The girlfriend of a California electrician who saw his business collapse overnight due to comments about the death of Charlie Kirk has reinforced her statements.
Megan Farina, 31, of San Diego, sparked immediate fury hours after Kirk was assassinated on a Utah university campus last week.
She had responded to his death in a TikTok insisting her ‘sympathies don’t lie’ with the conservative activist.
She maintained that the only thing she could extend to Kirk were ‘thoughts and prayers,’ mirroring what she alleged he can only provide following frequent school shootings in the country.
Her video amassed millions of views and hundreds of angry comments – all while people quickly tracked down her boyfriend’s electrical business.
While his company tanked to one star, Farina shared a second statement saying her life has been thrown into ‘literal hell.’
“We’ve been traumatized and had our privacy invaded because I stated that Charlie Kirk, who didn’t practice empathy, wouldn’t receive mine,” Farina explained in a video released on Friday.
“The most ironic aspect is that my life and my family’s lives have been devastated by my online words, coming from people who support Charlie Kirk and always advocate the loudest for their first amendment rights,” she continued.
Megan Farina (shown), 31, from San Diego, California, triggered outrage shortly after Kirk’s fatal neck shooting when she posted a TikTok video asserting her ‘sympathies don’t align’ with the conservative figure.
Farina stated that she couldn’t offer more to Kirk (shown) than ‘thoughts and prayers,’ paralleling what she said he provides following frequent school violence in the nation.
‘While I believe strongly that words have consequences, there is nothing I did or said that even deserved a percentage of what happened to me and my family.’
Farina, who has over 600,000 TikTok followers and more than 1,000 on Instagram, shares political commentary while expressing her personal opinions.
On September 10, just hours after news of Kirk’s murder broke, Farina sat at her kitchen table to film a TikTok video responding to the online explosion of shock.
But she didn’t open her video addressing the political violence – instead, she started with the Colorado school shooting that unfolded the same day as Kirk’s murder.
Desmond Holly, 16, opened fire on students inside Evergreen High School during lunch, leaving two hospitalized before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot.
In her video, Farina claimed the media would only focus on Kirk’s death.
‘So yeah, I care about the innocent children, who go to school to learn, to get an education, who are children, minors, who are senselessly gunned down at school. For doing nothing. For wanting to go and learn,’ the mother stated.
‘I lose my sympathy a little bit when someone uses his entire life and his entire platform to spread racism, hate, bigotry, misogyny, anti-trans, anti-gay rhetoric – I mean everything you can imagine, this man has done,’ she added.
She then quoted Kirk’s words after the 2023 Nashville school shooting, where he defended gun deaths as ‘a prudent deal’ for Second Amendment rights.
Amid thousands of comments calling Farina a ‘monster’ and ‘devil,’ the internet quickly uncovered her boyfriend, 34-year-old Justin Krinley (pictured) – a business owner in California
‘And I offer him, thoughts and prayers,’ she said. ‘Which is what he can offer us after every time a child is senselessly gunned down at school.’
As the video ended, Farina asserted that she ‘truly hopes’ Kirk makes a full recovery so he can hopefully become a gun control advocate – though she doubted he would.
Amid thousands of comments calling her a ‘monster’ and ‘devil,’ the internet quickly uncovered her boyfriend, 34-year-old Justin Krinley.
Krinley was soon identified as the owner of a family-owned business whose description notes that Farina has joined the team in recent years.
His company’s Yelp page immediately took a massive hit, with some reviews even accusing the business of setting customers’ houses on fire during electrical work.
‘I’m here to warn that if you ever need electrical done and are conservative and hire them, they may or may not cause an accidental fire or more damage than one started with. They are not safe to hire unfortunately,’ one review read.
Another said: ‘I think that to be a family owned company and use that to try and get people to trust you is a joke. You can’t use family to earn trust when your partner is all over the internet celebrating a family being violently torn apart.’
On Friday, Farina returned to TikTok with a another post, emphasizing that everything had been turned upside down in just a week.
Farina claimed that her boyfriend’s (pictured) company has been ‘defamed and slandered,’ and that he was even ‘verbally assaulted’ inside his private office by a stranger
‘First, my address was leaked, and then all of my family’s personal information followed,’ Farina shared.
‘My boyfriend’s company has been defamed and slandered,’ she added, noting that neither he nor his business has any connection to her personal accounts or politics.
‘Calls and negative reviews started pouring in by the thousands. Someone showed up to his company, entered his private office, and verbally assaulted him. My, my family, and my child’s lives have been threatened thousands of times.’
She described receiving disturbing messages and emails, including threats to ‘spray her home with bullets’ and hopes that she is sexually assaulted and murdered.
Farina claimed that MAGA protesters have driven through her neighborhood, left notes outside her home and her boyfriend’s business, and stated that even her own neighbor offered to share her whereabouts online.
But she acknowledged she’s not the only one whose life took a complete 180.
‘Hundreds, if not thousands, of other content creators on this very app have been fired from their jobs and doxed, and I must say, that really terrifies me,’ Farina said.
‘It makes it clear that these people only want us to have the first amendment right and freedom of speech when it fits their narrative,’ she added.
‘That is not the country I was born in, and that is certainly not the country I want to raise my child in.’
Ending on a defiant note, Farina said the best thing those who’ve been doxxed can do is stick together – because, in her words, ‘fascism hates community.’
