Will Sommer

Well, yeah, I would say one of the most notorious criminals in the country.

Yeah, I would say it matters.

the meeting yes this was a big issue so you know this there's been about two weeks of discussions about how exactly candace would meet with turning point she said one ground rule no assassinations you know which i'm sure they were happy to agree with but you know she and her fans i mean she had claimed there was a hit team from france and israel out to get her and so her fans were really like oh my gosh where's our candace update they posted instagram videos and tick tocks of themselves you know pacing the house where's candace

And so, yeah, I mean, she had a lot of people convinced that, you know, this was going to be some kind of the French Legion was going to be waiting to sniper or something like that.

Sure.

So, I mean, Candace Owens worked for Turning Point USA.

She was very close with Charlie Kirk years ago.

She left, and I think roughly 2020, 2019, over some ardently pro-Hitler remarks, I would say.

She said Hitler wasn't so bad if he had just stayed in his own country.

And so then there was kind of a distance there.

She sort of went off into the right-wing media.

Cut to the Charlie Kirk assassination.

She has built this huge YouTube profile of her own.

And then after the assassination, she basically says, you know, I'm going to get to the bottom of what really happened.

I don't believe the story that Tyler Robinson did it or that the FBI's official narrative.

And so for three months now, she's been spinning these conspiracy theories that increasingly were implicating Turning Point USA, suggesting that specific people on Charlie's staff had betrayed him.

And I think we're also suggesting that Erica Kirk was involved.

You know, she she kind of does a lot of insinuations, but basically that there was this grand plot and that everyone around Charlie Kirk was involved.

And it was starting to, I think, damage Turning Point's brand.

Everyone was saying, you know, certainly online, whenever they would post kind of some milquetoast Turning Point thing about how great Trump is, people would say, you know, hey, you you murdered Charlie Kirk.