Valet Worker Told Erika Kirk He Knew Exactly Where to Plant the Bomb

June 19, 2026 Cat2, Politics
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Nine months after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, someone was already planning to take out his widow.

And the man who wanted to blow up the room had already been inside it.

He told the entire internet exactly where he was going to plant the bomb.

"Death to Erika Kirk and Every Single Speaker There"

In January 2026, Wenske sent an email to Turning Point USA with a message so explicit investigators had no room for interpretation: "Death to Erika Kirk and every single speaker there!! America will live on without those scum on this earth. Every Christian nationalist shall perish in the bombing that will take place at every single Turning Point rally and event."

Then, in April, when a local San Antonio newspaper promoted the TPUSA Women's Leadership Summit – a June 5–7 event at the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter – Wenske left a comment in the Facebook thread: "I know exactly where to bomb."

A second comment followed: "I can't wait to be the valet for her escort."

Wenske, 26, was arrested on felony terroristic threat charges before the event.

He faces two third-degree felony counts and is being held on $120,000 bond.

His arrest didn't happen in a vacuum.

The left spent months building the permission structure for whoever came next.

The Permission Structure That Made This Possible

Researchers at the Network Contagion Research Institute had a name for what they were watching spread across American social media before Charlie Kirk was shot dead in September 2025: assassination culture.

Their April 2025 study – published 153 days before Kirk's assassination – surveyed 1,264 U.S. adults and found that 38% considered it "somewhat justified" to murder President Trump.

Among those identifying as left of center, that number jumped to 55%.

Charlie Kirk himself highlighted the study on X, blaming left-wing protest culture for the rise in political violence.

He was dead 153 days later.

Travis Hawley, a cyber threat analyst at NCRI, told Fox News Digital the mechanism is accelerating.

"What you could call our digital diet is really shaping how people see ourselves, our values, our country, and even our history," Hawley said.

The threat data backs him up. U.S. Capitol Police recorded a 58% increase in threats against members of Congress from 2024 to 2025.

Threats against public officials have nearly doubled since 2020.

China Is Pouring Fuel on This Fire

This is not organic American outrage. Someone is manufacturing it.

Fox News Digital's own investigation found that U.S. tech mogul and Shanghai resident Neville Roy Singham poured $278 million into American nonprofits that have promoted Chinese Communist Party propaganda at protests nationwide – protests that take direct aim at figures like the Kirks.

Singham attended CCP propaganda trainings, shared Shanghai offices with Chinese state media, and ran millions through donor-advised funds to bankroll groups like Code Pink, the People's Forum, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

A House Ways and Means Committee hearing in February 2026 called out the operation directly.

"Non-profits were never intended to organize street violence, clash with police, shut down infrastructure," said Adam Sohn, co-founder of Narravance. "Singham relocated to China and now operates as a CCP-aligned influence agent, coordinating U.S. nonprofits to destabilize American society from within."

Hawley put it plainly: "The motivation of our adversaries to push Marxist ideology, Islamist ideology, anything that is anti-Western, anti-democratic, anti-capitalist is to defeat us from within."

This is what Jacob Wenske was swimming in.

Left-wing social media radicalized him on a platform seeded with foreign propaganda, month after month, until "I know exactly where to bomb" felt like a reasonable thing to type in public.

The Left Made Luigi Mangione a Folk Hero and Lit the Fuse

The permission structure didn't start with Turning Point USA.

It started with the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024 – and the left's decision to turn the suspected killer into a folk hero.

Luigi Mangione's legal defense fund has now collected more than $1.5 million.

Pro-Mangione protesters regularly appear outside the Manhattan courthouse where his trial is ongoing.

NCRI researchers warned that Mangione's name had become a vehicle for normalizing assassination – violence dressed up in irony and social media memes until it no longer looked like violence at all.

When a culture decides a CEO deserved to be killed, a valet driver in San Antonio starts doing math about keynote speakers.

When that culture then kills a conservative activist on a college campus and the left celebrates it, the next Jacob Wenske learns there are no consequences for wanting to do the same thing.

TPUSA responded to Wenske's arrest with a statement that should be read by everyone minimizing what is happening: "We refuse to let threats silence us."

Erika Kirk posted a Scripture passage on X after the arrest: "The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him, but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming."

She's still hosting events.

She's still showing up.

The question is whether the rest of America is paying attention to what's being built against people like her – and who's funding the construction.

Sources:

  • Preston Mizell and Asra Q. Nomani, "Report links anti-Christian extremism and 'assassination culture' to alleged plot against Erika Kirk," Fox News, June 16, 2026.
  • "Texas man allegedly threatened to bomb Turning Point USA event and kill CEO Erika Kirk in online posts," Fox News, June 2, 2026.
  • "'Death to Erika Kirk' | Man faces charges for threatening CEO of Turning Point USA, bomb threats in San Antonio," KENS5, June 2, 2026.
  • "Texas radical charged with making terroristic threats against Erika Kirk," The Blaze, June 2, 2026.
  • "Left-wing political violence becoming normalized across America, researchers say," Fox News, September 17, 2025.
  • "Neville Roy Singham accused of running 'CCP network' at congressional hearing," Fox News, February 10, 2026.
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