The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Erika Kirk UNLEASHES On Candace Owens

Episode Date: December 10, 2025

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He said he was telling deputies he was. teleported into the vehicle. I don't think that's how that works. You know, and, and you, so, wait, you were teleported in the vehicle and then you just started it and drove it off? I mean, you're missing a key component here, my dude. I mean, it didn't start by itself. You know, just saying it did not start by itself.

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Terms of Conditions Apply. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash, with you. Top of this third hour. So the late Charlie Kirk has a book that is out. It's out now this week. And it was already planned. He had already been writing it. And it was already, I think everything was pretty much done

except for like the illegal reads and all that stuff. You know, the same old stuff in publishing. And so now it's out. And his wife, Erica Kirk, is doing the promoting the book for him this week. And she was on Fox recently just a little bit ago. And for the first time, addressed those conspiracy theories head on. So it's the soundbite you've been waiting for. Listen.

Come after me. Call me names. I don't care. Call me what you want. Go down that rabbit hole. Whatever. But when you go after my family, my Turning Point USA family, my Charlie Kirk show family, when you go after the people that I love and you're making hundreds and thousands of dollars every single episode going after the people that I love because somehow they're in on this,

No. You know, I have to say it. I've never seen you like this. No, I'm very, this is righteous anger because this is not okay. It's not healthy. This is a mind virus. Yes, I believe in our judicial system. I do.

We have a hell of a team working on this. Excuse my French. But this is not okay. So you want to put these people back in the box where they've been creeping from? I don't care what box you're in. But just know that your words are very powerful, and we are human. My team are not machines, and they're not robots. They are human.

We have more death threats on our team and our side than I have ever seen. I have kidnapping threats. I have, you name it, we have it. And my poor team is exhausted, and every time they bring this back up, what are we supposed to do, relive that trauma all over again? They watched my husband get murdered. I have no idea how I would have reacted if I was there that day and thank the good Lord that I did not have to see that happen

but my team they are rocked to the core so why every single day did they have to be dragged through the mud analyzed, hyper-analyzed you know sit in the corner and cry I'm going to tell you. Sometimes you see things in life and you wonder

well what does this mean? Why does this person person come from this background? Why does this person, like I, you know, if you're not familiar with Erica Kirk's story, she's a pageant girl. And I'm not saying that. That's not a pejorative. I'm, I'm just, that's, you know, she was in pageant for a long time. And I think she won a number of really impressive titles. And when you start young in that industry, that circuit, you develop the habit of always being very put together, always being very ready, especially at the upper levels. You're always ready. You're always put together.

Remember when people were trying to criticize her for how she dabbed her eyes, that's literally, that's a TV thing too. It's pageant TV thing. You do that so you don't mess up your makeup and smear everything. And she already had a business, a Christian business. She did apparel and accessories before she ever met Charlie Kirk. She was successful. She had a business in New York where it's hard to create and maintain a business. And she was already successful in her own right.

And she was always very put together because of that pageant background, right? And when you, it all, it made sense to me for the first time when we were at the funeral service because I thought, oh, all of these things in her life have prepared her for the storm. Isn't it interesting how when you get in the storm, you suddenly realize how all the things in your life prepare you for that what she said here and this is the first time that she's ever addressed

any of those ridiculous conspiracy theories and she'd I mean righteous indignation and deed and as I said on X with this she

has every right to be right she has every right to be angry and she's angry in the classiest of ways here. There's such a clear difference between her and these grifters like Candice Owens. And as I said, Candice Owens was an Al Sharpton protégé who was doxing conservatives in 2016. She can't compete.

Her poorly researched conspiracy toching theories, they can't compete with this. real and righteous indignation. It's just not possible. And honestly, kudos to the way that Erica Kirk addressed it. I don't think she needs to say anything else to that grifter. No more pearls for swine after that. There was an interview that Erica Kurt gave too.

This was a, when she started promoting again, Charlie's book. And, and you know that's part of the contract, too, when you come out with a book, you promote it for that first week. And I know that she's probably, you know, really pushing to, you know, fulfill all of those obligations.

She was on this book summit thing. It was the New York Times Deal Book Summit. And this was Wednesday of last week. And she was asked about the Second Amendment. And, you know, in light of the last week. what happened her husband. And she outright rejected it. She said, it is not a gun problem. It's a human, a deeply human problem. And she said, you will always have individuals that will always resort to violence. She says that she doesn't wish what she has endured upon anyone.

