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Facebook Post on Backstage Access at the Event

Mobile screenshot of a reposted Facebook group post with several lines underlined in red and a watermark overlay

What This Image Shows

A mobile screenshot of a Facebook post from a church group, reposted with commentary by an account shown as Alley Files. The post is by a group admin, dated Sep 11, with several lines underlined in red and a watermark across it.

The post reads: "Many of you have met my life long friend Butch Hibbs who lives in Heber City UT. We met in the early 90's at a Calvary Chapel in Salt Lake City. Over the many years we have been friends we have gone to church together, had cookouts and dinners together, recreated together, 4 wheeling, shooting guns, jet skiing, fishing, antler hunting, etc. Butch is an unwavering man of God... Butch was at the Turning Point event in Orem UT yesterday and had the good fortune of being allowed behind the scenes and allowed direct contact with Charlie Kirk! How did he get access to Charlie? Butch knows someone. Someone very close to Charlie, like family close!"

The underlined lines are the ones researchers seized on: backstage access, direct contact, and access obtained through a personal connection close to the family. The Butch Hibbs name is tracked separately in this archive in connection with the microphone. This is a friend's admiring social media post written the day after, not an allegation, and nothing in it indicates wrongdoing by anyone. See The Mic, People and the Security Team photo cluster.

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