Candace Owens investigates Erika Kirk's Romania ties and Turning Point USA staff connections to mass shootings
Solo presenter episode of the Bride of Charlie series on the Candace Owens channel.
Summary
Candace Owens continues her ongoing investigation into Erika Frantzve (Erika Kirk), the widow of Charlie Kirk, focusing on Erika's connections to Romania, Arizona State University, and Tyler Bowyer. Owens presents a detailed timeline running from 2009 through 2012, arguing that Erika, Tyler Bowyer, Erika's cousin Dennis Frantzve, and Lori Frantzve's company AZ Tech International all had overlapping presences in Romania at the same time as the Black Sea Rotational Force and US military operations there. She further argues that Jeffrey Epstein was funneling money into Arizona State University while facilitating Romanian models beginning in 2009. Owens also raises the point that multiple Turning Point USA figures — including Erika, Rob McCoy, and current COO Justin Stryfe — each have personal proximity to major mass shooting events, presenting this as a pattern she finds suspicious.
Key Takeaways
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Introduction and Romania question
Candace Owens: Shabbat shalom. Hello, Blake Nef. How are you doing, sir? Question for you if you can get around to answering it — Romania. Blake, what goes on in Romania? Why are so many people in this story tied to Romania?
We did send Erika an email on February 24th, so eight days ago, asking specifically how many times and for what duration she had visited Romania in the past. We got no response. Well, we did get a response — we got a response from a lawyer saying that she was getting ready for the State of the Union and didn't have time to reply. That was eight days ago. I feel like she's had some time to reply, but she's chosen not to. Her memory does seem to get spotty around this time in her life. She doesn't remember how she met Tyler Bowyer. Alas, we are left to investigate matters on our own.
Update: Erika's middle school confirmed
So, welcome back to Bride of Charlie. We have nothing to hide. First and foremost, a quick update for you guys right at the top. We were able to determine which middle school Erika went to. It's called Cakopa Middle School — I think that's how you say it. We did receive an email tip from someone who informed us that Erika attended Cakopa Middle School. We have not yet received the yearbooks — we will add that — but we can at least fill in those blank school years that we had on our timeline from 2000 to 2003. That is a school out in Scottsdale, and we were able to further confirm this because the middle school once tweeted this, referring to her as an alumna. They wrote: "Thanks alumni Erika Frantzve for sharing the importance of being an everyday hero. Cakopa pride." So another piece of the puzzle has been locked in place.
Romanian history: the fall of communism and the Ceaușescu execution
Now let's jump right back into Romania, because I just need to know what's going on there. It seems like people are having a lot of fun. Who exactly is Tyler Bowyer working with in Parliament in Romania? Why is the Black Sea Rotational Force coming from Reno, Nevada in particular — that's where the majority were coming from?
I think first we should back up and give you a little bit of important Romanian history. We reminded you yesterday that in 1989, when Dr. Jerri Frantzve is itching to get out there, the Berlin Wall came down. With it, of course, what transpired was a lot of corruption rampant in the East — people going in there, plundering, taking what they wanted. In Romania that same year, on Christmas Day — I kid you not, there was something so dark about this — on Christmas Day of 1989, the then-president Nikolai Ceaușescu and his wife Elena Ceaușescu were actually ruthlessly murdered after a show trial. Just like the Nuremberg trials, if you actually go back — they were just show trials. Nobody was actually trying to figure out if there was guilt and presenting evidence. It was: you're already guilty, we're just going to shoot you and kill you.
So this was supposed to be the end of communism, and the communist leaders had to go as well. Nikolai and Elena were quite literally lined up and shot, and it was all filmed. I'm not going to show you the shooting, but I am going to show you just a little historical snippet so you can understand just how absurd the trial was and just how inhumane the verdict was.
The trial is brief and largely for show. It lasts about two hours and takes place without any real possibility for defense or appeal. Ceaușescu himself refuses to recognize the court and calls it illegal. But it doesn't matter. The tribunal finds both him and Elena guilty.
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The sentence for both is death by firing squad, and the execution will happen immediately. Straightaway, Nikolai tries to appeal the decision, but he's denied. Before being led out of the room, Nikolai turns to the guards and says he wants to be executed alongside Elena. They accept.
