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Candace Owens on Charlie Kirk, The Daily Wire, TPUSA, and Emmanuel Macron (Transcript)

Read the full transcript of Candace Owens’ interview on Elizabeth Lane TV, May 14, 2026.

Editor’s Notes: In this high-stakes sit-down, Candace Owens joins Elizabeth Lane to unpack the “spiritual battle” following the shock assassination of Charlie Kirk and the transformation of the movement he left behind. Candace offers an unfiltered look at her departure from The Daily Wire, describing it as a “cult masquerading as a business,” while raising sharp questions about the “metaphysical” forces and leadership currently guiding TPUSA. It’s a raw, deep-dive into faith, betrayal, and why Candace remains steadfast in her refusal to “bend the knee” to the system—no matter the cost.

A Fond Memory of Charlie Kirk

ELIZABETH LANE: Candace Owens, thank you so much.

CANDACE OWENS: I’m so happy to be here.

ELIZABETH LANE: Oh, I’m so happy to be here with you. So you know that I’m a huge fan of yours, and no matter how many people are out there trying to bring you down, I’m always going to be on your side. Hope nothing changes unless one day you come out and you start pushing Zionist propaganda. Then I might have to leave you.

CANDACE OWENS: I think we can safely say that that day will not come.

ELIZABETH LANE: Okay, perfect. Perfect. You know, I thought about this interview when I was coming over here and I was like, what do I want to, where do I want to go with this? Because everyone knows Candace, you’re so open out there with people. I think that’s why they love you so much because you speak for them. That’s how I see you, my reflection of you. So I wanted to start with a story of Charlie Kirk that no one knows, something that brings you happiness, something that you can remember and share with us?

CANDACE OWENS: Wow. Okay. I could pick a lot of stories. I say this often on my podcast, but he was really funny. And one of the things that I guess is so sad in sort of the wake of his assassination is it was so corporatized and so political that it didn’t actually, you didn’t learn anything about Charlie when you heard all these political figures speaking and obviously pushing their church propaganda and also Republican propaganda. And the real Charlie was just objectively hilarious. He was objectively hilarious.

But there’s one story that I actually thought about recently, which was obviously we traveled, I mean, 4 times a week we were traveling together. You really just get to know somebody in that circumstance. Early morning you realize you forgot to pack something or your suitcase didn’t come through and we’re waiting outside at like 4:00 AM for Walmart to open at 5:00 AM in the middle of nowhere.

But I will never forget New Mexico. Charlie and I used to always eat Chipotle. That was our go-to. We ate Chipotle everywhere we were. We were just thinking, gosh, Chipotle has to sponsor us, has to sponsor us. It was just an easy meal that felt light enough and you don’t feel like crap when you’re traveling.

But we went to New Mexico and this was during the time that we were wearing like the Build the Wall shirts and, very pro-Trump, very pro-MAGA, wearing our MAGA hats, Build the Wall. And we went to this random Chipotle in New Mexico and I can’t explain it to you, but it was the greatest tacos we ever had in our lives. And I just remember Charlie saying, “The tomatoes are glistening. Like, the tomatoes are glistening.” And he was like, “Do you think we got this wall thing wrong? Like, should we go backwards and stop saying build the wall? Because like, maybe this is because we’re so close to the border that this is messed up.” And I was like, “I don’t think we have it right, Charlie. I think we need to hear the other side.”

And just thinking of that Chipotle and how we constantly talked about the glistening tomatoes afterwards is just one of my favorite Charlie moments. Like, he was just very, very, very funny. Very aware of himself, really could make fun of himself, which we were both like that. We just don’t take ourselves too seriously. And yeah, I think just his sense of humor.

A Dream About Charlie Kirk

ELIZABETH LANE: I know the wise person, you know? And I didn’t know him personally, but I’ll tell you something that happened to me when he died. I’ve never said this before, ever. I didn’t know Charlie Kirk. I never met Charlie Kirk. And he came to me in my dream. Which was weird. And I was worried because I was like, I don’t think I’m doing enough for this investigation. Because, you know, I don’t only work on Charlie Kirk. I work on multiple other things. So it’s like I’ve got a small team and I’m like, I don’t think I’m doing enough. There’s so much smoke in here and I have to maybe try harder.

So I go to sleep and he comes to me and I don’t know, you tell me if that’s like Charlie. He hugs me for some reason, smiles, and he’s like, “You’re doing just fine.” I never knew him personally, but he was smiling and he hugged me and he’s like, “You’re doing just fine.” So I remember just asking him like, “Who killed you?” So I did. I was like, “Who killed you? Like, that would be easier to tell me, like, who killed you?” And you know what he said? He said, “The same people that killed JFK.”

CANDACE OWENS: Wow. You had this in your dream?

ELIZABETH LANE: In a dream. Wow. I woke up at 4:00 AM and texted my friend. She’s also my producer. Texted my friend and I was like, “I just had Charlie Kirk tell me this in my dream.” And yeah, well, obviously it is not the same people because they are all dead, but you know what he meant.