Candace Owens set off a social media storm after releasing a video clip she claims is of beforehand unseen safety footage exhibiting the assassination of Charlie Kirk from a unique approach.
The conservative podcaster, 37, who’s presently being sued by the First Girl of France Brigitte Macron for claiming she was born a person, launched the footage on her self-titled podcast on Tuesday — fueling conspiracy theories that Tyler Robinson, the person accused in Kirk’s assassination, didn’t pull the set off.
The beforehand unseen footage, which Owens claims to have acquired from a authorities supply, purported to indicate the shooter on high of the Losee Heart at Utah Valley College on Sept. 10, 2025, within the one minute and 20 seconds earlier than the capturing.
In that span, the alleged shooter sprints throughout the roof in the direction of the far fringe of the Losee Heart.
On strategy, the determine in all black executes what Owens claimed is a “lateral crawl” — which she prompt was a army maneuver — transferring to the precise after which the left as they strategy the nook of the constructing.
The individual then lays down flat and crawls on their stomach on the roof to the sting, roughly 160 yards from the place Kirk was talking at his “American Comeback Tour” — looking over the sting and showing to tug one thing from a bag or their individual.
Lower than one minute later, the topic runs throughout the constructing in the direction of the opposite a part of the Losee Heart roof, which traces up with beforehand launched footage of the Kirk assassination suspect allegedly fleeing the scene by leaping from the constructing.
Owens claimed the footage was performed in the course of the weeklong preliminary listening to for Robinson held in Utah State District Court docket from July 6-10. Although it has been reported that safety footage was performed in courtroom in the course of the listening to, officers haven’t specified what that video truly confirmed.
The so-called leak of the video, which solely Owens has claimed is professional, has been gasoline within the tank of Charlie Kirk assassination conspiracy theories.
Alex Jones, who final yr was ordered to pay $1.4 billion to the households of Sandy Hook after espousing wildly false claims concerning the 2012 elementary college bloodbath, claimed the footage was proof that Robinson didn’t assassinate Charlie Kirk.
“The Official Charlie Kirk assassination story is now 100% useless!” the previous InfoWars host declared in an X publish with over 4.7 million views.
Jones and different conspiracy theorists claimed the footage confirmed that the shooter by no means pulled a rifle from his pants, had no limp, and that the individual will not be seen assembling a firearm earlier than the capturing.
Charging paperwork for Robinson assert that he walked with an “uncommon gait” with “little or no bending in his proper leg,” which authorities state was per a rifle being hidden in his pants.
These September 2025 paperwork didn’t embrace the declare that Robinson assembled the Mauser Mannequin 98 .03-06 bolt-action rifle — however subsequent paperwork filed in July claimed that Robinson used a red-and-black screwdriver to assemble the weapon on the roof.
Prosecutors claimed at that multi-day preliminary listening to that there’s overwhelming proof that Robinson ought to face trial for Kirk’s homicide. He has pleaded not responsible to seven expenses, together with homicide, in Kirk’s loss of life.
The case is due again in courtroom in September.
Owens was as soon as an in depth ally of Kirk, working as a Communications Director from 2017 to 2019 at Turning Level USA earlier than turning heel on the conservative youth group and has strongly prompt it was complicit in Kirk’s killing.
Turning Level USA didn’t instantly reply to The Put up’s request for remark.
Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk, who attended the preliminary listening to for Robinson in July, has beforehand referred to as for Owens to cease pushing conspiracy theories in her husband’s loss of life.
“Cease,” she stated in 2025. “That’s it. That’s all I’ve to say. Cease.”
