Often-incoherent podcaster Candace Owens fired back at Erika Kirk as the widow finally addressed the conspiracy theories surrounding Charlie Kirk’s death and Turning Point USA, claiming the widow “missed the mark” and accused her of using “the exact same emotional strategy deployed by BLM.”
“It is a positively ABSURD notion that you cannot critique a 150 million dollar organization because the CEO says they are like a family, and are grieving,” Owens railed on X.
“It is the exact same emotional strategy deployed by BLM in the wake of George Floyd’s death, when I called out their shady financial dealings.”
Conservative podcaster Candace Owens fired back at Erika Kirk, claiming the widow “missed the mark” and accusing her of using “the exact same emotional strategy deployed by BLM.” YouTube/Candace OwensErika Kirk has been publicly pushing back for the first time on rampant conspiracy theories flying around the internet from conservative activists about her husband’s assassination — among them Owens, once a close friend of Charlie’s.
In the weeks after Kirk was murdered, Owens suggested Kirk was “betrayed,” accused the federal government of lying about the investigation, and said that Israel may have been involved in Kirk’s death.
She’s repeatedly gone after Erika, who was named CEO of Turning Point USA — the massive conservative activist organization co-founded by Charlie.
Owens later attacked Erika on her podcast for not addressing the rumors publicly as the new CEO of the company, but as a mourning widow.
“It completely missed the mark for me. I am sorry. It just has. But the good news is that she is now un-murking the water in terms of her intentions with this massive political organization,” Owens said.
Erika Kirk has been publicly pushing back for the first time on rampant conspiracy theories flying around the internet from conservative activists about her husband’s assassination. Getty Images
Owens was once a close friend of Erika Kirk’s husband, the late conservative icon Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot in Utah in September 2025. via REUTERSOwens shared a clip of Erika Kirk saying that she understands the conspiracy theories about her husband stem from people wanting to find an answer to “something that happened that was so evil.”
Kirk said she wants justice but doesn’t have time to address the theories. She added that she’s speaking out because she’s reached a “breaking point” because they’ve started to involve her immediate family or the family she’s found at TPUSA.
“This is righteous anger because this is not OK, this is not healthy. This is a mind virus,” she said.
Owens said Kirk’s comments are why “Turning Point USA looks so suspicious,” adding at one point: “You don’t just get to be widowed into chairman and CEO.”
“Don’t try to, like, ‘mom’ the organization and say, ‘Well, Mother’s upset because people are coming after her kids and all of the multimillion-dollar subsidiaries,’” she groaned.
“She gave us emotion. She said, ‘I’m a mother. I am a wife.’ And we never asked about whether she was a mother or wife. We want to know if she is a CEO and a chairman.”






