In Roman riding, the rider stands with one foot on each of two horses as they gallop side by side. The rider controls both horses simultaneously while balancing across them. That&#8217;s what Megyn Kelly has been doing for almost a year: straddling two very different personas.
One horse is Megyn 1.0 — the common-sense legal analyst and pro-Western conservative commentator.
The other is Megyn 2.0 — increasingly indulgent of anti-Israel narratives, defending the spread of Islam in the West, and joining the ranks of Candace Owens&#8217; defenders.
Last week, during Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing, those horses drifted too far apart, and Kelly landed on her ass.
Kelly opened the preliminary hearing with this promise to her audience:
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As we go through this preliminary hearing this week, we&#8217;re gonna be sticking to the proof that is offered by both sides&#8230; while you can have suspicions about somebody else&#8217;s role in a murder like this one, you cannot get that into evidence unless you have real proof and a legitimate good-faith basis for raising it&#8230; that&#8217;s where we begin today.
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There is, of course, nothing controversial about this.
Except that only last December, Kelly told her audience to &#8220;go f*ck themselves&#8221; for expecting her to call out Owens&#8217; conspiracy theories and months-long campaign of harassment and accusations against Charlie Kirk&#8217;s friends, family, employees — and pretty much everyone else under the sun.
This followed months of Kelly moving the goalposts in defense of Owens&#8217; reprehensible behavior after Charlie Kirk&#8217;s death.
When first confronted about Owens&#8217; conduct on The Fifth Column podcast, Kelly said she wouldn&#8217;t criticize her because &#8220;she&#8217;s a young mom&#8221; —  a standard that has never stopped Kelly from attacking Meghan Markle, for example.
Next came Ben Shapiro, who appeared to be the first person to tell Kelly that Owens was targeting TPUSA, Kirk’s friends, and even Erika Kirk.
Kelly acted shocked, insisting she wasn&#8217;t &#8220;the mother of the internet.&#8221;
She then followed it up by confidently assuring her audience, &#8220;It&#8217;s not true. Candace has, in fact, been defending Erika.”
That statement has aged like milk in a heatwave.
Kelly then revealed that she had been working behind the scenes to broker peace between Candace Owens and Erika Kirk, the newly widowed young mother.
It was at this time that Kelly berated viewers who questioned her continued defense of Owens, unleashing profanity and showing them the door.
Not since Neville Chamberlain has there been a more gullible or unsuccessful peace negotiator.
Ben Shapiro accused Kelly of moral cowardice at TPUSA’s AmFest, and rather than reconsidering her position, Kelly bizarrely transformed her unwillingness to criticize Owens into a principled stand against &#8220;bending the knee to Israel.&#8221;
Once again, she told her critics to &#8220;go f*ck themselves.&#8221;
It wasn’t long after this that Megyn Kelly’s Israel Derangement Syndrome metastasized. Megyn 2.0 earned the moniker “Grandma Groyper,” stating:
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How much of the narrative that is in our news today has been spoon-fed to me by people who are super pro-Israel at all costs, who won’t tell the truth about Israel, no matter what it is&#8230; I’m just starting from square one basically on Israel right now.
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Only a year earlier, Kelly had hosted Charlie Kirk, warning about the threat of Islam in the West. Fast forward a year, and she was openly eyeing Tucker Carlson&#8217;s significant Muslim audience, saying on Next Up with Mark Halperin, “Like he’s gotten very, very popular lately, I read, with Muslim viewers because he’s been standing up for Islam.”
Then came Tyler Robinson&#8217;s preliminary hearing.
Almost overnight, Megyn 1.0 reappeared.
On the second day of the hearing, she argued, &#8220;There is no disproving a conspiracy theory in the mind of a true conspiracy theorist. It&#8217;s not possible. They will just continue moving the goalposts.&#8221;
By day four, Kelly was urging those attacking Erika Kirk to show some humanity. &#8220;Every night Erika goes home to Charlie&#8217;s two children who have no father&#8230; it&#8217;s just beyond human what is being asked of the family.&#8221;
For a moment, Kelly sounded exactly like the careful legal analyst who made her reputation.
Unfortunately, this is where things fell apart.
Kelly&#8217;s guest, former prosecutor Matt Murphy, politely but directly challenged the person driving many of the Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories — not anonymous internet trolls, or even leftists, but young mom Candace Owens herself.
Murphy said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen some insane things on the internet, mostly championed by Candace Owens, that are so loony, tinfoil-hat out there. And I think that&#8217;s hard on the victim&#8217;s family.&#8221;
He accurately described those embracing the conspiracy slop as &#8220;actual lunatics.&#8221;
Murphy also pointed out that Owens had said she would stop spreading baseless conspiracies if Erika Kirk asked her to; Erika Kirk repeatedly did, and Owens ignored her.
Instead, Owens responded by accusing Erika of being a child groomer, a human trafficker, connected to Jeffrey Epstein, mocking her by pretending to cry over death threats she’d received, and implicating her in her own husband&#8217;s murder — all without credible evidence.
This treatment of Erika, by the way, is ongoing.
Kelly immediately rushed to defend Owens: &#8220;I think she&#8217;s in her own search for what she believes happened here, and she has zero trust in official words on anything.&#8221;
Murphy continued and actually delivered on what Kelly had promised at the start of the week, being unbiased and objective.
But when Murphy dismissed Israel&#8217;s alleged involvement outright — &#8220;Israel didn&#8217;t kill Charlie Kirk. Sorry. They just didn’t.&#8221; — Megyn 2.0 returned.
Kelly immediately defended not simply Owens, but the legitimacy of continuing to speculate about Israel&#8217;s possible involvement, pointing to Charlie Kirk&#8217;s criticisms of some Jewish donors before his death and reports of Israeli-only cell phones allegedly being present at Utah Valley University.
The shift was striking. In fact, it’s a surprise she didn’t begin going on about maroon shirts or Egyptian planes.
The same Kelly who had spent days insisting that conspiracy theories require evidence was now arguing on behalf of conspiracy theories.
The same Kelly who argued for compassion and humanity toward Erika Kirk was arguing on behalf of someone who has actively profited from tormenting Erika Kirk.
Everything Kelly had started the week promising to do, she was now doing the polar opposite of.
This is where Kelly&#8217;s two personas collide. The legal analyst who demands evidence gives way to the commentator willing to excuse wild, even harmful, speculation when it comes from her friend.
Kelly has repeatedly shown that she knows exactly how evidence should be evaluated. She understands legal standards. She recognizes how conspiracy theories move the goalposts whenever facts become inconvenient.
As she put it: &#8220;There is no disproving a conspiracy theory in the mind of a true conspiracy theorist.&#8221;
Yet only days later, Megyn 1.0 resurfaced.
Referring to those who continued denying Tyler Robinson&#8217;s guilt despite the evidence presented at the preliminary hearing, Kelly remarked, &#8220;Some people who refuse to believe that Tyler Robinson did this have been saying for quite some time, &#8216;Oh, but there&#8217;s no video of the actual shooting&#8217;&#8230; and still they won&#8217;t accept it. We&#8217;re never gonna get through to them. I don&#8217;t even really care about them, to be honest.&#8221;
It&#8217;s enough to give her remaining audience whiplash.
The balancing act isn&#8217;t sustainable. Eventually, one of these two Megyn Kellys will prevail. Judging by who she&#8217;s repeatedly told to &#8220;go f*ck themselves,&#8221; she&#8217;s already made her choice.
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Nathan Livingstone is an Australian filmmaker and video editor who creates short films, commentary, and investigative pieces. Follow him on X:<a href="https://x.com/@themilkbartv"> @TheMilkBarTV</a>

