Candace Amber Owens Farmer (néeOwens; born April 29, 1989) is an American
conservative political commentator, author, activist, and television presenter.[2][3]
Described as "the new face of
black conservatism",[4] Owens has been recognized for her pro-Trump activism despite being initially critical of the former president of the United States
Donald Trump and the
Republican Party.[5] She is known for her criticism of
Black Lives Matter.[6][7][8] Owens served as the communications director for the conservative advocacy group
Turning Point USA between 2017 and 2019.[9] In 2018, Owens co-founded
Blexit along with former Tucson police officer
Brandon Tatum.[10][11][12] In 2021, she joined The Daily Wire and began hosting Candace, a political talk show.[13] She was dismissed from The Daily Wire in March 2024 following a series of comments perceived as
antisemitic and months of tensions with co-host
Ben Shapiro and other Daily Wire staff over their differing views on the
Israel-Hamas war.[14][15][16][17][18]
In 2007, while a 17-year-old senior in high school, Owens received three racist
death threat voicemail messages, totaling two minutes, from a group of white male classmates which included the son of then-mayor and future Democratic governor
Dannel Malloy. [23][24][25][26] Joshua Starr, the city's superintendent of schools, listened to the voicemail messages and said that they were "horrendous".[26] Owens's family sued the Stamford Board of Education in federal court, alleging that the city did not protect her rights, resulting in a $37,500 settlement in January 2008.[22][27]
In 2015, Owens was CEO of Degree180, a marketing agency that offered consultation, production, and planning services that included a blog on a variety of topics[20][6] written by Owens and other commentators.[29] In a 2015 column that Owens wrote for the site, she criticized conservative Republicans, writing about the "bat-shit-crazy antics of the Republican
Tea Party"; she also added that "The good news is, they will eventually die off (peacefully in their sleep, we hope), and then we can get right on with the OBVIOUS social change that needs to happen, IMMEDIATELY."[20][30][31][32] In 2016, the blog featured an article mocking Donald Trump's penis size.[6][33][34]
Privacy violation, Gamergate, and political transformation
Owens launched SocialAutopsy.com in 2016, a website she said would expose
bullies on the Internet by tracking their digital footprint.[20][30][22] The site would have solicited users to take screenshots of offensive posts and send them to the website, where they would be categorized by the user's name.[22] She used
crowdfunding on
Kickstarter for the website. The proposal was immediately controversial, drawing criticism that Owens was de-anonymizing (
doxing) Internet users and violating their privacy.[20][35] According to The Daily Dot, "People from all sides of the anti-harassment debate were quick to criticize the database, calling it a
public shaming list that would encourage doxing and retaliatory harassment."[36] Both conservatives and progressives condemned the website.[20]
In response, people began posting Owens's private details online.[20] With scant evidence, Owens blamed the doxing on
progressives.[20][35] Following that, she earned the support of conservatives involved in the
Gamergate harassment campaign, including right-wing political commentators such as
Milo Yiannopoulos and
Mike Cernovich.[20] Subsequently, Owens became a conservative, saying in 2017, "I became a conservative overnight ... I realized that liberals were actually the racists. Liberals were actually the
trolls ... Social Autopsy is why I'm conservative."[20] Kickstarter suspended funding for Social Autopsy, and the website was never created.[35]
On November 21, 2017, at the
MAGA Rally and Expo in
Rockford, Illinois,
Turning Point USA founder
Charlie Kirk announced that Owens had been hired as the organization's director of urban engagement.[38] Turning Point's hiring of Owens occurred in the wake of allegations of racism at Turning Point.[6] In May 2019, Owens announced her departure as communications director for the organization.[9][39] While at Turning Point USA, Owens received the support of prominent figures in the Republican Party. President Trump called her a "very smart thinker," while
Republican National Committee chair
Ronna Romney McDaniel said at
CPAC "People like Candace Owens, like Charlie Kirk, we need more leaders like that."[40][41]Ted Cruz expressed his admiration for Owens by jokingly suggesting in 2022 that she be appointed to the
Supreme Court of the United States.[42]
In April 2018,
Kanye West tweeted: "I love the way Candace Owens thinks."[43] The tweet was met with derision on the part of many of West's fans.[44] In May 2019, Owens hosted The Candace Owens Show on
PragerU's YouTube channel.[45] She left PragerU in 2020 to host Candace, a show on The Daily Wire.[46] The show premiered on the platform on March 19, 2021.[47] Its episodes were filmed in front of a live studio audience and aired weekly. Notable guests included former United States president Donald Trump,
UFC president
Dana White, and U.S. Representative
Jim Jordan.
