Erika Kirk and conspiracy-peddling Candace Owens announce private meeting amid online feud

Erika Kirk and conspiracy-peddling podcaster Candace Owens announced that they will be meeting for a “productive discussion” mere days after their passive-aggressive online feud reached new heights on primetime television.The pair will meet in person on Monday for the first time since Erik’s husband and Turning Point USA’s founder Charlie Kirk was gunned down in early September.They both placed respective embargoes on any “public discussions, livestreams, and tweets” until after their meeting concludes, Erika Kirk wrote on X.“I look forward to a productive conversation.

Thank you,” Kirk wrote.“I am very much looking forward to this discussion,” Owens added in a retweet.Owens, who served as a communications officer at TPUSA from 2017 to 2019, has peddled baseless conspiracy theories about the assassination for months — but Kirk seems to have finally had enough.

During an interview with Fox News’ Harris Faulkner, the widow fumed with what she described as “righteous anger” as she condemned the deranged claims that have been made about her late husband’s death.“When you go out for the people that I love, and you’re making hundreds and thousands of dollars every single episode going after the people that I love, because somehow they’re in on this? No,” Kirk said.“This is a mind virus.And so my message to them is to stop.

To stop,” she added.Kirk echoed similar sentiments during a sit-down with CBS’ new Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, who asked the grieving mom point-blank what she would say to “those that are putting these lies out into the world” — including Owens.“Stop.That’s it.

That’s all I have to say.Stop,” Kirk said.While Kirk didn’t mention Owens by name, the podcaster’s presence looms large, as she is one of the loudest conspiracy theorists still harping on Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Owens, too, realized she was the apparent elephant in the room and called out Kirk in a recent podcast episode, ...