What to Know
Turning Point USA might be a tight-knit machine that runs on conservative values and conspiracies about the left, but give it enough time, and whistle blowers will come forward. That’s sort of what happened for former public relations employee Aubrey Laitsch, who shared in an Instagram video that she was fired for questioning things about Charlie Kirk’s death. In her video, she alleges that she was let go because she doesn’t believe the “narrative” of what happened to Charlie Kirk when he was shot and killed at a Turning Point USA event in September 2025.
She doesn’t exactly spill all the tea that people want at this point. Give her time, though, because Aubrey does share her experience with the organization and how she believes it changed over the course of her time there. She doesn’t directly blame Erika for the changes she saw, but her dates and timeline point to what seems to be a shift in the organization, possibly with Erika’s involvement. OK, so maybe that is some tea when you look at it like that.
She thinks she was fired for questioning Turning Point USA.
In Aubrey’s video, she details working for Turning Point USA from 2021 until 2026. She says that, around 2022 or 2023, there was a definite shift in the way things worked and even in the way Charlie took a more corporate role and was less hands-on and less relaxed. Erika and Charlie got married in 2021, so her eventual involvement in the organization could have been part of what led to this alleged change in atmosphere among employees.
Aubrey also says she was unexpectedly let go in January 2026 because of two incidents. She doesn’t explain one of them, but the incident she does detail involves executives telling her an alleged Uber driver revealed Aubrey told a high school friend about not liking Erika. Of course, Aubrey denies this, but she does share some unpleasantness from when she worked there, so where is the lie?
She says that, after Charlie was killed, she worked “20 hour days” with “no extra compensation” or breaks that were needed at the time. Aubrey does say that her “thoughts about her and the idea that nobody likes her do not align whatsoever with the timeline of October or November,” which is when, she explains, the Uber incident is alleged to have happened. Still, since this is a bit of she said/they said, it’s not totally clear what the exact timeline is.
But Aubrey thinks she knows the real reason she was let go.
“I just 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,” she admits. “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. But, as it stands right now, it just doesn’t.”
She adds that she has been talking to other people about how she feels. And, for some, that means Candance Owens, another ousted Turning Point USA employee.
“You had a gut feeling? That sounds like something Candace would say” Someone commented on Aubrey’s Instagram video.
Another user called her Candace’s “mouthpiece.”
“I think some people are leaking information to people like Candace,” another wrote. “That should not happen either.”
