Candace Owens covers Joe Kent's resignation, TPUSA Arkansas split, and questions about Netanyahu
Candace Owens hosts a solo episode covering Joe Kent's resignation from the National Counterterrorism Center, the University of Arkansas TPUSA chapter disaffiliating from the national organization, Theo Von's comments on Israel, and circulating rumors about Benjamin Netanyahu's condition.
Summary
Candace Owens opens by framing the episode as a "good day" because of what she sees as two significant blows to forces she opposes: the resignation of Joe Kent as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, and the University of Arkansas Turning Point USA chapter's decision to disaffiliate from the national organization. She reads Joe Kent's full resignation letter, in which he states that the war with Iran was started due to pressure from Israel and its American lobby, that Iran posed no imminent threat, and that he cannot support sending troops to fight a war that serves no benefit to the American people. She contrasts Kent's decorated military background — including eleven combat deployments and the combat death of his wife Shannon in Syria — with Trump's dismissive public response calling Kent "weak on security." She then covers the Arkansas TPUSA chapter's unanimous decision to rebrand as Young American Revival, citing what the chapter president called disingenuous and manipulative use of Charlie Kirk's name and legacy by TPUSA leadership. The episode also features Theo Von's extended remarks describing the Israeli government as feeling "satanic," and closes with Owens reviewing circulating speculation about whether Benjamin Netanyahu has been injured or replaced by a double, based on unusual video productions, missed security council meetings, and the unusual social media silence of his son.
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FULL TRANSCRIPT
Opening: Why Today Is a Good Day
Candace Owens: Today is a good day. It's a happy Tuesday because all of us have been fighting really hard. It feels like trench warfare. The majority of people in the world know what the truth is, and we are up against these liars — a hive of liars, a swarm of them in powerful positions. There are more of us, but they are in more powerful positions. They are lying about obvious things. They're lying about Charlie Kirk's death, saying there's nothing to see there. They are lying about the threat of Iran and what we are doing involving ourselves in that conflict.
That's why I say today's a good day — because bravery inspires bravery. Turning Point USA just suffered a major blow. Their chapter in Arkansas just decided to disaffiliate from Turning Point USA entirely, citing the despicable treatment of Charlie's legacy. They're making claims like "Charlie would want this" and "Charlie would want that." The manipulation surrounding what Charlie would have wanted is the reason they are saying, you know what, we're done here.
And Trump similarly suffered a public blow. Joe Kent has resigned as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, and I'm going to show you a letter that he published. Plus, Theo Von — I absolutely adore Theo Von. He just has such a good heart. He is so relatable. You can just sense the goodness in him. And he has taken to his audience to announce that he feels there is something satanic going on in Israel. This is the way. These are the actions that we have to take if we are going to win against these people. So let's get started. Welcome back to Candace.
Joe Kent Resigns from the National Counterterrorism Center
Candace Owens: We have some major updates regarding the war started by Trump. He picked a fight and now he doesn't really like to fight — he doesn't like to get his hands dirty. So he's out there begging everybody to get involved. He went over to India and said, "Hey, can you guys send some troops to the Strait of Hormuz? We've got to keep that open." And India came back and said, "Sorry, buddy, we're not getting involved." So we can add them to our ever-growing list of countries telling Trump: you started it, you can finish it. And the truth is, he actually can't finish it. That's kind of the point of this whole thing.
There was some huge breaking news this morning. Joe Kent, our director of the National Counterterrorism Center, just formally resigned from his position citing opposition to this illegal war. Now, in case you don't follow Joe Kent or maybe you don't follow politics that closely — Joe Kent is not just a random person who got the job without proper qualifications. This is not a Nepo baby situation. Jared Kushner going around the world negotiating on Trump's behalf — "How are you qualified to do this?" — that's a fair question. Joe Kent has actually served this country honorably.
By way of background: while serving in Syria in January of 2019, Joe Kent's wife Shannon Kent lost her life to a suicide bomber. They met while serving, got married, and had two kids. Shannon was the first female combat death in Syria since combat operations began against ISIS, and also the first female US service member killed by enemy fire in more than three years up until that point. She left behind two children with Joe — one just three years old at the time, the other eighteen months old. Devastating. I share that with you because I want you to understand that Joe Kent is both professionally and personally qualified to give his opinion on the threat of overseas terror and whether it is worth American lives.
