In the months since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens has dedicated her podcast to promoting conspiracy theories about his murder on almost a daily basis without offering any credible evidence to back up her wild claims. This week, Erika Kirk broke her silence with an emotional plea to Owens to stop smearing the staff of the Turning Point USA organization that her late husband founded. Her anger is justified.
It's hard to think of a more straightforward murder case than the one against accused assassin Tyler Robinson. If he's been framed, it would have entailed, among many other things, faking forensic evidence that found his DNA on the trigger of the rifle that he owned and disposed of near the site of the shooting; fabricating text messages to his lover in which he confessed to the murder; and manufacturing video surveillance footage. It would also have necessitated the collusion of FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, as well as Robinson's own parents, who presumably would have wanted, for some reason, to see their son executed for a crime he didn't commit.
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