The tweet shared a meme mocking "leftists" for advocating protective masks, and was sent the same day Bill Montgomery's death was announced.

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Pro-Trump youth group TPUSA deleted a tweet mocking protective masks after its co-founder died with the coronavirus

In the wake of the death of its 80-year-old co-founder of complications from coronavirus, the pro-Trump student group Turning Point USA deleted a tweet that mocked the wearing of face masks, Business Insider reports. Bill Montgomery’s death was announced on Twitter this Tuesday by the group’s chairman Charlie Kirk. On the same day, a tweet […]

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Pro-Trump group deletes image mocking masks after co-founder dies from COVID

On Tuesday, July 28, Charlie Kirk — co-founder of the right-wing student group Turning Point USA and a supporter of President Donald Trump — announced on Twitter that the organization’s other co-founder, 80-year-old Republican activist Bill Montgomery, had died of complications from COVID-19. Earlie

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Right-wing pro-Trump group deletes tweet mocking ‘leftists’ for wearing protective masks after co-founder dies from COVID

Turning Point USA is the collegiate alt-right racist organization that has brought you Charlie Kirk. Kirk is something of a Trump youth leader, best known for dressing the part of someone serious while saying the same bogus racist anti-immigration b.s. older white supremacists like Trump and Steve Bannon say. Not unlike their elected officials, Turning Point USA—which was started by Bill Montgomery—is wrong about 98% of the time, and when they’r…

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Trump youth group begins deleting tweets mocking COVID-19 after co-founder dies from the virus

The right-wing youth group Turning Point USA has deleted a tweet with a Nicolas Cage meme mocking Americans for wearing protective masks to prevent the spread of the highly contagious novel coronavirus after its cofounder Bill Montgomery died at 80 of complications related to COVID-19. Two friends of Montgomery confirmed his death to Politico on […]The post Pro-Trump Youth Group Deletes Memes Mocking Masks After Co-Founder Dies From COVID-19 app…

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Pro-Trump Youth Group Deletes Memes Mocking Masks After Co-Founder Dies From COVID

Turning Point USA co-founder Bill Montgomery died at age 80 of COVID-related complications on Tuesday.

Pro-Trump youth group TPUSA deleted a tweet mocking protective masks after its co-founder died with the coronavirus

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