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Let’s cut the crap right now. Candace Owens, Ian Carroll, and their gaggle of online grifters from podcastistan are peddling the dumbest, most unscientific conspiracy garbage imaginable about Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The woke reich conspiracists claim a .30-06 can’t possibly produce the wound we saw because it “always” goes through a human neck or would have “blown his head clean off.” Therefore, they insist, it must have been an exploding microphone, a professional “buffet gun” hit squad, or some other fever-dream nonsense designed to pin it on Israel instead of the actual killer: Tyler Robinson, the trans-activist leftist who hated Charlie for telling the truth about biology.
This is peak ignorance dressed up as “research.” I’ve been shooting since I was a kid, over 40 years now. I’ve harvested deer and other large game with .30-06, .308, and .30-30. I’ve seen soft-point bullets do exactly what they did to Charlie: expand on impact, dump their energy into the target, and stop inside or fragment with no exit wound, especially when they hit dense structures like vertebrae or heavy muscle like you find in the neck and upper torso of a large man who played football and wore a helmet to build those muscles. This isn’t theory. This is what happens in the real world with the exact type of ammunition used here.
<h4 class="p1">The ammunition: Remington Core-Lokt Soft Point, designed to stop, not sail through</h4>
Court evidence and expert identification, including from veteran analysts like Matt Tardio, point to Remington .30-06 150-grain Core-Lokt jacketed soft point. This is classic big-game hunting ammo. The design is simple and brutal: a tapered copper jacket mechanically locked to a lead core with an exposed soft tip. On contact with tissue or bone, it mushrooms rapidly, increases frontal area, and transfers all its kinetic energy into the animal, or in this case, the target. That’s the entire point. It doesn’t “always” exit. It often doesn’t exit at all when it does its job. The lead tips on these are so soft that you can write on paper with them.
<h4 class="p1">Recovered bullet fragment from Charlie Kirk’s body, direct court evidence</h4>
Direct evidence confirms this real-world behavior in the Kirk case. A bullet fragment was recovered from Charlie Kirk’s body, not exploding mic pieces. Photos of the fragment were displayed in court during the preliminary hearing. These deformed fragments are consistent with a soft-point .30-06 round that expanded and broke apart on impact with dense structures such as bone or vertebrae, exactly as designed. This is powerful confirmation that the wound profile matches standard expanding hunting ammunition and refutes conspiracy claims about foreign objects or exploding devices.
According to official reporting from the preliminary hearing, a bullet fragment was recovered from Charlie Kirk&#8217;s body. Photos of the fragment were displayed on a screen for the court. Ballistics tests conducted by the ATF on the fragment were inconclusive, with defense attorneys challenging their reliability. Yet the physical presence of the deformed fragment aligns with the terminal ballistics of an expanding soft-point projectile that dumped its energy internally, resulting in no exit wound, precisely as expected from hunting ammunition like the Remington Core-Lokt. The mushroomed and fragmented jacket pieces prove this was not a shaped charge from an exploding RODE microphone. A shaped charge would leave entirely different debris, not classic expanded copper jacket and lead core fragments from a hunting bullet. There are many other problems with the idiotic “exploding mic theories,” but this should end that debate.
This is a photo of recovered bullet jacket fragments, official ATF evidence as referenced in case reporting. It <a href="https://x.com/ErikaCA47/status/2075335407470780698">shows</a> labeled evidence pieces with close-up views of the fragmented, deformed bullet jackets, classic terminal performance of an expanding soft-point projectile that dumped its energy internally with no exit wound.
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<h4 class="p1">Engraved bullets introduced as evidence in court</h4>
Investigators testified about key evidence in the preliminary hearing, including engraved bullets and casings recovered from the scene. One casing was engraved with “Hey Fascist!” and others with messages consistent with the shooter’s ideological motives. These were introduced as evidence, further tying the physical items to Tyler Robinson.
<h4 class="p1">Real cases: Necks, spines, and retained or fragmented bullets happen all the time</h4>
Hunters see this constantly. Neck and spine shots with .30-06 soft points frequently result in no exit wound. The bullet expands or fragments on the vertebrae and stays inside or lodges under the hide on the far side. I’ve seen it. Thousands of other hunters have seen it. Spine hits are notorious bullet traps that arrest penetration while shattering bone and creating devastating internal damage.
Just a few years back, my teenage son took a clean neck shot on an axis deer with a .308 at close range because the body was obscured by brush. No exit wound. The bullet hit the spine, deflected, and stopped a little way down. Most of the blood pooled internally into the trachea and lungs. We even hung the deer by its head to dress it, and the neck held up perfectly. See the photos and full post <a href="https://x.com/ChrisLoesch/status/2019160037025894447">here</a>.
Human cases follow the same physics. The 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. was carried out with a .30-06 Remington Gamemaster. The bullet struck King’s jaw and neck and fragmented on the spine. There was no clean exit wound.
Forensic pathology is clear: retained bullets and fragmented jackets are common in high-velocity rifle wounds to the neck and shoulder when the projectile encounters bone or when expanding designs initiate upset. The neck isn’t some magical tunnel of Jell-O. It’s packed with cervical vertebrae, cartilage, dense muscle, and major vessels. Hit those with a soft point at 2,700-plus feet per second, and the bullet does exactly what it’s built to do: dump energy and stop or break apart. At an elevated angle from a Mauser, as in this case, the physics line up perfectly for exactly this outcome.
Gary Melton of Paramount Tactical — a Green Beret, sniper team leader, and professional ballistics instructor, Matt Tardio, and experts from Fenix Ammunition have directly addressed and debunked the misinformation in public statements and videos.
<h4 class="p1">The “Always Exits” and “Would Have Decapitated Him” crowd are full of it</h4>
Ian Carroll and his Valhalla VFT video claiming the bullets shown in court couldn’t possibly have caused Charlie’s wound are pure grift. They rely on cherry-picked gel tests and ignore real living tissue, real living bone, and real expanding bullet behavior in living and animated targets. Candace Owens pushing exploding microphone or professional hit theories to drag Israel into this is disgusting and lazy. It lets the actual killer, the ideological actor with motive, opportunity, DNA on the towel-wrapped rifle, video evidence, engraved bullets, and the recovered bullet fragment displayed in the preliminary hearing, off the hook while smearing an unrelated country to fit her insane bigotry.
A .30-06 soft point does not always exit. It doesn’t always blow heads off. At 135 to 200 yards, with the right or wrong anatomy hit, vertebrae, dense muscle, angle, it expands, decelerates, and stays inside or fragments. That’s not a conspiracy. That’s ballistics 101 for anyone who’s actually hunted or trained with these tools instead of watching YouTube from their mom’s basement.
My friend Charlie was murdered by a leftist who hated him for speaking the truth. The rifle was an old Mauser .30-06. The ammo was standard hunting soft point. The wound profile matches exactly what that combination produces when it hits neck anatomy the way it did. The evidence, DNA, video, digital trail, motive, engraved bullets introduced in court, and the recovered bullet fragment displayed in the preliminary hearing, is overwhelming. The mushroomed fragments from inside his body prove beyond any doubt that this was not a shaped charge from an exploding RODE microphone.
Stop the conspiracies. Stop blaming Jews and Israel for everything. Face the facts: a .30-06 soft point did what it was designed to do, and the killer was the radicalized kid with the manifesto-level hatred. The rest is noise from people who wouldn’t know a Core-Lokt round from an FMJ.
<h5 class="p1">Sources &amp; Further Reading</h5>
• Matt Tardio X post identifying Remington Core-Lokt 150gr and explaining real human tissue vs. gel: <a href="https://x.com/angertab/status/2075356666472862012">https://x.com/angertab/status/2075356666472862012</a>
• Chris Loesch on soft point expansion and energy dump: <a href="https://x.com/ChrisLoesch/status/2075341218213507225">https://x.com/ChrisLoesch/status/2075341218213507225</a>
• Matt Tardio on The Dana Show with Dana Loesch, ballistics discussion: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvKRl6OHCo4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvKRl6OHCo4</a>
• Fenix Ammunition responses on expected terminal performance of expanding projectiles: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmG2RgfLA5I">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmG2RgfLA5I</a>
• Gary Melton and Paramount Tactical on ballistics misinformation and real-world performance: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6zFmbMmrWs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6zFmbMmrWs</a>
• U.S. Army wound ballistics studies, WWII and Korea era .30-06 data: <a href="https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA570469.pdf">https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA570469.pdf</a>
• Forensic pathology literature on retained and fragmented high-velocity rifle bullets in neck and shoulder wounds: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6474515/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6474515/</a>
• Historical record of MLK assassination: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr.">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr.</a> and <a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-2a.html">https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-2a.html</a>
• Bullet fragment recovered from Charlie Kirk, official court evidence displayed in preliminary hearing: <a href="https://x.com/erikaca47/status/2075335407470780698">https://x.com/erikaca47/status/2075335407470780698</a>, direct image link to evidence photo.
• Preliminary hearing coverage, AP News July 10, 2026, detailing bullet fragment displayed in court, ATF inconclusive ballistics testing, and engraved bullets introduced as evidence: <a href="https://apnews.com/live/charlie-kirk-tyler-robinson-hearing-07-10-2026">https://apnews.com/live/charlie-kirk-tyler-robinson-hearing-07-10-2026</a>
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Photos of ammunition are representative of the Core-Lokt soft point type identified in the case, with manufacturer imagery matching the court-referenced load. The recovered bullet fragment photo reference is from official evidence presented in the preliminary hearing. Court reasoning from the hearing confirms the physical evidence of a deformed bullet fragment recovered from the body, consistent with expanding ammunition behavior at the angle and with the ammunition type used.
Chris Loesch is pro staff for Triumph Systems, a Tier 1 training company founded by Navy SEAL Jared Ogden. He has over 40 years of hands-on shooting, hunting, and ballistics experience and operates broadcast audio and video for conservative media. This piece honors the memory of my friend Charlie Kirk and stands with his widow Erika and their family in seeking truth and justice.