He addressed his letter, as he should, to the president. This is what he wrote:
Joe Kent's resignation letter: "President Trump, after much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. I support the values and the foreign policies that you campaigned on in 2016, 2020, and 2024, which you enacted in your first term. Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation. In your first administration, you understood better than any modern president how to decisively apply military power without getting us drawn into never-ending wars — you demonstrated this by killing Qasem Soleimani and by defeating ISIS.
"Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and swayed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie, and it is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq War that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women. We cannot make this mistake again.
"As a veteran who deployed to combat eleven times, and as a gold star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people, nor justifies the cost of American lives. I pray that you will reflect upon what we are doing in Iran and who we are doing it for. The time for bold action is now. You can reverse course and chart a new path for our nation, or you can allow us to slip further toward decline and chaos. You hold the cards. It was an honor to serve in your administration and to serve our great nation."
Candace Owens: This is a very big deal. It is remarkable. It is brave. It is the honorable thing to do. It is why I have also been signaling to troops: you should not serve in this. They don't care about your life. It's very obvious. You can legally and conscientiously object to a war. This is an illegal war. The entire world is responding to Trump and saying, "This is an illegal war. Why are you doing this?"
So, listening to that, and knowing Joe Kent's story and background — his wife paid the ultimate sacrifice — you would imagine that President Trump would take this seriously. Let me ask you rhetorically: how do you think President Trump responded to this public resignation? Let me just let you take a listen to how he responded.
Reporter: Your director of national counterterrorism, Joe Kent, he just resigned today. He said he can't support your conflict with Iran. What's your reaction?
President Trump: Well, I read his statement. I always thought he was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security. Very weak on security. I didn't know him well, but I thought he seemed like a pretty nice guy. But when I read his statement, I realized that it's a good thing that he's out because he said that Iran was not a threat. Iran was a threat. Every country realized what a threat Iran was. The question is whether or not they wanted to do something about it. And many people — many of the greatest military scholars — are saying for years that a president should have taken out Iran because they wanted a nuclear weapon. If I didn't terminate the Iran nuclear deal given to us by Barack Hussein Obama — remember when they sent Boeing 757s over there loaded with cash, hundreds of millions of dollars? I think there were two of them. They took the seats out and put cash in. It was so much that there wasn't a bank in Virginia, Maryland, or DC that had any money left. They stripped them of all their money and sent it to Iran almost as ransom. That's not going to happen with Trump. They've been a threat for a long time. But if I didn't terminate Obama's horrible Iran nuclear deal, you would have had a nuclear war. You would have had a nuclear holocaust. And you would have had it again if we didn't bomb the site.
Candace Owens: Just rambling. First and foremost, calling somebody who's been deployed eleven times "weak" for actually understanding what that means — for understanding what it means to put people in harm's way and for them to be willing to die for the country's security — Joe Kent's measure is going to be infinitely more precise than Trump's. To Trump and those around him, it's like playing Monopoly. They're moving figurines on a board. They're playing Battleship. It's not real to them because they have never had any true stake in the game. They have no skin in the game.
Does Trump have sons who know how to shoot? Yes, actually — Don does, Eric does. Why doesn't he deploy them? If it's so obvious, so clear, so moral — why doesn't he send them? Instead he throws it back to something he did that did not involve troops on the ground. You're talking about reversing a nuclear policy, which is what Joe Kent is addressing. There is no imminent threat from Iran. And because Trump can't articulate one, he just throws it back to Obama — who did have a bad policy, a policy I believe should have been reversed. But what does that have to do with what was just asked? What are we doing in Iran right now?
"I'm glad he's gone. I like to be surrounded by people who agree with me." That is exactly what Charlie had intimated in those messages with Bret Weinstein — that if you're close to Trump, if you're in his ear, they create this hive mentality. Everybody thinks this. "This is going to be amazing. Everyone's going to love you. It's perfect. There's a big threat. It's going to happen tomorrow." And they're lying. They just want Trump to send Goyim to die.
