Throughout my career, it’s become increasingly difficult to follow all the various things I get accused of being. Depending on what hour of the day it is, I may either be in the Illuminati or a Satanist. I’ve been accused of being tied to George Soros, in cahoots with Klaus Schwab, and connected to the World Economic Forum. I can’t even keep up with it all myself. There are people in this world — people even on the conservative side — who believe this nonsense. The problem with this is far bigger than there being false rumors circulating about me. The real problem is, people’s minds have been so bent, they distrust everything and everyone, and this mentality is hurting our cause.
For the record, I do not like George Soros. I believe he is an incredibly evil man. I have dedicated hours to trying to expose the ways in which he is using his money to corrupt the West. I believe he has an allegiance to the East, and I have questions about his childhood. His media arm has done numerous hit pieces on me from the very first time I appeared on the scene and they continue to do so, attempting to get me cancelled. Despite all these efforts, some people still believe I am somehow tied to George Soros. I was tagged in a picture with one of my best friends whose last name is Schwab, and I was immediately connected to Klaus Schwab — because, obviously, every person on the planet who has the last name Schwab must be related to Klaus Schwab. And because I was connected to Klaus Schwab, I was also related to the World Economic Forum and then also connected to George Soros.
Being accused of having a connection to Soros via the World Economic Forum via Schwab via my friend is not the first weird allegation that’s been made about me. Once, when I was filming my show with a studio audience, I paused in thought, looking to my left and folding my hands.
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I often look to the side when I’m thinking, and I’m very Talladega Nights, in the sense that I don’t know what to do with my hands. (But that, of course, would be too reasonable of a reason for that pose.) Someone grabbed a screenshot, and this image has been shared all over. According to this Tweet, what it actually means is that I’m a freemason deceiver shill, etc. 

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Clearly, I’m not vaccinated. I am very passionately against vaccines. I have an entire series dedicated to showing people vaccines have always been a scam for children. So getting pizza without a vaccine? Challenge accepted. We got someone to get us a whole pizza, and I took a picture to brag about managing to pull that off. Then suddenly the comments on Instagram had me somehow tied in with Pizzagate and the Clintons and then George Soros. Me. Candace Owens. I couldn’t even eat a slice of pizza trying to be funny to show how I skirted the law in New York City without people associating me with children being abused.
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What is happening now is that people who are on our side are no longer able to even see straight. And I understand the distrust. We have been lied to over and over again. There are huge questions that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-medias-cover-up-of-barack-obamas-alleged-illicit-gay-affairs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have not been answered</a>. But when people are only promoting the worst evils for every single person, that is not helping our cause. It’s hurting it. As an example, I do not support Ron DeSantis being the next president of the United States. I think he is a great governor, but I also think he’s fake and has too much donor money. But what I say about him has nothing to do with whether I like him or not. Yet now, people seem to think if they don’t like someone, they’re being fraudulent so they need to smear them.
Vivek Ramaswamy is facing this right now because, years ago, a scholarship he was awarded to go to law school came from Soros. But context matters — if you care about the truth — and he has <a href="https://www.glennbeck.com/radio/vivek-ramaswamy-slams-3-lies-presidential-run" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained this in great detail</a>. I applied for every single scholarship I could get my hands on. When my guidance counselor said scholarships would reduce costs, I applied, I wrote essays, and I had no idea where the scholarship money was coming from. My family couldn’t afford to put me through college, and I was trying to get money any way I could. Wise students try to get as much money as possible. It doesn’t make them fundamentally dishonest human beings who don’t deserve to be in the discourse of politics, as some have labeled Ramaswamy.
You don’t have to like Ramaswamy, Trump, DeSantis, or even me. But we all need to be meaningful and sincere in our critiques. Can we at least be honest? Can we be real? If I get attacked, people should at least know that a girl who came from absolutely nothing wouldn’t be in the Illuminati because the truth is, she just doesn’t know what to do with her hands when she’s thinking. People have moved from the red pill to the black pill and are no longer able to process reality whatsoever. They believe that everything and everyone is corrupt. Everything is a conspiracy theory. But we must be realistic.
The Left watches the media and believes it to be reality and can’t think on their own. In the same way we say the Left is demented because they believe absolutely everything, we have a small segment on the Right that is becoming equally as demented because they believe absolutely nothing. It’s opposite sides of the same coin.
The black pill is becoming dangerous. And we need to get real. Otherwise, we are just hurting our movement, our cause, and ourselves.
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The Illuminati, Pizzagate, Schwab, And Soros: Are The Rumors About Me True?