Jeremy Boreing announced Owens would be leaving The Daily Wire in March 2024,[48][49] a move believed to be related to a string of comments considered to be antisemitic culminating in Owens liking a tweet referencing blood libel.[50][51]
In April 2020, Owens announced her intention to either run for office in the
U.S. Senate or to be a
governor, and that she would only run against an incumbent Democrat, not a Republican.[52] She did not reveal which specific office she would run for, or in which election cycle.[52] In February 2021, Owens tweeted that she was considering a run for president in 2024.[53]
BLEXIT Foundation
"Blexit", a term originally coined by Me'Lea Connelly, is a
portmanteau of "
black" and "exit" that mimics
Brexit, the word used to describe the United Kingdom's
withdrawal from the European Union. The original Blexit movement was started in 2016 by Connelly with the goal of achieving black economic independence by encouraging black Americans to leave the traditional financial systems that have historically disadvantaged the black community.[54][55][56]
In late 2018, Owens launched a different BLEXIT[a] foundation,[57][58] which featured a social media campaign to encourage
ethnic minorities, including
African Americans and
Latinos, to leave the
Democratic Party and register as Republicans. At the time, 8% of black Americans identified as Republicans.[4] In 2023, Blexit foundation merged with Turning Point USA, the former non-profit organization for which Owens had worked.[59]
At the launch in October 2018, Owens said that her "dear friend and fellow superhero Kanye West" designed merchandise for the movement; the following day, West denied being the designer and disavowed the effort, saying: "I never wanted any association with Blexit ... I've been used to spread messages I don't believe in."[60][61][62] After an apology, West continued to support Owens as of September 2020[update].[63]
Political views
Owens said she had no interest in politics whatsoever before 2015, but previously identified as
liberal.[64][65] In October 2018, she said that she had never voted and had only recently become a registered Republican.[65] In January 2019, Owens stated: "The left hates America, and Trump loves it."[66] She added that the left is "destroying everything through this
cultural Marxist ideology."[66]
Owens is a
critic of Israel and expressed her negative views of the country during the
2023 Israel–Hamas war.[74] She criticized the
Church of Saint Porphyrius airstrike, stating, "If you think it's antisemitism to notice that innocent Christians were killed in an
IDF bombing, then you need to log off." Her statement came after Palestinian officials claimed that 18 people were killed in the strike, with 17 of them identified as
Christians.[75][76] In a subsequent tweet, Owens stated, "No
government anywhere has a right to commit a
genocide, ever."[77][75] On November 14, 2023, a 32-second video clip of
Ben Shapiro, co-founder of The Daily Wire—the organization for which Candace Owens works—surfaced online. In the video, Shapiro responded to a question from a crowd regarding Owens' stance on the
2023 Israel–Hamas war, stating, "Candace Owens...I think her behavior during this has been disgraceful, without a doubt."[78]
Owens has promoted a quote by Russian President
Vladimir Putin,[79] which included the false assertion that the USSR created the modern country of Ukraine.[80] Her views have received support and amplification from the
Embassy of Russia, Washington, D.C., particularly following her tweet stating "Russian lives matter" after the start of
Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.[81][82] In March 2022, Owens faced criticism from historian
Anne Applebaum for claiming that Ukraine "wasn't a thing until 1989" and dismissing the notion of a Russian-led genocide in the country, prompting Applebaum to label Owens as ignorant of history.[83] In December 2022, Owens faced backlash and
fact-checking on social media after making unfounded claims about Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy's wife
Olena Zelenska, with Twitter users debunking her allegations and highlighting the lack of evidence.[84]
Race relations
Owens is known for her criticism of the
Black Lives Matter movement,[8][85][86][87] and has described Black Lives Matter protesters as "a bunch of whiny toddlers, pretending to be oppressed for attention".[88] Owens has argued that African Americans have a
victim mentality, often referring to the Democratic Party as a "
plantation",[85][67] stating in 2020: "Black lives only matter to white liberals every four years—ahead of an election."[89] She has also argued that the
American Left likes "black people to be government-dependent",[90] and that black people have been brainwashed to vote for Democrats.[7] Furthermore, Owens has argued that
police brutality in the United States and instances of police killing black people are not sourced in racism, but typically occur when the officer feels his life is under threat,[85][88] adding a police officer is eighteen-and-a-half times more likely to die at the hands of a black person than vice versa.[30][67][66] She has also characterized
abortion as a tool for the extermination of black babies.[20]
