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Candace Owens Exposes Turning Point USA's Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Utah as Preemptive PR Strike
Candace Owens dissects the wrongful death lawsuit notice filed by the Kirk family against the state of Utah, Utah Valley University, and its police department. She argues the filing is a rushed, preemptive PR move designed to distract from an impending independent security review that could expose Turning Point USA's failures. Owens walks through the filing point by point, highlighting what she sees as absurd claims that blame the university for granting Turning Point USA's own security demands, including the outdoor amphitheater location and rooftop access. She questions why Charlie Kirk's 12-member security team, composed of former Navy SEALs, Marines, and SWAT commanders, showed up just hours before the event and failed to prevent the tragedy, yet faces no accountability in the lawsuit.
The Timing and Context of the Lawsuit
Turning Point USA and the Kirk family filed a notice of claim against the state of Utah, Utah Valley University Police Department, UVU police chief Jeffrey Long, former UVU president Astrid Tuminez, and others presently unknown who were allegedly involved in Charlie Kirk's death. This filing is a mandatory prerequisite before suing the government, giving the state a chance to settle before proceeding to court.
The timing raises questions. Why file now, over a year after Charlie Kirk's death? Sources indicate that Charlie Kirk's parents encouraged Erika Kirk to file a wrongful death lawsuit as early as December of last year, but Erika was reportedly not keen on doing so at that time. What changed?
An independent security review commissioned by Utah Valley University in September 2024—just 12 days after the shooting—is reportedly set to be released imminently. This review is expected to reveal devastating findings about Turning Point USA's security apparatus and communication failures. The lawsuit filing appears to be a preemptive public relations strike, designed to shift blame to the university before the independent review exposes Turning Point USA's shortcomings.
The Rushed and Sloppy Filing
The filing itself feels rushed and poorly constructed, especially considering the family had an entire year to prepare it. The document is only eight pages long and reads more like a list of grievances against the university for complying with Turning Point USA's own demands rather than a legitimate legal claim.
The filing begins by stating that Turning Point USA planned its largest-ever campus tour in 2025 and that Utah Valley University had the "distinct honor" of being the first stop. This language is revealing—it suggests hubris and narcissism rather than genuine concern for security or justice. The filing emphasizes that this honor came "against a well-known backdrop of risk," citing the attempted assassination of President Trump and the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband as examples of threats that UVU should have anticipated.
Blaming UVU for Granting Turning Point USA's Demands
One of the most absurd claims in the filing is that UVU is at fault for granting Turning Point USA's request to hold the event in an outdoor amphitheater. On August 25, 2025, during a Microsoft Teams meeting led by Turning Point USA employee Macy Crofts, the organization insisted the event take place in the amphitheater. UVU representatives warned that the amphitheater could not be secured with traffic control and that they could not shut it down. Despite these warnings, Macy Crofts insisted on the amphitheater because Charlie Kirk had recently enjoyed a similar setup at an event in Tennessee in March 2025.
The university acquiesced to this demand. Now, Turning Point USA is suing the university for not refusing their request. The filing does not dispute that Turning Point USA demanded the outdoor venue; instead, it argues that UVU should have told them no. This reads like narcissistic abuse—blaming someone else for allowing you to do what you insisted on doing.
The Security Team's Failures
Charlie Kirk brought 12 security members with him to the event—an extraordinarily large team for a college campus event. These were not ordinary security guards but highly trained former military personnel: Navy SEALs, Marines, Army snipers, SWAT commanders who had worked at the highest levels of government. This level of security is extremely expensive and is contracted specifically because organizers recognize that publicly available security will be insufficient.
The security team is expected to arrive days in advance to assess threats, coordinate with local police, and secure the perimeter. Yet, Charlie Kirk's security team did not arrive at UVU until 9:00 a.m. on the morning of September 10, 2025—just hours before the event. Leading up to that moment, communication about security was primarily handled by the Turning Point USA campus club, not the professional security team.
If Charlie Kirk sent a message the night before the event saying he thought he might be killed, and if the security team recognized that the venue could not be adequately secured, why did they not cancel the event? Why did they show up so late? Why is Turning Point USA not suing its own security team for these failures?
The Complaint About Police Staffing
The filing complains that UVU assigned only six campus police officers to the event, which attracted approximately 3,000 attendees. The filing states that this represented only 25% of UVU's police force and that Chief Jeffrey Long requested approval from President Astrid Tuminez to allocate more officers, but the request was denied.
However, basic math reveals that UVU actually over-supplied police officers relative to their capacity. UVU has a total of 50,000 students and only 24 police officers available to cover the entire campus. On a purely mathematical basis, six officers would cover 12,500 students. The event had 3,000 attendees, meaning UVU provided more police coverage than the campus typically has on a per-student basis. President Tuminez made the correct decision to deny the request for additional officers because reallocating more would have left the remaining 47,000 students on campus without adequate police coverage.
The filing also claims that first responders were not made available, but this is false. UVU's state-certified emergency medical services were on the scene with medical bags in hand, standing beside the vehicle after Charlie was shot. For reasons that remain unclear, Charlie Kirk's security team chose to drive him away in a private vehicle rather than allow the first responders to treat and stabilize him on site or call an ambulance. There was no ambulance on standby at the event, which is shocking because Turning Point USA has always had an ambulance on standby at every event in the past.
Misrepresenting the Text Message Exchange
One of the most egregious misrepresentations in the filing involves a text message exchange between Dan Flood (a Turning Point USA representative) and Chief Jeffrey Long. The filing attempts to suggest that this exchange was a general conversation about securing all rooftops on campus. In reality, the exchange was about a very specific area: the walkway above Charlie Kirk's head.
The original text message from Dan Flood reads: "Hello, Chief Long. We received this message today from the student group. Apparently the student is saying there is student roof access pretty close to where CK will be set up at Utah Valley. The Sorenson Student Center has a couple of staircases that go up to the walkways on the roof."
Chief Long responded: "You want access to that roof?"
Dan Flood replied: "I was told students have access above us. If this is true, it would be nice to either have it controlled access or allow one of my guys to be there as well if possible."
Chief Long responded: "I got you covered."
The crucial line—"I was told students have access above us"—makes it clear that the conversation was about a specific area directly above where Charlie would be sitting, not about rooftops in general. Chief Long fulfilled both parts of Dan Flood's request: Officer Bagley was assigned to monitor the rooftop walkway, and members of Charlie Kirk's security team, including Richard Brancaccio, were allowed up there as well.
In the lawsuit filing, the Kirk family's lawyers omitted the line "I was told students have access above us," making it appear as though the conversation was about rooftops more broadly. The filing then absurdly suggests that when Chief Long said "got you covered," Turning Point USA reasonably concluded that UVU would secure all rooftops on campus without Turning Point USA's involvement. This is an insane stretch—reading between the lines of a text message like a teenager analyzing her boyfriend's silence.
The Independent Security Review
Utah Valley University commissioned an independent external review of the fatal shooting on September 22, 2024, just 12 days after Charlie Kirk's death. The university stated that the review would offer valuable insights on how college campuses can improve response and preparedness. The findings of this review are reportedly due to be released imminently and are expected to be devastating to Turning Point USA's security apparatus.
