Ben Shapiro calls Candace Owens “a conspiratorial, evil person”
Shapiro: “Candace Owens is either going through the throes of mental illness or ... she's a sick human being, or both”
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From the February 24, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): I need to take a breath here because what I'm about to discuss is significantly more serious and truly troubling. Candace Owens, as you may have heard me refer at the top of the show, is an evil, twisted human being. Now the reason I say that today is because Candace has spent the last several months attacking the widow of Charlie Kirk, Erika Kirk. It took her just a few days after Charlie's sick murder in order to start casting aspersions at Turning Point USA, people who work there all the way up to the highest levels up to and including Erika Kirk. She was doing that very, very quickly, and she's been doing it for months. I mean, truly for months.
Yesterday, she came out with something that she had announced she was doing, which is a series. This is a trailer for a series, a teaser trailer that is titled Bride of Charlie, which is supposedly now an exposé on the evil, nefarious, predatory nature of Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, who again was shot in the neck, not by some sort of vast conspiracy involving French intelligence and Egyptian airplanes, but by a trans-loving gay man who is a furry. That is the actual story. And because Candace Owens is either going through the throes of mental illness or because she's a sick human being, or both, she has decided that she is going to turn her fire on the widow.
Don't believe me? I know. Listen, there are a lot of people who listen to Candace. She has a huge audience. This is what she does. This is who she is. She's a conspiratorial, evil person -- because that's who would do something like this -- a conspiratorial, evil person.