How The ‘.30-06 Always Exits’ Lie Is Fueling The Worst Charlie Kirk Conspiracies

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Only two days into a preliminary hearing for the Tyler Robinson murder case and newly presented security footage and testimony are contradicting a conspiracy peddled by Candace Owens.
Owens has accused more than a dozen individuals and shadowy groups or governments of being involved in the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, while saying Robinson is being framed or used as a patsy. The late conservative&#8217;s widow, Erika Kirk, has notably been a routine target of Owens&#8217; unsupported theories.
Just days ago, Owens repeated her belief that Robinson was not on the Utah Valley University campus at all on the day Kirk was murdered.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think Tyler Robinson was there,&#8221; she <a href="https://podscripts.co/podcasts/shawn-ryan-show/318-candace-owens-the-most-sued-woman-in-american-media?utm_source=chatgpt.com">told</a> podcast host Shawn Ryan. &#8220;I think he&#8217;s a total patsy. I think they get lookalikes. They get everybody to wear the same outfits. I believe he played a role, and what he did was he picked up clothes and he dumped them behind the Dairy Queen.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/thats-so-criminal-ep-21?elementPosition=1&amp;row=2&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">LISTEN: The Trial of Tyler Robinson: Making the Case Day 2</a>
During the interview, Owens again raised questions about whether Israel or other “heavy players” were connected to Kirk’s murder and cast suspicion on Erika. At one point in the same interview, Owens said she felt &#8220;gutted&#8221; because Erika never actually loved her late husband. Owens cited Erika&#8217;s decision to quickly step into a leadership role at TPUSA after the assassination as part of her reasoning.
During Tuesday&#8217;s preliminary hearing, which will determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence for Robinson to stand trial, a number of security videos showed a man on the Utah Valley University campus who authorities testified was Robinson.
One video appeared to show Robinson walking with a &#8220;limp,&#8221; according to David Hull, a former Utah State Bureau of Investigation agent. Notably, reports previously indicated that Robinson appeared to walk with a stiff right leg before the shooting, or with an unusual gait, indicating he was likely concealing a rifle under his clothing.
Another video presented in court shows the man believed to be Robinson climbing over the railing of the Losee Center and moving into a prone position just seconds before Kirk was fatally shot.
Security footage also showed a person believed to be Robinson seconds after Kirk was fatally shot. The person was seen running along the top of a campus building “before dropping down onto the grass and heading away from campus on foot, carrying something,” The New York Times reported.
&#8220;The video compilation (exhibit 12.4) of Tyler Robinson visiting UVU campus four times on 9/10 (the last visit stretching into the early morning hours of 9/11) will be submitted as evidence and broadcast to the media. Here’s the video,&#8221; TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet said. &#8220;When you watch it, you&#8217;ll understand why the defense fought so hard against allowing it to be seen by the public.&#8221;
Robinson&#8217;s parents also recognized him from images released by law enforcement following the shooting, and Robinson apparently made statements that led his parents to believe he killed Kirk. Matt Robinson, the suspect&#8217;s father, drove his son to surrender himself to authorities.
Some independent journalists and conservatives — including those who were close to Kirk — slammed Owens for spreading the apparent lies about the case.
&#8220;Compare the video of Candace Owens claiming last week that Tyler Robinson was never on the UVU campus on the day Charlie Kirk was killed and the extended footage presented in court today of Robinson visiting campus 4 times that day,&#8221; conservative commentator AG Hamilton said.
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Compare the video of Candace Owens claiming last week that Tyler Robinson was never on the UVU campus on the day Charlie Kirk was killed and the extended footage presented in court today of Robinson visiting campus 4 times that day… <a href="https://t.co/2E7NUcjuS8">pic.twitter.com/2E7NUcjuS8</a>
— AG (@AGHamilton29) <a href="https://x.com/AGHamilton29/status/2074541314339635672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2026</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Candace Owens led thousands of people astray and lied, claiming that Tyler never stepped foot on campus that day,&#8221; journalist Sarah Fields said. &#8220;This is embarrassing — for her and for everyone she effectively brainwashed.&#8221;
Without naming Owens, CEO of The Babylon Bee, Seth Dillon, commented on the mounting evidence against Robinson and those spreading falsehoods about the case.
&#8220;[T]here&#8217;s a reason so many people are unwilling to let the evidence speak for itself. The well was poisoned for exactly that purpose,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;The goal of the months-long internet &#8216;investigation&#8217; has been to pre-bunk the real one so that its findings, when they eventually surfaced, would be widely dismissed.&#8221;
&#8220;Shame on anyone who&#8217;s defended this malicious campaign as &#8216;just asking questions&#8217; or &#8216;the actions of a true friend,'&#8221; he added.
Unsurprisingly, Owens is denying the person in the video footage is Robinson. She is now suggesting the man is Lance Twiggs, Robinson&#8217;s trans-identifying lover. &#8220;The person walking in the video they are presenting is very clearly a TALL person. Well above 6 feet,&#8221; she wrote on X. &#8220;No way that is a 5’10 or 5’11 person. How tall is Lance Twiggs?&#8221;
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This was my exact point. The person walking in the video they are presenting is very clearly a TALL person. Well above 6 feet. 
No way that is a 5’10 or 5’11 person. 
How tall is Lance Twiggs? <a href="https://t.co/IjKSmwoHA7">https://t.co/IjKSmwoHA7</a>
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href="https://x.com/RealCandaceO/status/2074543586264105317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2026</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Has anybody wanted anything as badly as Candace wants Charlie&#8217;s murderer to go free?&#8221; Blake Neff, producer of &#8220;The Charlie Kirk Show,&#8221; reacted.
Manhattan Institute fellow Colin Wright called Owens &#8220;unfathomably idiotic.&#8221;
&#8220;She thinks she has the ability to determine the height of a person to within 1 inch simply from a video,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Tyler Robinson might appear tall at first glance, but that&#8217;s because he&#8217;s skinny and lanky. Candace saying that he &#8216;looks to me to be 6&#8217;2 minimally&#8217; is just stupid.&#8221;
&#8220;&#8216;Looks to me&#8217;? Based on what method that allows for only 1 inch of wiggle room?&#8221; he continued to ridicule Owens. &#8220;She has no method, just vibes. It simply isn&#8217;t possible to determine how tall someone is from a video or photo that lacks a clear reference point.&#8221;
&#8220;I told you Candace would be spinning off endless conspiracies from the trial footage,&#8221; Wright added. &#8220;It has already started, and it&#8217;s only going to get a lot more insane.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/who-tyler-robinson-interacted-with-hours-before-charlie-kirk-assassination?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Who+Tyler+Robinson+Interacted+With+Hours+Before+Charlie+Kirk+Assassination">Who Tyler Robinson Interacted With Hours Before Charlie Kirk Assassination</a>

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Testimony, Security Footage Contradict Candace Owens’ Insane Defense Of Tyler Robinson

Testimony, Security Footage Contradicts Candace Owens Conspiracy Theory

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It’s past time the GOP took a look in the mirror.
Our ranks have become rife with provocative influencers offering an alternative to the Left-wing establishment. If you’re a young person fed up with the incessant wokeness, these voices seem awfully attractive. I have a message for young conservatives: It’s a trap.
In an era dominated by liberal institutions, it’s easy for an edgy contrarian to pose as a conservative. The suppression of Hunter Biden’s laptop by mainstream media was a coordinated effort and a betrayal of the American people. One may not even be wrong to call it a conspiracy.
But there is a fundamental difference between the methods of a conspiracy theorist and an honest conservative. A conservative values the truth independent of the public reaction. A conspiracy theorist values the reaction independent of the truth.
They walk among us, but they are not like us.
Take the infamous influencer Alex Jones, for example. Alex Jones has no patience for gender ideology. If he’s right about that, one could be forgiven for wondering what else he might be right about. The answer, it turns out, is not much. Just because a broken clock is right twice a day doesn’t mean we should go around breaking all the other clocks.
Once you have determined that someone else is at fault for your personal shortcomings, you begin to cross the line from a principled dissenter into a conspiracy theorist. If you ask Alex Jones, you’re lonely and unemployed because of the “globalists.” If you ask Candace Owens or Nick Fuentes, it’s because of the Jews. Everyone’s to blame … except yourself, of course.
The reality is harder to face. It is often easier for people to believe in a scheming class from which they have been excluded than it is to accept that life is hard.
There is a reason that figures like this have started to be known within the conservative movement as the “Woke Right.” It’s leftism in disguise. Class warfare. A culture of victimhood.
Though troubling, it is not surprising that conspiratorial attitudes would arise in a highly populist youth. The politics of the past decade have been dominated by the voting interests of a group that feels it has been ignored by the establishment.
I know — you don’t like the bloated, politicized federal government. Neither do I. The government didn’t kill John F. Kennedy. You find Michelle Obama to be a patronizing snob. Me too. She’s not secretly a man. When we allow these ridiculous claims into our camp, we delegitimize real concerns.
Moral shortcomings aside, there is another reason why we should not allow the Woke Right into the movement — they’re miserable allies. If you take a look at how these Woke Right influencers treat each other, they are far from coalition builders.
Nutjobs Nick Fuentes, Dan Bilzerian, and Richard Spencer — all of whom are functionally identical in their vile ideology — spend nearly as much time swiping at each other as they do espousing the ideology itself.
Working with these figures would not neutralize their extremism. Contrarians can only thrive on the fringe. It’s their way of staying relevant without having anything interesting to contribute. The more we legitimize their claims, the more absurd they will have to become in order to stay on the fringe.
The Left would like us to believe that conservatives break bread with racists, misogynists, and general lunatics. They’ve spent decades trying to create a false dichotomy between the Nick Fuenteses of the world and their radical agenda. We must not prove them right.
It’s a big tent, but it doesn’t have to be a circus.

