Ben Shapiro goes scorched earth on MAGA over Candace Owens, Tucker and Fuentes at TPUSA conference
Ben Shapiro turned on his fellow MAGA podcasters in a fiery display at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference, amid a growing dispute over controversial firebrand Candace Owens.
Shapiro’s turn saw him tear into Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, while also blasting his “friend” Megyn Kelly over what he perceives as her “cowardice” over failing to condemn Owens.
His furious outburst was in response to Owens’ pushing of conspiracy theories about the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk in September.
“These people are frauds, and they are grifters, and they do not deserve your time,” Shapiro raged at the event, which the Right Side Broadcasting Network broadcast.
Shapiro added that he had a “moral obligation to call out” Owens’ theories.
He claimed that Owens was spouting “absolutely baseless trash implicating everyone from French intelligence to Mossad to members of TPUSA in Charlie’s murder, or a cover-up in that murder.”
Currently, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson is the only suspect in the shooting of Charlie Kirk, which took place at Utah Valley University. Prosecutors have claimed that Robinson allegedly carried out the shooting because of Kirk’s political activism.
Meanwhile, Owens has continued to allege that Israeli government agents were behind the shooting. She claims that Kirk was moving away from his well-documented support for the Jewish state, prompting agents to kill him.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied the claims as a “monstrous, big lie.”
Owens is also currently mired in a lawsuit with French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte, whom the podcaster claims was born a man.
Owens recently opened up a second feud with France, after claiming that a French official told her that their country was behind Kirk’s killing and even claimed that plans were being made to assassinate her.
Erika Kirk, the wife of the Turning Point USA founder, has also condemned Owens’ theories and held a four-hour meeting with her on Monday.
“The people who refuse to condemn Candace’s truly vicious attacks, and some of them are speaking here, are guilty of cowardice. Yes, cowardice,” Shapiro said.
He named his “friend” Megyn Kelly in his rant, criticizing her for “characterizing Candace as a young mother and thus shying away from condemning her actions or fibbing about them.”