And she says, I support the Second Amendment as well. That right there, telling you what, folks, that's pretty impressive. That's strength. Candice Owens looks like a clown compared to that. That's, that can't compete. Next, sweep the stage. Get the, get the Sandman at the Apollo and pull that clown off the stage. She's done.

and it's super powerful. Super, super powerful. She also said this too, because, you know, they got this trial with this murderer coming up. This is cut 24. Listen to this. We have a trial coming up. Unfortunately, that trial is in a long time.

What I want to be mindful of for people is that this was a murder. This is not something that what I don't have happened is for this to taint the jury pool I don't I want my husband I want justice for my husband more than any other person on the internet any other person in this world that was my husband

and the father to my kids we will make sure and we have been turning over every single stone going down every single lead So when these people say, oh, they haven't talked about this or done that, how do you know? You're not in those meetings with the attorneys and the prosecutors. You have no idea. And why would we-

She just gave me an idea. What, I mean, honestly, is it, can we ask if Candace Owens is trying to help Charlie Kirk's killer by tainting the jury pool with her stupid, poorly researched absolute trash rat conspiracy theories? That's a fair question, isn't it? Super fair question. Maybe she can ask her gay husband about it. Oh, don't expect. Don't. Not even.

I just get, you see someone who's hurting and I see hurting. I see people trying to hurt, hurt people, and I want to go after the people who are trying to hurt, hurt people. I, enough, enough. No more pearls before swine. We've had enough of the swine. Have we not? We want a fair trial. We want a trial and we want this guy to capital punishment, I think, serves it best.

But that was powerful. It's super powerful stuff. But I was thinking, like I said in the beginning, you know, it's class, it's grace. And for the people who are saying, well, you know, she's out there an awful lot. You know what? Let me tell you something. She is in this industry and because of the nature of things. Where do you think that she can go to get a job if she needs one?

Nowhere. it's hard it's hard when you are stereotyped as a conservative especially in today's world so strike while the iron's hot sure up what you can for you and your family so that you don't have to worry about that in the future i don't begrudge anybody that i don't and for the people who get mad at her because she smiles when she's out in public i feel you know you must be touched by luck to not know grief you must not know what it's like to find just a moment of peace in a storm where you can just smile you know apparently widows are never supposed to smile they're supposed to stay mired in their grief and suffering for forever that's what those people criticizing her are saying i'm done with that

i'm done i don't want to hear from a single fecal bird i'm not going to say that word i usually say criticizing a widow leave it alone have class Leave it alone. But I really do think that she's been prepared for this, maybe not knowingly her whole life. I don't know if you've ever seen this. Oh, gosh, what is the, um, let me look this up. It's an M. Knight Shammelin movie. And it wasn't actually one of his more well-received ones, but I actually think it's brilliant.

It was called Lady in the Lake. I'm not going to give it all away, but I really, if you. you've never watched it you should because it gets in one of her interviews she mentioned Nehemiah which interestingly that was my morning devotional that's odd now that I think about it she mentioned Nehemiah when she was on Fox earlier as an example of teamwork and I'm like holy cow that literally was my devotional this morning it's very Nehemiah-esque lady in the lake and you have a group of people living in an apartment complex dealing with a supernatural event. And every single person has their own eccentricities. And in the end of the movie,

it has the same revelation as like the usual suspects, you know, when the detective realized who Kaiser Sose actually is. You have that level of revelation towards the end of this movie, where you see a great puzzle being placed piece by piece together before you by all of these people's, these apartment complex dwellers, all of their little eccentricities. Each of them, realize now that there was design in it, that there was a design in the way that they were all living here. There was design in the way that they have all of their little eccentricities. There was a design in the way that they do everything that they do and they've come to know everything that they know and they have the relationships with each other that they have. And it is a really

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So they think that he actually molded his skull that way. So thank heavens for some brains there. We got more in store. Stay with us. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash, with you. I haven't kept track with all of that. gropeer ink lately unless it just like comes up into my timeline and I think this is for the people who are super hyper online because the rest of you who are normal people with all of your brain cells

you don't god love you for holding down the same line holding it down like we we need you protect you at all costs so I haven't really been following a lot of the griper ink stuff lately. So I haven't been able to keep track of who is responsible for killing Charlie Kirk. You know, he's got a book that has been planned for some time that just came out. And he, his wife, I know, is doing the promo tour for it, which can't be easy. But I'm looking, people have been very helpfully keeping track because, you know, can I just say, I think, and I haven't been talking a lot about Candice Owens because I just think that it's a griftery trash.

