Candace Fans Claim People Are Being Paid to Say She's 'Evil' – HotAir
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As you’ve probably seen or heard by now, Candace Owens recently released a new video or maybe the start of a series aimed directly at Erika Kirk. I don’t really care what in it because I’ve seen how she operates at this point and it’s the same thing over and over. She makes startling claims with no proof and then makes dark insinuations and then, by the time people are catching on that she can’t back up anything she’s saying, she moves on to a new topic. 

So, for instance, she claimed that French soldiers were planning to assassinate her with the approval of the Macrons and that she had spoken to the FBI. But none of that ever happened and no one ever backed up her nonsense and she seems to have dropped the whole thing now. Before that it was the Egyptian planes and the claim that Wilmington, Delaware was the key to the whole plot. There was nothing to that either and she stopped talking about it.

And now she’s attacking Erika Kirk. The point is, this was the last straw for a lot of people on the right who’d seen her circling this topic for a while without fulling committing to it. But now she has a whole video about it which she’s clearly been working on for a while. And so, quite a few people came out and called what she was doing “evil” or “demonic.” 

Others referred to Owens as “pure evil.”

You get the idea. There were enough people with big accounts saying this that some of Owens defenders must have felt the need to come up with some explanation for why it was happening. They settled on the claim that the response was coordinated and that people were getting paid to make this specific claim about Owens being evil/demonic. So, today, you have this guy posting a tweet in which he claims that’s what happened and listing tweets by a bunch of people on the right as proof.

That is a list of people who called Owens evil but you might notice there’s no proof whatsoever to back up his claim that these people were paid to say this (as opposed to just believing it’s evil to attack the widow of someone you claim was a good friend). So some of the people mentioned in the list started flat denying that they’d been paid or told what to say.

Not a lot of wiggle room in these comments. These folks say it’s a flat lie. And so did Dana Loesch who also asked Simon for the contact information for his lawyer. (Full disclosure: I used to work with Dana and have a lot of respect for her.)

Others on this list were suggesting the same thing about a lawsuit:

Dana’s husband Chris also commented and asked for contact info. He cc’d Kurt Schlichter who is conservative commentator and a trial lawyer.

At this point, Simon was still sounding pretty cocky about the whole thing. He dared Chris Loesch to sue him.

But at some point he must have had second thoughts because he posted this defense of his own investigative work. But notice this contains an admission that his main claim, about the whole group getting paid to post similar tweets, might be made up.

My analysis, which I conducted myself and then had @grok independently review, shows very similar wording used within a short time frame by several influencers, all calling the same person “evil” or “demonic.” Those are very specific terms to suddenly appear across multiple accounts without coordination. 

The only part I could potentially be wrong about is the claim that they were paid to do so. In that context, I referenced a large influencer who publicly stated that he was offered money to join the campaign. If that claim turns out to be false, I will apologize, retract that specific assumption, and call Matt Wallace out.

Compare that to his claim earlier that “These are the people who were paid to call Candace Owens evil or a demon.” What a difference a threatened lawsuit makes.

Dana Loesch kept going, pointing out how stupid his original “analysis” was.

The whole premise of this dumb claim is that all of these people used similar words about Owens on the same day. But it’s easy to show that people have been calling Candace a demonic, evil person for quite a while.

It’s really nothing new. There are lots more examples. It just happened that when Owens went all in on her attack against Erika Kirk, the outrage was pretty universal.

Anyway, there’s really no arguing with people whose idea of evidence is that they had a random thought and a group of followers predisposed to believe whatever nonsense they spout. It works for Candace Owens, at least it seems to have so far.

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