Fred Gwynne In ‘My Cousin Vinny’

My Fellow Youts: Edgy Is Cute, Not Serious

Alex Jones

Nick Fuentes

Young conservatives

Tucker Carlson says he no longer supports the Republican Party.
That’s the same as Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
For a long time, I&#8217;ve been talking about ideological borders for conservatives, because words have meanings and political movements must have borders. It turns out these “Republicans” are self-deporting, which is a good thing, because what we don&#8217;t need in the party are people who won&#8217;t assimilate to our culture or our values and who would like our enemies to win.
Good riddance.
Vice President JD Vance was recently on Megyn Kelly&#8217;s show in order to trot out his defense of the Iran deal, and he said something interesting: that even if you disagree with the administration, you should vote Republican, because the alternative is to put Democrats in power. That makes sense.
Let’s put aside all of the nonsense that the vice president was peddling about how we really need a bunch of people who love the Iran deal to stay in, because otherwise the neocons are going to win, etc., etc.
The whole point of what people on the horseshoe Right, or the woke Right, are doing is to destroy the Republican Party from within, to throw their support to someone else in order to get the Republican Party to run after them.
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I&#8217;m okay with people who are rabidly anti-American leaving the party. I don&#8217;t think we need them here. I think that if you came into the Republican Party because you were a refugee from your home party or from your home ideology, and we brought you in here as a kindness, and then you proceeded to take advantage of our system and proceeded to believe that we were going to change all of our principles for you, it&#8217;s time for you to self-deport.
Now, Tucker Carlson is self-deporting from the Republican Party. He&#8217;s very upset with the administration because the administration is not pro-Russia or pro-Iran enough for him.
Yesterday, he announced on the “Can&#8217;t Be Censored” podcast — I have to admit, I find it somewhat hilarious that there are podcasts with sizable audiences that claim that they&#8217;re being “censored” — that he no longer supports the Republican Party; he can&#8217;t because it&#8217;s just too immoral. A moral Republican Party would have sided with Hezbollah, Iran, and the Russians.
Don&#8217;t let the door hit you on the way out.
He said:
<blockquote>How could I or any American voters support a political party that&#8217;s not loyal to the United States, that puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens &#8230; 
I voted Republican my entire life. &#8230; I&#8217;ve been a consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican Party. &#8230; But there&#8217;s no defending this because it&#8217;s immoral. And it&#8217;s exactly the opposite of what a political party in a democracy is charged with doing, which is representing its own voters, its own citizens, its own nation. And they&#8217;re not doing that. So no, I&#8217;m out.</blockquote>
Tucker acts like he&#8217;s been a Republican for 35 years. That&#8217;s weird, because he was a registered Democrat from 2006 to 2020. He said he did that so he could vote for the Democrats in primaries and manipulate the system — except that Washington, D.C., where he was living, has a closed primary system.
I have some questions.
If the Republican Party will not support Vladimir Putin&#8217;s aspirations in Ukraine, if the Republican Party will not sing the glories of Russian bread and Russian subways and Russian hamburgers, if the Republican Party will not bend over for Qatar completely, if the Republican Party refuses to just cheer on the Iranians as they foster terrorism throughout the region, my goodness, what are we even doing here?
Marjorie Taylor Greene echoed, “There is [sic] a lot of us that are absolutely fed up and will not support a party that betrays its voters and country. That does not mean we are turning into Democrats either. But we are done with the America Last Republican Party.”
Megyn Kelly told JD Vance that she never believed she should simply leave because she&#8217;s upset over what the Republicans are doing. But two weeks ago, she was with Sean Ryan talking about forming a horseshoe coalition with Ana Kasparian, who has tweeted support for terrorism.
The important point is that the Republican Party has certain principles. If you do not accord with those centralizing principles, e.g., peace through strength, then probably you shouldn&#8217;t be here. That&#8217;s okay. You can leave.
But you should not be the lodestar of a new Republican Party.
Self-deportation is a good policy for people who joined up for the wrong reasons in the first place.

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The Political Divorce Everyone Saw Coming

Ben Shapiro

Conservatism

JD Vance

Marjorie Taylor Greene

Opinion

Republicans

Tucker Carlson

Woke Right

Historically, Russia was very, very good at what we call psyops, psychological operations designed to undermine the United States.
They are still good at it. The Op is happening. It&#8217;s live, right in front of us. Candace Owens, Andrew Tate, and other Woke Right influencers have now landed in Moscow, and they&#8217;re basically Jane Fonda on the Vietcong anti-aircraft guns during the Vietnam War.
They propagandize for our enemies.
If you somehow believe that these people are just good-hearted folks who are invested in Christianity and the West and traditional conservative values, I hate to break it to you, but you are the sucker. If your head is attached to your shoulders, the Op has never been more obvious.
The dictator who currently runs Russia is Vladimir Putin. He was a member of the KGB. His task: Intelligence and counter-intelligence. He worked under a man named Yuri Andropov, who was then leading the KGB. Later, Andropov became the Premier of the Soviet Union, the dictator of the Soviet Union.
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And here&#8217;s what Andropov said about psyops directed at Soviet enemies: “Disinformation is like cocaine. Sniff once or twice. It may not change your life if you use it every day, though it will make you an addict, a different man.”
It seems like a lot of people in the West are now all coked up.
Candace Owens is in Russia sitting on Russian propaganda panels. She&#8217;s praising what she describes as Russia&#8217;s approach to families.
Spoiler alert: Russia&#8217;s idea of family values is encouraging couples to have kids so there is an ample supply of soldiers to fight in the Ukraine war.
Meanwhile, Marjorie Taylor Greene is doing the same sort of stuff, signaling her support for Candace&#8217;s big Russian adventure. And Buckley Carlson (a.k.a. Tucker Carlson, minus the skincare regimen) is openly saying that Russia&#8217;s leader looks out for his people&#8217;s interests, and he wishes we had that here. Tucker, of course, says exactly the same thing.
None of them are simply making critiques of America. They&#8217;re all saying that Russia is somehow better, that Russia&#8217;s leadership is somehow better.
And that&#8217;s the tell: There&#8217;s a big difference between saying “countries act in their own national interest” or “America has problems,” and “I wish our country were run more like Vladimir Putin&#8217;s Russia.” Those are not the same arguments.
One of those is rooted in realism. The other is just crazed fan-fiction conspiracy nonsense.
That is what this has become: Geopolitical fan fiction for people who think America sucks so much that countries like Russia not only ought to be a model for us, but ought to have more global power.
This is all part of what I have called a demoralization op.
Demoralization is the effort to destroy basic moral principles and dogmas and replace them with divisive fringe ideologies. It is step one in collapsing your enemies.
That is what is happening here. Enemies of America are using every resource at their disposal to do it — and there is good news for them: There’s an entire online repository of complete dunderheaded morons and conspiratorial America haters to do their dirty work for them, and lots of people online to click into the echo chamber.
The exact same people who built their brands around “Don&#8217;t trust the regime” and “Don&#8217;t trust the media” and “Don&#8217;t trust the propaganda” are suddenly very much in favor of trusting a regime, (when it&#8217;s Russia), the media, (when it&#8217;s Russia Today) and the propaganda, (when they are controlled by the Russian government and tell them America is decadent and the West is collapsing and Putin is strong and Russia protects tradition).
Suddenly, these people are on board all the way. They&#8217;re not investigating or questioning.
This is not skepticism. This is credulity. This is absolute, credulous stupidity. And they are nodding along either because they are bought and paid for, or because the message actually flatters their priors, and their priors are obvious: America sucks. America is in decline. America, in fact, is evil.
These are the ideas they parrot: We took the wrong side during World War II. We were vicious during the Cold War. We were the bad guys in the modern era. We were the great despoilers of innocent Muslims in the Middle East.
In the end, the result is all the same. The only way to fix all of this is to unburden the brutalized, demonized American soul, and give more power to America&#8217;s enemies.
We need — wait for it — multi-polarity. That&#8217;s how the Op works. The goal is to convince you that America is irredeemably crappy morally, and that the people we&#8217;ve always seen as our geopolitical opponents are actually not that bad. Russia is not that bad. In many ways they&#8217;re better than we are. Iran is not that bad. They don&#8217;t bother us. Maybe they could be our friend. China is not that bad.
That&#8217;s the Op, and it&#8217;s working on a large number of people who spend too much time online watching Tucker Carlson or Candace Owens or Sean Ryan or Andrew Tate or Megyn Kelly or any of the increasingly anti-American grifters and clickwhores willing to crap on America, either because they believe it, or for fame and money.

