WASHINGTON — Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk rebuked conspiracy theorists peddling bonkers claims about her late husband, decrying the toll it’s had on her team.
In the weeks that followed the brutal gunning down of her husband, caught on camera, prominent right-wing figures such as Candace Owens have spewed unfounded claims about his death and raised questions about the funeral arrangements.
“At this point, it’s the conspiracy collection — get it before Christmas,” the Kirk widow bemoaned on Fox News’ “Outnumbered” Wednesday.
“If you want to find and pick me apart, go right ahead. I do not care. I don’t. This was happening before Charlie was murdered. Both of us have been through the ringer,” she added. “But I have seen it firsthand impact the people that I love. And I’m done.”
Kirk described her Turning Point USA team as “family” and underscored that many of them were present when a bullet ripped through her husband while he was engaging with students at Utah Valley University.
“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?” she asked. “They watched my husband get murdered. I have no idea how I would have reacted if I was there that day.”
“My team, they are rocked the core. So why every single day do they have to be dragged through the mud?”
She didn’t mention any specific names.
But her admonition of the conspiracy theories that have haunted her while mourning her late husband comes as her team gears up to address Owens’ head-scratching claims.
Blake Neff, producer of the “Charlie Kirk Show,” announced that his team will give their public rebuttal to Owen’s claims on Dec. 15 — next Monday.
He extended a public invitation to Owens, who has indicated she won’t be able to make it in person or via a video link.
“My husband instantly said, ‘No, you cannot do this Monday,’” Owens claimed on her show. “He runs the household, and he has an important thing going on that day, which involves people that are coming in from overseas.”
Owens, who worked as a communications director for Turning Point USA between 2017 and 2019, has claimed that Charlie was buried in a Catholic cemetery, despite him not being Catholic.
Erika explained that she doesn’t want to reveal where her husband was laid to rest due to fears that bad actors will desecrate his grave.
“Can my babies have one thing where we hold it sacred? Where my husband is laid to rest? Where I don’t have to be worried about some secular revolutionary coming and destroying my husband’s grave while my daughter is sitting there praying,” she lamented.
Owens, who is facing a defamation lawsuit from President Emmanuel Macron’s wife Brigitte for her dubious claims that she’s really a man, has peddled even wilder claims about Charlie.
She’s openly cast doubt on the notion that suspect Tyler Robinson acted alone and ripped into the bizarre messages he allegedly sent to his transgender lover, Lance Twiggs, as fake.
FBI Director Kash Patel has expressed confidence that Robinson is the one who shot Charlie and said that the investigation is still ongoing when pressed about whether he acted alone.
For weeks, Owens has seemingly implied, though not outright alleged, that Israeli intelligence may have had a hand in Charlie’s murder.
Owens has also floated theories that Turning Point USA “betrayed” him and that the US government, which is run by President Trump, was involved.
“It feels like today will be the day that the government can no longer deny it. Charlie Kirk was assassinated and our military was involved,” she wrote on Instagram this week.
The infotainer has cashed in on the millions of views she garnered for spewing her outlandish claims about Charlie.
“Anytime we hear a lead, or anytime we hear anything, we send it to the authorities,” Erika insisted. “No rock will be unturned. I want justice for my husband, for myself, for my family more than anyone else out there.”
