Investigation into Pastor Victor Marks and Turning Point Church Networks

pastor named Victor Marks was interested in owning. He wanted to purchase his company. Now, like many of the affiliated pastors with Turning Point Faith, he also happens to be a Marine veteran. He is currently, you should know, running for governor of Colorado. And he chose to make, to announce his intention to run for governor of Colorado at a Charlie Kirk Memorial event in Denver on September 14th, just a couple of days after Charlie was assassinated. He said that he felt in that moment, given the weight of the assassination, that God was calling him to run. Okay. How else is he tied to Turning Point? Well, he teaches an online educational course for Turning Point Faith entitled Freedom from Pornography. He also claims his 20-year-old son was at one point Charlie Kirk's assistant, who, quote, spent much time with Erica and their first baby girl, end quote. Now, we've been unable to confirm that he was Charlie's assistant. I certainly don't remember him being Charlie's assistant, but we'll take Victor Marks' word for it. And more crucially, you should know that he's not lying about his relationship with Erica, at the very least, because Pastor Victor Marks and his wife Eileen Marks were one of the very first people to go see and greet Erica in the days following Charlie's assassination. They comforted her with cameras rolling, of course, because as we have established, it is perfectly normal to record these intimate, private moments of you grieving and seeing your friends after your husband was brutally assassinated in front of the world, right? You see your friend less than 48 hours later, make sure the cameras are going to capture. And someone should upload to Instagram, as Victor Marks did, and put some, I don't know, impassioned music behind it. I'm going to show you that beautiful hug captured and shared between Erica Kirk and Eileen Marks. Take a look. It says, the moment that Erica Kirk sees Eileen for the first time, um, after Charlie Kirk's assassination, um, okay. If you're interested in that music, that song was called Held by Natalie Grant. Beautiful, just beautiful.

Could you imagine it though? Could you imagine that letting, letting people capture that? None of this is normal. This was a grief marketing campaign, but I digress because, uh, uh, first I should point out, you may have also noted that Erica has her phone in her hand, the one that she allegedly did not turn on for weeks after Charlie died. But I digress again, because I'm going to show you another photo this time of Erica being comforted by her dear friend, Victor Marks in the building that she lives in. Again, we are like 72 hours after Charlie's death. She is in her own personal space. For some reason, they just felt like photography was welcomed. Is that weird? Yes, of course it's weird. If somebody came at me in a moment of grief with a camera to take pictures of me crying at their, they got, I got out of a car to see them. I would just, I would, I would hit someone. I think that's a more normal reaction. Like how dare you? Like all of the pastors that I come across that are affiliated with Turning Point Faith. Now on background, you should know about his real name is Vaughn Victor Kennedy. Well, he says it's Vaughn. His military record says it's Vo with no N at the end, but we'll say Vaughn Victor Kennedy. Now, by the time he was 17, he had lived in 17 homes and attended 14 schools. He was involved with drugs, fights, and theft in high school. He regularly tells the story about the abuse that he endured at the hands of his stepfather, a man that he refers to as Mr. K. But his stepfather's real name was Gloyce Dean Kennedy. And his stepfather served in the army and did counterintelligence. And thereafter, he ran an international drug smuggling ring out of Jamaica, for which he eventually pled guilty and was convicted of conspiracy in 1987 for attempting to import 1,400 pounds of marijuana from Jamaica. Also charges which included money laundering, aiding and abetting. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Okay.

Victor's brother, Mike Kennedy, who would go on to become an attorney, also pled guilty as the co-conspirator in that drug trafficking ring. He took a plea deal. So he only served a year and a day in exchange for testifying against his stepfather, Gloyce. What about his biological dad? Victor Marx's biological dad was apparently cut from the same cloth. His name was Karl Marx. Okay. And he was a pimp, a drug dealer, and also a world-famous martial arts expert who spent time in a mental hospital for his homicidal tendencies. Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking maybe Victor had angelic grandparents who kept him safe from all of this dysfunction. But you would be wrong. Now, unfortunately, his grandfather, on his dad's side, killed his grandmother before he turned the gun on himself and committed suicide in public. What about Victor himself? Well, Victor killed a man at the age of seven. But to be clear, Victor is very open about that story, as he is with every story. Some people don't believe his stories. I'll let you be the judge. Now, in case you're wondering what happened to the body of that guy, Victor says that they dug up, put it under the house.

They went somewhere, dug it up, put it in the backyard somewhere. But 40 years later, he had a guilty conscience about it, obviously, when he was an adult. And he walked into a police station and told the police they had killed this guy and kind of buried him in the backyard. But that particular police officer was like, oh, it's okay. You know, it's been a long time. So it's all good. Again, some people struggle to believe some of his stories. I'm not here to judge his stories. I'm just going to tell you what he says. I think it would be fair for us to suggest that growing up in this particular environment, Victor Marx might have learned a thing or two about moving illegal product across borders. Is that a fair assessment, right? Kids, you grow up, you see what your parents do, you might learn a thing or two. Well, I'll tell you what happens next. At the age of 18, Victor joined the Marine Corps. To be clear, he only served for two years during peacetime, stateside, no deployments before he was discharged. But this is a crucial period because that is when he says he found Jesus Christ. And he was stationed at Camp Pendleton in California and began attending the nearby Calvary Chapel. Honestly, my personal favorite church at this point. Calvary Chapel, as we have shown you in the past, has a long history of these sorts of characters going on to become pastors, getting involved. So the fact that he got his story started with faith with Calvary Chapel, this checks, this makes sense to me. In 2003, Eileen, his wife's brother, Kenneth, for some reason, his brother-in-law tried to shoot him on his own property. Fortunately, Victor made it out okay. But Eileen's brother would go on to kill his own girlfriend, for which I believe he is currently awaiting trial. Okay, a lot going on in this family. So how is Victor as a husband and a father? You might be wondering, well, he openly admits that he punches holes in the walls of his house about once a year. And he tells his wife's and his kids not to cover it up so that people can see what he's done when they come over. He also openly states that he himself struggles with suicidal and homicidal tendencies. What does that mean?

What does that mean when you struggle with homicidal tendencies? What does that actually mean? Did I mention that he's running for the governor of Colorado? Good luck, Colorado. See you never if this man wins.