A teen MAGA speaker dubbed the “new Charlie Kirk” has been caught in a sting asking for 1000’s to talk to college students.
Brilyn Hollyhand, 19, has offered himself as an inheritor to the murdered Turning Level USA founder, barnstorming faculties to talk to conservative college students on a tour which started on a non-public jet.
However the Day by day Mail on Thursday caught his agent asking for 1000’s of {dollars} plus bills to talk at a pretend school occasion.
Hollyhand was a md of the Republican Social gathering’s youth advisory committee in 2024 when he was interviewed for a Fox Nation present fronted by former Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway. / John Lamparski/Getty Photographs
The outlet posed as a school pupil attempting to e book Hollyhand and emailed Premiere Audio system Bureau, which connects audio system and organizations.
A consultant for the company wrote again, “Brilyn’s charge is $7,500 plus coach class airfare and bills for (2) two. Is that this inside finances?”
When the Day by day Mail requested Hollyhand for touch upon the charge, he denied receiving funds for talking on campus, which he echoed in an announcement to the Day by day Beast, saying that he doesn’t cost for journey or to talk at “campus stops,” however does search charges for “massive conferences,” which could be hosted at a college.
“For giant conferences, I, like each different convention participant who’s invited to talk, get reimbursed for the fundamental prices of getting there which is totally customary,” he wrote. “However for campus stops, I cowl all prices myself and get there alone, which nonetheless appears to upset the haters. 😂”
That assertion differed, nevertheless, from what his reserving agent had emailed the Day by day Mail as an “modification,” saying, “For campus occasions Brilyn is completely happy to work with no matter finances is obtainable to usher in a speaker,” suggesting that he would settle for fee.
Hollyhand has offered himself as an inheritor to Kirk after constructing a presence within the MAGAsphere since he was 11. / Brilyn Hollyhand
After the Mail printed its story, one other younger MAGA chief, William Branson Donahue, posted an bill from February which confirmed Hollyhand had been paid $2191.91 for “journey, lodging and meals,” for an occasion at State School, PA, for Penn State School Republicans, saying that made Hollyhand’s denial he take money to talk “a lie.”
A supply near Hollyhand mentioned the occasion had been an instance of the “massive conferences” he prices to go to and despatched the Beast an itemized invoice which confirmed the entire he had charged lined “airfare and meals” for himself and his father Brian.
Charlie Kirk speaks at Utah Valley College on Sept. 10, 2025 in Orem, Utah. Kirk, founding father of Turning Level USA, was talking at his
Hollyhand started his rise contained in the youth MAGA world aged 11 when he interviewed Kirk, after which grew to become a minor right-wing celeb in his personal proper. He now calls himself “the web’s youngest voice of purpose,” enthusiastically posting MAGA content material to greater than 200,000 followers on X.
Late final month he started his personal 10-stop school tour, echoing Kirk’s “show me incorrect” tent revival-style excursions of the nation’s universities known as “One Dialog at a Time.” However the 19-year-old, the scion of a rich Alabama household which made its fortune growing and constructing inexpensive housing, raised eyebrows even in MAGA by posting concerning the tour from on board a non-public aircraft.
Nick Sortor, a pal of Kirk’s and a former co-host of the late man’s radio present, known as Hollyhand a “grifter” in response to the personal aircraft video.
The backlash prompted Tyler Bowyer, Turning Level’s head of operations, clarified his “distasteful” tour was not endorsed by the group.
The MAGA boy marvel, a pupil at Auburn College in Alabama, claimed that the personal jet doesn’t belong to him. “A hometown pal provided to assist get me there as a result of I couldn’t afford it,” he wrote.