Candace Owens

Conspiracy Theory

George Soros

Klaus Schwab

Pizzagate

Readers Pass

World Economic Forum

The &#8220;What Happened?&#8221; speaking tour continues unabated, much to everyone&#8217;s chagrin, and with each new audience, failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton comes up with new and more novel excuses as to why she not only lost the 2016 election, but why she&#8217;s been rendered impotent within her own party.
This time around, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5575987/Hillary-Clinton-says-havent-seen-bottom-Trump-presidency.html">the Daily Mail reports</a>, Clinton&#8217;s laying the blame on Fox News, internet conspiracy theorists who believed she and her campaign chair John Podesta were at the head of an international child trafficking ring, and Vladimir Putin.
Speaking to The Wing, an exclusive New York City club for professional women, Clinton tore into Democrats, as well, suggesting that &#8220;Resistance&#8221; marches and social media messaging were pointless if the same people who donned &#8220;Pussy Hats&#8221; and posted memes about gun violence weren&#8217;t also casting ballots.
She admitted that it is &#8220;very hard&#8217; to watch Trump be president,&#8221; but that she realized &#8220;it couldn&#8217;t be paralyzing.&#8221;
She did warn that Americans have not &#8220;seen the bottom yet&#8221; on Trump&#8217;s agenda, though it&#8217;s not clear precisely what she objects to. So far, Trump has governed largely like a moderate Republican, with only occasional dalliances into hard-line conservatism. He appointed a conservative judge to the Supreme Court and presided over tax cuts, but also approved a trillion-dollar budget with massive increases in domestic spending. So far, he&#8217;s even on pace to demand fewer deportations that Clinton&#8217;s former boss, President Barack Obama.
She also dinged Trump for not doing more about &#8220;misogynistic&#8221; Russian President Vladimir Putin, perhaps failing to recall that she, as Obama&#8217;s Secretary of State, initialized a &#8220;friendship&#8221; overture with the increasingly despotic leader in pursuit of an American-Russian &#8220;reset.&#8221;
Without skipping a beat, Clinton, of course, laid the blame for her loss squarely on others, this time claiming that Fox News was trying to derail her presidential hopes and that the network has waged an &#8220;impeachment&#8221; campaign against her even as she&#8217;s been out of the limelight.
And, strangely, Clinton even hit out at &#8220;Pizzagate&#8221; conspiracy theorists: internet &#8220;sleuths&#8221; who determined that she and her impossibly inept campaign chair, John Podesta, along with other political leaders, were running a child sex ring out of a D.C. pizza parlor. The allegations were unbelievable, and relegated mostly to the darker corners of the web, but Clinton is convinced that voters thought she was personally trafficking children &#8212; and that&#8217;s why they didn&#8217;t turn out for her.
&#8220;It spread like wildfire,&#8221; she said of the the theory. &#8220;You look and that and think, that&#8217;s ridiculous. But you have no idea how many people will believe things that are presented as news.&#8221;
Sadly for Clinton, it seems despite Russia&#8217;s best efforts, &#8220;fake news&#8221; did not sway the election in any meaningful way.

Hillary Clinton Now Blames Fox News, Vladimir Putin, The ‘Pizzagate’ Conspiracy For Loss

