Candace Owens has a theory about Charlie Kirk.
In Episode 290 of her podcast, titled "PROJECT LOOKING GLASS: How Did Charlie Know He Was Going To Die?", the conservative commentator laid out what she believes really happened to the late Turning Point USA founder.
Kirk, according to Owens, was a time traveler.
"It is an absolute fact that Charlie Kirk thought that he was a time traveler," Owens said during the January 14 episode. "He told me he was a time traveler. Repeatedly."
But it doesn't stop there.
Owens claims Kirk was identified as special from a young age and enrolled in what she described as "an X-Men school" — a secret program for gifted children. She connected this to Project Looking Glass, an alleged CIA program that she says used ancient Sumerian technology to view future timelines.
"They knew something about Charlie, and that's why they had him marked, had him monitored, and had him followed since he was young," Owens said, referring to unnamed "agents" she compared to characters from The Matrix.
Kirk, she alleges, was killed because he tried to disturb the space-time continuum.
During the episode, Owens also revealed what she told Kirk about herself.
"I said to him in response that I didn't feel the same way and that I thought I was from another planet, that I was an alien my entire life," she said. "This planet is ghetto."
She then pivoted to cats.
"I think that's also why I like cats so much. I feel that they can relate to that. They think humanity is ghetto. They don't want to be around us. They don't like us."
The episode has generated significant reaction online, with the topic trending at over 43,000 posts on X. One viral post summarizing the claims has amassed 1.7 million views.
This is the latest in a series of increasingly elaborate theories Owens has promoted since Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025. In the months following his death, she has alleged involvement by Zionist donors, the Mossad, French intelligence, and Turning Point USA itself. She was excluded from Kirk's memorial service, and his widow Erika Kirk publicly asked her to stop.
Tyler Robinson, 22, has been charged with Kirk's murder.
None of it has slowed her down.
Her podcast hit No.1 globally last October, averaging around 3.5 million downloads per episode, according to Podscribe. She's gained over 9 million new followers across her platforms in 2025 alone — the same year she pivoted from tearful tribute to time travel assassination theories.
The growth is not incidental. Conservative podcasts fetch higher ad rates than liberal ones. A 2025 Media Matters report attributed this to bigger audiences, stronger listener loyalty, and a fanbase more inclined to buy from brands that align with their politics. Columbia Business School research from 2024 found that Republican consumers became increasingly drawn to brands that matched their political identity after the 2020 election — making right-leaning audiences a lucrative target for advertisers.
Owens, in other words, has built a media empire. Her digital footprint is vast. Her audience is growing. And she is telling them that Charlie Kirk was a time traveler monitored by Matrix agents since childhood and killed for disturbing the space-time continuum.
She also faces a lawsuit that may test how long it lasts. The Macrons filed suit in Delaware Superior Court on July 23, 2025. The complaint runs 219 pages and accuses Owens of waging a "campaign of global humiliation" against them over her promotion of the conspiracy theory that Brigitte Macron was born male.
Their lawyers: Clare Locke, the firm that won Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million from Fox News — still the largest defamation payout any media company has ever paid.
The lawsuit makes a specific allegation about Owens' operation. According to the complaint, spreading false information is essentially her business model.
Owens has vowed to fight the suit.