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Meanwhile, a soldier returns with rope to tie their hands, but neither Nikolai nor Elena wants to be restrained. Both argue with the soldiers, saying there's no need for it and that they're not going to run. But again, they're denied. They're then led out into the courtyard and placed against a wall to the barracks.
Candace Owens: You can fill in the blanks regarding what happens next. Now, you might be asking, why were they executed in this manner? You shouldn't ask those questions. This is how freedom is spread. The West is the best — it's always kind of the same thing. We show up and say we're going to make things better because things are oppressive, and we always do make things better. We love a vacuum of power. There's no leadership. We killed Gaddafi. We arrested Nicolás Maduro. And in that vacuum of leadership, the oligarchs move in. They plunder. They steal. They take the oil. Did you see that headline, by the way? Just honorably mentioning this — after he gets arrested, Venezuela ships its first cargo of oil over to Israel for the first time in however many years. Yeah, that's kind of the point. Oil, silver, gold. When a country is collapsed, especially artificially, it becomes the wild, wild West because at least temporarily there are no rules. Gangsters and banksters can move in, monopolize resources, and establish industries.
We are always told that whatever came before those oligarchs was desperation, that it was evil — sheer evil, much more evil than crony capitalism. Those are our two choices: you're either going to get communism or you're going to get crony capitalism. Debt slavery, or a government that has a bunch of power and people that are starving. There's nothing in between. It's the left-versus-right false dialectic. I think both options suck, and it is an intentional false dialectic — the same people stay in power getting us screaming at each other.
Romania under communism and EU accession
Anyway, Romania in particular — under communist rule, Nikolai had banned abortion. He had eliminated private and foreign usury. He even banned gambling, referring to it as a Western decadence. Could you imagine a world without the freedom to gamble? Terrible. The West is the best. We go in there, we spread that democracy, and of course deliver these people slot machines.
On January 1st, 2007 — eight years after Elena and Nikolai were shot — Romania officially joined the EU alongside Bulgaria. If you have ever wondered what the European Union is, it's basically a bureaucracy that sits on top of another bureaucracy. If you are a citizen of Europe, not only are you subject to your own country's laws, but there's also another body that sits in Brussels that can tell your country what it can or cannot do — it sits above your country's laws. Imagine for Americans: we elect representatives to go to DC and pass laws, and then there's just an outside bureau up in Canada that says, "That's a nice law, but that doesn't work for us because we have our own laws." That's the EU in a nutshell. Unbelievably corrupt. Deals done in back rooms. Same thing everywhere.
Romanian gambling laws, the EU, and US military presence
In 2009, just two years after they joined the EU, the Romanian Parliament passes a law to regulate gambling. They decide you will now need a license to operate a casino — which basically means you have to spend a lot of money to get this license to become a licensed operator. In short, that's crony capitalism: only rich people are going to even be able to afford it. But also in that same order, they did criminalize online gambling. Then the EU Commission gets involved and says, "Actually, we want to edit this and allow online gambling to happen." Keep in mind that in 2009 and 2010, when this is all going down, the United States also announces that we're going to put a military base in Romania. Interesting timing. At the same exact time that this gambling monopoly is getting settled in Romania for rich people, America says we are going to officially set up a base.
In 2010, the EU forces the online gambling restrictions to be removed. And we know that in 2010, the Black Sea Rotational Force arrives — and so does Tyler Bowyer. Tyler Bowyer makes his first appearance in Romania at the same time in 2010.
Lori Frantzve's AZ Tech International — a description examined
I will also remind you again that in 2010, Lori Frantzve reinstates AZ Tech International. We were able to finally find a description of what AZ Tech International does. It was up on the Everyday Heroes website in her bio, which has since been pulled down, but they go into detail regarding what AZ Tech does. Let me read the second paragraph.