Fox News

Hillary Clinton

After being misled on social media by those who invented the false &#8220;Pizzagate&#8221; conspiracy theory, in which a pizza restaurant in Washington D.C. was accused of harboring an alleged child-sex-trafficking ring, the North Carolina man who commandeered the pizza restaurant Comet Ping Pong last December at gunpoint was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/pizzagate-gunman-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison-as-prosecutors-urged-judge-to-deter-vigilante-justice/2017/06/22/a10db598-550b-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html?tid=ss_tw&amp;utm_term=.7788332bcd22">sentenced to four years in prison</a> on Thursday.
Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, had apologized to his victims and residents of Washington D.C., asking for an 18-month sentence, while prosecutors wanted to send a message to vigilantes seeking retribution by asking for a 4½ -year prison term. Welch, who has two young daughters, had previously said he had become agitated by reports and videos he read and saw online promulgating the &#8220;Pizzagate&#8221; sex ring.
Assistant U.S. attorney Demian S. Ahn held up the AR-15 Welch had brandished before he fired one shot, telling the judge it had been part of an &#8220;armed invasion&#8221; and part of a campaign of &#8220;vicious harassment and unfounded rumors.&#8221; James Alefantis, the owner of Comet Ping Pong, said the &#8220;physical terror&#8221; left by Welch and the rumors &#8220;left lasting damage on the people I love,&#8221; adding &#8220;one day in a more truthful time we will remember this day as an aberration&#8221; when &#8220;lies were seen as real and our social fabric had frayed.&#8221;
U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson told Welch, &#8220;I hope you understand and see how much people have suffered because of what you did. I am truly sorry you find yourself in the position you are in, because you do seem like a nice person who on your own mind was trying to do the right thing. But that does not excuse reckless conduct and the real damage that it caused.&#8221;
The Pizzagate conspiracy was promoted on Reddit and 4Chan, and also by Alex Jones of Infowars, who <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/16/alex-jones-deletes-video-which-he-had-told-his-audience-personally-investigate-pizzagate-restaurant/214846">stated</a> only days before Welch&#8217;s attack, &#8220;Let&#8217;s go ahead and go to the report, Pizzagate Is Real. The question is: How real is it? What is it? Something&#8217;s going on. Something&#8217;s being covered up. It needs to be investigated. To just call it fake news &#8212; these are real WikiLeaks. This is real stuff going on. &#8230; Go investigate it for yourself. &#8230; Go to the report, Pizzagate Is Real. &#8230; Something&#8217;s going on. Something&#8217;s being covered up. It needs to be investigated.&#8221;
Jones <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/pizzagate-gunman-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison-as-prosecutors-urged-judge-to-deter-vigilante-justice/2017/06/22/a10db598-550b-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html?tid=ss_tw&amp;utm_term=.c9afb8d5345e">apologized</a> four months later, saying neither Comet Ping-Pong nor Alefantis had anything to do with human trafficking. That statement followed Alefantis&#8217; attorneys requesting a retraction.
As The Washington Post reported, Welch had binge-watched YouTube videos about the alleged child-trafficking ring on December 1, and texted prior to the attack, &#8220;Raiding a pedo ring, possibly sacrificing [sic] the lives of a few for the lives of many,&#8221; and in another text wrote, &#8220;Standing up against a corrupt system that kidnaps, tortures and rapes ­babies and children in our own back yard.&#8221;
The Post continued:
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Welch acknowledged walking into the restaurant carrying a fully loaded, six-shot .38-caliber Colt revolver on his hip, and holding the 9mm AR-15 Colt rifle with about 29 rounds of ammunition across his chest, with his hands on the pistol-style grip and around the barrel. After a panicky evacuation by workers and customers, including children, Welch fired the rifle multiple times at a locked closet door, striking computer equipment inside, court documents said. He also pointed the rifle toward an unwitting employee retrieving pizza dough from a nearby business who entered the back of the restaurant, then immediately turned and ran for his life, according to the government&#8217;s evidence signed off by Welch.
</blockquote>