And now you have Trump sounding like Bibi, just uttering the term "nuclear holocaust." That is fear-mongering. By the way, I do want to point this out — the only country that has ever dropped nuclear weapons in the history of the world is us. The same country that always uses the idea of the nuclear threat as an excuse to allow itself to invade other countries. We're the only ones that ever actually did it. And it's always the Zionists — you could argue they created those nukes, you could argue Oppenheimer was a special kind of project — who are constantly fear-mongering about it.
Take a listen to Bibi Netanyahu warning us about how close Iran was to nukes. Always on the brink of nukes. Over the course of three decades, they've been on the brink of nukes.
Benjamin Netanyahu (archival clips): "If not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time. It could be a year. It could be within a few months."
"They have the wherewithal, the stored-up knowledge to make a bomb very quickly if they wanted to do it. Iran is so dangerous. Weeks away from having the fissile material for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs."
"They're very close. They're six months away from being about 90% of having the enriched uranium for an atom bomb. Iran is gearing up to produce twenty-five bombs — atomic bombs — a year. Two hundred and fifty bombs in a decade."
"Ladies and gentlemen, time is running out. Iran will be capable of producing nuclear bombs within three to five years."
Candace Owens: Totally true. It's always totally true. Just a couple of weeks and they're going to have nuclear bombs. They just lie. They lie because they need the bodies. They need people like Joe Kent. And then to see Joe Kent be so disrespected — that's just what they do.
And you know what they're going to do now? They're already doing it. They're going to smear and attack and threaten Joe Kent. Here are some of the immediate responses already floating online.
Lindsey Graham wrote: "The resignation of Joe Kent as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center could not have come at a better time. In his statement explaining why he's resigning in protest, Mr. Kent is echoing Democratic talking points which are devoid of fact or evidence. Hopefully the person replacing Mr. Kent will have a better understanding of the threats presented by the Iranian regime."
Next up, Mark Levin: "I wonder if this guy Joe Kent was about to be fired but quickly resigned first. That's how these things typically work. He's part of the radical isolationist woke-right cabal. Watch how the left-wing media uses him to attack the president and the military campaign against Iran. In part, that's why he wrote that letter. I wonder if he was one of the leakers inside of the administration — just asking questions."
Laura Loomer follows up: "So disrespectful to President Trump. But don't say I didn't warn you about Joe Kent and his wife, who works for the Trump-hater and radical left Jew-hater Max Blumenthal. Why does the White House allow these people to have wins? I would fire everyone and teach them a lesson they would never forget. Rule with an iron fist. Punish everyone who leaks and undermines you."
Alan Dershowitz just threw it back to "neo-Nazi Jew-hating Israel-basher quits administration — good riddance to bad garbage."
And there's a tweet from a former deputy White House chief calling him a "crazed egomaniac who was often at the center of national security leaks." They're going in the direction of: he's not principled, he's a loser. We only wanted him when he was willing to sacrifice his family.
And then of course Mark Levin again: "Now the DOJ should open a criminal investigation to determine if Kent leaked any classified information."
This is just incredible. When I tell you they are going to criminalize disagreeing with Israel — that's very obviously where this is heading. And I want to say this because they are so stupid — they just never see what's so obvious. The treatment of Joe Kent is going to be consequential. It is a terrible mistake to attack him in this way. Somebody who is deeply respected by the armed forces because he served. He understands. He's been over there. He has sacrificed.
The message they are sending right now — lock them up, lock up everybody who agrees with us, lock up Candace Owens, lock up Tucker Carlson — that's going to be heard. I hope it's heard. I hope it is heard from troops overseas, and I hope they recognize: they do not care about you. They just want bodies.
Lines are being drawn in the sand. People are seeing this for what it is. It is a spiritual war. We are fighting literal demons. Something about Charlie Kirk's assassination — it woke something up in me that will never go away. I will not play nice. I will not go halfway with these people.
On that note, it gives me great pleasure to announce that I'm going to be interviewing Joe Kent this Thursday at the Catholics for Catholics event in DC. I'm looking forward to speaking with him, talking about conscience and making these sorts of decisions — how we see ourselves, the direction of travel, the way we're having these conversations. This was an act of bravery and I'm so excited to be able to sit down with him.
