{"id":4123,"date":"2026-07-10T08:09:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:09:42","slug":"evil-charlie-kirk-conspiracy-theories-finally-wither-in-court-but-that-still-wont-crush-the-candace-owens-like-grift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4123","title":{"rendered":"Evil Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories finally wither in court \u2014 but that still won’t crush the Candace Owens-like grift"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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.<\/p>\n

Read more Expert debunks claims bullet in Charlie Kirk murder probe didn\u2019t match Tyler Robinson\u2019s rifle<\/a><\/p>\n

That\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Agree with him or not, Kirk epitomized the best of American civic tradition.<\/p>\n

Candace Owens, the grifter podcaster who\u2019s dedicated her popular show to promoting a string of unhinged conspiracy theories about Kirk and Robinson, represents the opposite.<\/p>\n

Owens\u2019 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 \u2014 all out to prove that Robinson was merely a \u201cpatsy\u201d for darker secretive forces.<\/p>\n

Which forces? Need you ask?<\/p>\n

Jewish ones, of course: Owens almost immediately began floating the possibility that Israelis had murdered Kirk.<\/p>\n

Tucker Carlson and other antisemitic podcasters began dipping their toes in these familiar waters, too.<\/p>\n

Bereft of decency, Owens has also regularly implied that Charlie\u2019s wife Erika had something to do with her husband\u2019s death, instigating a raging online mob into harassing and mocking the widow and mother of two young children.<\/p>\n

Owens has spread the idea that Robinson, the 22-year-old gamer, wasn\u2019t even on the Utah Valley University campus when Kirk was shot.<\/p>\n

Well, during pre-trial hearings this week, prosecutors presented surveillance footage of Robinson stalking the campus all that day.<\/p>\n

Owens has often claimed she doesn\u2019t believe Kirk could have been shot with a bullet from the .30-06 rifle that Robinson allegedly used; more likely, she\u2019s insisted, he was killed by an exploding microphone or some other device she conjured up in her demented imagination.<\/p>\n

In court this week, prosecutors presented the medical examiner\u2019s autopsy report that carefully detailed how Kirk had died from a single gunshot wound to the neck.<\/p>\n

We already know that the bolt-action rifle used to assassinate Kirk belonged to Robinson\u2019s grandfather.<\/p>\n

We know that Robinson\u2019s DNA was on the rifle, as well as on the towel found wrapped around the weapon, and that he threw the gun away near the shooting.<\/p>\n

Read more Redacted letter from Tyler Robinson to trans lover accidentally shown in court<\/a><\/p>\n

We know that the hard-left Robinson had an ideological motive to murder Kirk.<\/p>\n

Not only is Robinson on camera casing the school and murder site, but he was also recorded interacting with Turning Point USA employees.<\/p>\n

Oh, and Robinson confessed to both his lover and his parents before turning himself in to the FBI.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the court heard testimony from Lance Twiggs, Robinson\u2019s boyfriend, who recalled the alleged killer fretting that the gun\u2019s serial number would trace it back to him.<\/p>\n

Pretty damning.<\/p>\n

Believing Robinson is a \u201cpatsy\u201d means believing that the White House, the FBI director, local Utah police, medical examiners, Charlie\u2019s widow, a bunch of Charlie\u2019s friends, multiple Turning Point employees, bodyguards, school officials, Robinson\u2019s parents, Robinson\u2019s boyfriend and many others were all in cahoots with whoever was pulling the strings.<\/p>\n

Millions of people will keep on doing just that.<\/p>\n

Conservative commentator Christopher Rufo says this week\u2019s court proceedings will \u201cexpose a lot of the worst grifters and psychopaths on the right, and the audience will eventually feel burned and start to turn on them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re at the top of the market for right-wing conspiracy slop,\u201d he predicted.<\/p>\n

That would be the best outcome.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s unlikely.<\/p>\n

Sure, some genuinely na\u00efve listeners may have been gulled into falling for Owens\u2019 manic nonsense.<\/p>\n

And sure, the trial might suck some of the macabre entertainment value out of the case.<\/p>\n

But conspiracists, often under the impression that \u201cjust asking questions\u201d is a virtue in and of itself, rarely let facts get in the way.<\/p>\n

A conspiracy theory is a never-ending string of half-truths, threaded together to create a narrative that\u2019s impossible to disprove.<\/p>\n

Conspiracy theories only grow with every denial.<\/p>\n

And when they can no longer grow, the conspiracist just moves on to the next enticing topic.<\/p>\n

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What the podcast grifters have probably learned from this sorry episode is that perpetuating \u201cslop\u201d translates into a lot of money and a big audience.<\/p>\n

They saw how many influencers could be silenced for fear of the mob \u2014 and how some, like podcaster Megyn Kelly, would be willing to join their racket.<\/p>\n

Shame alone won\u2019t put a stop to this poison.<\/p>\n

Until the rest of us forcefully stigmatize, mock and explicitly reject the people who spread this garbage, they will persist.<\/p>\n

Read more Tyler Robinson spent weeks plotting Charlie Kirk assassination, asked trans lover about engraver tool for bullets: bombshell recording<\/a><\/p>\n

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at the Washington Examiner. X: @davidharsanyi<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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