ERIKA KIRK WENT ON FOX NEWS on Wednesday to mark the three-month anniversary of her husband Charlie's assassination. But her goal wasn't just to commemorate that tragic moment. It was to staunch the cataracts of conspiracy theories that have been promoted by Candace Owens, who's earned tens of millions of YouTube views for her wild, unfounded speculation about Kirk's death. Without naming Owens, Erika Kirk jabbed at an unnamed person making "hundreds and thousands of dollars every single episode going after the people that I love." "My message to them is to stop"to stop," Kirk said, turning directly to the camera. As the segment ended, Kirk held up her late husband's new, posthumously published book and said its title, giving it an imperative intonation to reinforce the apparent message to Owens: "Stop, in the Name of God."
If the message rang familiar that may be because two days earlier, podcaster Tim Pool had launched his own, somewhat less rousing salvo against Owens.
Fuming after an unidentified person allegedly fired shots at his rural West Virginia compound, Pool blamed Owens for injecting a new level of mania into MAGA media, even slamming his hand on his table for emphasis.
Describing in detail what he believed to be Owens's own minimal security setup, Pool raged that he, by comparison, is forced to live in the middle of nowhere in West Virginia to deter assailants.
"Candace Owens is a fucking evil scumbag," Pool said. "She is a degenerate cunt. She is burning everything down, and she's gloating and smiling while she does it."
Pool and Erika Kirk are parts of a broad new coalition coalescing on the right with the goal of stopping Owens and her conspiracy theories, many of which have targeted Charlie Kirk's friends and the organization he founded, Turning Point USA. Their efforts are a testament to the tremendous clout Owens now wields. But timing is a major factor, too: TPUSA's big annual AmericaFest conference in Phoenix is kicking off next week, and prominent conservative figures have been open that they fear the proceedings could go sideways because of Owens's claims.
Personalities as disparate as pro-Israel commentator Ben Shapiro, antisemitic and white-nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes, and even the Internal Revenue Service have all attempted to debunk Owens's claims this month. The groypers and the evangelical tradmoms have united in distaste for her.
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