Candace Owens' skirmish with Turning Point USA sums up the right's disinformation predicament

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Candace Owens’ skirmish with Turning Point USA sums up the right’s disinformation predicament
The extreme right-wing podcaster is proving you can’t put the disinformation genie back in the bottle.

Feb. 20, 2026, 6:00 AM EST
By Zeeshan Aleem


(MSNow) Right-wing podcaster Candace Owens has peddled a number of conspiracy theories about the 2025 assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Among other things, Owens, who once worked at TPUSA, has suggested that the FBI, the French Foreign Legion, the Israeli government and even Turning Point staff could be among those involved in Kirk’s death. Now her unsubstantiated claims appear to be sowing discord at TPUSA itself — and, in the process, revealing how right-wing disinformation can hurt the right just as much as any other sector of American society.

The Bulwark recently reported on how Owens appears to be getting “inside TPUSA’s head.” TPUSA has fired several employees recently, and one of them said she believes she was fired in part due to her apparent rejection of mainstream news accounts of how Kirk was killed.

In a video posted on X in February that was shared widely, former TPUSA public relations manager Aubrey Laitsch said she has “a gut feeling that I was terminated from Turning Point because I am questioning the narrative” of Kirk’s death and that “what is being told to us in the mainstream media just really doesn’t add up to me.”

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It also appears that TPUSA staffers are leaking internal material to her. Owens obtained recordings of video chats of Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, who now runs Turning Point USA, and used them on her show as fodder to advance the conspiracy theories. Last week, Owens even said that police should be questioning Erika Kirk.

We don’t know why Laitsch lost her job. But her insinuations illustrate how the right is being hobbled by its abject distrust in institutions. The very fact that Laitsch believes that considering conspiracy theories about Kirk’s death is what got her fired — and wants to share that information publicly — shows how the right is at risk of being cannibalized by its own brain rot. Premier MAGA organizations are being riven by an inability to achieve consensus reality even within their side of the political spectrum. (TPUSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.) ................(more)

https://www.ms.now/opinion/candace-owens-turning-point-erika-charlie-kirk-conspiracy

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1. That's an interesting side effect of their CT "drug".

[Arthur_Frain]

2. Ouroboros Time!

This is the time I’ve been waiting for.

I want to see a few of them realize the golem they have brought forth is going to destroy them as well before it’s over.