The independent review is likely to include communications that reveal why certain security measures were not taken, why there was no ambulance on standby, and why Charlie Kirk's security team arrived so late. The timing of the wrongful death lawsuit filing—just days before the independent review's release—suggests that Turning Point USA is attempting to preemptively control the narrative and shift blame to the university before the public sees evidence of Turning Point USA's failures.
The 2022 Body Cam Footage of Tyler Robinson
Another suspicious element emerged regarding the release of body cam footage from a 2022 traffic incident involving Tyler Robinson. The footage was released by Scripps Media just seven days after the public learned that Tyler Robinson was the suspect in Charlie Kirk's shooting. The footage shows Tyler Robinson speaking to a police officer after a minor car accident in St. George, Utah, on May 31, 2022.
The problem is that this footage should not exist. Police departments do not retain mundane body cam footage from routine traffic stops indefinitely. State laws govern when body cam footage is automatically deleted, typically between 60 and 90 days for non-criminal interactions. In Utah, routine footage that does not involve an arrest, citation, use of force, or citizen complaint is usually purged from the system within 60 to 90 days.
The 2022 incident involving Tyler Robinson was beyond routine. No citations were issued. Nobody was arrested. The body cam footage did not capture the accident itself. Tyler Robinson spoke to an officer, was handed a report number, and both drivers exchanged insurance information. There was no dispute, no lawsuit, no reason to request or retain the footage. Yet, three and a half years later, the footage was readily available and released to Scripps Media.
Who requested and stored this footage for three years? Who submitted it to Scripps News? Scripps News became a thing in 2022, formerly known as Newsy. The founder of Scripps News is Jim Spencer, who teaches digital media and journalism at UT Austin. Turning Point USA has a strong tie to UT Austin through their number one donor, Nell Buchman, who donated a 2,300-square-foot building to UT Austin in 2022 for mixed media and artists.
The New York Post ran a story stating that the footage showed Tyler Robinson wearing sunglasses and a hat eerily similar to what he was seen wearing while on the run after allegedly shooting Charlie Kirk. This footage served to imprint upon the public's mind that Tyler Robinson always wore maroon shirts, hats, and sunglasses—despite the fact that he normally wore blue shirts. This feels like a coordinated effort to train decoys to mimic Tyler Robinson's appearance and to ensure the public would associate him with specific clothing.
Conclusion
The wrongful death lawsuit filed by the Kirk family against Utah and Utah Valley University reads like a preemptive public relations strike designed to distract from the impending release of an independent security review that is expected to reveal devastating failures by Turning Point USA's security team. The filing is rushed, sloppy, and filled with absurd claims that blame the university for granting Turning Point USA's own demands. It fails to address why Charlie Kirk's 12-member security team—composed of elite former military personnel—showed up just hours before the event, failed to prevent the tragedy, and faces no accountability in the lawsuit. The release of three-year-old body cam footage of Tyler Robinson raises further questions about coordination and manipulation of public perception. The truth about what happened to Charlie Kirk remains obscured, but the independent security review may finally shed light on the failures that led to his death.
Video Transcript
All right, you guys. Happy Wednesday.
Some news today. Some big news today,
actually. Uh, Turning Point USA just
makes me sick. And I have to be honest
with you guys. I just know so much of
what goes on behind the scenes that when
I wake up on a day like today and I see
them running another PR game, trying to
delude the public into thinking that
they want justice for Charlie, it just
makes me sick. And that's what they're
doing today. In case you missed it,
there is basically wall-to-wall coverage
regarding a pending wrongful death
lawsuit that the Kirk family intends to
file against the state of Utah, among
others. Uh, and they have their typical
orbit of influencers attempting to
quickly spin this uh into a narrative
that there's an agrieved widow and her
endless fight to find justice for her
Charlie. You know, you know how it goes.
But your common sense should tell you
that something isn't right. Why now? Why
a notice to file a lawsuit a year on?
And you're going to be extremely
offended when I take you through the
absurdity of the filing itself, which
reads like more narcissistic abuse
coming from the Turning Point USA clown
show. So, let's jump into this. Welcome
back to Candace.
>> [music]
>> Got to tell you right at the top here, I
am amazed. I am always just amazed of
the increasing shamelessness, the
neverending grift, the desperation to
try to sell to the public that Erica
really cares about justice. when in
reality thus far what she has
demonstrated is that she cares deeply
about raising money and deeply about her
PR, right? She's willing to partner with
just about anyone no matter how gutter
trash they are in the pursuit of both.
So this morning I wake up and I see a
trend on X that Charlie Kirk's family
has filed a notice of claim against the
state of Utah. Also Utah Valley
University Police Department and more
specifically UVU police chief Jeffrey
Long and former president of UVU Astred
Tum Tuminez
and others that are presently quote
unquote presently unknown who were
involved in the death of Charlie Kirk. I
don't know how they would be presently
unknown, but okay, stick with me. So, to
at first explain to you why they would
file a notice of a claim rather than
just filing a claim itself, that's
really just because of the law on the
books. It's it's a mandatory
prerequisite for this kind of a lawsuit
that you first have to assert your
intent to sue the government so that the
government has a chance to simply
concede and maybe settle it in the
background, thus not wasting any
unnecessary state resources with a a a
prolonged legal process. They might just
concede and say, "Here's a check. Let's
settle. We don't need we don't need to
do this in the courtroom." Okay. But
you're also, like I said at the top,
probably wondering why now. It's been
over a year. I'm wondering too because
foremost I have known since
approximately last December that
actually it was Charlie Kirk's parents
who were encouraging Erica to file a
wrongful death lawsuit against the state
of Utah. And at that time I was told
that it was not something that Erica
herself was keen to do. Now, I did not
report on it because I tend to stay away
from reporting on anything involving
Charlie Kirk's parents because they're
not public figures. They never have
aspired to be public figures. Um, they
did not usurp Charlie's very public
position as the CEO and chairman of an
organization that pulled in a quarter
billion last year and therefore opened
themselves up to fair criticism. But now
that fact is extremely relevant to
present to the public that this was
Charlie Kirk's parents who wanted Erica
to do this. And I'm wondering why did
Erica decide now to file that intent to
sue? And why does it look rushed? Why
didn't she express a desire to do
something like that more immediately if
it's been this much time that it's been
discussed? And it certainly has been
discussed uh for a long time now. Now,
we can only surmise, of course, but
curiously, I was also informed this week
that what is due to be released
imminently to the public is the
longawwaited
independent review uh regarding the
security failures at UVU, which may have
contributed to Charlie's death. Now, it
was UVU themselves who commissioned this
independent review back in September of
last year. I want you to check out this
article, jogging your memory here. It
was published in the Associated Press on
September 22nd, 2025. Right? So, this is
12 days um after Charlie lost his life.
And it tells us in this article, Utah
Valley University is launching an
independent external review of the fatal
shooting of prominent conservative
activist Charlie Kirk on its campus
earlier this month. The university
announced the move Monday in an effort
to improve safety practices amid fallout
over security lapses and the shattering
of the serene image that the institution
had cultivated. Quote, "We believe the
findings of the comprehensive
third-party independent review of this
targeted act of violence will offer
valuable insights on how college
campuses improve response and
preparedness moving forward." This is
that was a quote from Astra Timunes. The
school's president said in an emailed
statement, quote, "We will integrate the
findings into our efforts to strengthen
and improve safety practices for UVU and
all of Utah higher education." End
quote. Okay. So, just 12 days after
Charlie is hit, the university sought to
examine all of those failures um that
were by the way immediately and some
failures which were eventually noted by
the larger public. At long last, that
report is due to be released. I was told
that its findings were going to be
released on Friday. I don't know if
that's now going to be bumped. Um, and
that the findings were actually going to
be devastating to Turning Point USA to
their security apparatus because
obviously they would have been gathering
communications. Why didn't this happen?