She has said that "black Americans are doing worse off economically today than we were doing in the 1950s under
Jim Crow", adding that this is because "we've only been voting for one party since then."[66] She has attributed economic improvements for African Americans, such as a low unemployment rate, to Trump's presidency.[66] On several occasions, Owens has claimed that the effects of white supremacy and
white nationalism are exaggerated and would not reach her own personal top 100 list of modern issues facing black America,[91] especially when compared to other issues facing
black Americans, such as
black-on-black crime and illiteracy rates.[92]
When asked if it was problematic that white supremacist groups, such as the
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), support Trump, Owens answered that
antifa was more prevalent than the KKK.[66] Owens has said that the media cover the KKK during Trump's presidency to hurt him.[93] In a 2019 hearing on
hate crimes, Owens referred to the KKK as a "Democrat terrorist organization".[94] After the 2017
Unite the Right rally in
Charlottesville, Virginia, Owens said that concern over rising white nationalism was "stupid".[20] She has also called it "just election rhetoric" and "based on the hierarchy of what's impacting minority Americans, if I had to make a list of 100 things, white nationalism would not make the list."[95] In 2018, Owens dismissed reports of a resurgence in hate crimes, saying "All of the violence this year primarily happened because of people on the left."
During her April 2019 testimony before the
U.S. House Judiciary Committee on the rise of hate crimes and white supremacists in the United States, Owens made the claim that the
Southern strategy employed by the Republican Party to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans was a "myth" that "never happened". This was disputed by several historians who said that the existence of the Southern strategy was well documented in contemporaneous sources dating back to the
Civil Rights era, with historian
Kevin M. Kruse, who writes critically about modern conservatism, calling Owens's statement "utter nonsense".[96]
In June 2019, Owens said that African Americans had it better in the first 100 years after the
abolition of slavery in the United States than they have since,[97][98][99] and that socialism was at fault.[97] In June 2020, Owens claimed that
George Soros paid people to
protest the murder of George Floyd.[100] Shortly afterwards, she argued that
George Floyd "was not a good person. I don't care who wants to spin that."[101] She said: "The fact that he has been held up as a martyr sickens me."[101] Then-President Trump
retweeted Owens's remarks about Floyd.[101][102] In a Facebook video that garnered nearly 100 million views, Owens called Floyd a "horrible human being", citing his criminal record, and called racial biases among police a "fake narrative."[103] On April 20, 2021, Owens claimed that the
trial of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who was convicted of murdering Floyd was "mob justice". She added: "This was not a fair trial. No person can say this was a fair trial."[104]
On October 3, 2022, during
Adidas Yeezy SZN 9 fashion show in Paris, Owens posed for a photo with
Kanye West wearing a matching shirt with the "
WHITE LIVES MATTER" slogan.[105] During Paris Fashion Week, West entered negotiations with Owens' husband, the CEO of social networking service
Parler, to purchase the website.[106] After West posted tweets declaring he would "go Death Con 3 on Jewish people"; Owens defended West, stating that "if you are an honest person, you did not find this tweet antisemitic".[107] Owens further accused the
Anti-Defamation League of instigating antisemitism following the organization's criticism of West and
Kyrie Irving.[108] Owens's comments were made before West praised Adolf Hitler in an InfoWars interview. After the interview, Parler announced that West had canceled his plans to buy the website.[109] The
Zionist Organization of America condemned Owens's defense of West, calling on her to "retract her offensive, dangerous statements."[110]
RabbiShmuley Boteach has repeatedly criticized Owens for her friendship with West. Owens condemned Boteach as a "monster", stating that "any person who defends him or his hag daughter is immediately suspicious." Owens has also claimed that in
Hollywood, there is "a small ring of specific people who are using the fact that they are Jewish to shield themselves from any criticism" and that this ring "appears to be something that is quite sinister."[111][112][113] In March 2024, Owens liked a tweet asking Boteach if he was "drunk on Christian blood again," an apparent reference to the antisemitic
blood libel accusation. The Daily Wire announced they were ending their association with Owens a few days after Owens liked the tweet.[114][50][115] Following her departure from the Daily Wire, Owens downplayed the prevalence of antisemitism, stating that "people who are now screaming 'antisemitism is everywhere!' are actually just racial supremacists."[116]
Women's rights
Owens is critical of
feminism[117] and embraces the "
trad wife" phenomenon of traditional gender roles.[118] She has described the
