Evil Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories finally wither in court but that still wont crush the Candace Owens-like grift

After this week, anyone who still believes the online conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk possesses either a dangerously low IQ or an irreparably broken moral compass.That’s because the pre-trial hearing now in progress for Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating Kirk in front of hundreds of students at Utah Valley University, is collapsing the madness in real time.During his short life, the founder of Turning Point USA engaged in good-faith debates with young people on a wide variety of topics, and he did so in a cheery and civil manner.Agree with him or not, Kirk epitomized the best of American civic tradition.Candace Owens, the grifter podcaster who’s dedicated her popular show to promoting a string of unhinged conspiracy theories about Kirk and Robinson, represents the opposite.Owens’ attacks have inspired scores of similar podcasts, spurring hundreds of thousands of listeners to become obsessive self-appointed forensic scientists, ballistics experts and criminal investigators — all out to prove that Robinson was merely a “patsy” for darker secretive forces.Which forces? Need you ask?Jewish ones, of course: Owens almost immediately began floating the possibility that Israelis had murdered Kirk.Tucker Carlson and other antisemitic podcasters began dipping their toes in these familiar waters, too.Bereft of decency, Owens has also regularly implied that Charlie’s wife Erika had something to do with her husband’s death, instigating a raging online mob into harassing and mocking the widow and mother of two young children.Owens has spread the idea that Robinson, the 22-year-old gamer, wasn’t even on the Utah Valley University campus when Kirk was shot.Well, during pre-trial hearings this week, prosecutors presented surveillance footage of Robinson stalking the campus all that day.Owens has often claimed she doesn’t believe Kirk could have been shot with a bullet from the .30-06 rifle that Robinson allegedly us...