The Daily Mail asked right-wing provocateur Candace Owens on Thursday to share details of her relationship with Charlie Kirk, and whether or not she planned to attend or speak at his memorial service in Arizona on Sunday.
Owens alleged earlier this week that billionaire Bill Ackman was angered by Kirk’s souring views on Israel and that ‘threats were made,’ by Ackman weeks before Kirk’s death – a story that has triggered fierce backlash and fueled an online rumor mill of conspiracy theories, including that Israel was somehow responsible for Kirk’s death.
The rumors got so pervasive that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to directly deny them on two separate occasions.
Instead of answering the questions via her spokesperson in an email – something previously done by her team just this week – Owens answered, going live on her show Thursday evening, airing an email from the Daily Mail with our request for comment.
The answers were even more compelling than we may have originally hoped.
‘This is what we got from Daily Mail,’ Owens said, before kicking off her riff.
While answering the Daily Mail’s questions, Owens revealed, ‘You’re right, you got me.’
‘I was not invited to speak alongside President Trump, and JD Vance, on the stage with Tucker Carlson at a memorial event.’
‘Erika is in full control … I would hope she’s in full control, but I don’t know because I’ve been hearing some stories about donors that are pushing things,’ Owens also remarked, seemingly disclosing how far removed she is from the planning of Kirk’s memorial.
Candace Owens rages after being snubbed from Charlie Kirk memorial speaking roster
Yet, a few moments later, Owens claimed ‘Charlie and I never, for a second, stopped being friends. Ever. Never happened… They can’t produce one shred of evidence to that effect.’
Eric Bolling, a former Fox News host, said on an episode of the Patrick Bet David Podcast streamed Wednesday that Kirk had a ‘quiet break up’ with Candace Owens after she got too ‘down the rabbit hole for him.’
‘There hasn’t been a communication pipeline between the two for many years,’ Bolling also stated.
A spokesman for Candace Owens told the Daily Mail on Wednesday that Bolling ‘is flat-out lying.’
‘The reason that they’re doing this is because they want us to stop investigating the death of Charlie Kirk. I am convinced that this is a full-blown fed operation’ Owens added.
During another part of her Thursday episode, Owens said that from what she understands, Kirk’s memorial is ‘being controlled by the White House’ and that ‘Trump is controlled by Zionists.’
‘Why would I be invited by anyone in Trump’s Zionist administration, as I am speaking about the topics that I am speaking… It’s common sense they’re not going to allow me to share the stage,’ Owens added.
Daily Mail has reached out to Turning Point USA and the White House for additional comments on Owen’s remarks.
Then Owens once more tried to pitch the speaking roster for Kirk’s memorial as ultra exclusive, noting that she was not ‘one of the five people’ speaking Sunday.
Sunday’s lineup of speakers is much larger than five people.
Per a graphic posted on the Turning Point USA X account Wednesday, Sunday’s lineup includes President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Kirk’s widow Mrs. Erika Kirk, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson, Stephen Miller, and Sergio Gor.
The roster for Charlie Kirk’s memorial, posted on X by Turning Point USA
Questions Daily Mail sent to Candace Owens’s PR contact Mitchell, which she addressed live on air
Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens, then a Turning Point USA employee, listen as President Donald J. Trump speaks during the 2018 Young Black Leadership Summit in the East Room of the White House on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018 in Washington, DC
Kennedy Jr., Gabbard, and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt addressed a packed concert hall at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts last Sunday, as Kirk’s supporters from Washington DC and the surrounding states came together to pay their respects to the slain conservative commentator and Turning Point USA founder who was assassinated last week at a speaking event on the campus of Utah Valley University.
The venue for this Sunday’s memorial service in Arizona is the State Farm Stadium in Glendale Arizona, home of the Arizona Cardinals NFL football team, with a capacity of over 63,000.
Turning Point USA media personality and host of the Culture Apothecary podcast Alex Clark shared on X Thursday that over 85,000 people had registered to attend.
