come up with enough words for it. If you allow someone to record it and then post it to social media, I'm talking like in the coffin. You're in the coffin. I'm not talking about, you know, it's weird enough that crying in the corner or whatever, but if you're on the stiff crying, petting, I'm not going to I'm not going to be around for it. I'm not going to be around for it. It'll be the last time I ever look at anything you do on social media. I'll block you. I'll have to block you. >> [music]