Why didn't that happen? So when I just
look at that that I had this information
that I was expecting this filing on
Friday uh or or I guess this independent
review to be released on Friday and
suddenly we're hit on Wednesday with an
intent to sue that is sloppy. Okay, that
feels a little too on the nose. It's
remarkably timely to say the least. Two
days before the review gets released,
suddenly Turning Point USA is drumming
up noise and influencers are blaming the
campus for the security failures.
Classic preemptive PR strike in my view.
But what is perhaps even more shocking
is actually how lackluster the filing
itself is. Again, it feels very rushed,
especially when you've had a full year
to file this, right? a full year to pull
this together and make it look, I don't
know, um, like you might have some
reasonable claims. Now, remember,
Charlie had a total of 12 security
members that he brought with him. 12
security members. That's massive for a
college event. I've never seen this in
the history of me doing college campuses
with Charlie that 12 security people
would have been brought with him for a
campus of this size. Okay? And these are
not police officers. These are highly
trained military, former Navy Seals,
former Marines, Army snipers, SWAT
commanders who worked for the highest
levels of government. Uh, actually, I'm
going to show you this clip because when
Brian Harpole sat down with Shawn Ryan,
Shawn Ryan went over the remarkable
expertise of this security team. Take a
listen.
>> We have some statements from your guys
here and and uh I don't I don't know if
you want me to read any names, but I
will. No, they said they're fine with
the the song as just first names.
>> Yeah.
>> I mean, here's just, [clears throat]
you know, Blake, combat proven marine,
appears more talent [clears throat] than
everyone else. I mean, you have SEALs,
worldrenowned jiu-jitsu people, 22 years
on SWAT, professional athletes with
tactical careers. I mean, 22 years as a
Navy Seal,
Marine and 30-year cop and SWAT
commander. I mean,
these guys know what the they're doing,
and they're no stranger to
dangerous work.
So, so Brian is submitting that to Shawn
Ryan to tell the world just how
overqualified his team was uh going to
this campus event, right? Look at their
background. Look at their
qualifications. 20-year Marine. What are
you talking about? This is nothing to
these people. And I want you guys to
know something. This level of security
is extremely expensive. Extremely
expensive. You contract that level of
security because well, you are
recognizing that the publicly available
security apparatus is going to be
inefficient, right? They're brought in
to assess and to eradicate any threats
in advance. In essence, you're bringing
in these experts that are assumed to be
above the pay grade and expertise of a
college campus cop. And to be clear, I'm
not guessing here. I worked for Turning
Point USA. On every tour that I went on
thereafter, I brought in my own security
team to each and every event. I know how
this works. I'm not going throwing some
darts. I'm not just throwing spaghetti
at the wall here. I'm telling you how
this works. Your security, if you're
going to bring I I would never have 13
members, but your security would be
liazing with the local police force and
telling them what you want and what you
need. So, you might say, as I did at a
recent event, we want bomb dogs. Okay?
You might say, as they talked about in
this interview, we want drones. We're
going to need a guy up on the rooftop.
We've assessed situation. We want guys
up there. And then the local police will
then come back at you with potential
limitations. They may say, "Uh, we're
not able to meet some of your requests
or some of your demands because of this,
because of that." Which means that you
then either need to go source that
independently. You got to go source your
own bomb dogs, source your own drones,
or you're going to say, "We're not going
to do this event because it's not secure
enough." That's that's why we're
bringing you in experts to say we can't
make this secure. We're prevented to
we're prevented from making it secure.
So, we advise you not do this.
Especially if you send a message the
night before saying, "I think I'm going
to be killed." You pull the event. you
pull the event if you say that we cannot
secure the premises. Now, I'd also like
to stress that you send your highly
trained and expensive security team who
20-year Marines days in advance of the
event minimally. Minimally, you would
send them days ahead to make
preparations, right? They're not going
to come in blind and never have seen
this campus. Okay? If Donald Trump, as
an example, decides that he wants to
speak at UVU, that doesn't suddenly mean
that UVU has the means to provide
everything that someone at that level is
going to need. That's what his Secret
Service detail is for, right? They're
going to leers, they're going to get
their head, they're going to make
assessments, they're going to make sure
um that the perimeter is secured. That
is the entire point of having an outside
security apparatus. Just laying the
groundwork there. Let's now go through
some of the highlights. And by
highlights, I mean low lightss of this
filing. It's a short one. It's eight
pages. It's just meant to be a notice,
like I said. And we're going to skip
through the preamble where they tell us
who Charlie Kirk was because we already
know who Charlie Crook was. And we're
instead going to begin with subsection B
on uh uh with section B on page three,
which is entitled UVU Charlie Kirk
event. Okay. So,
they tell us that in 2025, Turning Point
USA planned its largest ever campus
tour. Immediately caught my eye, just
that opening right there, cuz they're
careful not to give a precise state.
Now, you may may remember that there was
a young woman who back in September and
October and November of last year was
making noise, telling the public that
this event came together too quickly,
someone who has toured and gave you
examples that normally 5 months in
advance they begin planning these they
begin planning and that's for a lot of
reasons. Um, I worked as a speaker with
this organization. I've never seen an
event planned like this. This one came
together in a couple of weeks. I said,
"The fact that they even got approval
for this event is crazy." Okay. And
usually there's a long waiting list of
all the universities who want to host
Charlie, want to host Candace, want to
host him for the campus tour. They make
that request the semester ahead and then
we assess and look through and see how
many of these that we can hit.
Remarkably, this one came together in
weeks. And I said, "This is weird. This
is wrong. This is not how it works."
Because usually the administration gives
Turning Point USA a hard time. There's
so many things they're going to say you
need. Insuranceances, ambulances, this
that blah blah blah blah. So they need
that long runway to prep for these
events. But this one granted
immediately. We don't know who filed for
it. And suddenly in a couple of weeks,
they're going to be promoting this.
Okay. Now, despite this, they assert
that they were they pulled together this
event. But they want to let you know,
and this feels again rather narcissistic
because the whole reason that Charlie
started Turning Point USA was because
there were not conservative ideas
expressed on college campuses. And they
knew that there was never a warm
welcome. There's never a warm welcome.
You go to these events to share ideas
that you don't typically find on liberal
campuses. Yet they write here, "Through
advocacy by the local chapter of Turning
Point USA on UVU's campus, Utah Valley
University had the distinct honor of
being the first stop on the fall tour.
And that honor came against a wellknown
backdrop of risk. We pulled together
this event. We picked you and you were
given a distinct honor that we picked
you." That's just that's a lot of hubris
coming from this filing. Okay. Now, then
it comes and they tell us what all these
risks are. They're like, "Well, didn't
you know that President Trump uh there
was a rooftop sniper? You should have
known and assessed that we were coming
and that this could be a possibility.
