Charlie Kirk Show Breaks Silence To Address Candace Owens’ Conspiracy Theories

Peloni:  I am glad to hear that TPUSA is finally going to begin to address the brutal and scathing commentary being used to manipulate Kirk’s memory by the likes of Owens.

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Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens speaking with attendees at the 2021 Young Women's Leadership Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America - Charlie Kirk & Candace Owens, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106623163Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens speaking with attendees at the 2021 Young Women’s Leadership Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Charlie Kirk & Candace Owens, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

“The Charlie Kirk Show” producer Blake Neff lambasted podcaster Candace Owens Wednesday for claiming that Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk was “betrayed” by high-ranking members of the conservative student group, saying TPUSA would deliver a detailed response to her claims via a livestream.Authorities arrested Tyler Robinson, 22, early in the morning of Sept. 12, accusing him of fatally shooting Kirk during a TPUSA event at Utah Valley University. Owens posted on X Tuesday that she would “be naming names and providing evidence” to support her allegations, which have involved French paratroopers, the Egyptian military and TPUSA leadership.

“For the past two and a half months, there is a topic that has flooded our freedom inbox, has been non-stop on social media, but which we have almost totally avoided on this show,” Neff, a former reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation, said. “You probably already know what I’m talking about, which shows just how ubiquitous it has been. Ever since Charlie’s murder, Candace Owens has leveled a flood of allegations against people at Turning Point USA, people at Turning Point Action and people who work for this show. She’s made them against some of Charlie’s closest friends and against some of his most dedicated employees.”

After listing a number of Owens’ allegations, including those of financial impropriety, Neff responded.

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“Candace has effectively tarred everyone here, with complicity in Charlie’s death by repeatedly saying he was, ‘betrayed by everyone.’ She has said Charlie’s murder ‘had to be approved by Charlie’s friends’ and then suggested those friends might have her murdered too, for ‘knowing the truth,’” Neff said. “She’s made claims of financial impropriety and fraud at Turning Point adding up into the millions of dollars, which, again, is not true. Charlie made sure the organization was audited by a third party every year. He personally reviewed and signed off on every expense report and literally every single bill paid by the organization down to a single United States dollar.”

After listing more of the allegations, Neff said Owens’ allegations led to harassment worse than that from people who celebrated Kirk’s assassination.

“What our friends have had to endure is not funny, and it’s not insignificant. It is evil. I have seen it. For months, we have received hundreds, thousands, I suspect, of emails and calls asking us to respond. People have wanted us to invite Candace on the show, but for a long time, our approach was to say nothing. We did that for several reasons,” Neff said. “First, we thought that her prevarications were so absurd that nobody would believe them. We shouldn’t have to answer questions about secret tunnels or Egyptian Air Force planes. That sort of thing is just, it’s beneath contempt to respond to.”

“The second reason we’ve said so little, though, is because there’s a good rule of thumb, which Charlie followed. Do not feed the trolls. Focus on the mission: reviving America, uplifting young people, making heaven crowded, don’t give air to people who want to tear you down and sow discord,” Neff said. “Lastly, we didn’t respond because Charlie always viewed Candace as a friend, and we were holding out hope that she would return that friendship and stop what she’s doing, but a week from now, it’s going to be three months since Charlie’s murder. Candace has not changed her behavior.”

Neff said TPUSA would have a livestream to address the allegations and invited Owens to participate. Owens responded to the TPUSA statement during Wednesday’s episode of her podcast.

“I’m not a troll,” Owens said. “OK? I’m not a troll. I’m not trolling, I’m not someone who’s hated Turning Point and wanted Turning Point to fail. I’m actually the exact opposite of that, and that’s why people believe in me and trust me, because they feel I’m the only one that’s acting right in the situation.”

“Who wouldn’t want to have every stone unturned if they cared about somebody?” Owens asked. “Who wouldn’t want to have every question answered?”

TPUSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the DCNF, nor has it announced the date and time of the livestream.

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to note Neff was a former reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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  1. This is insane. Everything purporting to be informational is self-evident nonsense: He should have been executed already.

    Spotlight on Utah’s Death Penalty

    By Death Penalty Information Center

    Posted on Sep 18, 2025 | Updated on Sep 18, 2025

    Recent Legislative Activity Costs Utah

    The cap­i­tal charges filed against Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing con­ser­v­a­tive polit­i­cal activist Charlie Kirk on September 10th, have drawn new atten­tion to Utah’s death penal­ty. Although Utah was among the first states to rein­state the death penal­ty after it was inval­i­dat­ed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1972, and the first to per­form an exe­cu­tion in the mod­ern era, exe­cu­tions have been rare over the last 50 years. Just eight peo­ple have been exe­cut­ed in Utah since 1977. In 2024, the state exe­cut­ed Taberon Honie, end­ing a 14-year hia­tus in exe­cu­tions. Utah juries have sen­tenced 26 peo­ple to death in the mod­ern era but have not done so since 2008.