Theo Von Speaks Out on Israel
Candace Owens: I want to share Theo Von's recent remarks because there is something especially effective when you hear him speak — because he isn't an expert, because he's not trying to be a genius, and it really is coming from his heart. He was actually really early to saying, "Look, I don't know a lot, I'm not claiming to be some foreign policy expert, but what I see happening in Gaza feels really wrong." He was attacked for that by the same contingent of Zionists. But he shared some choice words regarding Israel and the war that's happening, and I wanted you to hear him in its entirety.
Theo Von: But I do have a lot of discomfort about America's relationship with Israel — the Israeli political leaders, that's what I mean. I believe that group — it just feels like a satanic regime. It doesn't seem like — it just feels like they just want to cause pain. They don't even know where all the bodies from Gaza are and they've already moved on to other places that they are attacking, and America is now associated with their attacks.
I believe that will come here one day. I don't believe that the Israeli leaders have any intention to stop. I don't see that they have any care for the American people. It doesn't seem like that. I've never heard that spoken.
And I believe that if we don't speak up now, our children won't have the chance to speak up — either by law, or by worse. And that may sound crazy to some people, and that's fine. If it does sound crazy to you, I may disagree with you, but that's okay. I worked hard to be able to have a voice for myself, and I hope at least you just respect that, or I hope you see that at least I'm trying to say what I want to say.
I don't understand our government's relationship with Israel's leaders, with Israel's government. I don't understand it. It just feels like there's this war machine, and our soldiers are put into these spaces. They're just there to serve an America that they believe in — no knock against them. I just don't understand our relationship. I don't understand Trump's relationship. I don't understand why we are so beholden to this Israeli government that just seems to be obsessed with control, and it feels like bloodlust. After what happened in Gaza, I don't see how there could be any other view.
Candace Owens: I just love Theo Von for that. You can hear the sincerity in his voice versus the propaganda we're being given. I feel the same way. I don't know how people can look at what they did in Gaza and believe that it's godly, that it's prophecy, that it is anything but exactly what Theo says — that it just feels satanic. You should just be able to spiritually react and know that something's not right. And he uses such a choice word when he says it's about control. "I don't know if our kids will have the opportunity if I don't use my platform." That's how I felt. It is how I feel every day.
I want to also say this about the Catholics for Catholics event — I'm literally just a speaker, I'm not otherwise involved in the organization. But the pain that they have put the organizer through, the harassment, because you're not allowed to have an event with someone who doesn't support mass murder in Gaza. There's no political theme to this conference at all. My speech is about Mary. It is a prayer for America. So I don't know why we're not allowed to meet, why we're not allowed to have perspectives, why we have to be harassed, why our advertisers have to be called, why we have to be censored from YouTube, why they smear us and lie about us.
Look at what they are doing to Megyn Kelly right now. What did Megyn Kelly do? I can't figure out what her crime was that caused this reaction, other than she simply told the truth. What she is going through right now is what Charlie Kirk was going through at the end.
TPUSA Arkansas Chapter Disaffiliates from the National Organization
Candace Owens: On that note — when we come back to this Turning Point USA situation — whether or not Bibi is alive, it is a lot for a TPUSA chapter to resign and say the direction of travel doesn't make sense to me. Erika Kirk is at the helm of the company, Charlie's wife is at the helm, yet we are all recognizing that they are reversing course on everything that Charlie expressed he believed.
So, despite the fact that Erika Kirk went down to Arkansas a couple of weeks ago and made that sheepish appearance next to Sarah Huckabee Sanders — who was signing a proclamation on behalf of Club America, Turning Point USA's incursion into high schools, buyer beware — the Turning Point USA University of Arkansas chapter announced that it was going to disaffiliate from the national group altogether. This is not a small deal. Take a listen to this brief local news segment.
Local news anchor: Turning Point USA's chapter at the University of Arkansas announcing it is rebranding and disaffiliating with the national group. The chapter's president said in a statement posted on social media that the executive board had become concerned with the direction of the national group. The chapter will now be rebranding to Young American Revival, focusing on advocating for Christian conservative values. This comes a week after Turning Point's CEO Erika Kirk paid a visit to Arkansas, where Governor Sanders signed a proclamation endorsing TPUSA chapters in schools statewide.