AmericanEagle_RussianBear

How The Woke Right Became What It Hates

Andrew Tate

Family Values

Majorie Taylor Greene

Putin

A Democratic congresswoman highlighted criticism of President Donald Trump from podcasters Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Candace Owens while questioning War Secretary Pete Hegseth during a fiery committee hearing on Wednesday.
Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) asked Hegseth if he believes Trump &#8220;is mentally stable enough to be the commander-in-chief&#8221; and brought up a number of former Trump-supporting podcasters who are now questioning the president&#8217;s mental acuity.
&#8220;In fact, many, many Republicans have had the same questions,&#8221; Jacobs said. &#8220;Marjorie Taylor Greene said he&#8217;s out of control and he&#8217;s gone insane. Candace Owens said the 25th Amendment needs to be invoked — Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, who you used to work with, Alex Jones, Stephanie Grisham, the list could go on.&#8221;
Hegseth dismissed Jacobs&#8217; question and ripped Democrats for raising questions on Trump&#8217;s ability to lead after the party turned a blind eye to issues around former President Joe Biden.
&#8220;Did you ask the same question of Joe Biden for four years?&#8221; Hegseth shot back. &#8220;You did not, and I won&#8217;t even engage with the level of disparagement that you&#8217;re putting on the commander-in-chief &#8230; he&#8217;s the sharpest and most insightful commander-in-chief we&#8217;ve had in generations. And you want to ask that question after you and your fellow Democrats defended Joe Biden, who could barely speak and didn&#8217;t know what day of the week it was. He governed with an autopen. You had a secretary of defense who went AWOL for a week.&#8221;
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The heated exchange took place during a House Armed Services Committee hearing, where Hegseth and Gen. Dan &#8220;Razin&#8221; Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, faced questions about the ongoing war in Iran.
The war has enraged Democrats and podcasters who used to support Trump — like Carlson, Kelly, and Owens — who have ramped up their criticism of Trump in recent weeks. Carlson, who recently apologized for endorsing Trump in 2024, has repeatedly accused Trump of conducting the military operation in Iran at Israel&#8217;s bidding. He also claimed earlier this month that Trump was considering using a weapon of mass destruction “on the population of Iran.” Kelly has also claimed that Trump is being played by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and said the president is “too weak” and “too gullible” to push back on Israel&#8217;s demands.
Owens, meanwhile, has called the Trump administration &#8220;satanic&#8221; and referred to Trump as a &#8220;Mad King,&#8221; while urging the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove the president from office.
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-goes-nuclear-on-tucker-megyn-and-candace?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Goes+Nuclear+On+Tucker%2C+Megyn%2C+And+Candace">blasted</a> the podcasters earlier this month, calling them &#8220;nut jobs,&#8221; &#8220;troublemakers,&#8221; and &#8220;stupid people.&#8221; The president also pointed out that the podcasters are being hailed by the Left for their opposition to his administration.
“These so-called ‘pundits’ are LOSERS, and they always will be! Now Fake News CNN, The Failing New York Times, and all of the other Radical Left ‘News’ Organizations, are ‘hailing’ them, and giving them ‘positive’ press for the first time in their lives,” Trump said. “They’re not ‘MAGA,’ they’re losers, just trying to latch on to MAGA.”

Democrat Invokes Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens In Heated Hearing