Don't you know that Congresswoman Nancy
Pelosy's husband was brutally attacked
in their California home? Once we
announced and awarded you this distinct
honor to host me us, you should have
immediately gone, "Oh my, this is this
are Nancy Pelos's husband was in his
trunks and somebody came into the
house." Okay.
Okay.
Page four is where they begin spelling
out the negligence that they are
claiming uh took place here. And we're
going to go through this point by point
because I'm amazed by it. Okay.
So, point one is they say that UVU
police did not conduct a meaningful risk
assessment and UVU parties did not have
a security briefing where the risks
associated with unsecured rooftops,
which they're going to talk about more
later, which were had been identified
and communicated to Chief Long, could be
communicated to other officers. Oh, um,
here's my question. you know, some of
that expertise you were paying for. Did
Charlie's team request this security
brief? Are are they is UV required by
law to have a written security plan
submitted? Okay. If so,
why didn't Charlie's extensive security
team note that it had not been
submitted? What What is he paying you
for?
Clause two, and I think that this is
among the craziest clause of all.
They're all crazy, but the clause two is
is pretty crazy. They then moved to
blame UVU for granting their request.
Okay. And to be clear, it was not a
request. It was a demand. It was a
demand, I am told, that was made on
August 25th, 20125 for Charlie to be in
this amphitheater. Okay. On August 25th,
2025, I'm I'm telling you this, this is
not in the filing. They had a Microsoft
Teams meeting. This was an events
committee meeting on TurningPoint side.
It was led by Macy Crofts, their
employee. And on that call, I am told
Macy Crofts insisted that the event take
place in the amphitheater. So, you have
UVU on the call and they say, "No, you
shouldn't do it in the amphitheater
because there's no traffic control."
Another point that I said to you was
very strange. Why would you bother
having tickets sold if there's no
traffic control? That means you don't
have to have a ticket. You can just walk
up and sit down. and they made it clear
that they could not shut down the
amphitheater. Okay, that was not
something the university could do. Macy
insisted that they wanted the
amphitheater. They didn't care about
that because Charlie had recently done
an event in Tennessee and he did, by the
way, that's fact. In March of 2025 where
he loved the amphitheater and now he
just wanted the amphitheater so bad. So,
yes, yes, yes. Well, they say,
"Shouldn't we do it inside?" No, no, no,
no, no. Charlie loves the amphitheater.
It must be in the amphitheater. So
Turning Point USA made that demand
and the university acquiesced to that
demand. Is it okay? You know, it's uh
it's your show. And now Turning Point
USA is saying we are going to sue you
for not telling us no.
They're not even arguing the point.
They're not arguing anything. They're
not like they're not suggesting they
didn't request it. They're saying you
gave us what we wanted. And that, my
friend, is your fault.
This just feels like narcissistic abuse.
I don't know. That's how I feel. Um, now
they made it clear that so they they
went into this knowing that there would
be no traffic control. Uh, like I said,
I don't even know why you would even
have a ticketed event at that point. if
anyone can just freely walk up and if
they're going to insist upon that and
then later cops the fact that Charlie
notified his security team the night
before that he was worried that he was
going to be killed.
Why didn't they just cancel this event?
Also, why didn't Charlie security, as
another matter of fact, even if you said
he really wants to be outside, why
didn't they show up before 9:00 a.m. the
morning of September 10th? Cuz that's
when they showed up. That's when they
first hit the ground was at 9:00 a.m.
the morning of the event, a couple of
hours before Charlie arrived. Leading up
to that moment, the police were mostly
in communication with the TPUSA club.
Okay, a little bit of back forth
texting, which we're going to get to,
but the TPUSA club is managing
everything until 9:00 a.m. that morning.
All of that just feels very wrong to me.
And yet, they're going to say that it's
it's the university's fault. Okay,
moving on to uh paragraph three which is
on page five.
This is when they are are going to
complain that they were only provided
with 25% of UVU's police force. Okay, so
you can see it says assigning only six
campus police officers to an outdoor
event with thousands of attendees
despite requests for additional
officers. And they say that the UVU
parties assigned only six police
officers to the outdoor tour event that
ultimately attracted approximately 3,000
attendees. On information and belief,
Chief Jeff Long requested approval from
then UVU president Astred Tumz to
allocate more than six officers, which
represented only 25% of the UVU police
force. But this request was denied. Now,
I don't like to be out here doing math,
okay? I don't like to It's not my thing.
It's not my go-to, but I did some. And
uh I think that when you do the math on
this, what Astred Humanez did was the
right thing to deny the request. Okay?
Because if they were given on a purely
mathematical basis,
they were overs supplied with police
officers. Let me walk you through that.
They say there are 3,000 attendees at
this event.
The campus itself, UVU, has a total of
50,000 students, okay? And a grand total
of just 24 UVU police officers that are
available available to cover those
50,000 students. Okay? The job of the
UVU police force is to make sure the
campus is covered, to make sure the
students are safe. They do not suddenly
become employees of Turning Point USA
because they're doing what relative to
the entire university is a minor event.
3,000 versus 50,000 students that occupy
this campus every day. This is in the
middle of the day. This is not a
nighttime event where it's like, oh, all
we've got is this event that's going on.
This is the middle of the day while
classes are happening.
So worked out as an equation, six police
officers would have covered 12,500
students based on their availability,
okay, of of their full police force.
12,500 students. They oversupplied.
They have the capacity essentially it
for one police officer to cover a little
over 2,000 students. So Charlie's event
was overs supplied within their
capabilities on a purely mathematical
basis. That would be why Astrid denied
to their request for more because it
would have put the additional 47,000
other students at risk. If something
happened to them and there were no
police in sight because everyone was
being given to the Charlie Kirk event,
the university could have been sued.
That's the reality. You have to make
that decision as a president. You go,
"Okay, I understand you guys think
you're a very big deal. You brought in
your own security. We told you what we
had. We have other students here who are
not attending this event." the
overwhelming majority of this college
campus is not attending your event.
And by the way, based on the crowd that
we saw, those weren't even students that
were at the event. There were so many
adults. Something else that I pointed
out, why are there so many adults at
this event? It it was absolutely bizarre
to me. Now, I also want to draw your
attention to the end of point 3 where
they discussed that there were no first
responders made available because that's
just not true. Okay? There were actually
first responders that were made
available. Um they followed Charlie to
the car and then did not get into the
car for some reason. Certainly did not
seem like security was trying to have
him treated by this first by these first
responders. Um and who were they? They
were UVU's statecertified
emergency medical services. They were
right beside the car with medical bags
in hand. and Charlie's team chose to get
into the vehicle and to move on rather
than to have him treated and stabilized
uh right there or to find a place that
they felt was safe to have him
stabilized. That whether or not that was
a good decision by the security is
something that's up for debate. But what
is not up for debate is that first
responders were actually on the scene.
The filing is correct though in that
bottom part when it says that Mr. Kirk
was transported to Panogos Regional
Hospital in a private vehicle, not an
ambulance. Okay. Uh yeah, there was no
ambulance on standby. And I would like
to know why. I have been trying to
figure out why. I am positively shocked
by this because at every single event
that I have done with Turning Point USA,
there was an ambulance on standby. We
typically walked past the ambulance what
in you know wherever the security pulled
up you would pass by the ambulance
because you would their security cars
would be right next to the ambulance.
And I also want to tell you that TPUSA
distributed the security protocols to
speakers. So we were aware of what the
most the the most local hospital was the
shortest distance hospital was located.