Candace Owens: This is fantastic news. But beyond that, you should know that this was a unanimous decision. Everyone on the board agreed they wanted to move away from Turning Point USA. The chapter president — his name is Dino Fontigrasso — published a letter on Instagram which you should read in its entirety. He's been with Turning Point USA for more than five years. So this matters. These are people working at Turning Point. These are people like the person who's working at Andrew Kulvette's office who's telling you something has changed here and something is not right.
Dino writes: "We have many grievances with Turning Point USA, which we will shortly make known to them in private, but I will share only one. We are generally put off by how Charlie Kirk has been used by Turning Point USA since his assassination. Statements like 'Charlie would have said' and 'Charlie would have wanted' have felt, in many instances, disingenuous and manipulative. Charlie Kirk cannot speak for himself anymore, and we do not recognize the way others have attempted to speak for him. Though the one thing I always took away from my interactions with Charlie was the importance of being your own man or woman. Sometimes that means making tough decisions, just like this one."
Dino has been there for five years. And I'm going to guess he very much understands how Charlie was pulling away on the topic of Israel, because Dino Fontigrasso was part of that sit-down that Charlie did in July where he discussed Israel and Gaza — he basically sat with a bunch of students and tried to get their opinion, to show donors: the direction of the wind is just changing. Take a listen to that clip of Charlie, where you can see Dino responding to him.
Charlie Kirk: How many of you guys think when a lawmaker and a man I respect, like Ted Cruz, uses the Bible to justify aid to Israel — doesn't even know the verse — do you guys think that's not the best way to approach this? Raise your hand. I find prophecy as policy to be generally theologically problematic. There are plenty of things the Bible says that have been done throughout parts of history that certainly a nation-state doing today we would see as a bit of a problem.
Student (Dino Fontigrasso): When it comes to sending 300 billion to any foreign country, all I can think about is our own southern border, where we have an actual military in the form of the cartel that kills thousands of people — leaving out the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have died from drug overdoses due to drugs coming across our southern border. It's insulting that that money goes anywhere else when we have such a huge problem here.
Candace Owens: They know how Charlie felt. He was also on the Charlie Kirk Show after Charlie was assassinated. So when this chapter president comes forward and says something is not right, that they are pretending Charlie would want things that Charlie would not want — people need to listen.
I am just getting so tired of all of these frauds out there gaslighting us. Just gaslighting us and telling us that Blake Neff somehow holds the keys and knows what Charlie would have wanted. These people who came out of nowhere — "we were his best friends" — so much so that they won't even help the public investigate what happened that day. Things that would in no way compromise the ongoing investigation. Answering basic questions would actually remove some of the rumor and innuendo. No one can explain to me why those tapes were removed, why there are so many lies. The public can see this.
And at this point I find it utterly immoral for people to be pretending that everything Erika Kirk is doing right now is normal, that it is moral, that it is excusable, that she has lied through her teeth and been caught so many times, that this is some stage of grieving that nobody else has gone through. "Yeah, you know, you never hit the stage where you just pathologically lie about everything and hit the world tour and reverse everything your husband said." It sickens me especially because of how much I love my husband — and thinking, God forbid, of anything like that happening to me. I know who his enemies were. I know who put him through grief. I know who stressed my husband out. And suddenly he dies and three days later they're sitting in his studio opening AmericaFest.
There is something deranged happening here, and there is no amount of propaganda that is going to convince these students, these employees who were fired for even asking simple questions — "Hey, why does this feel weird?" — and just getting thrown out. There's no amount of social engineering that is going to change this. We are going to continue to stay on top of Erika Kirk.
The reason why I need to pause the series is because I'm in a deep research hole right now regarding the cult that Renée Crossman — who Erika partnered with over in Romania — was in. It's called the Family International, originally called Children of God, which was like a Charles Manson-type organization. I have made contact with ex-family members, and it's getting really interesting. They said it's plausible that Erika could have been raised in this, and they mentioned certain behavioral markers — the "God bless you," the "the Lord this, the Lord that." So I wanted to make sure, as I always do, that I'm doing a thorough examination. I didn't expect to stumble upon this particular clue, and it gets even deeper — I didn't know there was a connection between the Family International and Epstein. I always want to be thorough in research I present. I don't want to make any mistakes.