It says that Lori, for the past 12 years of her career, has been focused on pioneering research and development on disruptive cyber technologies for applications in relationship to the way humans think and the importance of assessing what happens if type technologies truly addressing the humanitarian side of the equation. AZ Tech, a science and engineering environment, has been at the pinnacle of creating a hybrid cyber, electrical, mechanical capability to address life sustainability and mitigation strategies in the event there is partial to complete shutdown of power. This has led her and her incredible engineering team to create multiple patents in the predictability and cyber analytic area in support of the Department of Defense, the DOE, and state government relative to sustainability of critical infrastructure protection.
It's a word pretzel. She's saying a lot of words and keeps throwing "sustainability" in the middle. So it's like: sustainable functional way to monitor the sustainable functional technologies and working with the Department of Defense to do supercalifragilistic things. Nothing. It's just a word pretzel. I would love to interview her or Erika to deeply understand it. I just want to get real cerebral with them — explain it to me like I'm two.
2011 timeline: the Black Sea force, Reno connections, and student researchers in Romania
Let's now pick up in 2011. The Black Sea Rotational Force is doing their thing in Constanța. And I just want to stress how interesting it is to me that the majority of the men are coming from Reno, Nevada — the capital of casino and gambling. Laws are loosening up, or rather monopolizing, in Romania. Here is an article which mentions that the chosen Marines were sent, the majority from that area. It tells us that the unit, part of the Black Sea Rotational Force 11, has trained militaries in Bulgaria, Romania, and Macedonia with both lectures and applied experience in ways to handle situations ranging from riot control to roadside bombs. A unit of six Marines from Reno, part of the Black Sea Rotational Force 11, have been training military forces in Eastern Europe. They're training in counterinsurgency techniques.
We're just missing one piece of the puzzle. What about the researchers — the Dr. Frantzve type students? There always has to be a group of student researchers at the same time. And some arrive also from Reno, Nevada. This article, dated May 4th, 2011, says: "Romania students will give lessons at schools and help teachers." This year's cohort of students includes two Nevada graduates — Alex Redai and Julie Chris — and two graduate special Nevada students. Though not yet formally enrolled in the graduate program, they're going out there anyway. Jenny Sales just finished her undergraduate degree and Amber Herda just finishing hers, both of the University of Texas. Nevada and Reno students are going out to Romania.
Now, this all could just be a happy coincidence — unless you've come to the realization that Nevada in particular, Vegas and Reno, working on behalf of Tel Aviv, is actually running Washington, DC. We live in a gambling empire. That is what America is controlled by.
Tyler Bowyer elected to Arizona Board of Regents, Erika Frantzve enrolls at ASU
We're in 2011. Tyler Bowyer's fresh back from his trip to Romania. He is still a student, I should mention, at Arizona State University. In April of 2011, at the end of his spring semester, he is elected by the Arizona Senate to serve as a student representative to the Arizona Board of Regents. The state senate confirmed ASU undergraduate Tyler Storm Bowyer as the new student regent, beginning a two-year term on July 1st. The Board of Regents is the governing body of Arizona's public university system — they're in charge of policies.
Lo and behold, after Tyler is put into place as the student representative for Arizona State University, Erika Kirk — Erika Frantzve — enrolls into Arizona State University for her final year of college. There is just so much synergy happening. Because guess who is a lieutenant colonel Marine at this time over at the Black Sea Rotational Force, helping to rebuild Romania? Erika's cousin.
Dennis Frantzve in Romania and the Afghanistan connection
There is a Marine named Dennis Frantzve. He is from Chicago. He was in retirement — a retired reservist — and then he decided to come out of retirement for this. He wanted to go to Constanța and help set things up. I'm wondering if he and Tyler Bowyer crossed paths. And before he retired, he was actually stationed in Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom — yes, the same exact operation that Lori Frantzve of AZ Tech International, whatever it does, wins an award for. I wonder if Lori Frantzve and Dennis Frantzve ran into each other. He was also stationed with a Sergeant Bowyer who has since passed away. Were these families connected going way back?
Speaking of Afghanistan — speaking of Reno and Vegas — the troops that came back all said that they were tasked with guarding poppy fields. We sent our boys out there to guard flowers. That is so weird. Remember, this was before the opioid crisis hits. And the home of the opioid crisis was Tel Aviv — the Sackler family. I've always wondered how Tel Aviv, which doesn't actually grow any poppy flowers, was able to get enough of those poppy seeds to cause an entire opioid crisis. Who was in control of transporting all of those flowers during a time of war?
