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Candace Owens doesn’t contribute ideas to intellectual or political conversations. She’s just noise.
A scroll through her X posts from the past three months shows her current obsessions: the war in Iran, the death of Charlie Kirk, and the life story of Erika Kirk. Only, for Owens, everything comes back to Israel. Israel caused the bombing of Iran; Israel killed Charlie Kirk to start the war in Iran; Erika Kirk was involved in her husband’s death and is connected to Jeffrey Epstein, who was colluding with Israel.
For a normal person who doesn’t spend every waking moment thinking about Israel, it’s exhausting.
Owens makes plenty of bold claims but provides little evidence. She assumes everyone agrees that every political event is caused by the State of Israel and that only she and a select group of podcasters see the ugly truth behind the Trump administration and the global world order.
But posting unfounded claims over and over again isn’t the same as proving them, and Owens has shown through repeatedly faulty logic that nothing she says can be trusted.
If it’s not Israel trying to destroy the world, it’s France. The European country has been after Owens, supposedly, ever since she began claiming Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, is a man. Owens claims President Donald Trump personally asked her to stop talking about Brigitte Macron, for the sake of relations with France and world peace; she says Emmanuel Macron tried to have Owens assassinated; and she’s argued French legionnaires were involved in Charlie Kirk’s murder.
The final claim is a perfect example of how Owens builds her arguments. She makes a claim, establishes one demonstrably true fact as a base of credibility, and then makes the jump to a ludicrous conclusion. In the case of the French legionnaires, she established the troops were on U.S. soil around the time of Kirk’s death, then used that fact as supposed proof the French army was somehow involved.
Recently, Owens has applied the same logic to Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow and the 2026 commencement speaker at Hillsdale College. Owens has pulled random facts from Erika Kirk’s past — former employers, old boyfriends, and text typos — and jumped to insidious conclusions.
One example: A client of Epstein married a former girlfriend of Epstein. That former girlfriend was introduced to the client by the co-founder of a modeling company. Erika Kirk once worked for the same modeling company. Kirk, therefore, must have had ties to Epstein.
You can only take Owens seriously if your entire world revolves around the X homepage. When the above argument is taken alongside a dozen other claims of equally dubious logic, you might begin to think Erika Kirk, the French army, and the state of Israel all colluded to assassinate Charlie Kirk (with a passing reference to Brigitte Macron thrown in).
But put down the phone, step outside, and enjoy some fresh air and Vitamin D, and the absurdity of Owens’ arguments becomes clear.
She’s not connecting the dots. She has just spent too much time online.
That doesn’t mean Owens doesn’t occasionally get something right, or that she’s completely out of touch with average Americans. Wanting justice for Epstein’s victims, being upset over Charlie Kirk’s murder, expressing worries over war in Iran — all of these are perfectly normal concerns.
The problem is, for Owens, everything comes back to a grand conspiracy, one so complex it’s a miracle she can keep track of it all. Every altercation between the Macrons must be studied, every troop movement in the U.S. cross-referenced, every vague acquaintance linked to a nefarious figure.
It never ends, and therein lies Owens’ only genius. There will always be another document, another murder, and another war to feed her conspiracy machine.
But real life isn’t a game of “Six Degrees of an Israeli Official” or red string zigzagged on a whiteboard.
Tomorrow, Owens probably will have yet another shocking revelation that promises to blow some secret wide open. But if you want real investigations with solid evidence and logical arguments, you should look elsewhere.
Catherine Maxwell is a senior studying history.