I mean, I just, I don't elevate someone who is a protege of Al Sharpton, who as recently as 2016, was literally, had founded a website doxing conservatives and going after people. And then when they realized, you know, can make all this money, being a Republican, then decided to become a Republican and apply the grift there. And that's all fact, by the way. That's all fact. Some of y'all got taken in. I know. But if you're keeping track, apparently she has accused everybody from the French government, the French Foreign Legion, the 13th Brigade specifically, Israel, Israel operatives, Netanyahu himself, let's see, GIGN, Jewish donors, the U.S. government, the feds, the FBI, Deep State, CIA, Turning Point USA, his own wife, Erica Kirk, Blake Neff, Pastor Ron McCoy, Josh Hammer, Freemasons, Yahoo, like the website, okay, the Bolsheviks, Egypt. I mean, the list is lengthy. Oh, wait, that's right. The latest was the U.S. military. Isn't that the thing that came out yesterday?

She has no clue. She has no clue. I mean, honestly, Candice Owens has made more bank off of Charlie Kurt getting killed than I think anybody else. It looks suspicious, quite honestly. It looks super suspicious. I have never seen anybody try to lift themselves up by using someone else's corpse more than the gun control stuff. this is like I haven't even seen gun control advocates stand on dead bodies as much as I've seen Candace Owens stand on dead bodies to try to gain advantage for herself and elevate herself as she is

on the legacy of Charlie Kirk and that's fact so the next in the whole griper establishment I came across this soundbite and it does it pains me to say this because we were always friendly I would never consider us like best friends or anything. But I used to do election coverage with Tucker before he had his own show at Fox. I remember when he had $3 million from Foster Freeze, who I met and knew. And he was fantastic. This was back in the day when Daily Caller first was created. Tucker got money from Foster Freez, created Daily Caller.

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Thank you. So this is, he's doing, is this not when he was speaking in Doha, right? This was like some other forum. And he was asked about Bill Ackman and people like Barry Weiss, Bill Ackman. And it, and you know, Ackman, he's this hedge fund manager. He's a billionaire, super smart dude. His wife, I think, by the way, is. like friends with Brad Pitt there was like this rumor fun fact his his wife is beautiful there was this rumor that his wife was like Brad Pitt's girlfriend for a while and it's just she's like this um professor uh she's an art professor super pretty and everyone was like had all these rumors about Brad Pitt and uh uh Nary Oxman and it's just Bill Ackman's wife they're all friends anyway so they're on stage and he's he's talking about I guess the media landscape in this forum. And this is what he had to say. Listen. Impressive. Like Bill Ackman, same thing. Bill Ackman's worth like $8 billion or something. It's fine.

I don't care of Bill Ackman, whatever Bill Ackman does. But I know Bill Ackman, he's kind of dumb. He's not ever created anything. He's totally non-creative. How do these people wind up running our biggest institutions? And the reason that's significant is because if you pay close enough attention and you realize that the people running everything are stupid, Then you think, well, actually, the system is truly rigged on behalf of people who do not deserve these positions at all. It's not just that I disagree with Barry Weiss or she's calling me names or I calling her names or whatever. It's like in no fair system and no meritocracy would Barry Weiss rise above secretary. Like actually, and I mean that.

I've been in this business my whole, I've been in this business since Barry Weiss was breastfeeding, okay? There's no world in which Barry Weiss rises to the top of a news network except a rigged world. well I mean I guess he just can't imagine where anybody would rise up to be the top of a news agency without Muslim money I don't know I mean just you know thinking out loud here I thought that was a very odd thing for him to say he sounds resentful and better and that's not a good look for anybody Barry Weiss was at the New York Times and she was very good at what she did and she was very I mean she she's more of a moderate conservative but she made them all look like you know straight up Bolshevik over at the New York Times. And she ended up being run out because she was too conservative for the old gray lady. And then she created the free press and then that got purchased. And she's made some really smart decisions. The stuff that she does gets a lot of traction. People are really sharing their articles. I mean, you can see the traffic online. And she didn't have to go out and get Katari money or get Iranian money either. Just a really quick fun thing here if you wanted to look at it. Because

it's also incestual. So the, a lot of the money that came into creating the Tucker Carlson network was from Omead, ummead Malik, who is Pakistani and Iranian. And he created, he has a capital, a firm that's called 1789 capital. And I think Don Jr. actually just joined. And it's part of the Rockbridge Network. He created it along with other people, including Rebecca Mercer, et cetera. They raised a lot, they raised a lot of money. And he raised, He's been behind a lot of the funding for the Tucker Carlson network. And also, what is it, that nicotine pouch thing, the Alp thing? But no, it's like that, yeah, it's like the new thing.

