Candace Owens’ assaults on Erika Kirk are fueled by her personal jealousy and bitterness at being pushed out of Turning Point USA, sources declare to The Post.
The unbiased broadcaster, 36, described as “sadistic and harmful” by insiders, didn’t maintain again from spreading baseless conspiracy theories in regards to the grieving widow and her husband, activist Charlie Kirk, after he was assassinated on Sept. 10.
For those that have crossed her path, Owens’ disregard for the reality, pursuit of consideration and reckless habits are all calculated.
Those who spoke to The Post declare Owens was loathed by workers when she labored on the Daily Wire, friends on her podcast doubt she believes her personal lies and her sample of inflammatory habits might be traced all the best way again to highschool.
“Everything she is doing proper now could be as a result of she needs to destroy Charlie’s legacy and the group he constructed as a result of he threw her out of TPUSA,” alleged one insider.
Owens labored for TPUSA as a communications director between 2017 and 2019.
“Charlie pushed her out as a result of she was going somewhat bit nuts,” a supply near TPUSA brass claimed to The Post, however famous “he would nonetheless textual content her to maintain the friendship going.”
After Charlie began relationship Erika in 2018, the supply added: “[Owens] was feeling usurped. Who is that this interloper, who knew nothing, taking on?” The supply claimed.
“She wasn’t invited to Charlie’s [2021] marriage ceremony. That was actually telling.”
Owens and Erika agreed on a truce over the weekend and have been set to satisfy Monday to hash out their variations.
Conspiracies Owens has unfold about Charlie’s homicide embrace the involvement of Israeli Mossad brokers, the US navy, Egyptian planes and the French authorities — regardless of it having occurred in public and been captured on video. The alleged murderer is now in custody awaiting trial.
Comedian and commentator Ami Kozak, who appeared twice on Owens’ podcast final 12 months discussing the Israel-Hamas conflict, mentioned he believes her conduct follows a well-recognized sample.
“She goes towards the grain for going towards the grain’s sake,” he advised The Post. “It’s sensationalism in pursuit of viewers and self-aggrandizement — not a pursuit of reality.”
The Anti-Defamation League named Owens “Antisemite of the Year” in 2024, citing her assertion that Judaism is a “pedophile-centric faith that believes in demons [and] youngster sacrifice,” and spreading unfaithful conspiracies similar to Israel was concerned in 9/11 and a secret group of Jews in Hollywood was concerned within the dying of Michael Jackson.
Owen has additionally promoted the “blood libel” conspiracy, that Jewish individuals homicide Christians to make use of their blood in ceremonies.
Kozak identified that lots of Owens’ claims collapse underneath even fundamental scrutiny.
“What drives her is energy and affect within the tradition. [But] the home of playing cards is crumbling as extra of her claims are unsubstantiated,” he added.
A spokesperson for Owens responded to The Post’s request for remark, saying the allegations towards her are “baseless, however very humorous.”
Owens can be dealing with an enormous reckoning in court docket when Bridgette Macron’s defamation lawsuit towards her involves trial, anticipated subsequent 12 months.
Macron filed a 220-page lawsuit in July 2025 alleging 22 counts of defamation and a “marketing campaign of world humiliation” for monetary achieve towards her.
The lawsuit claims Owens continued to repeat false allegations that the French first woman was born a person even after her attorneys have been supplied with intensive documentation — together with delivery information, childhood pictures and being pregnant information from her three kids — all demonstrating Macron was born feminine.
According to the criticism, Owens ignored a number of retraction requests and continued her “relentless bullying” along with her eight-part podcast “Becoming Brigitte” and associated merchandise gross sales.
The Macrons can argue Owens was in possession of the details however selected to disregard them to show their case, authorized sources advised The Post.
“She’s about to be in severe monetary issue,” if the Macrons succeed of their lawsuit, a supply claimed to The Post.
“She actually is on the road for an enormous sum of cash. I believe she in all probability realizes that now.”
Sources additionally alleged Owens’ antisemitic habits has strained ties along with her personal prolonged household.
Her British father-in-law, Lord Michael Farmer, issued a press release after Owens’ repeated varied feedback about Jewish individuals.
“In view of public feedback from a high-profile member of my household, I wish to put my very own views on antisemitism … on public report,” he wrote, explaining how he had identified many Jewish individuals in his non-public {and professional} life and serves because the Christian Deputy Chair of the Council for Christians and Jews, a gaggle based as “a bulwark towards antisemitism.”
Sources mentioned if Lord Farmer cuts off his son, George Farmer, and Owens, they might face additional monetary issues.
A supply who is aware of the household mentioned George “has by no means had an actual job” and is usually identified for his lackluster try to launch a right-wing Twitter various known as Parler, which continues to be lively, however has a dwindling variety of customers.
Owens and her husband now stay in Nashville, the place she broadcasts her present, which could be very profitable, in line with Fortune journal, which estimated this month her firm “generates as much as $10 million” a 12 months.
That’s a big turnaround from her extra humble beginnings in Connecticut. There, in 2017, she owed six months in again hire on her $3,500-a-month, two-bedroom luxurious residence in Stamford.
Faced with eviction, she as an alternative filed a lawsuit towards her landlord, Three Harbor Point Square, claiming the residence had mould and searching for $15,000 in damages for “systemic yeast infections,” “impacted cerumen [earwax] within the left ear,” and “emotional misery.”
She misplaced the case and as an alternative needed to pay the owner $20,000 in damages and authorized bills.
Even additional again, in 2008, Owens, then a current highschool grad, and her father, Robert, have been awarded a $37,500 settlement from the Stamford Board of Education after they sued the varsity district in federal court docket for “knowingly failing and refusing to guard” Owens after she acquired racially and sexually threatening voicemails from a gaggle of fellow college students.
After leaving TPUSA, Owens moved on to the Daily Wire, and insiders declare she grated with different individuals who labored there from the beginning.
One supply mentioned that in her first week, she threw her automobile keys at a producer and anticipated them to park her automobile. She can be mentioned to have anticipated others to conduct her analysis, demanded an enormous studio to movie in and tried to make use of the corporate’s publicity arm to push herself, questioning why she hadn’t been positioned on the duvet of People journal.
“She was one of many worst individuals I’ve ever labored with,” mentioned one supply.
Other sources say Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro by no means needed her there, however buyers insisted she can be a superb match.
Her tumultuous tenure at The Daily Wire ended final 12 months after co-founder Ben Shapiro publicly condemned her “disgraceful” antisemitic rhetoric.
“Daily Wire and Candace Owens have ended their relationship,” CEO Jeremy Boreing mentioned in a press release.
Owens confirmed the information in her personal publish, writing: “The rumors are true — I’m lastly free.”
However, with out the constraints of a company framework round her, Owens could also be making more cash than ever, however whether or not her arguments she is simply exercising her proper to free speech in court docket stay to be seen.