‘Pizzagate’ Shooter Will Spend 4 Years In Prison

Alex Jones

Pizzagate. This was the hashtag attached to the viral, social media mystery surrounding Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, and an alleged pedophile sex-ring operating out of the back rooms of Comet Ping Pong&#8211;a pizza joint in Washington D.C.
No joke.
The rumors began with a tweet, were further fanned by InfoWars anchor Alex Jones, and spiraled out of control on websites like 4Chan and Reddit. The story came to a head when a man named Edgar Welch drove from North Carolina to Washington D.C. to investigate, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pizzagate-from-rumor-to-hashtag-to-gunfire-in-dc/2016/12/06/4c7def50-bbd4-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.d4914118ba9c">bursting into Comet Ping Pong</a> with a gun.
Fortunately, no one was injured. Also, there was no pedophile sex dungeon inside the pizza place.
How could anyone believe a conspiracy theory so stunningly out there? In the age of instant information in which speculation mutates rapidly, an unbelievable story can become absolute truth in no time at all, and without any real evidence.
With no hard evidence to validate Pizzagate, one would think that belief in the story would evaporate, or at least temper. However, some Trump voters still believe there&#8217;s validity to it. An <a href="https://today.yougov.com/news/2016/12/27/belief-conspiracies-largely-depends-political-iden/">Economist-YouGov survey</a> recently asked Trump voters to rate the following sentence as &#8220;True,&#8221; or &#8220;Not True&#8221;:
<blockquote>
Leaked emails from the Clinton campaign talked about pedophilia and human trafficking. &#8216;Pizzagate&#8217;
</blockquote>
46% of Trump voters said &#8220;True.&#8221; 53% said &#8220;Not True.&#8221; Nearly half of Trump voters believe that there is at least some legitimacy to the &#8220;Hillary Clinton-child sex trafficking&#8221; story. What this appears to show is that a large portion of individuals who voted for Donald Trump either haven&#8217;t taken the time to investigate the fake story, or that despite countervailing evidence, they simply don&#8217;t believe the story is fake. Either way, that&#8217;s disturbing.
Politics is more than a game. For a republic to function properly, its people must be informed and intellectually honest. The Economist-YouGov survey shows that a portion of Trump supporters are neither. The 46% who believe the &#8220;Hillary Clinton-sex trafficking&#8221; story has validity are either uninterested in knowing the truth, or they have been shown the truth, and have instead chosen to indulge their conspiratorial urges.
We need to be rigorous in our scrutiny&#8211;not only of our leaders and our press, but of ourselves. If we fail to analyze our belief systems in an intellectually honest way, if we fail to separate fact from fiction, we will become vulnerable to con men.
Come to think of it, perhaps such a vulnerability has already been exploited.

How Many Trump Voters Think Pizzagate is Real?

Donald Trump

CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper tore into former Lt. General Mike Flynn&#8217;s son for spreading the Pizzagate hoax on Twitter.
Flynn Sr. had <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/05/did-michael-flynn-really-tweet-something-about-pizzagate-not-exactly/?utm_term=.340dfea91716">tweeted</a> in November a link to some sort of rumored &#8220;sex crimes with children&#8221; revealed in &#8220;new Hillary emails. Some had thought that he had tweeted about Pizzagate, but he hadn&#8217;t. That didn&#8217;t stop Flynn the younger from defending his father by tweeting: &#8220;Until #Pizzagate proven to be false, it&#8217;ll remain a story. The left seems to forget #PodestaEmails and the many &#8216;coincidences&#8217; tied to it.&#8221;
This irked Tapper, who sent Flynn, Jr. a series of direct messages on Twitter excoriating him for promoting the hoax:, via <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/jake-tapper-rips-into-flynn-jr-over-pizzagate-does-someone-have-to-die-before-you-take-this-sht-seriously/">Mediaite</a>:
<blockquote>
I have the highest regard for your father and have only treated him in that manner,&#8221; Tapper wrote. &#8220;And I have respect for you as well, but I am mystified as to why you&#8217;re pushing this theory&#8230; especially after the incident today that could&#8217;ve ended with bloodshed.&#8221;
&#8220;Michael, the police called [Pizzagate] a fictitious conspiracy theory tonight. Does someone have to die before you take that shit seriously? Spreading this nonsense is dangerous,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It is not the site of the satanic pedophilia cult. It is a fucking pizzeria.&#8221;
&#8220;Your tweet is wildly irresponsible. Listen to me. You are going to get someone killed,&#8221; Tapper warned. &#8220;Maybe an innocent child. For what????&#8221;
</blockquote>
Flynn, Jr. didn&#8217;t take Tapper&#8217;s messages seriously, as he took a screenshot of it and tweeted out: &#8220;Want evidence??? I must&#8217;ve really hit a nerve.&#8221;
Vice-president elect Mike Pence has denied that Flynn, Jr. was ever involved in the transition team, but he did reportedly have an email address affiliated with the transition team; Jason Miller, Trump&#8217;s communications director, told reporters in a conference call that Flynn, Jr. was helping his father with some of the transition efforts, per <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/michael-flynn-son-not-on-transition-team-pence">Talking Points Memo</a>.
As the Daily Wire has explained <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/11343/heres-everything-you-need-know-about-pizzagate-aaron-bandler">here</a>, Pizzagate is a conspiracy theory that the Clinton team was involved in a child sex-ring through the Comet Ping Pong pizza restaurant. There is no evidence for this, but the conspiracy theory had grown to the point where a gunman claiming he was investigating the matter entered the restaurant and fired a rifle. The gunman <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pizzagate-gunman-surrendered-after-finding-no-evidence-fake-conspiracy-court-n692321">surrendered</a> when he didn&#8217;t find any evidence in the restaurant.

