Candace Owens Just Lost Her Mind Over Charlie Kirk

Candace Owens is living inside a full blown spy thriller and she thinks the entire world is out to get her. I wish I were exaggerating. What she is posting online reads like a rejected James Bond script that somehow got picked up by MAGA media and treated as gospel truth.

I want to walk you through exactly what she is claiming because it has gone from strange to dangerous. Owens has convinced herself that multiple governments are plotting to assassinate her. She is live tweeting these fantasies in real time to one of the largest audiences on the internet. And the people around her are treating it as if it is completely normal.

She says the president of France and his wife are trying to have her killed. She says a high ranking French official reached out and warned her that Emmanuel Macron green lit a hit squad. She says that squad includes a French female assassin and an Israeli male assassin who trained with Legion 13. She says they formalized the operation, created a payout channel, and are now hunting her across continents.

This is not satire. She is presenting it like fact. She even gave it dramatic flair. International accounts in France and Canada. A secret unit inside the French state. A joint operation with Israeli intelligence. Owens even claimed the payments were routed through some obscure French social club in what sounds like a deleted Mission Impossible subplot. The whole thing is so theatrical you expect Tom Cruise to repel from the ceiling at any moment.

All of this is built on nothing. Not evidence. Not reporting. Not even credible hearsay. It is built on the same instincts that led her to insist that Brigitte Macron is secretly transgender. It is the same impulse that pulls her toward anti Jewish rhetoric, long debunked conspiracies, and open collaboration with extremists who build their audiences on pure hate.

And now she is folding Charlie Kirk into this story.

She has decided that Kirk’s death was not what authorities say it was. She claims there were Egyptians flown into Utah ahead of time. She claims there were maroon shirts everywhere and that the color signals elite airborne units, as if these imaginary Egyptian “elite hit squads” would color coordinate and intentionally leave clues like it was a video game.

If you were engaged in something so illegal you would face the death penalty if caught, would you and your buddies intentionally wear matching “elite airborne operation” themed tee shirts when you know you’ll be seen from dozens of different camera angles?

Also worth mentioning, she has been seen wearing a maroon shirt on her own podcast. Was she involved in the plot too, by her own logic?

I’m sure you’ve experienced this before after buying a new car. Suddenly after purchasing it, you see identical cars to yours constantly on a weekly basis. This is not evidence of a grand conspiracy orchestrated by Egyptians to stalk you in identical Ford Fusions.

When you start with a conclusion and work backwards to find evidence for it, you’re not a journalist. This is a fallacy usually referred to as “circular reasoning”.

If you’ve ever talked to someone who is dead-set on believing that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, you’ll know the conversation is quite pointless. They *want* to believe it was stolen, regardless of evidence, and anything to them looks like proof. They will ignore any contrary evidence and the conversation quickly becomes a headache-inducing game of wack-a-mole.

Candace claims the French and the Israelis were training Charlie Kirk’s assassin. She claims Turning Point USA leadership betrayed him and participated in a cover up. She says donors should demand refunds because leadership supposedly lied.

None of this is grounded in anything real. The shooter was a deeply troubled young man swallowed by online radicalization. His roommate confirmed it. The evidence confirmed it. The timeline confirmed it. But in Owens’ world, facts are optional. She is now pushing a narrative where half of Europe and half of the intelligence community are somehow circling around her and around Turning Point USA in a shared plot.

People with platforms this large cannot afford to play pretend with this kind of content. Millions of people watch her. Some trust her. Some take her as a serious journalist. When she spirals into pattern hunting and paranoia, she pulls others with her. The maroon shirt theory alone shows exactly how far off the rails she has gone. She saw men wearing a color she didn’t like and turned it into a covert military operation.

If I ever start sounding like this, I genuinely want my audience to call for a wellness check. There is a difference between covering corruption and inventing it. If your family member was speaking like this, you would rush to get them mental healthcare, not give them a podcast microphone. There is a difference between chasing the truth and creating a fantasy that makes you feel like the main character in a global thriller.

Owens says the White House confirmed her claims. It did not. She says the intelligence community acknowledged her evidence. It did not. She says she has proof of an international plot. She does not. These claims live only inside her own posts, her own mind, and the echo chamber around her that rewards paranoia because paranoia goes viral.

None of this makes America safer. None of this brings justice to Charlie Kirk’s family. None of this has anything to do with truth. It is performance. It is narrative. And it is a dangerous one.

I will keep covering this story as it unfolds because it matters. It says something about the current right wing information ecosystem and how quickly influencers can collapse into fantasy when real life is not dramatic enough for them.

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