The Kovett family and the Nevada transportation command in Afghanistan
What we do know is that it was Captain Curtis Kovett who was stationed in Afghanistan — and that is Andrew Kovett's brother. They sent military police from Nevada to head up the transportation company from Afghanistan. Curtis Kovett was the commander of the 593rd Nevada National Guard Transportation Company. He commanded Bulgarian soldiers — 260 men — based at Camp Phoenix in Kabul. Curtis Kovett was administratively responsible for directing those soldiers through 100 convoy missions across four months, transporting personnel and supplies through the highly dangerous environment of Kabul. He was the regional command captain.
He wasn't the only Kovett there. He was also serving with his first cousin, Robert Kovett — that's Andrew's cousin — at the exact same time. Robert Kovett was the commander of the 485th Military Police. If you're wondering why they were commanding Bulgarians and Romanians, it's because everything from Afghanistan was running through Romania and Bulgaria, with emphasis on Romania.
Erika describes Romania as a halfway point from Afghanistan
I know this because Erika actually did a podcast in 2020, reflecting on her time in Romania in 2012 or 2013. In this podcast, she's speaking with someone who was stationed in Romania and she's asking him if the setup is the same as when she was there.
Erika Frantzve: Gosh, I have all the photos of when we were on the base too. How are the Romanian troops? Because you guys share a base with them, don't you?
Podcast guest: We do, yeah. We had Canadians there for a while too.
Erika Frantzve: Wow.
Podcast guest: Yeah. It's a NATO joint base, so there were troops from mostly America and Romania, but from other places too.
Erika Frantzve: Now, is that still kind of like a halfway drop-off point too for troops from Afghanistan?
Podcast guest: It is. It's part of that operation.
Erika Frantzve: Yeah, because I remember that was going on back then and I was like, gosh, what a bittersweet base for troops that are coming or going.
Candace Owens: So Romania is the halfway drop-off base from Afghanistan. Interesting. Elsewhere in that same interview, Erika reflects upon her distant cousin — she means Dennis Frantzve — who showed her around the base in Romania when she got there.
Erika Frantzve: The reason I even went over there is that one of my — on my dad's side, his extended family, like a cousin — he was a part of a tour of duty over there. And that's how I went over there in 2013. When he was over there, we did the same thing — he showed us the orphanages we work with, the hospital we helped rebuild. Amazing, amazing humanitarian things that no one talks about that our troops are doing over there. Anyway, long story short, fell in love — I don't know if you went there — fell in love with what they call placement centers. The Antonio placement center.
Podcast guest: Yes.
Erika Frantzve: And these kids are phenomenal and they're precious and they just want to be loved on.
Coincidences in the timeline accumulate
Candace Owens: Erika, there is just so much synergy building. I find myself wondering if the Kovetts and the Frantzves and the Bowyers may have all run into each other in Romania. It's much more likely that Erika just happened to enroll in Arizona State University for her final year of college a mere months after Tyler Bowyer is elected by the Arizona Senate to be the student representative to their Board of Regents — after he's hanging out with models and politicians in Constanța and Dennis Frantzve is nearby. I'm sure this is all a happy coincidence and she also just really can't remember how or when she met him.
2011 timeline summary
Let's bring in our 2011 timeline. Tyler Bowyer is elected undergraduate representative in April. On May 4th, college students from the University of Nevada Reno — and some from the University of Texas, the graduate students not yet formally enrolled in the program — are going to Romania. On June 12th, the Black Sea Rotational Force, described as Marines from Reno, will be training countrymen in the Black Sea. Erika's cousin Dennis Frantzve, a retired lieutenant colonel from Chicago, will be there. In September, Erika enrolls into Arizona State University for her final year. Nobody knows how, but she is able to graduate magna cum laude. She has the same thing her mother had — slips and falls, becomes a genius — and manages a double major.