Congress

Democrats

Donald Trump

Pete Hegseth

President Donald Trump blasted his former allies Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones on Thursday, calling the podcasters &#8220;nut jobs and troublemakers&#8221; over their comments on Trump&#8217;s recent actions.
Trump published a nearly 500-word post on Truth Social blasting his former supporters for their attacks on the administration, which have gained the attention of legacy media outlets and leftists.
&#8220;I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs. They’re stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too!&#8221; Trump wrote.
All four of the commentators have become increasingly critical of the president over his decision to launch &#8220;Operation Epic Fury&#8221; and attack Iran. Earlier this week, Carlson urged U.S. military members to refuse Trump&#8217;s orders and claimed that Trump was considering using a weapon of mass destruction &#8220;on the population of Iran.&#8221; Kelly said on Wednesday that Trump was &#8220;bamboozled&#8221; by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and blasted the president as &#8220;too weak&#8221; and &#8220;too gullible&#8221; to push back on Netanyahu&#8217;s argument to attack Iran.
On Sunday, Owens called the Trump administration &#8220;satanic&#8221; and said, &#8220;satanic Zionists occupy the White House and Congress.&#8221; She also called for &#8220;Mad King Trump&#8221; to be removed from office. Jones has similarly called for Trump to be removed from office through the 25th Amendment.
&#8220;Look at their past, look at their record. They don’t have what it takes, and they never did!&#8221; Trump said of the four podcasters. &#8220;They’ve all been thrown off Television, lost their Shows, and aren’t even invited on TV because nobody cares about them, they’re NUT JOBS, TROUBLEMAKERS, and will say anything necessary for some &#8216;free&#8217; and cheap publicity. Now they think they get some &#8216;clicks&#8217; because they have Third Rate Podcasts, but nobody’s talking about them, and their views are the opposite of MAGA — Or I wouldn’t have won the Presidential Election in a LANDSLIDE.&#8221;
Trump added that Carlson has &#8220;never been the same&#8221; since he was fired from Fox News and suggested that he &#8220;see a good psychiatrist.&#8221; He also ripped Owens over her claims that French President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s wife is a man, adding that he hopes Macron&#8217;s wife wins her lawsuit against Owens.
&#8220;Actually, to me, the First Lady of France is a far more beautiful woman than Candace, in fact, it’s not even close!&#8221; Trump added.
Trump then ripped Jones over his &#8220;horrendous&#8221; Sandy Hook conspiracy theory, which led to a court ordering Jones to pay $1.5 billion in damages to the families of the mass shooting victims.
&#8220;These so-called &#8216;pundits&#8217; are LOSERS, and they always will be! Now Fake News CNN, The Failing New York Times, and all of the other Radical Left &#8216;News&#8217; Organizations, are &#8216;hailing&#8217; them, and giving them &#8216;positive&#8217; press for the first time in their lives,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;They’re not &#8216;MAGA,&#8217; they’re losers, just trying to latch on to MAGA.&#8221;
&#8220;As President, I could get them on my side anytime I want to, but when they call, I don’t return their calls because I’m too busy on World and Country Affairs and, after a few times, they go &#8216;nasty,&#8217; just like Marjorie &#8216;Traitor&#8217; Brown, but I no longer care about that stuff, I only care about doing right for our Country,&#8221; he added. &#8220;MAGA is about WINNING and STRENGTH in not allowing Iran to have Nuclear Weapons. MAGA is about MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and these people have no idea how to do that, BUT I DO, because THE UNITED STATES IS NOW THE “HOTTEST” COUNTRY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD!&#8221;

Donald Trump/Tucker Carlson/Megyn Kelly/Candace Owens

Trump Goes Nuclear On Tucker, Megyn, And Candace

Executive

Politics

Do you consider yourself in a living hell right now?
We are in a war. Everyone in our country is temporarily suffering from somewhat higher gas prices. The other country has no functioning government, and is a terrorist state that shoots people in the streets.
But you can always count on the useful idiots, people who truly hate America. They think America should be less powerful in the world.
I can&#8217;t think of a single military conflict — including military conflicts with which I disagreed — where I hoped America would lose. I might have thought that the involvement was not correct, but the idea that it would be better for America to lose is anti-American.
Period.
Ryan Grim, a favorite on the horseshoe Right — the grievance party which has decided that isolationism is the way — comes from Drop Site News, which is a left-wing misinformation site. He responded to investor Shaun Maguire, who <a href="https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/2040599408094667233">asked</a>, “How did we get to the point where so many Americans are rooting against America?”
“If this is an honest question, I&#8217;d say Americans are rooting against America because we facilitated a genocide,” Grim <a href="https://x.com/Aakar__Patel/status/2040622155894026514">declared</a>.
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Presumably, this would be Israel&#8217;s action against Hamas, which was not even remotely close to a genocide.
He continued:
<blockquote>&#8230; and followed it with a surprise attack on a girls elementary school followed by attacks on universities, medical centers, more schools, a world famous pharmaceutical research center, a volley ball team, an unfinished bridge we claimed was transporting weapons and then a nuclear power plant &#8230; we are now promising endless attacks on civilian infrastructure.</blockquote>
Every single thing he states is a lie. We have hit those sites because they are dual-use sites, except for the ones that we hit by accident.
If you truly believe that the American military is so evil that we target girls’ schools for the fun of it, that there are no mistakes made, that we just decided to get up one morning and murder a bunch of schoolgirls, get the hell out of the country.
You hate the country, and you hate the military. There&#8217;s no other way to explain what you are saying. There&#8217;s no other way to explain it.
Do you think Pete Hegseth and President Trump are sitting around drawing up a target list, and they say, “You know what? Just for good measure, let&#8217;s kill a bunch of Iranian schoolgirls”?
Is that what you think? If you think that you despise America.
You can oppose the war. You can oppose the way that the war is being fought. You can have problems with the overall strategy. You can have honest questions about the war.
But that&#8217;s not what we&#8217;re talking about here.
We&#8217;re talking about people openly hoping that America loses because they do not like America, because they think a more powerful America in the world is a bad thing. 
