Erika Kirk plainly doesn’t need our help in confronting the conspiracy-mongers and other trolls who exploit her husband’s assassination with no regard to his survivors’ feeling or the truth — but we’re absolutely with her.
Kirk is doing media rounds to promote “Stop, in the Name of God,” the book about the benefits of honoring the Sabbath that she wrote with Charlie before his murder — and taking the opportunity to call out the hatemongers.
“If you want to find and pick me apart, go right ahead. I do not care. I don’t. This was happening before Charlie was murdered. Both of us have been through the ringer,” she said on Fox News’ “Outnumbered.”
But when it comes to “the conspiracy collection,” “I have seen it firsthand impact the people that I love. And I’m done.”
Speaking of the Turning Point staff she now leads: “My poor team is exhausted, and every time they bring this back up, what are we supposed to do, relive that trauma all over again?” she asked. “They watched my husband get murdered. I have no idea how I would have reacted if I was there that day.”
“My team, they are rocked to the core. So why every single day do they have to be dragged through the mud?”
She didn’t mention podcaster Candace Owens, then nor in excerpts released so far from her CBS town hall, but she made it clear when she thundered, “You’re making hundreds and thousands of dollars, every single episode going after the people that I love [saying] because somehow they’re in on this? No.”
We won’t recount the bile Owens has vomited out since the assassination; suffice it to note that she keeps attacking the widow (named Turning Point’s CEO after the killing) and close associates of the victim, plus of course the inevitable mutterings about Jews.
(“Charlie Kirk Show” producer Blake Neff says his team will take apart Owens’ claims next week.)
Our own Miranda Devine did a fair roundup of Owens’ likely motives, while also flagging the left-wing hate flung at Erika Kirk since Charlie’s assassination.
Bottom line: Owens’ charges are fast getting as toxic as Alex Jones’ twisted tales about the Sandy Hook massacre — which led to multiple defamation lawsuits resulting in damage awards totaling above $1.5 billion.
The podcaster might want to think about that before she spews again.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