Here's the address. Here's the security
protocols. Ambulance on standby. They
made us aware of that. Suddenly now
they're saying, "Well, UVU didn't do
it." Like they're just totally rinsing
their hands of something that I know
they've always done.
Paragraph 4, moving on to that, is more
of you didn't tell us no. Right? You
didn't tell us no. We did it and now
we're angry at you. You gave us what we
asked for. So let's take a look at that.
Now they are citing uh for instance that
the UVU parties could have created and
maintained a secure perimeter around the
event by constructing physical barriers
with limited points of ingress and
egress where the number of attendees
could be controlled and where security
screenings could take place. That runs
contrary to what Macy Crofts was told on
the call, the Microsoft Teams call when
they told you, "We cannot do traffic
control if you do this in the
amphitheater." Allegedly.
Allegedly. They were very clear on that.
If you decide to do this outside, there
cannot be any traffic control. They also
say, "Well, they could have placed
restrictions on the number of
attendees." Who controlled the tickets,
guys? Turning Point USA. Turning Point
USA are the ones that controlled the
tickets. So, they're saying, "We sold a
number of tickets that we wanted, and
you let us do that."
pull that back up because I just thought
that last sentence is so great. The UVU
parties, not Turning Point USA, had the
power and authority to block us from
doing what we wanted to do.
This is all just so stunning to me. Now,
let's move on to paragraph five. Maybe
actually this is this is the one that's
most egregious for two reasons, right?
So, the context here, just so you know,
is they are now addressing the text
message exchange between Dan Flood and
Chief Jeffrey Long of the UVU police
force. This is the same message that
Brian Harpole misrepresented as his own
on Shawn Ryan when he's like, "What am I
supposed to do with that? What do you
mean, what are you supposed to do with
that, Brian? You never received this
message. There's nothing you're supposed
to do with anything because you're not
on this thread. It's between Dan Flood
and the chief of police. Okay. Now, in
this filing, uh the lawyers are going to
further misrepresent this text message
shockingly by omitting the most crucial
part of the text message, which provides
context because they sort of want to
pretend that this was a more general
conversation about rooftops, plural.
They have they say rooftops and not a
very specific area that was above
Charlie's head. That is the proper
context. Okay. So, I'm going to show you
the original text message to jog your
memory so you can see how they just sort
of edited out a sentence here. This is
the original text message from Dan
Flood. And he says, "Hello, Chief Long.
We received this message today from the
student group." And then he quotes it.
Apparently the student say is saying to
them there is student roof access pretty
close to where CK will be set up at Utah
Valley. The Sorenson Student Center has
a couple of staircases that go up to the
walkways on the roof. Okay. Jeff Long
comes back with you want access to that
roof to the roof. And he says I was told
students have access above us. That's
crucial, right? I was told students have
access above us. If this is true, it
would be nice to either have it
controlled access or allow one of my
guys to be there as well if possible.
It's an either or. So, please, we would
like some traffic control or we would
like to have one of our guys up there if
possible. To which he says, I got you
covered. Okay. So, we broke a story back
in November following Brian Harpull's
appearance in Sean Ryan that this
message thread is specifically referring
to, as it sounds, the walkway above
Charlie's head. Okay. And the student
access to that walkway, which um uh the
students would have been able to just
walk up the stairs. This is why that
crucial line from the message, I was
told students have access above us
matters. I'm going to show you now a map
so there's no confusion to what they
were talking about. Okay, that's the
staircase that leads up to that walkway,
the roof access right there. Okay, you
see, you obviously know where Charlie
was sitting. They're now concerned that
students are going to be able to walk
from what is really the lower level of
Sorenson up that staircase and over
Charlie's head.
That's that's the context that they're
talking about in this message. They were
worried about that because people could
throw things down if they wanted to.
that you could have an incident where uh
someone's throwing water bottles,
throwing water on Charlie. They want to
prevent that from happening and secure
that roof access. It's the roof of the
Hall of Flags. Okay, Hall of Flags is
what Charlie is sitting beneath. That's
the roof access.
Amazingly, in this filing, Kirk family
lawyers decided to just omit that
critical line of a text exchange
altogether. We can look at this side by
side. They jump in here at if this is
true, it would be nice to either have it
controlled access or allow one of my
guys to be up there as well. But
actually, they're missing that part. I
was told students have access above us.
If this is true, it would be nice to
either have a controlled access or allow
one of my guys to be there as well.
Because if you could see that in the
filing, you would go, "Oh, kind of
sounds like you're talking about a very
specific area that has nothing to do
with the Loy Center or any other
rooftop, but rather an area right above
you guys." And you guys, meaning right
above Brian Harple. So, I guess they're
just going to ride that lie until the
wheels fall off or whatever, pretending
that this exchange was about rooftops,
more broadly speaking, and not about
that one particular access point, which
by the way, they dealt with in that same
clause on the bottom of of of same
paragraph on the bottom of page six.
They somehow the lawyers here are
hitting peak insanity because they note
that Chief Long responded with three
words, got you covered. Because, well,
he did have him have them covered. They
did both, the either and the or. Officer
Baggley was sent to monitor the rooftop
traffic control. Remember officer
Baggley, you know, uh, sir body cam went
off. He's up there doing traffic
control. And additionally, members of
Charlie's security team were allowed up
there as well. He met both of Dan
Flood's demands. Like we Here's a still
of Richard Bracie was up there. We know
Richard Bracie was up there on the
rooftop. And you can actually see right
after the explosive goes off, Richard
Bracley juts juts across. He was already
up there given access yet. This filing
suggests that got you covered. Uh it was
not met. And also they then try to
extrapolate it and they say that those
three words got you covered. And this is
amazing. You got you got to go here to
uh where are we at? The bottom of um
page five. Yes. Yeah. Bottom of page
five. Uh six, pardon me.
They say this led TPUSA
to reasonably conclude that UVU had a
plan to address the identified risk and
other similar risks, most obviously the
risk from other rooftops without TPUSA
involvement.
Chief Long's text message did not invite
or even allow Turning Point USA to take
any steps to secure the risk of
unsecured rooftops.
I'm sorry. What
was this filing written by a teenaged
girl reading in between the lines of her
boyfriend's silence via text? Like that?
What? What are you talking about? He
addressed the exact concern that you
brought up. You confirmed what you were
speaking about. They made sure that you
got both of the either and the or. Okay.
Officer Baggley, your own guys are up
there. And now you're like, and then
just like when he said got you covered,
even though he did cover us, we then
assumed that he would then address every
rooftop on campus.
We just we just assumed
what we only have like, you know, 20
years of marine experience, sniper
experience. We think we're supposed to
be thinking about rooftops, generally
speaking, but we just took these three
words in the context of getting exactly
what we wanted and we just assume that
you would have us covered everywhere
above and beyond. I mean, that is that
is so beyond ridiculous and
unacceptable. I can't even believe
they're attempting this. I can't even
believe they are attempting this. Okay.
Now uh the next sentences that are
highlighted on on on page seven I think
we are on page seven now. Yeah.