By the way, the frauds wait for a mistake to be made. They'll ignore all of the stuff that's been proven — our team has done so much research, produced so much documentation, and made no mistakes. Then there's an account on X that shared audio of something that wasn't Erika, which we did not share, and they all started going, "See? Investigation over. Somebody got something wrong, so nobody should be looking into Erika." Why don't you respond to what I actually said? Why don't you go point by point? Why don't you sit down and debate me?
And the people at Turning Point — your best response is basically an "I'm with her" campaign. Like Hillary Clinton: she's a woman, so leave her alone, who cares what happened in Haiti. That doesn't work with me. I am impervious to that. I am a woman, so the whole "leave the women alone" thing doesn't work on me. I know what women are capable of.
There is nothing more evil and immoral than accepting the fed slop being administered to the masses about what happened to Charlie Kirk. Nothing makes sense. You can't even debate the evidence we have. You have nothing. I know you have nothing because Erika has nothing. I sat down with her. I actually sat down with her and went in thinking, "Maybe they do have more evidence." They don't.
You're all a bunch of frauds, and you dishonor Charlie Kirk every day while pretending to honor him by putting a bubble around his widow, who is not acting like a widow at all.
"What is she supposed to do, cry every day?" Actually, yeah. I would be okay with somebody who cried every day for a bit after their husband died. It's weird that I apparently have to defend expecting a widow to meaningfully want to stay home after they lose their husband. "Where are the humans?" They're like, "Well, what do you want her to do? Cry because her husband died?" I just — it annoys me every time.
I can't deal with the gaslighting. And they don't want to respond to what I'm actually saying. They just want to keep calling it immoral. Meanwhile, somebody has thirteen adjacent sex trafficking scandals. It's fine that Erika is working with Harvest Church, and they're currently being sued for trafficking children from Romania — just look the other way. Everybody grieves differently.
I said to a friend earlier: "Steph, did you ever think we'd get to this point? Like, I thought we all agreed on the topic of kids being harmed. I thought that was the one thing — I hate you because of this, I hate you because of that, LGBTQ stuff, fine, but if it comes down to kids being harmed, everybody suits up and goes to war." And this year has been the year of recognizing that people are so despicable they would take money to look the other way. They would pretend it's totally normal to be constantly running adjacent to sex trafficking scandals. It's not normal. How could you be this connected to Romania, this random Eastern European country? The gaslighting — it's the gaslighting for me.
We need to stick together — people who are sensible and do not want to be dragged into these wars, people who are effectively pro-life, pro-sons and daughters, and actually America First.
Rumors About Benjamin Netanyahu's Condition
Candace Owens: Some people think Bibi Netanyahu might be dead — it's not verified, but there are some strange videos going around. Let me quickly take you through what happened.
On March 10th, Bibi had a very verified visit. He was at the National Health Command Center — you can see him there, he's sitting in the health center, and he just looks worn and torn. That's the Bibi I'm used to seeing. Then a rumor floated that at some point later that day or on the 11th, he got hit with an Iranian missile. That is not confirmed.
But what happened next is that after that rumor surfaced, Scott Bessent, the Secretary of the Treasury, was in a media interview and got taken out quite abruptly and taken to the situation room — which people thought was very strange.
Reporter: I have to say it's a first that an interview has been pulled away to go to the situation room. How was the president? Was he stressed?
Scott Bessent: The president is in great spirits. The Iranian mission is proceeding well ahead of schedule. I have to tell you — I have a teenager who's considering military service, and I could give this team my highest compliment: from President Trump to the head of the Joint Chiefs to the Secretary of Defense, I would trust my child's life in their hands.
Candace Owens: A two-hour situation room call on the 12th. Then on the 13th, something very strange happened. Reagan National Airport, Dulles Airport, Baltimore airport, and Richmond airport — all four airports around Washington DC — got shut down simultaneously. They said it was because of a strong odor coming from the Potomac River. The shutdown lasted about two hours and twenty minutes, and when they came back, they said a circuit board had overheated. They didn't say where that circuit board overheated. That's obviously not the real explanation. Something happened. To me it feels like they were trying to get somebody in or get somebody out and didn't want anyone else in the air — that's my opinion, not a fact.
