‘I am looking around and wondering whether Charlie’s entire life was The Truman Show’
“I’m starting to think that the assassination of Charlie Kirk was something akin to a regicide, right? The assassination of a king to install a new ruler who the king would have never approved of.” That’s how podcaster Candace Owens described Kirk’s killing in a Sept. 30 episode titled, “DEAD OR ALIVE: Who Betrayed Charlie Kirk?”
The “new ruler” of Kirk’s organization, Turning Point USA, is Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, who was unanimously approved as Turning Point CEO 12 days earlier. Owens has argued without evidence that Turning Point is covering up its involvement in Kirk’s assassination and that Erika Kirk “knows everything.” She also says it’s a “vile” smear to suggest that she’s implicated Erika Kirk in her husband’s assassination.
“Trying to equate questioning Turning Point USA employees about their verifiable lies to accusing Erika Kirk of murdering her own husband is a vile and obvious attempt to shut down further investigation,” Owens said Tuesday. “And it will not work.”
In what she has described as her own independent investigation into Kirk’s assassination, Owens has argued that Turning Point executives are “engaged in a coverup” and that, as the organization’s CEO, “criticisms pertaining to anything at Turning Point USA that are being directed at Erika are fair.” She has also questioned the existence of notebooks Kirk left behind that, according to Erika Kirk, detailed a Turning Point succession plan, including budgets and strategies for future elections.
“They were going to tell Americans that … it just so happened that Charlie Kirk kept notebooks and diaries,” Owens said during a Nov. 5 podcast episode. “He was so diligent that he wrote down his succession plan featuring who he wanted to take over for the organization in the event of his untimely death.”
“And if during this process of our imagination, common sense comes on and we’re like, ‘Oh, but wait, Charlie, wasn’t he like a boy genius?’ … Wouldn’t he have maybe formalized that succession plan outside of like a diary?” she continued. “But no, he wanted to put it in these notebooks. And then the plan was to guilt us, I think, to try to haunt us with the ghost of Charlie’s notebooks that we’re never going to be allowed to read.”
Owens suggested the notebooks are fake—because Charlie’s entire life was. “I am putting the fire here right at the feet of Turning Point because I am disgusted,” Owens said Sept. 30. “I am looking around and wondering whether Charlie’s entire life was The Truman Show. None of you guys are behaving in the way that you should be behaving. Okay?”
Erika Kirk has not addressed Owens directly. During an interview with Jesse Watters of Fox News, however, she addressed “theories swirling around about Charlie’s assassination.”
“Everyone’s trying to process this and I respect that,” she said. “But where my heart is just asking for some grace for those who were there that day. They have to relive that every single day.”
“And again, my only request is that—just please pray and consider and think about whatever you put online, because it’s going to impact his kids in the future. … We’re all trying to process this in our own way, and I appreciate that. But just some grace would be nice.”
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