In November, this is her comeup: Erika wins the Miss Arizona competition. That makes her Miss Arizona for the next calendar year. Captain Curtis Kovett is the key commander of Nevada's Army National Guard transportation company. He has Bulgarian soldiers working under him, and they are running things through Romania. Robert Kovett, his cousin, simultaneously commands the 485th Military Police Company in Afghanistan. 2011 concludes, and Miss Erika Frantzve, the pageant queen, has arrived.
2012: Miss Arizona, Everyday Heroes, and Romania
2012 is her crown year. The first thing she does in 2012 as the queen is she just starts helping kids — she's got to help kids immediately, always, forever. What these companies or organizations or projects actually do, nobody can really tell.
In January, her year as Miss Arizona begins. In February, Everyday Heroes Like You begins what's known as Johnny's Locker Ministry. Here is Erika in her own words.
Erika Frantzve: Today marks a day of renewed hope for all those who have put up a fight for their life. I am blessed and honored to be here today to present to you all the second Johnny's Locker. I first want to give thanks to my inspiration, Johnny Bryant. I've been raised that everything in life happens for a reason and that God has people come into our lives — whether it be for a week, a month, or even just a season — so that they can teach us a life lesson.
Johnny is a young man with steadfast faith and unyielding dreams. He is driven, and through his courage and strong will I am able to bring forth this contribution to you today. Johnny's Locker is an Everyday Heroes Like You program targeted towards enhancing the lives of children and teens undergoing life-altering and various emotional hardships that reside in hospitals, shelters, or protective facilities across the country. Our mission is to bring Johnny Bryant's courage to afflicted youth, to serve as a reminder that they are not alone throughout this dramatic time in their life. By taking something from the locker, I want each individual to know that they are also taking with them the love and support of others who care about them overcoming any obstacle that they face in life.
Candace Owens: You get the idea. They're going to fill up the locker and it's going to have gifts for children.
In May, she graduates magna cum laude from Arizona State University. Per her LinkedIn, she earned a double bachelor of science in political science and international relations — so she shifted her major at some point. Then Erika, because she qualifies, competes in the Miss USA pageant on May 30th, which I believe is in Las Vegas, at the Hollywood Resort and Casino Theater in Las Vegas — very appropriate.
On June 7th of 2012, Erika teams up with Tracy Martin. Tracy says they met backstage and just decided to do some good together. Tracy is making handbags — what we refer to as a serial entrepreneur, life coach, does a little bit of everything. Twenty-five dollars from every bag you buy goes to Everyday Heroes.
In July, we find Erika featured in a music video for Emerson Drive that went pretty viral — "She's My Kind of Crazy." Her boyfriend Tyler Sanford is alongside her, also cast in that music video.
Erika and proximity to the Aurora, Colorado shooting
Also in July is the time frame when Erika had a friend in a theater during the Batman shooting that took place in Aurora, Colorado. This was something that bugged me because there were a lot of Turning Point people who were adjacent to shootings — meaning they knew someone or they happened to be there. More about that later.
There is a tweet from the handle "Real Miss Arizona USA" — and I should remind you that handle is like the POTUS handle on X: it changes depending on who holds the title that year. So this is actually Erika tweeting back at someone who is saying to her, "I'm disappointed that you have not acknowledged the theater shooting in Colorado." Erika replies: "One of my best friends was in the theater. Although my acknowledgment has not been blasted via social media, it's been more on a personal level."
I would like to know who her best friend was who was in that theater. I don't know many people — I don't know any people — who can sit down and say: my husband was assassinated in broad daylight, and also my friend was in the theater during the Batman shooting in Aurora, Colorado. As I said, more on that later.
Everyday Heroes visits Romania; Colonel Busher; General Salazar
In August of 2012, Everyday Heroes Like You visits the Black Sea Air Support team in Constanța, Romania. Erika acknowledges this is the year she went there. In November, the Romanian Angels project officially begins in partnership with the US Marines. She is working with Colonel Otto Busher — she thanks him on her website. And yes, this is the Colonel Otto Busher who will be accused of running a brothel and trafficking children. No doubt Erika knew him; she thanks him on her website.