Um it says uh wait which we just covered
actually that uh really now we can jump
down to paragraph six. Okay. And this is
really just a summation of this brief
filing and I'm just going to read that
in its entirety. It says the UVU party's
omissions, actions and misconduct led to
Mr. Kirk's death. All of these failures
placed Mr. Kirk in danger. he was
legally entitled to believe that when
the UVU parties approved the tour event
to be held on campus on September 10th
that the UVU parties would only hold the
event in a venue and with associated
security measures that made the event
safe for him to attend and participate
in. Instead, Mr. Kirk was exposed to the
danger of a rooftop shooter that took
his life in light of the risks known to
the UVU parties. The UVU party's
failures shock the conscience, giving
rise both to a state created danger
claim
under the United States Constitution's
due process clause and a traditional
wrongful death claim under Utah law.
Thank you for receiving the above notice
of claim. Please feel free to reach out
if you have questions. Very truly yours.
I have questions.
I would like to reach out.
I do not think my call will be taken.
Um, but I I have I have a lot of
questions. What are we doing here? What
are we doing? What have we learned from
this? We learned that Turning Point
USA's position is we brought in all of
these former military trained snipers
and Navy Seals, but we are really
shocked. Our conscious our conscience is
shocked that we were expected to in any
way utilize their expertise.
That's that's really what this says.
They're they're just totally shocked.
It's amazing to me that they're not
suing their own security who showed up
at 9:00 a.m. that morning um and are now
trying to strenuously read between the
lines of a text message to assert that
they somehow had a discussion about
rooftops when they didn't. So, what's
actually up with this filing? What is it
really about? Well, I maintain my
position that this is a preemptive PR
strike meant to distract the public from
what I am told is going to be a
devastating blow, a devastating PR blow
regarding Turning Point USA's
shortcomings. Maybe we get some answers
to the questions of why there was no
ambulance on standby. And maybe we're
going to be able to see those
communications, fuller communications
with the team. And it's going to feel
like uh just to give it like an ode to
when you first see Blake Lively's filing
and it sounds shocking, right? Because
she races to file it and then you kind
of wait and Brian Freriedman drops like
a lot of receipts and you go, "Oh my,
actually we did not get the full story
here." That's the vibe I'm getting.
The other thing, by the way, that I
think is interesting to consider is that
we may be actually looking at unique
insight into what Erica and Turning
Point USA has communicated to Charlie's
parents, that it wasn't their fault that
you you made tons of mistakes. Like,
they're obviously going to read through
this, and this might be what they've
been telling them. Like, we requested
this, we were told no, we were told
this, we were told that. He said he had
the rooftops covered. This might be what
they were told.
Who knows?
Lastly, I'd like to just say this. I do
think it's possible that they will score
a big payday. That the state will just
want the situation to go away. I mean,
Utah is not to me it seems a little
corrupt. The state seems a little
corrupt. And I would just imagine more
broadly speaking that they're just going
to want the situation to go away, agree
to a settlement of some description uh
because they have the funds to do so and
they have bigger concerns like the
criminal case. I wouldn't rule that out.
even on a university level, you just
want to be done with these things. I
hope not. I certainly hope they don't do
that. And um I'm going to instead hold
my breath for
the independent review that's being
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I see a lot of people in the chat saying
that this feels like moneyaundering,
like state moneyaundering away from the
taxpayer. It's an interesting thought.
I'm just seeing that appear a lot here.
I I think there's a lot going on. I
mean, I certainly would be if I was in
Utah and I was taxpayer, frustrated by
the idea that Turning Point USA, Erica
was willing to promote her her own
security apparatus
for what on that day? I don't know. Dan
Flood was actually providing security to
her in the immediate aftermath. I He
certainly was on her at the White House
when Charlie, I think it was Charlie's
birthday or Trump did something there.
And yet they're then now turning around
and being like there were security
failures but they were only the fault of
UVU. I don't I don't know that I buy
that actually. Anyway, moving on from
that. I have a random bee in my bonnet
today. I need your help internet. It's
bothering me tremendously. I can't let
it go suddenly. Actually, credit to
YouTuber Zack Costello for putting this
bee in my bonnet even though he didn't
mean to. Uh, basically what happened was
he was looking at the footage of um
the footage that we released of Tyler
Robinson the version in the American
shirt uh walking to onto UVU campus and
he was addressing how he had his fingers
in his pockets. Okay. and the way that
he was particularly holding his fingers
in his pockets. And in Zach Cassell's
mind, he said, "That's super interesting
because that makes me think of that 2022
arrest of Tyler Robinson and he also had
his fingers in the pocket that way." But
of course, my crazy brain like instead
of hearing what Zack Castello is saying,
which is like this could be Tyler
Robinson, I went whoa, whoa, whoa, wait
a second. Why the heck did we ever see
that footage? This is, let me back this
up for you. The footage itself is now
exceedingly problematic. Okay. Some
facts about this footage. 2022 footage
of Tyler Robinson. Um uh and then the
police. It was body cam footage. You'll
recall it. We'll show you a bit of it.
It was released just 7 days after the
public found out that Tyler Robinson was
the suspect. Okay. Again, it's body cam
footage that's dated May 31st, 2022. So,
we're talking like three and a half
years. um after it was recorded and it
was released by Scripps Media. Now, I'm
going to explain to you what suddenly
registered to me as very wrong about
that footage, the fact that it's three
and a half years old and yet was
released and available to be released to
the public so instantly because the
footage should not exist. Now, you may
not know this, but allow me to enlighten
you. The police do not just hold on to
every mundane piece of footage from
traffic stops, maybe 911 calls, and
police interactions that they have on a
daily basis, mostly because they can't.
That's just way too much data. So, state
by state, there exists laws that govern
when body cam footage is to be
automatically deleted. And it's
typically a very short time frame for
noncriminal interactions, as it should
be, right? Thankfully. Okay? Because do
you know how many traffic footage stops
there would be from me between the ages
of 18 and 21 years old if they didn't
just automatically delete this? I had so
many speeding tickets across so many
states that Connecticut actually made me
go back to driving school for a weekend
or else I was going to lose my license.
Okay. Gratefully there's no footage of
me getting stopped for speeding uh by
police officers because it falls o under
a category that's termed routine
footage. Okay. A teenager being an idiot
and not abiding by speed laws is
routine. So are fender benders. Sorry,
Laura Loomer. I know they were really
desperate to try to find footage of my
husband pulling out of a parking lot 5
miles per hour in the rain and
accidentally hitting somebody's bumper.
Uh who later shook us down for 6K. But
in Tennessee, that would have been filed
under routine footage and it would have
been automatically deleted. [snorts]
Actually, it wouldn't have because the
police weren't even called to that. But
you get the idea here. They would they
would have if the police were called to
that fender bender scene, it would have
been automatically deleted about 30 days
later in Tennessee. In Utah, I looked up
the law. That body cam duration for
routine footage that does not involve
either an arrest, a citation, a use of
force, or a citizen complaint is usually
and typically automatically purged from
their system between 60 and 90 days.
Again, that is to manage storage costs.
60 to 90 days. So, in the case of Tyler
Robinson in 2022, no citations were
issued. Nobody was arrested. The body
cam footage did not capture the
accident. So, there's no reason to hold
on to it. What took place was that Tyler
Robinson spoke to an officer and was
handed a report number, an instant
report number. Both drivers were made to
exchange in the insurance. That's like
very typical. There was no ambulance.
There was no paramedics. Nobody was
pretending to be hurt. This was beyond
routine. So I found myself going, who
ordered the footage and held on to it
for 3 years? That is the question. Okay.
