Roy Cooper attended a Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce event where he was pictured smiling directly next to Chad Turner, a convicted child molester, according to the Daily Wire. Like Cooper, Turner also fought to put men back in girl’s bathrooms.
Despite Turner’s heinous crimes being “widely known at the time of the event,” Cooper stood proudly by him.
One 14-year-old victim said he woke up to Turner fondling him while sleeping at his house. The boy said that Turner had previously asked him what he would think about a man performing oral sex on him, according to reporting from the time.
Another 15-year-old boy said that Turner showed him pornography and said the man fondled him when he stayed at his home. A third 15-year-old boy said Turner similarly molested him when he stayed at his home for several weeks.
Cooper also agreed to release at least 34 rapists and 51 child molesters from prison early and has taken nearly $200,000 from Epstein elites, including Reid Hoffman who visited Epstein’s pedophile island.
“Roy Cooper stands with child molesters, releases pedophiles from prison, and funds his false attack ads with Epstein cash. Cooper is a hypocrite who has spent 40 years fighting for violent criminals, not hardworking North Carolinians,” said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia.
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Is Every North Carolina Democrat Linked To The Same Child Molester?
Leif Le Mahieu
Daily Wire
September 23, 2026
…Now we can report that Chad Turner, the molester, once posed directly to the side of Roy Cooper, the former North Carolina governor who is now the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate.
Photos from a Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce event in December 2018 show Cooper as governor next to Chad Turner, who was convicted of fondling a 15-year-old boy while working at a church in South Carolina. Turner served just two years of a 10-year prison sentence after three teenage boys accused him of sexual abuse in 1998.
Turner’s disgraceful crimes were widely known at the time of the event. Just two years earlier in 2016, Turner stepped down as president of the Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce after reports of his criminal history emerged. He remained an advisor for the group, and later returned to leadership.
Another photo from the event posted to Facebook was saved by North State Journal reporter AP Dillon and shows Turner smiling in the background as Cooper spoke at the event.
At the event, Cooper spoke out about his opposition to a law known as the “bathroom bill” that kept gender-confused men out of women’s bathrooms. Cooper signed a repeal of the law once he became governor, calling it “mean-spirited” and “a stain” on the state’s reputation.
“The [bathroom bill] repeal was an important first step in fighting discrimination and making sure the nation knows that North Carolina is open for business,” the governor said at the chamber of commerce event.
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Turner ended up being convicted of one count of committing a lewd act on a child under the age of 16. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in July 2000, but was released after just two years behind bars. He is still on the state’s sex offender registry list.Turner, who, like Cooper, also fought against the bathroom law, now runs the Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce organization. He did not respond to request for comment.
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Local fact-checkers have largely dismissed the attack as frivolous, given that West was first appointed before Whatley was in his position. West himself says the two of them were at odds with each other in the Republican Party, telling the fact-checkers, “Whatley did not like me.” West once backed Whatley’s opponent to lead the state GOP.