All posts tagged "Ashley St. Clair"

A former MAGA influencer sounded the death knell for a prominent right-wing group that she says is now "a disaster."

On a recent episode of The Daily Beast Podcast, Ashley St. Clair wrote off the youth conservative organization Turning Point USA as it tries to carry on without its slain founder, Charlie Kirk.

"Turning Point is dead in the water," St. Clair said. "I think it's a disaster, I really do."...

An ex-MAGA insider named which top Trump aide is involved in coordinating media campaigns with right-wing influencers through group chats.

Ashley St. Clair said in an interview with California Gov. Gavin Newsom that deputy White House chief of staff James Blair is working with MAGA influencers on "incredibly coordinated and sophisticated" media campaigns.

Newsom explained, "There are folks on group chats consistently trying to help weaponize grievance" through media campaigns, and "they've got the president's right-hand person, potentially, James Blair."...

A former Turning Point USA leader and mother to one of Elon Musk's 14 children revealed that MAGA influencers are most afraid of one progressive influencer.

Ashley St. Clair, an ex-MAGA influencer turned critic of the right wing, was a guest on the podcast "Mean But True" with Suzanne Lambert on Tuesday and described how Hasan Piker has quietly worried conservative figures, who view him as influential.

"They are very scared of Hasan Piker, that is the one that they are scared of," St. Clair said....

A former conservative influencer claims that the State Department under the Trump administration is employing people who encouraged her to pay for cosmetic surgeries and pricey merchandise.

"I don't think you people understand how these people are at the State Department," said Ashley St. Clair, who worked as a brand ambassador for the conservative activist group Turning Point USA, while appearing on an episode of the podcast Krystal Kyle & Friends.

St. Clair never worked for the Trump administration, but she says people who currently serve at the State Department used to encourage her to adopt "a Palm Beach aesthetic" and even pay for breast enhancement surgery. When she was a MAGA influencer, St. Clair used to raise public support for the Trump administration to hire certain conservatives, like Richard Grenell, whom she unsuccessfully pushed for Secretary of State, according to reports. ...

A defecting MAGA influencer blasted Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk for claiming that remarks made about her were "dehumanizing."

Ashley St. Clair posted a video on TikTok on Friday where she argued that plenty of "dehumanization" took place after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA and Erika's husband.

"They got people fired. They have not followed up with these people. They have no idea of the damage they did to these people's lives because they got them fired from their jobs," St. Clair said, referring to people who lost their jobs because they expressed opinions about Charlie Kirk's death that Erika and Turning Point USA didn't like. ...

A rogue conservative influencer is accusing a married, sitting member of Congress from Florida of sleeping with her ex-boyfriend, whom she only identified as a well-known conservative personality from Tampa Bay.

"To this day, they both insist that nothing happened," influencer Ashley St. Clair said in an X post on Wednesday. The unnamed Congresswoman "got very upset for telling this story because it insinuates that she cheated on her husband."

St. Clair said that her relationship with her then-boyfriend was strained at the time because he moved her to Tampa Bay, smoked kratom and marijuana, had soft hands, and put mud on his truck to uphold a conservative facade, among other reasons detailed in a nearly 10-minute video. ...