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How far gone is Candace Owens?
So far gone that notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is throwing some penalty flags on the podcaster’s “reporting.”
Since Charlie Kirk was assassinated on September 10 — allegedly by lone gunman Tyler Robinson — Owens has ghoulishly ridden the bumper of his hearse all the way to internet dominance.
An October “Candace” podcast episode, “They are Lying about Charlie Kirk,” has 9 million downloads and, since it debuted, she’s trotted out a myriad of culprits. None of whom are Robinson.
According to Owens, Israel is responsible and so is the US government. The leadership of Kirk’s own organization, Turning Point, has blood on their hands, too. Owens has also woven a grand tale about Egyptian planes shadowing Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, for years.
And these sensational claims have been great for biz.
Back in November, Owens, who has 5.7 million followers on YouTube, crowed that her podcast has become the biggest in the world, reportedly averaging over 3 million downloads per episode.
“We are number one in the world,” she said with jubilation, adding that she wants to speak out against Democrats and Republicans. Owens, who rose to prominence as a conservative influencer, has now recast herself as a brave, equal-opportunity truth-teller.
Or as one viewer commented on the YouTube page for her wildly popular “Truth about Charlie” episode: “It is so far from Left v. Right now. It has all boiled down to Good v. Evil.”
Owens has also invested a lot of time trying to solve the mystery of what lies between Brigitte Macron’s legs. She claims France’s first lady is really a man, baby! (Macron has vehemently denied this.)
Call me cynical, but I think Owens has no real insight into Kirk’s murder.
She’s a conspiratorial interloper monetizing her one-time friend’s assassination, harassing his widow and, like a wrestling promoter, sowing a civil war on the right.
She’s selling fabricated drama.
Owens is admittedly talented, as far as grifting goes: She’s pretty, quick-witted and charismatic. Though she’s about as sincere as O.J. Simpson claiming to be looking for the real killers of his wife, Owens presents herself as a warrior not only for Kirk’s memory, but for the rest of us.
She claims to be a one-woman wrecking crew chipping away at the global cabal.
Her method is tossing out a web of convoluted and cockamamie theories — promising to deliver the goods, if only viewers go on the journey with her. However, that journey simply results in more and more tributaries and patterns of chaos.
After all, the genesis of her deep dive began as any good investigation does: in a dream.
“Charlie was sitting in a chair, and I won’t say where he was or where we were, but he said he was betrayed. And then I said, ‘By who?’ Then the dream did that thing,” Owens recently told New York Magazine.
“I saw one person who I recognized in that dream, who is at Turning Point. I woke up and I texted him immediately, and I said, ‘I just had a dream and Charlie told me you betrayed him.’”
That unnamed person did not respond, she alleges, giving her more layers to investigate. Meanwhile, they probably just knew better than to engage with a gratuitous s–t stirrer.
Most recently, Owens interviewed a man named Mitch Snow, who claimed to have seen Kirk’s head of security at Fort Huachuca in Arizona the night before the assassination in Utah. Crackpot Snow had another bombshell claim: Erika Kirk was also there.
Like any reliable source, he added that he was at least “95% sure” of his claims.
Snow reminded me of Larry Sinclair, an ex-con who, in a 2023 Tucker Carlson interview, claimed to have shared a crack pipe and a sexual encounter with a young Barack Obama.
Despite this, Owens treated him like a world-class whistleblower.
However, under scrutiny, Owens folds.
Last week, she appeared on Piers Morgan’s show. He asked for evidence behind her assertion that two Turning Point employees were involved in the cover-up of Kirk’s murder.
“Because I don’t have concrete evidence is the reason I’m not naming them,” she admitted.
Of course, Owens has no shame when called out — only defiance. Hey, she’s “just asking questions.”
And she’s also used Kirk’s death to stoke her long-running feud with Ben Shapiro, her one-time boss at The Daily Wire. He called her out as a charlatan during his speech on the first night of Americafest last week.
“Why are you not embarrassed to be alive?” Owens responded on her show.
For good measure, she added some antisemitic tropes, claiming the Jews ran the slave trade and holding up a copy of “The Talmudic Jew” by antisemitic German theologian August Rohling. (Shapiro is Jewish.)
“I encourage other people at home to learn what is in that Talmud, so that you know what Ben thinks of you. He doesn’t just hate me, he hates you, too, white men. He hates all black people,” she said.
But Owens isn’t here for accuracy or principles.
Nor is she here to disrupt a government cover-up. Like so many of today’s podcasters, from Nick Fuentes to Tucker Carlson, she’s simply realized that the more outrageous and the more offensive she is, the more she gets paid. All you need to do is have no shame.
She’s here for one person. Candace Owens.
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