#MeToo movement, an international movement against
sexual harassment and
assault, as "stupid".[5][119] Owens wrote that the movement was premised on the idea that "women are stupid, weak & inconsequential".[5][119] She opposes abortion,[73] which she has called a tool for the "extermination of black babies".[20]
In May 2018, Owens suggested that "something bio-chemically happens" to women who do not marry or have children, and she linked to the Twitter handles of
Sarah Silverman,
Chelsea Handler, and
Kathy Griffin, saying that they were "evidentiary support" of this theory.[120][121] Silverman responded: "It seems to me that by tweeting this, you would like to maybe make us feel badly. I'd say this is evidenced by ur [sic] effort to use our twitter handles so we would see. My heart breaks for you, Candy. I hope you find happiness in whatever form that takes."[120] Owens responded, accusing Silverman of supporting terrorists and crime gangs.[120]
LGBT rights
On July 28, 2017, Owens stated she was in favor of banning
transgender individuals who are undergoing
sex reassignment surgery from serving in the
United States military but said that she did not oppose fully transitioned
transgender individuals serving in the U.S. military.[122] In her biography, Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation, in the chapter "On Overcivilzation - The Trend Towards Overcivilzation", she talks about her view between
civilization, in which she described as when basic rights and liberties have been ensured for all, and "overcivilization" in the following quote:
Civilization was achieved for gay couples in the United States when the
Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage in 2015. Overcivilization, however, is the LGBTQ community's current quest for
transgender rights, or, more accurately described, the demand that biological men who self-identify as women be granted legal permission to use ladies' restrooms and dominate women's sports competitions.
— Candace Owens, Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation[123]
In April 2022, she called
The Walt Disney Company "child groomers and pedophiles" and called for the boycott of the company, after Disney announced its opposition to
Florida House Bill 1557, officially known as the "Parental Rights in Education Act" but commonly referenced as the "Don't Say Gay" legislation.[124][125][126][127]
In May 2022, Owens falsely claimed on Twitter that the gunman involved in the
Robb Elementary School shooting could be transgender and said that he was "cross-dressing".[128] According to Owens, this was evidence that "there were plenty of signs that he was mentally disturbed".[129] In June 2022, she described
Drag Queen Story Hour as "child abuse", arguing that parents who take their children to a drag queen story hour "are underqualified to have children" and "should have their children taken away from them."[130]
In January 2024, in a post on
X (formerly Twitter) Owens accused transgender people of "mass drugging children" and claimed the "LGBTQ movement brought with it a sexual plague on our society". These comments were widely condemned by LGBT+ campaign groups as variously misinformed, homophobic, transphobic and genocidal.[131][132]
Welfare
Owens has expressed a critical stance on
welfare programs, arguing that they can create dependency and discourage self-reliance among recipients. She believes that welfare reform is necessary to promote individual responsibility and empower individuals to break free from government assistance. Owens has said that welfare is a Democratic Party tool to keep black Americans dependent upon the government.[73]
Immigration
Owens is a proponent of the
Mexico–United States barrier, and believes undocumented immigrants to the United States should be immediately deported.[20] In 2018, Owens warned that "Europe will fall and become a Muslim-majority continent by 2050. There has never been a Muslim-majority country where
sharia law was not implemented." She suggested that the United States would then be "forced to save" the British.[133][134]
Donald Trump
Owens initially posted and allowed anti-Trump and anti-conservative articles on her blog.[6][33] In 2017, she began describing herself as a conservative Donald Trump supporter.[20][135][136] Owens has since characterized Trump as the "savior" of Western civilization.[8] She has argued that Trump has neither engaged in rhetoric that is harmful to
African Americans, nor proposed policies that would harm African Americans.[30][67]
In May 2018, Trump said that Owens "is having a big impact on politics in our country. She represents an ever-expanding group of very smart 'thinkers', and it is wonderful to watch and hear the dialogue going on... so good for our Country!"[137] She registered as a Republican in 2018, after the
Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination. She objected to what she termed the "social lynching" of Kavanaugh, on the grounds that to "believe women" was the reason "our ancestors got lynched", as she told a journalist from Philadelphia magazine. She added: "No evidence, but believe all women."[138] After
Joe Biden won the
2020 U.S. presidential election and Trump refused to concede, Owens promoted Trump's