CNN’s Tapper TEARS Into Lt. General Flynn’s Son For Pizzagate Propaganda

Jake Tapper

A man was arrested on Sunday for firing a gun inside a pizza restaurant that has been subject to a conspiracy theory known as &#8220;Pizzagate.&#8221;
Edgar Welch had fired his rifle inside the Comet Ping Pong restaurant because he wanted to &#8220;self-investigate&#8221; the conspiracy theory, according to the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/us/pizzagate-comet-ping-pong-edgar-maddison-welch.html">New York Times</a>.
What exactly is the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, and how did it start? Here is what you need to know about it.
Pizzagate began in the depths of the 4chan chat room in October, where members of the alt-right started speculating that the Comet Ping Pong restaurant is running some sort of child-sex ring and that the Clinton campaign was somehow involved. Like a virus, the conspiracy theory spread from 4chan to Reddit to being covered in Saudi Arabia and Turkey&#8217;s media.
As is typical of conspiracy theories, there is no evidence to even indicate a child sex-ring was being run out of Comet Ping Pong. The theory is based off photographs that were supposedly from James Alefantis&#8217;s &#8211; the restaurant owner &#8211; Instagram page that showed &#8220;a near constant assortment of different children of a variety of ages, intermingled between posts about gay bars, clubs, photos of common rape drugs, and piles of foreign currency&#8221; as well as code images laced on the restaurant, other nearby buildings owned by Alefantis, as well as buildings close by with Clinton connections. 
The Clinton connection to Pizzagate comes from online users searching for a link between Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein; they found emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta leaked by Wikileaks that set off their inner Alex Jones. The emails in question featured Podesta discussing pizza frequently, including some sort of pizza map handkerchief. An email from 2008 featured Alefantis expressing gratitude to Podesta &#8220;for attending a fundraiser at the restaurant but regretted not making him a pizza.&#8221; Somehow the conspiracy theorists have <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/pizzagate-what-is-it-explained-hillary-clinton-paedophile-conspiracy-gunman-fake-news-a7456681.html">decoded &#8220;pizza&#8221; to mean &#8220;girl.&#8221;</a> Further compounding the conspiracy theory was that Alefantis used to date Clinton attack dog David Brock.
Naturally, this is all speculation without any substance. The images can hardly be used as an indicator of a pedophile ring because, as <a href="http://www.snopes.com/pizzagate-conspiracy/">Snopes points out</a>, &#8220;Fear of &#8216;pedophile code&#8217; imagery is occasionally the basis for panic, but law enforcement officials believed that the symbols themselves are used among adults to signal preferences, not as labels for children, not as markers placing them in any danger.&#8221; The photos dug up by the online users that were supposedly creepy were a compilation of photos taken from Facebook commenters on Comet Ping Pong&#8217;s Facebook page as well as Facebook friends who liked the page and other websites that are in no way affiliated with the restaurant.
Additionally, there is no reason to believe that pizza is somehow a code for pedophilia, especially since pizza is common among politicians. Alefantis has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this-pizzeria-is-not-a-child-trafficking-site.html?_r=0">no direct ties</a> to the Clinton campaign; his only ties to the Democrat Party are some notable Democrats. He is also not under investigation by law enforcement for any sort of child-sex ring.
That hasn&#8217;t stopped the conspiracy theory from spreading like wildfire, as the restaurant&#8217;s and Alefantis&#8217;s social media pages have been <a href="http://www.snopes.com/pizzagate-conspiracy/">flooded with threats</a>, and the restaurant&#8217;s Yelp page is on lockdown. Restaurant employees have to protect their accounts as well, since online commenters are using pictures of their children to try and give credence to the conspiracy theory, and now the conspiracy theory has culminated into a gunman shooting a rifle inside the restaurant.
This conspiracy theory has clearly grown out of control and needs to be quashed before anyone gets hurt. Reddit has already deleted a thread about Pizzagate and some 4chan commenters are regretting the conspiracy theory. Will others who promoted the conspiracy theory follow their lead?