And Iran is counting on these people to undermine support.
This is nothing new. This happened throughout American history. If you go back to the Vietnam War, the Vietcong were counting on university students to claim we were the real bad guys, not the communists who were murdering hundreds of thousands of people. That&#8217;s why you had the students chanting in solidarity with Ho Chi Minh.
We have the same sorts of people now: a large swath of the Left and a significant part of the online Horseshoe Right.
Tucker Carlson put out a tape over the weekend celebrating the end of the American-led world order. He said a bunch of untrue things, which is what he does for a living now, while selling nicotine made in India. He said:
<blockquote>What&#8217;s happening in Iran is the end of American empire as we understand it. And that&#8217;s sad. Boo-hoo. Empire&#8217;s dying, but it&#8217;s not the end of the United States. It&#8217;s not the end of our influence on other nations, hopefully positive influence. It&#8217;s not the end of our economy. It&#8217;s the beginning of a very rough time in our economy, of course, but it&#8217;s hardly the end of it. What we&#8217;ve been doing, for likely your lifetime, if you&#8217;re under 80, is, well, it&#8217;s not working anymore. It hasn&#8217;t actually helped the United States long-term.
Your grandkids at this point don&#8217;t have the promise of a better life than you had. So it&#8217;s not actually a successful experiment. And now it&#8217;s ending because we&#8217;ve reached the limits of our demonstrated power. We can&#8217;t open the Straits of Hormuz. The president of the United States said that last night. Someone else do it. So we&#8217;re done. That&#8217;s okay. It was always going to end. Hopefully you can get out without a nuclear exchange, but now it is ending.</blockquote>
“It was okay. It&#8217;s okay if that happens. And it would probably be good if that happens because you&#8217;ve been lied to for generations.”
He is a liar. He&#8217;s a liar on economics, on military power, all of it. He&#8217;s gotten all of it dead wrong.
Remember this schmuck was telling you last year we were going to be in World War III if the United States struck a nuclear facility with one B-2. Has he been right on a single thing all along the way here? What has he been right on?
Also, why not just say what you really mean? He went even further. 
He called President Trump a <a href="https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2040946336657236274">war criminal</a> over the weekend: 
<blockquote>Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, shows up at the White House yesterday to pray over the president so he will have wisdom and restraint? No. To endorse the murder of civilians, which is a war crime. But more important, it&#8217;s a moral crime. You can&#8217;t kill people who have committed no crime, who did nothing wrong. You can&#8217;t murder the innocent.</blockquote>
We should point out that Tucker Carlson is perfectly fine with Vladimir Putin killing people who have committed no crime. He literally said so. He said, “That&#8217;s what leaders do.” Tucker Carlson has been super pro-Russia throughout the entire Russia-Ukraine conflict as Russia targets civilians. He has been extraordinarily pro-Iran throughout this entire conflict, after Iran murdered tens of thousands of people in the streets and has facilitated the murder of civilians all over the Middle East.
As to his generalized argument, which is that somehow the last 80 years of history have been a giant failure for America, do you know how ignorant of American history you have to be to actually argue that? Destroying the Soviet Union, building the single most powerful economy in the history of planet Earth, is somehow a giant loss?
That is a lie. The statistics prove it&#8217;s a lie. A new story from the Wall Street Journal states, “America&#8217;s middle class is becoming wealthier as more families scaled the economic ladder into higher earning groups. New research shows the ranks of the affluent have grown markedly over the last 50 years or so.”
This would be the period that Tucker says was terrible.
Meanwhile, former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who doesn&#8217;t have two neurons connecting in her brain, put out this <a href="https://x.com/FmrRepMTG/status/2040789438494585175">statement</a> on Easter morning:
<blockquote>Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness.</blockquote>
Listening to Marjorie Taylor Greene lecture everyone else on morality is a hell of a thing, knowing her personal history.
She continued, “I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit. I’m not defending Iran but let’s be honest about all of this. The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they’ve been telling for decades, that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon. You know who has nuclear weapons? Israel.”
Yes, Israel does have nuclear weapons. Do any of our allies feel threatened by Israeli nuclear weapons? If so, I would love to hear how.
These are the people that Iran is counting on to help out.
Candace Owens put out her usual mirage of insanity. She <a href="https://x.com/RealCandaceO/status/2040918596239446051">tweeted</a>, “This is a satanic administration. We all realize that satanic Zionists occupy the White House, and Congress needs to move to have the Mad King Trump removed. All of our lives may depend upon other countries realizing Trump is deeply unwell and surrounded by religious fanatics who have convinced him that he is a messiah.”
What in the world is she even talking about?
Tim Miller of the anti-Trump group The Bulwark echoed her, writing, “The Satanic Zionist Clause undermines an otherwise compelling critique of Trump.”
Selling your soul for a salary at The Bulwark is a hell of a thing to do.
Pod Save America&#8217;s Jon Favreau endorsed the Candace tweet with a retweet.
Here&#8217;s the thing. The president is not listening to them, and he shouldn&#8217;t listen to them. Why would you listen to people who believe that it is a good thing for America to be weaker in the world? Why would you listen to people who believe that the president of the United States is deliberately targeting civilian schoolgirls?
The answer is you shouldn&#8217;t. The answer is you wouldn&#8217;t.
That’s because those people don&#8217;t like America very much. They will say, “I like a different form of America, an America in my head.”
Thankfully, that America doesn&#8217;t exist. The America that does exist is the America that you live in right now. The one where President Trump is the president. The one that ensures the freedom of the seas and the free flow of commerce, the America that fights off terror nations, the America that protects our allies, the America that does not wish to see the world&#8217;s worst people with the world&#8217;s worst weapons.
That&#8217;s the America you live in right now. Do you like that America, or do you hate that America?
When Joe Biden was president, I still loved America because America is awesome. I didn&#8217;t like Joe Biden as president very much, but I still loved America.
I wasn&#8217;t rooting against America.
Real Americans don’t.