claims of mass fraud, saying that "the American election was clearly rigged."[139]
Climate change
In July 2018, Owens claimed that
global warming is not real, calling it a lie used to "extract dollars from Americans".[140][141][142] In 2021, she promoted paid ads on Facebook, calling the U.S. government "modern doomsayers" who have been wrongly predicting climate crises for decades.[143][144]
COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination
In April 2020, Owens said that COVID-19 deaths were overcounted; health experts said that it was more likely that COVID-19 deaths were undercounted.[145] Regarding a
COVID-19 vaccine, she said in June 2020 that "under no circumstances will I be getting any #coronavirus vaccine that becomes available. Ever. No matter what."[146] She also referred to
Bill Gates as a "vaccine-criminal", and said that he and the
World Health Organization (WHO) used "African & Indian tribal children to experiment w/ non-
FDA approved drug vaccines."[19][147] On August 8, 2021, Owens said in a
Facebook post: "I still have not received the COVID-19 vaccine and have not demanded that any of my employees get it either. I am proud that I committed myself to standing firm against the bribery, media propaganda, coercion, celebrity-peer pressure campaign, plus censorship... It is isn't easy to swim against such a polluted current but here I am. I trust my gut much more than trust
Dr. Fauci."[148] Also in August, Owens claimed that the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) proposed "putting
high risk people into camps to 'shield' low risk people from them".[149]
In 2021, Owens attracted media attention when she stated that the United States should "invade Australia",[150][151][152][153] saying that Australia had turned into a tyrannical
Nazi-style
police state due to its public health precautions against COVID-19.[150][154] Owens said that the comments were made "in jest" and that they had been misinterpreted by the media.[155] Owens has promoted
misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.[162] In a December 2021 interview, she asked Donald Trump about vaccine mandates, and he explained that he shared her views on mandates but said that "the vaccine is one of the greatest achievements of mankind". He added: "The ones that get very sick and go to the hospital are the ones that don't take the vaccine. But it's still their choice. And if you take the vaccine, you're protected. Look, the results of the vaccine are very good, and if you do get it, it's a very minor form. People aren't dying when they take the vaccine."[163][164][165] In December 2022, Owens promoted the
anti-vaccine film Died Suddenly.[166]
Legal issues
During an
Instagram livestream on June 22, 2021, Owens made accusations about former Republican congressional candidate
Kimberly Klacik, accusing her of money laundering, tax fraud, illegal drug use, and misusing campaign funds. Owens also said that Klacik is a "madame" who recruits strippers for a strip club owned by her husband.[167][168][169][170] Owens said she found out about this after talking with a woman who claimed to have worked as a stripper at Klacik's strip club.[171]
Klacik denied the allegations and repeatedly asked for Owens to take down the video, which she refused to do.[168][169] In July, Klacik filed a lawsuit against Owens seeking $20 million for
defamation and claiming that the allegations have resulted in Klacik losing political support from donors, being removed from public events, a book deal cancellation, and harassment of Klacik and her family.[167][169][171] In a statement, Jacob S. Frenkel, Klacik's attorney, said: "The defendant chose to use her huge social media platform to attack a respected Baltimore political figure" and that "We are using the proper forum — the power of the courts — to respond."[169][171] The suit was dismissed with prejudice in December 2022 and Klacick had to pay Owens.[172][173]
In August 2018, Owens had a dispute with Sam Lucas, cousin of
Mollie Tibbetts, who had been murdered by Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a 24-year-old Mexican undocumented immigrant.[175] Tibbetts's cousin said that Owens had exploited Tibbetts's death for "political propaganda".[176][177] Owens responded by describing Lucas's criticism as a "strange" attack on Trump supporters. Later that month, the
University of Iowa's chapter of Turning Point USA criticized Owens for "public harassment" towards a member of Tibbetts's family, and the executive board members of the chapter all resigned in protest.[178]
Promotion of conspiracy theories
Owens has been criticized for promoting
conspiracy theories, including claims that
the Moon landings were faked, mostly through her social media profiles and television and media appearances.[179] Owens has appeared on fringe conspiracy websites, such as InfoWars.[30][7] In 2018, she was a guest host on
Fox News, and began to distance herself from the
far-right conspiracy websites, although she refused to criticize InfoWars or its hosts.[20]
During the
