Candace Owens condemned Erika Kirk’s “utterly indefensible and psychotic” decision to pull out of an event with Vice President JD Vance this week.
“The public should continue to be outraged over this recent lie from Turning Point USA,” Owens, 36, wrote via X on Friday, April 17.
Owens has repeatedly criticized Kirk, 37, for canceling an appearance with Vance, 41, at the University of Georgia on Tuesday, April 14, due to apparent security concerns.
“I was so looking forward to tonight’s event at the @universityofga with our Vice President @JDVance, but after all our family has been through, I take my security team’s recommendations extremely seriously,” Kirk tweeted shortly before the Georgia event was due to start. “Thank you to our amazing Georgia chapter for your support. God bless you all!”
CBS News later cited a Secret Service source in reporting that no “credible threats” were identified by authorities. Per the outlet, Vance chose to move forward with the event on his own after being briefed that the venue was safe.
On Friday, Owens took a break from her ongoing beef with President Donald Trump to accuse Kirk of wasting government resources by canceling her Georgia appearance.
“To recap, Erika Kirk flew into Athens, Georgia from Palm Beach on Tuesday after a weekend bridal shower at Mar A Lago,” Owens tweeted. “She flew in aboard a massive, apartment-sized jet owned by Vegas billionaires. She landed into a terminal which had been secured, since Monday, by our nation’s secret service. There was both a military and police presence waiting at that terminal to escort the VP who was due to land about an hour and 30 minutes after her.”
The conservative commentator went on, “After learning of the crowd size, Erika decided she no longer wanted to do the event. Rather than simply cancelling, she instructed her PR team to make up a demented lie about imminent threats against her travel safety. Again, she was ALREADY IN GEORGIA sitting upon a federally cleared pathway. Her PR agent and the Vice President then shamelessly lectured the audience about these invisible threats, suggesting they were the public’s fault for having criticized her.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Kirk for comment.
During the University of Georgia event, Vance backed up Kirk’s excuse for pulling out so close to showtime.
“Well, first of all, I love Erika. And I know that she did get some threats. And, you know, about two hours ago … I was a little worried that we were going to have to cancel the event because Erika was not going to come, and she was very worried about it,” Vance said. “I said, ‘You know what? Let’s let Erika do what she needs to do for herself and her family.’ The people telling you that Erika wasn’t grieving her husband are full of s***, and we need to be honest. But if your instinct is to go after a young mother because she’s grieving in a way that you find wrong, well, why don’t you stay in your lane and mind your own business?”
Earlier this week, Owens accused Kirk and Turning Point USA of lying about the real reason why she’d dropped out of the campus event.
“This is exhausting. You pulled out because of bad ticket sales. For the same reason TPFaith had to ‘reschedule’ the Pastor’s Summit and various other events quietly,” Owens tweeted at Kirk. “People don’t believe you and don’t line up for you because you struggle to tell the truth about even the most basic facts. Where is the video of Charlie appointing you as CEO weeks before his death?”
Erika’s husband, Turning Point USA cofounder Charlie Kirk, was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on September 10, 2025. He was 31. (Suspected shooter Tyler James Robinson faces an aggravated murder charge and additional felonies. He has not yet entered a plea.)
Owens has repeatedly raised questions about how Erika became the CEO of Turning Point USA following her husband’s death. Earlier this year, she launched a Bride of Charlie miniseries delving into apparent discrepancies in Erika’s childhood and lineage.
Owens previously worked for Turning Point USA as a communications direction from 2017 to 2019. She resigned amid controversy after saying Adolf Hitler’s nationalism was “OK” until he started conquering territories outside of Germany, per contemporary reporting. (Owens later claimed her comments were taken out of context and called Hitler a “homicidal, psychopathic maniac.”)
