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Candace Owens’ attacks on Erika Kirk are fueled by her own jealousy and bitterness at being pushed out of Turning Point USA, sources claim to The Post.
The independent broadcaster, 36, described as “sadistic and dangerous” by insiders, didn’t hold back from spreading baseless conspiracy theories about the grieving widow and her husband, activist Charlie Kirk, after he was assassinated on Sept. 10.
For those who have crossed her path, Owens’ disregard for the truth, pursuit of attention and reckless behavior are all calculated.
Those who spoke to The Post claim Owens was loathed by staff when she worked at the Daily Wire, guests on her podcast doubt she believes her own lies and her pattern of inflammatory behavior can be traced all the way back to high school.
“Everything she is doing right now is because she wants to destroy Charlie’s legacy and the organization he built because he threw her out of TPUSA,” alleged one insider.
Owens worked for TPUSA as a communications director between 2017 and 2019.
“Charlie pushed her out because she was going a little bit nuts,” a source close to TPUSA brass claimed to The Post, but noted “he would still text her to keep the friendship going.”
After Charlie started dating Erika in 2018, the source added: “[Owens] was feeling usurped. Who is this interloper, who knew nothing, taking over?” The source claimed.
“She wasn’t invited to Charlie’s [2021] wedding. That was really telling.”
Owens and Erika agreed on a truce over the weekend and were set to meet Monday to hash out their differences.
Conspiracies Owens has spread about Charlie’s murder include the involvement of Israeli Mossad agents, the US military, Egyptian planes and the French government — despite it having occurred in public and been captured on video. The alleged assassin is now in custody awaiting trial.
Comedian and commentator Ami Kozak, who appeared twice on Owens’ podcast last year discussing the Israel-Hamas war, said he believes her conduct follows a familiar pattern.
“She goes against the grain for going against the grain’s sake,” he told The Post. “It’s sensationalism in pursuit of audience and self-aggrandizement — not a pursuit of truth.”
The Anti-Defamation League named Owens “Antisemite of the Year” in 2024, citing her statement that Judaism is a “pedophile-centric religion that believes in demons [and] child sacrifice,” and spreading untrue conspiracies such as Israel was involved in 9/11 and a secret group of Jews in Hollywood was involved in the death of Michael Jackson.
Owen has also promoted the “blood libel” conspiracy, that Jewish people murder Christians to use their blood in ceremonies.
Kozak pointed out that many of Owens’ claims collapse under even basic scrutiny.
“What drives her is power and influence in the culture. [But] the house of cards is crumbling as more of her claims are unsubstantiated,” he added.
A spokesperson for Owens responded to The Post’s request for comment, saying the allegations against her are “baseless, but very funny.”
Owens is also facing a huge reckoning in court when Bridgette Macron’s defamation lawsuit against her comes to trial, expected next year.
Macron filed a 220-page lawsuit in July 2025 alleging 22 counts of defamation and a “campaign of global humiliation” for financial gain against her.
The lawsuit claims Owens continued to repeat false allegations that the French first lady was born a man even after her attorneys were provided with extensive documentation — including birth records, childhood photos and pregnancy records from her three children — all demonstrating Macron was born female.
According to the complaint, Owens ignored multiple retraction requests and continued her “relentless bullying” with her eight-part podcast “Becoming Brigitte” and related merchandise sales.
The Macrons can argue Owens was in possession of the facts but chose to ignore them to prove their case, legal sources told The Post.
“She’s about to be in serious financial difficulty,” if the Macrons succeed in their lawsuit, a source claimed to The Post.
“She really is on the line for a huge sum of money. I think she probably realizes that now.”
Sources also alleged Owens’ antisemitic behavior has strained ties with her own extended family.
Her British father-in-law, Lord Michael Farmer, issued a statement after Owens’ repeated various comments about Jewish people.
“In view of public comments from a high-profile member of my family, I want to put my own views on antisemitism … on public record,” he wrote, explaining how he had known many Jewish people in his private and professional life and serves as the Christian Deputy Chair of the Council for Christians and Jews, a group founded as “a bulwark against antisemitism.”
Sources said if Lord Farmer cuts off his son, George Farmer, and Owens, they would face further financial complications.
A source who knows the family said George “has never had a real job” and is mostly known for his lackluster attempt to launch a right-wing Twitter alternative called Parler, which is still active, but has a dwindling number of users.
Owens and her husband now live in Nashville, where she broadcasts her show, which is very lucrative, according to Fortune magazine, which estimated this month her company “generates up to $10 million” a year.
That’s a large turnaround from her more humble beginnings in Connecticut. There, in 2017, she owed six months in back rent on her $3,500-a-month, two-bedroom luxury apartment in Stamford.
Faced with eviction, she instead filed a lawsuit against her landlord, Three Harbor Point Square, claiming the apartment had mold and seeking $15,000 in damages for “systemic yeast infections,” “impacted cerumen [earwax] in the left ear,” and “emotional distress.”
She lost the case and instead had to pay the landlord $20,000 in damages and legal expenses.
Even further back, in 2008, Owens, then a recent high school grad, and her father, Robert, were awarded a $37,500 settlement from the Stamford Board of Education after they sued the school district in federal court for “knowingly failing and refusing to protect” Owens after she received racially and sexually threatening voicemails from a group of fellow students.
After leaving TPUSA, Owens moved on to the Daily Wire, and insiders claim she grated with other people who worked there from the start.
One source said that in her first week, she threw her car keys at a producer and expected them to park her car. She is also said to have expected others to conduct her research, demanded a huge studio to film in and attempted to use the company’s publicity arm to push herself, questioning why she hadn’t been placed on the cover of People magazine.
“She was one of the worst people I’ve ever worked with,” said one source.
Other sources say Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro never wanted her there, but investors insisted she would be a good fit.
Her tumultuous tenure at The Daily Wire ended last year after co-founder Ben Shapiro publicly condemned her “disgraceful” antisemitic rhetoric.
“Daily Wire and Candace Owens have ended their relationship,” CEO Jeremy Boreing said in a statement.
Owens confirmed the news in her own post, writing: “The rumors are true — I am finally free.”
However, without the constraints of a corporate framework around her, Owens may be making more money than ever, but whether her arguments she is just exercising her right to free speech in court remain to be seen.
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