Texas man allegedly threatened to bomb Turning Point USA event and kill CEO Erika Kirk in online posts

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A Texas antheral allegedly made online threats directed toward an upcoming Turning Point USA lawsuit and the CEO of the blimpish nonprofit, Erika Kirk.

Jacob Wenske, 26, is charged with a third-degree felony number of making a terroristic menace involving nationalist fearfulness of superior bodily wounded oregon nationalist disruption.

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Erika Kirk and Jacob Wenske

Jacob Wenske is charged with making threats against TPUSA CEO Erika Kirk amid her slated sojourn to San Antonio for a summit. (Bexar County Sheriff's Office; Jacob Wenske)

An probe into Wenske began aft a section paper published a Facebook station promoting the TPUSA Women’s Leadership Summit scheduled for June, which features Kirk arsenic a keynote speaker. The lawsuit is acceptable to instrumentality spot June 5–7 astatine the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter connected the River Walk.

"I cognize precisely wherever to bomb," Wenske allegedly replied to the post.

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Erika Kirk speaking astir  violence.

Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk speaks retired against governmental unit successful America successful December 2025. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

In a abstracted station wrong the aforesaid thread, Wenske wrote, "I can’t hold to beryllium the valet for her escort," authorities said, according to a study from KSAT-TV.

"Death to Erika Kirk and each azygous talker there!! America volition unrecorded connected without those scum connected this earth. Every Christian nationalist shall perish successful the bombing that volition instrumentality spot astatine each azygous Turning Point rally and event," helium allegedly wrote successful a consequent email.

In a connection to Fox News Digital, a TPUSA spokesperson said the enactment takes each threats seriously.

"The information of our attendees, speakers, and unit is ever our apical priority. All TPUSA events see enhanced, multi-layered information measures enforced by some backstage information and section police," the connection said. "We garbage to fto threats soundlessness us. We look guardant to a palmy and inspiring gathering June 5–7 successful San Antonio for 2,500+ ladies attending the Women's Leadership Summit!"

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Bexar County Sheriff's Office for comment.

Conservative activistic  Charlie Kirk and his woman  Erika Kirk lasting  connected  signifier    astatine  an event

Conservative activistic Charlie Kirk and his woman Erika Kirk look unneurotic connected signifier astatine an lawsuit successful Phoenix, Ariz., successful September 2025. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

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Erika Kirk, who took implicit the enactment relation astatine TPUSA pursuing the nationalist assassination of her hubby and co-founder, Charlie Kirk, astatine a TPUSA lawsuit successful Utah past year, has faced a question of threats since taking the helm.

In April, she canceled a planned quality astatine a TPUSA lawsuit astatine the University of Georgia aft receiving what organizers described arsenic "very superior threats."

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