    Mr. Kirk’s high-pro­file mur­der result­ed in Utah offi­cials declar­ing they would seek the death penal­ty even before Mr. Robinson was arrest­ed; cap­i­tal charges were filed on September 16. The deci­sion to cap­i­tal­ly pros­e­cute Mr. Robinson has sig­nif­i­cant impli­ca­tions – in terms of the required time, mon­ey, and resources. Reuters not­ed the high cost of death penal­ty cas­es in Utah. ?“Utah’s 2017 study of the death penal­ty also found pur­su­ing the death penal­ty adds an aver­age $1.5 mil­lion in costs for the state, over the usu­al cost of cas­es seek­ing a life sen­tence,” in line with data from oth­er states. Death penal­ty cas­es are also longer and more resource inten­sive, requir­ing months of prepa­ra­tion and inves­ti­ga­tion before pro­ceed­ing to trial.

    In 2022, two Republican leg­is­la­tors pro­posed leg­is­la­tion to end Utah’s death penal­ty. The leg­is­la­tion gar­nered sup­port from vic­tims’ fam­i­lies, busi­ness lead­ers, and a bipar­ti­san coali­tion of Utah pros­e­cu­tors. One of those pros­e­cu­tors, Utah County Attorney David O. Leavitt, had pledged not to seek death sen­tenced dur­ing his tenure, say­ing, ?“What I have wit­nessed and expe­ri­enced since decid­ing to seek the death penal­ty is that regard­less of the crime, seek­ing the death penal­ty does NOT pro­mote our safe­ty.” The Wall Street Journal wrote at the time that Mr. Leavitt’s deci­sion was part of ?“a grow­ing move­ment of con­ser­v­a­tives across the coun­try push­ing for an end to cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment.” The bill to repeal and replace Utah’s death penal­ty ulti­mate­ly failed in com­mit­tee on a 6?–?5 vote.

    As report­ed by Reuters and USA Today, pros­e­cu­tors’ deci­sion to seek a death sen­tence is only the first step in Mr. Robinson’s case. The tri­al will like­ly not take place for sev­er­al years, and a death sen­tence can only be imposed if all 12 jurors unan­i­mous­ly agree it is the appro­pri­ate pun­ish­ment. Even if a death sen­tence is imposed, there are both manda­to­ry and dis­cre­tionary appeals, which can take 20 years or more. As DPI’s Executive Director, Robin Maher, told USA Today, ?“a lot is still unknown.”

    https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/spotlight-on-utahs-death-penalty

  3. It is interesting that Candace Owens and her supporters provide a “more difficult group to respond to than those of Antifa.”

    “Owens has continued to spread falsehoods to enrich herself at the expense of Charlie’s loved ones and TPUSA.”

    At this point I think Candace Owens is a psychopath who has zero capacity to understand and empathize with her victims. She shows complete callousness towards others who have supported her such as Dennis Prager and Charlie Kirk as well as Kirk’s non-profit TPUSA.

    At this point it is unclear what Candace Owens stands for. She has many issues that she champions, but none of them have any “there” there. She has put herself on the line stating that Mrs. Macron is a transgender person. Just like she has put herself on the line insisting that Charlie’s organization was part of the killing of Charlie Kirk.

    I think we will find out that absolutely none of Candace Owens’ theories prove accurate, because there is no documentation that stands the test of objectivity or reality. That doesn’t seem to bother her, because that is how psychopaths operate. They don’t really care what is supported by evidence and what is not supported. They will come up with some reason that they don’t have to supply evidence.

    Basically this is the same as any other psychopathic individual: they have nothing inside of them. She is empty on the inside. She will use/abuse whomever thinks she is genuine, and they will ultimately be disappointed. Then she will go into victim mode and say that X abused her or didn’t understand her, etc.

    The above is based upon Peggy Tierney’s evaluation of the history of Candace Owens since high school. It is clear that as soon as she felt rejected, she began to present herself as a victim and at the same time, tried to sue the student who rejected her. It is a pattern she repeats over and over again in her life. She was successful in her lawsuit, which probably empowered her to continue to push lies whenever she has been rejected by someone.

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