When there is not a dispute, there is
not a dispute. This is not going into
the court system. You're not saying this
happens and I'm disputing it. Tyler
Robinson was completely unknown in 2022.
He was just 19 years old. This recording
was recorded by an officer in St. in the
St. George Police Department. You should
also know that fact. And there would
have been no need to request the
footage. By the way, even if you do
request the footage, they won't just
grant it to you automatically. You can
say, "I am requesting grandma footage.
Um, I know Tyler Robinson and I know
that he was involved in a fender bender.
I'd like to see that before you throw it
out in 90 days." Who would do that? Like
I said, both drivers were cooperative.
There was no subsequent lawsuit or
fight. Why? and who collected and stored
this footage. And we can now watch a
little clip of it. Uh just so you can
see what we're referring to cuz I don't
think we actually ever talked about it
on this show.
>> Who's the driver? The driver.
>> Yeah.
>> Can you tell me just really quick what
happened?
>> I was coming this way and he's just
passing through and he pulled out uh
from here or no from there I think.
>> Which do you remember which lane you
were in? I was in one of those two lanes
going this way. I think in the right.
Yeah, in the rightmost lane coming this
way. Okay. And he would have been there
going left.
>> And as I was coming through, he turned
in and I t-boned into the side.
>> Okay.
>> Mundane.
I'm going to keep asking this. Who
requested and stored this footage for 3
years and then submitted it to Scripps
News? who in Utah was like, "I happen to
have this footage from 2022 that I've
been holding on to of this random,
unknown 19-year-old Tyler Robinson, and
I'm choosing to release it to a
publication that no one has ever heard
of." And here's the headline just so you
guys can see. The script scripts News
obtains video of accused Charlie Kirk
shooter after the 20 after 2022 car
crash. Now, we we did some digging.
Scripts News became a thing that same
year in 2022. who was formerly Newsy,
then became Scris. The founder of Scris
News is a man named Jim Spencer. And it
caught my eye that he happens to teach
digital media and journalism at UT
Austin, right? He's done so since 2018.
He's been at UT Austin teaching digital
media and journalism. Here's his bio on
the site. And that caught my eye or at
least jogged my memory because I
remembered that Turning Point USA has a
very strong tie to UT Austin in the form
of their number one donor uh Nell
debuckman. It was that was announced.
She's our number one donor. That was who
they I believe they were sharing a plane
with as well. Um at some point, correct
me if I'm wrong. I'm vaguely remember
that we covered that. Um she donated in
2022 a 2300 square foot building to UT
Austin for mixed media and artists. It's
called the Buckman Center of of UT
Austin. And that made me think, hey,
that's another little side quest that
Turning Point USA could use their
resources to explore that has nothing to
do with the hearing at all. So, you
can't say, "Oh, we're just letting
things play out. It's not really
actually relevant to what's going on in
the courtroom. Maybe NDA can help you
reach out to to Jimbo Spencer. Help us
all figure out how they got a hold of
this obscure video. Why it was submitted
to them at Scripps News could be another
piece of the puzzle.
Because you want to know what I think?
I think this is like the maroon shirts.
When I suddenly said every news
organization was showing us pictures of
Tyler in a maroon shirt and you would
think that he always wore maroon shirts,
but he didn't actually. He normally red
wore blue shirts and it seems like they
knew that some decoys were going to wear
the maroon shirt and they wanted to
immediately imprint upon the public's
mind that Tyler just wore maroon every
day. They didn't. I think this is
similar. I think that they already knew
they were going to release this to the
public and they had trained this
individual to mimic the way in which
Tyler Robinson walks. I think that
because the New York Post kind of said
that, right? When they released the
footage, they were basically like, "Wow,
shocking footage emerges of Tyler
Robinson, and he's wearing an eerily
similar hat and sunglasses from the 2022
footage." Look, it's just unbelievable.
the spender better in Utah sporting
sunglasses and a hat that are eerily
similar to what he was seen wearing
while on the run after allegedly gunning
down conservative activist Charlie Kirk
3 years later. Wow, how crazy that this
footage emerged and he's in the same hat
and sunglasses
imprinting upon the public mind that
this is our guy. That's my thought. I
would like to know why footage that did
not involve a crime was available on the
ready a couple of days after we learned
seven days after we learned that Tyler
Robinson was a suspect. How did scripts
get that? If you have information as to
how that took place, who held on to that
footage, why they held on to that
footage, which should have been deleted
after 60 days in the state of Utah,
which no one should have requested
because no one should have known that it
happened. Please reach out to us. We'd
like to We'd like to It's It's It's a be
in my bonnet. In my bonnet. Got to get
to the bottom of it. More tips at
candacewowens.com.
Thank you, Zachello, for putting this be
in my bonnet. I know you were thinking a
different route, but I'm always like
that men in black scene where like, you
know, I go after the girl. There's all
these aliens and I my brain just works
different way and now this has to be
solved. More tips at canowens.com or you
can email us at tips@canowens.com.
Maybe you work for scripts. Maybe you
know how they got this footage. Maybe
you work for St. George. You know who
works for St. George and could have
maybe held on to this footage. Maybe
it's a whole blackmail thing. They
highlight certain people. I don't know.
They're in a gifted program and they're
like, "We got anything we find about
this?" But didn't Mike Mitchell, wasn't
he his mentor? Would he have maybe
opened up to someone and said, "Hey, I
just got pulled over." I don't know.
It's weird. It's all very weird. We'll
be right back after a brief break. All
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Okay, top episode. I mean, top comments
from yesterday's episode. Um, this is
regarding the Ed Sheeran scandal. It is
a scandal indeed. Free Palestine. Duh.
Rohan writes, "Had they just ignored
what McLemore said, he would have only
had 90,000 people hear his message, but
now the whole world has heard his
message. The Lord works in mysterious
ways." That's exactly right. They can
never leave well enough alone. The
Perisio lobby, they just operate like
termites. They have to destroy. And
typically what happens is the opposite
desired effect where people look and go,
"Well, this is weird. This is very
weird. Why are you punishing a person
for saying something that's basically
true? I genocide is always wrong in my
view. What's going on here?" And so it
is ultimately a good thing. And it
remains to be seen what Ed Sharon will
do. He should cancel the rest of his
tour according to me. Uh this next user
writes, "Acknowledging human suffering
should not be a punishable offense."
Well, you can't make that make sense to
people who worship ball. That's what
I've learned.
They just like them. They just like
human sacrifice. They love they have
this blood lust. They love killing
children. They laugh. They They feel
warm in their bellies when children die.
So, that's how that works. Comments from
today's episode. Too much sausage
writes, "What username? How do you guys
come up with this stuff?" writes, "And
yet Charlie's security team had one job.
Did any of them get sued or fired? No.
Some even got promoted. No, I'm the one
being sued for calling out their
security failures. This is just a crazy
world. We live in turning point or
rather Erica Kirk could go after UVU for
security failures. God forbid Candace
says something that is so abundantly
obvious and true that it takes two to
tango my friends when you bring 13 uh
welle equipped security men with you
with military extensive military
backgrounds.
Everybody got to sue Candace. You know
it's like that show Everybody Hates
Chris. Everybody sues Candace. I got to
have like a I don't know like a we got
to make something a little AI thing.