Then people were saying, "I really think Bibi's dead." Then came what I'd call "Finger Gate" on the 14th. Israel posted a video on the Prime Minister's official account, and it just feels AI. Look at his forehead — he's totally smooth-faced now. It's supposed to be live. People thought they saw six fingers on one hand. Some people dispute that and think it's just a fat pocket. What we can definitely say is he looks smoothed out.
What's also notable is that despite allegedly being present, he missed the Security Council meeting — which is purportedly highly unusual. They sent someone else in his place; I believe Israel Katz ran it. Then somebody noted that his son Yair Netanyahu, who normally tweets or retweets about thirty times a day, went completely radio silent for seven days. Definitively atypical — you can go look up his pattern of tweeting.
Then finally, on March 15th, Bibi posts a video that is highly produced — HD cameras, a boom mic, a full film crew. And now he looks younger than me. He went from Benjamin Netanyahu to Benjamin Button. You're in the middle of a war, people are in bunkers, he's supposed to be in Jerusalem, but he's doing this coffee-shop setup to prove he's alive. The whole thing is weird. You don't have to work this hard to prove you're alive. Just be alive. Just go to a press conference. Do what you used to do.
They then drop a video of him with Mike Huckabee, making a joke about having five fingers. It's giving Joe Biden going to get ice cream.
Netanyahu (in video): Yes, Mike. Yes, I'm alive. I checked that and I'm happy to see that.
Huckabee: I have to tell you, I'm alive, but I have this card.
Netanyahu: And yeah — today I erased two names on the punch card, and you see how many more to go on this batch.
Huckabee: You know what the good news is? My name is not on the punch card.
Netanyahu: Your name is on the list of the good guys. And what the president and US forces are doing is incredible. We're very proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with them, getting rid of these lunatics who'd like to develop nuclear weapons and deliver them to every American city after wiping out Israel. They ain't going to do that. We're wiping —
Candace Owens: "Ain't." They ain't going to do that. That's a unique dialect. I don't say "ain't." These hyper-produced videos feel very strange to me. You don't really have to prove you're alive. Just be alive. Just go to a press conference. Do what you used to do.
And I should mention he also no-showed the military council meeting today — a critical military council meeting — and they said he has never missed that ever. Despite missing that meeting, he showed up to post another bizarre, hyper-produced video of him and Huckabee joking about him being alive again.
So there's the background on where those rumors are coming from. People think they've killed Bibi, or that Bibi was injured, and that they're using stunt doubles and AI, and they're now doing a lot to show that he is alive.
Listener Comments and Closing Thoughts
Candace Owens: Someone in the comments said "Benjamin Buttony-yahoo" — you guys crack me up. Top comments from last episode: someone said, "Can we get an exposé on Jared Kushner next?" I like where your mind's at.
It is worth noting that Joe Kent was one of the people who bumped heads with Kash Patel during the investigation into who killed Charlie Kirk. Kash Patel blocked any investigation into whether foreign actors could have been involved. Said, "Oh, there's no evidence for that" — because that would have shifted the investigation toward Tulsi's office, which is where Joe Kent was working. Just blocks that, which makes entirely no sense. He was always a good guy in that space, which is why it doesn't work out unless you're corrupt, unless you're part of the mafia, so to speak.
Regarding the harassment of the Catholics for Catholics event — I am just so amazed at what they're putting the organizer through, who has never done anything wrong, just because he invited me to speak. They don't care. They want to make it so that people who don't support their ideas are radioactive. They'll send bot email campaigns, creating the illusion of protests. Like when I spoke at a different Catholic conference two years ago — literally bot emails all saying the same thing, creating the sense there were going to be three thousand protesters. Not one person showed up. It's all about the psyche. It's constantly a psychological game to make people fearful, isolated, alone, attacked. That is what they're doing to Megyn Kelly. I lived that. And they will do the same thing to her.
There is a lot of anti-Catholic sentiment in the air right now. By the way, Bibi has said that Rome is a problem. They don't like Catholics because we are less likely to bend to the command of, "Do what we say or you won't be blessed." Which is them interpreting that verse as a quiet threat. "Oh, you know why Charlie wasn't blessed? He didn't stop blessing Israel." It's like — did you murder him? Because I feel like when you're invoking that verse, you might have murdered Charlie Kirk. We all kind of think you did. "He stopped being blessed because he didn't bless Israel." We kind of all think you killed him. I'm going to leave it there.