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Debunking The Erika Kirk Conspiracy Theories

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Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk has reached her “breaking point” over the conspiracy theories circulating about the assassination of her husband, TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk.
Kirk torched conspiracy theorists on Wednesday in an appearance on Fox News while promoting her late husband&#8217;s posthumously published <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Name-God-Honoring-Transform/dp/B0FPPV48PB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book</a>, “Stop In The Name Of God.” She addressed rumors about her, her friends, and her organization, saying that empty hypothesizing has led to a torrent of death threats and harassment against them.
“Call me what you want, go down that rabbit hole, whatever. But when you go after my family, my Turning Point USA family, my ‘Charlie Kirk Show’ family, when you go after the people that I love and you&#8217;re making hundreds and thousands of dollars every single episode going after the people that I love, because somehow they&#8217;re in on this? No,” said Kirk.
“This is righteous anger, because this is not okay. It&#8217;s not healthy. This is a mind virus,” she added.
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Erika Kirk responds to those who are pushing conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk&#8217;s Death:
&#8220;Come after me. Call me names. I don&#8217;t care&#8230;But when you go after my family, my TPUSA family, my Charlie Kirk Show family, when you go after the people that I love&#8230;No&#8230;This is… <a href="https://t.co/6IKSCWA5xx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/6IKSCWA5xx</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1998834494087070206?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
Kirk and Turning Point USA have been the center of conspiracy theories since Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking at a Utah college in September. The conspiracists have heaped suspicion on a number of Charlie’s closest friends and family members, including Erika. Kirk said on Wednesday that even her jewelry, which she has dubbed the “conspiracy collection,” has become a topic of debate.
Despite the suspicion cast upon her and Turning Point, Kirk says she has compassion for the conspiracists.
“You know what I thought? I thought, these people are human, we’re all grieving in our own way, and they are trying to find the answer to something that happened that was so evil. They are trying so hard, and I get that. We&#8217;re doing the same.&#8221;
But the conspiracies and scrutiny have become too much for many of the people at Turning Point.
“My team are not machines and they&#8217;re not robots. They are human. We have more death threats on our team and our side than I have ever seen. I have kidnapping threats. You name it, we have it, and my poor team is exhausted,” she added. “Every time they bring this back up, what are we supposed to do? Relive that trauma all over again? They watched my husband get murdered.”
Kirk and Turning Point USA had been silent about the conspiracies until last week, when the organization tackled them head-on in a livestream. The organization invited Candace Owens, who has pushed conspiracy theories about the assassination, to join the podcast. Owens said she could not attend.
On Wednesday, Kirk was adamant that Turning Point USA would not be distracted by the conspiracies and would continue to do the work her husband began.
“I&#8217;m not going to sit in a corner and cry and be in a fetal position. This is a duty to my husband, and it&#8217;s an absolute honor, and I will never back down. And so my message to them is to stop,” Kirk said.
Owens once <a href="https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1998869416046653503" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> she would stop promoting the conspiracies about Turning Point USA if Erika Kirk asked her to. But she appeared to recant that position on Wednesday and <a href="https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1998888637086478432" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> Kirk’s comments “an unbelievably emotional response that is absent of any logic.”

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