Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative youth movement Turning Point USA, isn’t stupid.

He knows he’s got a Candace Owens problem. He has to know.

Candace Owens cut her teeth at Turning Point USA as a fiery critic of left-wing identity politics and the Democratic Party.

Her voice carried because she is articulate and telegenic and gifted in the arts of digital media. But what gave it particular resonance is the fact that she is conservative and African American.

That all began to turn sinister as she drank deeply from a well of antisemitism and became, herself, a gusher of conspiracy theories and blood libels against the Jews.

On Friday, Turning Point Action and Turning Point PAC, spinoffs of its namesake organization, will platform Donald Trump in the old-fashioned way — on stage at Glendale’s Desert Diamond Arena.

Meanwhile, Turning Point USA continues to platform Candace Owens on its web pages.

You can go to Turning Point’s official web page and see Candace Owens listed under staff as “Chair of BLEXIT.”

BLEXIT is a movement Owens created to usher in the Black person’s exit from “victimhood culture.”

Go to the BLEXIT web page “powered by Turning Point USA,” and you’ll find Owens prominently displayed.

Elsewhere on the Turning Point web page, Owens’ picture rotates onto the page........

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