The other person she thanks is Major General Hugo E. Salazar. He is also from Arizona. He formerly worked in narcotics — in 1994 he was on a joint task force for narcotics. That's giving me Mitch Snow telling us about Fort Huachuca and how generals were working with the cartels in the 1990s. General Salazar gets accused of being incredibly corrupt. And when people tell me they're working to stop drugs at the border, I find myself wondering: are you working to stop it, or working to facilitate it? It's like opposite day. And it's a perfect cover — if you're going to say you're fighting drugs like the DARE program, or putting together an organization to stop human trafficking, that gives you pretty broad cover so nobody would ever look at you and ask whether you're actually importing it. That, I believe, is how this world works.
Turning Point USA figures and their proximity to mass shootings
I find all of this to be remarkably suspicious. The most suspicious element for me is Erika pretending she does not remember how she met Tyler Bowyer, and both of them changing their stories. Tyler Bowyer responded to somebody on X and said he met Erika at a Trump rally — but maybe he forgot, maybe he had another long night in Romania. He had already given a speech at Charlie's memorial and stated that Erika called him and said, "How can I help?" and then he put her behind Trump. So you had to know her before the rally to put her there — if she called you and said, "How can I help?" And why was she calling him at all?
Erika told me that she knew him through some congressman — she thinks it could have been a senator from Arizona, she's not sure — and she would go back and consult her text messages, but she has not done that yet.
I think it's all a coincidence that everybody in this story is fluffing around in Romania at the same time. Everybody's got military ties. And do you think it's a coincidence that this happens to be the university that Jeffrey Epstein was pouring money into, and that he was facilitating models from Romania beginning in 2009? I'm going to vote that something darker is afoot.
Turning Point staff adjacent to shootings — Justin Stryfe and Kirkwood, Missouri
Now I want to bring in another Turning Point person who was adjacent to a shooting that happened a long time ago. Rob McCoy lost two congregants in the Thousand Oaks shooting at the Borderline Bar in 2018, and subsequently became the mayor and got very close with the victims' families. Many people in the bar that night were there because they were having some kind of reunion — because they had survived the largest mass shooting in American history, the Las Vegas shooting of October 2017, which the media swept under the rug very quickly. No real answers. Steven Paddock. We'll never know. But Rob McCoy knew these victims.
There's another Rob McCoy-adjacent one involving Turning Point. Rob McCoy organized the Nashville Covenant School memorial in 2023, because it just so happened that Turning Point was having a pastor's summit down the road when that shooting happened.
We can now add another Turning Point staff member — a founding Turning Point employee — who was in the midst of a shooting. This time it took place in Kirkwood, Missouri, on February 7th, 2008, at the city hall. A man named Charles Thornton, who went by Cookie, went on a shooting rampage at a city council meeting in his hometown. While shooting, he shouted, "Shoot the mayor! Shoot the mayor!" He killed two police officers and three city officials. He injured a reporter and shot the mayor twice in the head. The mayor survived that day but died seven months later due to complications from the injury. Cookie was never tried because he died from two gunshot wounds in a shootout with police.
Who was there? None other than Justin Stryfe — the current COO of Turning Point USA, who became the COO seven days before Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I have heard from people that Erika pushed for Justin Stryfe. I will say "allegedly" there, because this comes from Turning Point employees — that Erika was driving Charlie to give Justin Stryfe more power. I cannot confirm that. Until I have proof, it is hearsay.
What we can confirm is that regarding the 2008 shooting in Missouri, Justin Stryfe appears in a news clip and speaks about Cookie. He sounds familiar with what was going on. I'm going to let you hear him in his own words.
Sirens wail outside Kirkwood City Hall in Missouri. The building that usually houses mundane civic meetings became the scene of a rampage Thursday night after a gunman stormed the building and opened fire. Two police officers and three city officials were killed. The mayor was critically hurt, and a newspaper reporter was wounded.
Justin Stryfe: Yeah, it's really shocking. When I heard about it I was just like, "Oh my god."
The shooter was eventually shot and killed by police. It's reported he was Charles "Cookie" Thornton, who had a reputation for disrupting city meetings and for making outrageous statements.
Justin Stryfe: I've heard that this guy has come to the council meetings before and complained about tickets and fines that he's gotten from the city, and he's kind of made threats before.
