The man they called Charlie Kirk‘s mentor has died after suffering a serious head injury while engaged in a game of pickleball. Jeff Webb, 76, was a key figure in early conservative media, and helped guide the young Kirk through the formation of Turning Point USA.
Webb’s connection to Kirk was underlined when he stood alongside Kirk’s family as Trump posthumously awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He claimed that Kirk “may well have been a future American president,” but, alas, a sniper’s bullet put a sudden and incredibly violent end to those ambitions.