Everybody sues Candace. Feeling so bad
for myself. Neimus out writes, "Candice
is divine providence in action. P.S.
John Mappin is a proper legend, a top
bloke, and an absolute diamond. He is a
sort of chap who would help you move a
sofa without expecting a pint of Cella
after. Sovereignty is ours. Let's keep
it signed." He will very much enjoy you
having said that. He is he is like quint
quint quintessential Englishman is what
I would say about John Mappen without
question. And um it's just really just
all very interesting like how we met and
none of us actually should have met and
how it all came together. And him and
Arena have just been fantastic friends
to us especially throughout this time.
They have been extremely loyal to
Charlie and making sure that um his he
does not die in vain, right? That he
actually uh we explore what really
happened, who was behind it. And we all
know that this is so much bigger. I mean
just so much bigger than we could have
ever imagined. Scotty Thrive Tribe
writes, "The stepbros scene where they
build bunk beds will not leave my brain.
Mom, dad, why would you let us do this?
There's so much blood. Classic childish
sherking of responsibility." Yes. Um I
think you're talking about the did we
just become best friends? I've actually
never seen Fully Step Brothers, which is
weird cuz I'm a massive Will Ferrell
fan, but yeah, like they do something
and then they're like, "Why would you
let us do this?" is so crazy. That's so
absolutely crazy to me. Like it's, you
know, ordering a dish for your child at
a restaurant. They give you the dish and
then the child has some sort of a
choking instant. You're like, "Why would
you let us order this? It's what do you
mean? Why would you let us order? You
ordered this. Like you, this is what you
wanted. You ordered this. Turning point
USA. Why are you telling us that we're
getting sued for giving you what you
want? It's so bratty. It's giving
Verooqa salt, right? Don't care how. I
want it now." And then like I don't
know. That's that's the vibe that I'm
getting from this this filing. and it's
from the office of the attorney general
or was a given delivered to the office
of the attorney general rather um of
Utah. Margaret Garro writes, "I'll say
the selfish comment that that we are all
thinking. Bless the beautiful new baby
that is about to become a part of your
family, but we are going to miss you
while you're being a great new mama."
Someone had to say it. Thank you so
much. You guys are very sweet. Um, I do
think that you will be happy with who is
taking over my show in the interim,
which is this is actually a very good
time to announce it. I delayed
announcing it because he made a a very
unfortunate mistake and it was
disgusting and it was sick and it had to
be called out privately and I almost
just ripped up all the contracts because
he said a hot dog qualified as a
sandwich. It's crazy. But Baron Coleman,
yes, will be taking over the principal
show while I'm on maternity leave. We're
very excited about this. Obviously, um
Baron has just become such a great
friend over this last year. Just an
unexpected friendship that emerged and
like just to be able to have someone
that I thinks through these things like
I do. Um it takes his time. I think he's
just he he has a method that very much
matches my own and making sure that you
want to triple confirm and he's deep on
this stuff and obviously it's an added
benefit that he is a lawyer. I'm a
pretend lawyer. I love reading through
documents, marking it up. Should have I
feel like I should get an honorary law
degree. I'm not going to actually pursue
that, but if anyone wants to give me
one, I will accept it. Hey, if Erica can
be a doctor, why can't I be a lawyer? I
don't know. But um Baron Coleman will do
fantastic on this show. It will run
while I am off air um from Monday
through Wednesday. Before I leave, we
will do a joint episode. I saw a lot of
you guys asking, can we do a thorough go
back from the beginning for some people
that are just kind of learning about
this case and getting involved? Go from
the beginning, kind of unpack what has
happened and also have an opportunity to
sort of look through um what the state's
evidence is, that opportunity that was
missed sorely um by the incredibly
insincere and disingenuous Andrew
Wilson. Uh, I want you guys to have that
information and to be able to slowly
walk through that and doing a sort of
longer episode with Baron Coleman will
give me that opportunity. Uh, so we will
do that before I pass the torch. We are
just got a few more weeks here until
this baby comes. So it will be Baron
Coleman. And obviously we have now
included a very very strong clause that
he's not allowed to discuss sandwiches
in any capacity. Hogies. Um, he's just
it's just something that he's not
allowed to do on this show. Um, we will
not allow him to be out here saying
crazy things like hot dogs qualify as
sandwiches. We need to keep people uh
together and that is not how you you
unite the country. It's just not how you
do it. Lady Lala writes, "I know you say
that you are not voting anymore, but can
we please flip the House and Senate and
take power from Trump?" Crisis King, go
Max. P.S. we know. No. Anna Kay is
sitting in during your leave. Ah, you
were wrong. You thought it was Anaka
Casparian. That would have been a great
one though. That would have been a fun
one to have Anaka Sparian, but I want to
keep going on with the Charlie Kirk case
and um I know that she covers multiple
topics and she's just getting into it. I
went on her show and explained a lot of
the things that are wrong with the case,
which I was really grateful for because
she has a different audience from mine.
But yes, it is in fact Baron Coleman.
And
yeah, he will he will keep track of
Tricky Terrell because Tricky Terrell
bothers us all. We don't know how he's
allowed to just be this tricky and just
get away with it. It just feels wrong.
It just feels like they're getting away
with a lot. Um, also, this person is
telling me that they sent me some
important info regarding tar. So, I will
check that out. Um, Lulu writes, "Keep
following the David Levit stuff. It is
deep. We are the people. Utah has
everything that you need to know about
this case. David and his wife took this
child to Scotland and bought a castle
and kept her there away from her
family." I'm going to add allegedly.
allegedly cuz I'm obviously live reading
comments and so I don't know if there's
any truth truth to that and you are
implying that there there's a safety
issue there. I do not know that. I know
nothing about a child being taken to
Scotland. Um but I will uh look in more
into David Ovit because I do think that
that is an interesting thread that needs
to be pulled. You know, there has been a
lot of satanic abuse claims full stop in
Utah outside of David Ov. a steep
history of those sorts of things and um
yeah, it it is something that somehow we
feel like we're arriving at again here
in the Charlie Kirk case, which make
should make no sense and yet somehow it
seems to be what's staring us in the
face. Um lastly,
Ali writes, "Love Tucker Carlson you're
referring to, but I disagree with him
regarding Erica. He said when he first
met Erica, he was impressed by her
fearlessness and her intensity and how
Charlie valued her." Well, what about
loyalty? She lied about his Iran war
views, covered up his Israel views, and
handed Turning Point USA to the Daily
Wire. I did not see this clip of
Charlie, I mean, of Tucker. Um, but what
you site here is that he says when he
first met her, so I think we all met a
different person than she is today.
Obviously, I told you that when I was at
Tucker's in uh June of 20 or May of
2025, Erica was there the night before
ranting about Israel like and like
pushing Charlie in that anti-Israel
direction. So, I don't know. I don't
think anybody knows this Erica. Again, I
don't know what Tucker said in his full
comments, but it's totally plausible
that she just switched to another
personality because that's what I've
seen since May. like we were all talking
about Israel and now all of a sudden
she's very pro-Israel and partnered with
um the what is it called ICF. It's like
the International Fellowship of
Christians and Jews. That contract got
revealed by Max Blumenthal.
Is anybody surprised?
Anybody surprised? Because you shouldn't
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[laughter]
suckers. Didn't happen. We'll see you
guys tomorrow. [music]