Police say the gunman shot one officer outside the building, then went inside and immediately shot another in the head. He then continued firing, taking aim at city council members. At one point, the city attorney tried to fight off the attacker by throwing chairs.
Justin Stryfe: Everyone knows he's kind of crazy, and I mean, I don't think anyone ever thought it would get to this point.
Hours after the shootings, officers from neighboring cities and communities were still arriving to pay respects to the fallen officers.
Reporter: Anytime an officer goes down, you're going to see officers show up from everywhere, regardless of boundaries or department guidelines. They're going to be here, and that's what you're seeing tonight. The city of Kirkwood recently made national news after a pizza worker named Michael Develin was arrested in the kidnapping of Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby.
Justin Stryfe: This isn't the town that Kirkwood really is. A family-oriented, very quiet town. And something like this is just really going to throw this town into chaos.
Candace Owens: I certainly did not know that he was involved in Kirkwood. Was he working at the city council? Was he living there? How did he know Cookie — speaking about Cookie and what Cookie was upset about? Was he just there, featured at meetings at the city council, and heard Cookie rant about racism?
I also love that it's not the trans narrative because it's 2008, so it was more the BLM narrative — Cookie just thought everybody was racist, and that's why he did this. And Cookie's gone; he won't be able to speak for himself.
I cannot name anybody in my circle who could just say, "Oh yeah, I was at this, I know this person, this shooting and this." Is this normal conversation at brunch? I'm genuinely asking. Could you just sit in a room and: boom, boom, boom — McCoy — Strife — oh yeah, I was there. Does that seem normal to you?
I am increasingly amazed. Amazed by their remarkable lack of fortune in life, that they should be so close to and able to comment on so many tragedies — including the one that happened on September 10th, in which all of them obviously were very close as the best friends and closest people to Charlie Kirk.
Erika and community noted posts on X about Charlie Kirk's views
Never mind the fact that they are quite literally getting community-noted on X right now for just making up stuff that Charlie would have said or thought, despite all of the evidence to the contrary regarding the Iran war. Could you imagine: you leave this earth, and the people who take over the business empire you built are now trying to make people believe that you would have said the opposite of the things that you said while you were on this earth? It is an act of tremendous moral betrayal. It's completely immoral what they're doing. And I don't know how they do it outside of the understanding that journalist Elizabeth Lane posits — that we are dealing with true psychopaths.
Viewer comments
Candace Owens: Let's get into some of your comments from yesterday's episode.
Miranda writes: "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree." Yeah, not when it comes to Lori.
Chelsea Gray writes: "Candace is literally single-handedly better than the entire FBI, and they know it." Well, where is Kash Patel from? Isn't he from Reno or Las Vegas? I'm pretty sure he lives in Vegas. So you shouldn't be expecting him to do anything unless his boss is telling him he can.
Do Gun Morgan writes: "Erika locked herself up for eight straight months for no reason, but she could not lock herself up for two days after losing her husband. Nothing feels normal with this woman." What a valid point. We know she can lock herself up, but she sure didn't do it after Charlie died.
Comments for this episode
Good Season writes: "Operation Enduring Freedom. Operation Epic Fury. Operation Erika Frantzve." Something there.
Somebody writes: "Who are these operations benefiting?" I tell people: they call themselves the diamond capital of the world, the capital of everything. Oh really? That's weird, because those things aren't found here. You go to the source countries and there are always civil wars, and of course terror groups — Muslim terrorists who, for whatever reason, only seem to terrorize in ways that benefit Israel. It's so strange.
Regarding the Sackler family — their name was actually etched on Tel Aviv University and then they took it down after the opioid crisis. They were doing it to benefit Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv loved that. And it's just very strange how we continue to suffer. They bring us their gambling. Miriam Adelson served in the IDF. Sheldon Adelson said his biggest regret in life was that he didn't. They bring us their filth and they expand their borders. Our people are addicted. They come back with PTSD from having served overseas. There is zero benefit at all. They encourage us to engage in more filth: go to Vegas, get a credit card and fill it up. They want to know what your vice is, and that's what they curate. That is the story of Israel, as I see it — it's absolute filth. The best thing you can do is resist it. Get out of debt. Don't take on any more credit. Don't ever go to Vegas. It's called Sin City for a reason. It is curating your vices. Don't gamble. Practice abstinence in every regard.