And they, apparently they're a part of that. Cash Patel apparently co-founded or co-created that with Tucker Carlson, which I think is weird. It's just all so incestuous. But he got a lot of money from a foreign government or from, He got a lot of foreign money. In fact, a lot of payments through this, and I'm looking at, I mean, Axios had a piece on it, but also it's just open records, you know. I mean, there's, you can go to Open Secrets and you can run all of the, how the money shifts and you can research it all. There, for instance, some of the payments for acquiring different things for his company were run through a Katari State Investment entity.

It's the Al UD Media Fund. that's where all of the accusations about Qatari money come from and I mean it sounds like it's part I mean it almost sounds like it's part of like a government coordinated media laundering campaign honestly that's kind of what it sounds like

so I don't know if any of that's ever been disclosed publicly or discussed but I just think that when you have things like that in your financial portfolio maybe you should tone down your resentment of other people's success before you start lobbying bombs at them because they're Jewish because let's be honest

what do Bill Ackman and Barry Weiss have in common? They're Jewish, right? They're the quote-unquote hummus eaters that Tucker Carlson talks about, right? Isn't that what that is? I mean, it seems like the only objection is that they're Jewish. I don't know. I feel like if Israel had given him money, then he would be like singing the praises of Israel or something. I don't know. I just can't, I can't explain it. It's very difficult when you see someone that you thought you at least kind of knew. act in a way that is completely contrary to everything that you actually initially assumed about them. I mean, it's just, it's, to say that these, that these people are dumb and Bill Ackman is not a dumb guy. He is very, very smart financially. He's made a lot of really good decisions, some which might have seemed really risky at the time, but he knew what he was doing. He's made a lot of really good decisions, and he, he's identified undervalued assets, and he built this company. And Barry Weiss did something similar with the media entity. So to sit here and say that they are dumb and then to try to like use your age over it that she was breastfeeding when he

was getting started. Yes. And she didn't have to take Katari money. I mean, she didn't have to be in the pocket of a government administration in order to find success. She didn't have to sell out in order to find success. She didn't have to turn and start, you know, repeating, you know, really, you know, weird rhetoric in order to try to get a slice of the digital audience pie. It just seems resentful and bitter. And, you know, honestly, I think that that was, that sounded silly and emotional. He sounded, I mean, he sounded like an emotional woman. Well, you know, since she was breastfeeding, I've been out here. And she's further than you. So what does that say? I mean, that's kind of a self-owned. Is it not?

Like, what happens with people? This is why I hate D.C. And Lorraine reminds me, too. What is this, is this what we're talking about when, is, is Tucker hating America because he's criticizing other people? Because people who criticize Tucker are accused of hating America. But remember, that only goes one way. He can, he can not even criticize. I don't even think either of those are fair or criticisms. To call them criticisms means that I'm accepting that they have some form of logic, and I just don't. It just sounds resentful and over-emotional. It seems like he's violating the rule that he expects everyone to follow when it concerns him, but he doesn't want to follow it when it concerns everywhere else. There's no enemies to the right thing. It seems like he's

got a lot of enemies, and they're all Jewish, at least in his eyes. I find that incredibly sad. we live in an age where people can create media companies right and left and you know and they don't have to necessarily disclose everything and he's using his platform to do more to tear down the right than anything I've ever seen I don't see any of the thing if he hasn't been talking about any of these elections Tucker Carlson hasn't had he's not hasn't been talking about any of these special elections he's not talking about redistricting he's not talking about the lay of the land he's having Nazi twinks on his show and he doesn't have the ball to push back and actually ask serious questions. And all of the people who are just desperate to be in business with him, none of them have the balls or the spines to point this out because they're terrified over jeopardizing business relationships. They don't want to jeopardize their ad network. They don't want to jeopardize any kind of investment.

They don't want to jeopardize any kind of association, professional association, that elevates them in the digital sphere. So they say nothing. and they pretend they don't see it. They say nothing. But this has done more to cause problems on the right than anything that I've seen from the left to date. We're all agreed that the left is crazy. But now what I see are people, it's interesting because it's like right after Cutter gets involved

and, you know, Cutter's been spending a ton of money. We're not supposed to talk about that. We're supposed to obsess and have a fetish with Israel and APEC, even though they donate a pittance. They spend a pittance on lobbying. compared to Cutter. And it's very easy to find these monetary amounts on this thing called the internet, but we're not supposed to talk about that. We're only supposed to talk about the Jews, and we're supposed to talk about APEC bad,

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