October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts targeting prominent Democrats, Owens took to Twitter to promote the conspiracy theory that the mailings were sent by leftists.[180] After authorities arrested a 56-year-old suspect who was a registered Republican and Trump supporter, Owens deleted her tweet without explanation.[181]
In March 2024, Owens endorsed the false conspiracy theory that
Brigitte Macron, wife of
French PresidentEmmanuel Macron, was secretely transgender. Owens stated she was "willing to stake my entire professional reputation on the fact that Brigitte Macron is in fact a man... The implications here are terrifying.[182]
Comments about Adolf Hitler
At the launch of the British offshoot Turning Point UK in December 2018, Owens made comments about
Adolf Hitler.[183] She was responding to an audience member who asked for a "long-term prognosis" about the terms "
globalism" and "
nationalism". Owens said:[183][184]
I actually don't have any problems at all with the word "nationalism". I think that the definition gets poisoned by elitists that actually want globalism. Globalism is what I don't want. Whenever we say "nationalism" the first thing people think about, at least in America, is Hitler. You know, [Hitler] was a national socialist, but if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay, fine. The problem is that he wanted—he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize. He wanted everybody to be German, everybody to be speaking German. Everybody to look a different way. That's not, to me, that's not nationalism
Following heavy criticism for her comments, Owens clarified them on Twitter and in a Judiciary Committee hearing in the
U.S. House of Representatives in February 2019.[185] Owens said that "[Hitler] was a homicidal, psychopathic, maniac that killed his own people" and "[Hitler] was not a nationalist, [he] murdered his own people; a nationalist would not kill their own people". She said that the point of her comments was to say that there is "no excuse or defense ever for ... everything that [Hitler] did".[183][186] She also said that her comments were about Hitler's crimes against
Jews.[185]
Owens's comments about Hitler were played in April 2019 by Representative
Ted Lieu during testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee about the issue of increasing hate crimes and white supremacy in America. Lieu said that he did not know Owens and was just going to let her own words characterize her, before playing the audio clip. Owens responded that Lieu had deliberately omitted an interviewer's question that provided critical context to her words, with the intent of misrepresenting them as an endorsement of Hitler, to smear her reputation.[187] She concluded this testimony by stating her opinion Lieu was "assuming that black people will not pursue the full two hour clip" and that the full clip had been "purposefully extracted" in order to "create a different narrative."[188]Donald Trump Jr. praised Owens on Twitter for "[calling] out the Dems on their purposeful manipulation of facts for their narrative".[189]
Mention in Christchurch shooter's manifesto
Brenton Harrison Tarrant, the terrorist who committed the
Christchurch mosque shootings, produced a manifesto prior to committing the shootings in which he wrote that Owens had "influenced [him] above all".[190][191] According to journalist
Robert Evans, it was "possible, even likely", that Tarrant was a fan of Owens, considering her rhetoric against Muslim immigrants but that, in context, his references to her may have been an example of "
shitposting" intended to provoke political conflict.[192][193] For instance, the line "Though I will have to disavow some of [Owens's] beliefs, the extreme actions she calls for are too much, even for my tastes" was assessed by The Root as
trolling.[194]
Hours after the shootings, Owens posted a
tweet in reaction to allegations that she inspired the mass murder, saying that she never created any content espousing her views on the
Second Amendment to the United States Constitution or
Islam.[195] Her tweet was criticized as "glib" when it was reported that she actually had posted tweets about the Second Amendment and Islam.[196][197][198][133] She later made formal statements rejecting any connection to the terrorist.[133]
Personal life
Owens met her British husband, George Farmer, in 2018 at the launch event for
Turning Point UK, a conservative student organization. George Farmer, the son of
Lord Farmer, was the chairman of Turning Point UK at the time. The two developed a connection through their shared conservative values and eventually started dating before George's proposal to her just weeks after their first meeting. The two became engaged in 2019 and were married in August that year at the
Trump Winery in Charlottesville, Virginia.[28][199][200][201][202] Numerous guests were present at the ceremony, including
Larry Elder and Charlie Kirk.[203]
Since her marriage, Owens is now also (officially) known as The Hon. Mrs. George Farmer.[204][205]
Owens gave birth to a boy in January 2021,[206] a daughter in July 2022[207] and another boy in late November of 2023.[208][citation needed]
On April 2024, Owens announced that she had converted to the Catholic Church and had been baptised in the
Brompton Oratory.[209]
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