P. Bailey writes: "I live here in the Nevada capital." I have to pause here — there was a war happening in my control room. Ashley is from the West and she says "Nev-AH-da." People from the West say "Nev-AH-da." I am from Connecticut and I refuse. Me and Chris and Dom are from the East and we are not doing that. I would just like to know — in the chat, do you "ah" it or "ay" it? Anyway, P. Bailey continues: "I know a lot of Marines and retired military here. If there's anything specific that you'd like me to find out, let me know." Everybody knows they were guarding poppy fields and everybody knows we got an opioid crisis following that from the Sackler family. All they ever have to do is pay a fine. This many people died — pay a fine. They're drug traffickers and human traffickers out of Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv runs Vegas, created Vegas. And beyond that, they control DC. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Auta writes: "I lived through it, referring to what happened in Romania. It was a show for sure and I saw the execution almost live." The Nuremberg trials were much the same — young boys who had to serve in the military, lined up and shot, found guilty because they wore their country's uniform. It was a mass Christian slaughter and the Bolsheviks who created concentration camps all magically disappeared and went to Israel. They gave themselves new names — Hebrew-sounding ones. Yes. That's how Ben Milikovsky becomes Netanyahu — it sounds more biblical, despite the fact that he is a worshipper of the occult.
Jess Baker writes: "On February 9th, I had a dream that you were getting ready to do an explosive episode that involved Andrew Kovett, and you had an edgy Asian makeup artist. I hope you do in real life. Continually praying for your safety. Love you so much." I do not have an edgy Asian makeup artist, and I really resent that fact. Right now I have Evelyn, and she's Mexican — but she says she looks a little Asian. So there we go.
Preview of next episode and closing thoughts
Tomorrow we arrive at almost the end of this series into how Erika met Charlie. Tyler Bowyer is going to be involved, and Lori is doing some interesting stuff. I continue to get the vibe that maybe they all knew each other.
By the way, we had a few people email us with some potential options regarding who in the Romanian Parliament Tyler Bowyer was meeting with. We just need to research that and reach out to some people before we name names, but I think we've got it down to two possible modeling agencies. More on that tomorrow.
One comment: Pr2888 writes, "Afghanistan grows poppies." I remember once watching a video where an Afghan farmer said their land was leased by the American government for poppies. How did the Sackler family get all of this?
Pton writes: "It's curious that given all of these grassroots companies Erika Kirk says she began, one would think anyone who was saved or helped would indignantly come to her defense. Radio silence and crickets." Well, Tracy Martin did say she's been friends with Erika since Romanian Angels and that they met backstage and had a beautiful, lovely friendship. I asked Tracy Martin when I spoke to her on the phone — I said, "Are you at all concerned that everything she says is a lie? Like basic facts: she says she didn't have a boyfriend, but you knew her when she had boyfriends. Does that strike you as odd that your friend is lying?" And Tracy was like, "People change, people can change." And I said, "This is not changing. This is lying. She's lying through her teeth and keeps getting caught." And everyone else is just trying to tell us it's okay. People in media are trying to tell us it's okay. This is part of the grieving process: you become a compulsive liar and reverse the things your assassinated husband intended for the organization he built.
Shout out to Tucker Carlson — he is just crushing it. He is one of the very few brave ones out there. Also a shout out to Megyn Kelly for taking a moral stance on what is happening right now in Iran. It is not easy. They are receiving a lot of figurative bullets, but the truth is winning — I think truth is winning even if it doesn't look that way.
They're selling us all of this Power Ranger propaganda. "Yeah, we did it — another bomb dropped. Obliterated the ships." Trump's receiving that news all gassed because they're just treating him now like he's an invalid, just going around in his age: "You're doing amazing, sir. Look, the New York Times says blast off, blast off. He's so great." They think we're six-year-old boys: "Yeah, Power Ranger, this war is going to be over in three minutes. Iran obliterated." Never mind that it's been around for thousands of years. I digress. We'll see you guys tomorrow.