The Patriot Post® · Candace Owens: The Persecutor

Candace Owens, the supposedly right-wing Christian political commentator and podcaster, has been spouting off increasingly wild conspiracies of late. Drunk with the attention she received from her slanderous accusations against French First Lady Brigitte Macron, she pounced on her next opportunity to destroy someone for her own gain.

With each passing day, it becomes increasingly clear why Owens is no longer welcome at outfits like The Daily Wire.

Owens just released the first episode of a new investigative series titled “Bride of Charlie,” which is marketed — like everything else she says and produces — as “just asking questions” about TPUSA CEO Erika Kirk and her grieving after the cold-blooded murder of her husband, Charlie last September. The trailer for her series was meant to get everyone talking because it’s provocative and it’s heinous. The very title, “Bride of Charlie,” is meant to evoke the horror flicks of a similar name, “Bride of Chucky” or “Bride of Frankenstein” — films that conjure up a monster, which is the point.

Erika Kirk, by the way, was a special guest at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday. The timing of the Owens series is no accident.

While Owens may not be directly accusing Erika of her husband’s assassination, what she is doing is intentionally dragging a widow through the mud, defaming her, and slandering her. She wants her audience to be clued in to the fact that she thinks Erika is a monster, and her so-called investigative series will show that as well.

Owens is leading her millions of followers down the rabbit hole of disbelief and attacks on everything without proof. In fact, many of them are accusing her critics of being paid to say she’s “evil.” That’s some next-level chutzpah.

As Not the Bee’s Joel Abbot put it, “I know we have this intense distrust of institutions and public figures, and I know we don’t believe the ‘official narrative’ anymore, but some people have gone from ‘I don’t trust the government about that experimental vaccine for the sniffles’ to ‘Erika Kirk had her husband assassinated by aliens/Egyptians/Jews and they framed a gay guy with a trans boyfriend for it’ in just a few short years.”

It seems that Owens is in flagrant violation of the Ninth Commandment. As Exodus 20:16 says, “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.” In this case, false witness includes lying about someone for personal gain. With each fresh conspiracy regarding her “investigation” into Kirk’s murder, Owens is earning millions of dollars because she’s trending and earning clicks.

Writing in The Free Press, investigative journalist Ashley Rindsberg reports:

Last month, her podcast was ranked third, behind Oprah and Joe Rogan, for downloads and views per episode. Podcast metrics platform VidIQ estimates Owens now earns between $163,000 and $489,000 per month from her YouTube channel. (On YouTube, revenue is tied to watch time, which is not publicly disclosed. But a rule of thumb is that a creator’s total watch time is a simple multiple of two variables: how many people click on the video, and the average amount of time each viewer stays.) An analysis by Fortune found that Owens’s podcast sponsorships alone could net between $2 million and $10 million annually. Then there’s her merchandise and fees for speaking engagements, for which she charges $10,000 to $100,000 each. When I sought to confirm her show’s monthly earnings and sponsorship revenue, Owens responded that “estimates are like a**holes…”

Like Tucker Carlson, Owens has discovered that conspiracy pays very well thanks to the nature of social media. I have made the deliberate decision not to link to the “Bride of Charlie” episode because I do not want to contribute to this mendacious feedback loop.

The commentary on Owens has been rather decisive. Those of us with a moral conscience recognized immediately that Owens’s attack on a widow — and by extension her children — is evil. Owens has always said that her purpose in digging into Charlie’s assassination was to find out who did it. Yet she has insinuated evil against countless innocent people and centered her bile on Erika. Why?

Well, conspiracy theories abound on that, and since Owens loves theories so much, here are some of them:

Some speculate that Owens hated Charlie and that this is her revenge.

Others believe Owens was in love with Charlie but was rejected. Ergo, these are the actions of a woman scorned.

Still others see this as an attempt to take control of the MAGA movement.

As former Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino explained on a recent podcast, churning out this type of garbage is heinous, opportunistic, and vile. Owens and Carlson, who is also hiding behind this “just asking questions” facade, are needlessly dividing the Right. They want followers and influence while cursing anyone who is just trying to live in peace. “This is not infighting,” Bongino added. “This kind of stuff is not in any movement I am a part of or want to be a part of.”

He is correct. Owens and Carlson are not on the same page as the rest of us conservatives. They have a much more profit-focused agenda, and it’s unconscionable that they are attacking innocent and vulnerable people simply because it brings in the bucks. Charlie Kirk was murdered, and it was live-streamed for the world to see, meaning his children may see that video one day. Erika is attempting to run the company her late husband started and to be a mother to her fatherless children. She did not ask to be thrust into the spotlight, but now that she has been, she’s choosing to honor Charlie’s legacy and forgive his killer.

As The Daily Wire’s Jeremy Boreing posted, “Erika met the moment of her husband’s assassination with a grace unimaginable. Candace met the moment of her so-called friend’s assassination as she meets every moment — focused on herself and her insatiable hunger for fame and aggrandizement.”

Ironically, Owens is slandering anyone she can conceive of with accusations of murder — except the actual murderer, who was caught, confessed, and is currently being tried.

Candace Owens is acting like a person who is either mentally ill, virulently evil, or both. Her conspiracy theory contagion has blighted otherwise thoughtful people into believing that anything that comes through official channels is not to be trusted. She’s living like a person who does not fear God at all, content with breaking the Ninth Commandment by persecuting a widow and her fatherless children. Whatever her reasons, none of them justify this attack. The best thing everyone can do is tune her out.