Candace Owens has always courted controversy, but her behavior in recent years has repeatedly crossed the line. The media personality parted ways with Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire in March 2024 after her commentary grew increasingly antisemitic following the October 7, 2023, attacks in Israel. She embraced the leftist talking point that there is a genocide in Gaza, and not long before she left the Daily Wire, she claimed “that ‘secret Jewish gangs’ terrorize Hollywood — and … favorited a tweet repeating a lie about Jews drinking Christians’ blood,” according to the Washington Post.

More recently, Owens suggested that conservative speaker Charlie Kirk was actually shot from an underground tunnel, and the roof shooter was a decoy. Later, she claimed Tyler Robinson’s confession was fictional and he wasn’t even on campus the day of Kirk’s assassination.