Candace Owens: French Death Squads, Charlie Kirk and December Doom

By Philip C. Johnson

December 1, 2025

I was born three months before November 22, 1963, when JFK was killed and the modern conspiracy theory was born. Growing up, I devoured The Bermuda Triangle and studied blurry Bigfoot photos, always half-convinced the government was hiding something. To me, conspiracies aren’t fringe—they’re DNA-deep, a reflex against the official line. We’ve all grown up in their echo: Watergate, Iran-Contra, endless 9/11 what-ifs. They remind us power corrupts quietly, and truth often arrives in whispers.

But relax—I still believe we landed on the moon and that Helen Keller was real (yes, some Gen-Z kids today apparently need that in writing).

Candace Owens’ latest outbursts seem like a fever dream scripted for late-night X scrolls. Is she onto something explosive, or has the echo chamber finally swallowed her whole?

Owens, the fiery conservative podcaster and former Turning Point USA affiliate, spent fall 2025 dropping claims wild enough to make your eyes water. On November 22 she posted an “URGENT” X thread: a high-ranking French source told her that President Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron personally approved a $1.5 million hit on her life, to be carried out by France’s elite GIGN unit. The alleged squad: one French woman, one Israeli operative (Mossad flavor), with payments routed through the ultra-exclusive Club des Cent and wired from French and Canadian accounts.

She says she briefed the White House and U.S. counter-terror agencies. They “confirmed receipt.” As of December 1, that’s it—no corroboration, no leaks, no statement from any official source. Zero evidence has surfaced to support a single syllable of her story.

She paused her show “Candace” indefinitely on November 25, promising “full details soon.” Instead we got more threads tying the alleged Macron plot to the September 10 assassination of Charlie Kirk. Official version: 22-year-old Tyler Robinson shot Kirk from a rooftop at Utah Valley University; Robinson is in custody. Owens calls it a French-orchestrated cover-up, citing Google screenshots of joint U.S.-French military exercises and Egyptian jets supposedly tailing Kirk’s widow, Erika, 73 times. She’s hinted Erika is suspiciously calm in the aftermath of her husband’s assassination and insisted French intelligence won’t stop at Kirk—they’re coming for her next.

The supposed motive? Revenge. Owens spent months claiming Brigitte Macron is secretly a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux. The Macrons sued her for defamation in July. Now, she says, they want her dead.

Then, on Thanksgiving, she warned: “They have been signaling that a 9/11-style attack is coming the second week of December. Save this tweet. It will age well.” As of December 1, nothing has happened, but the post racked up 177K views.

Her source? A nameless “high-level French insider” with “concrete proof” she still hasn’t shown. Telegram founder Pavel Durov (recently detained in France) says it’s “entirely plausible.” Tim Pool calls it a “month-and-a-half conspiracy nonsense fest.” Ben Shapiro calls her Kirk accusations “evil.” Nick Fuentes says,  “Show the receipts.” French media: “lunar lunacy.” U.S. officials and Donald Trump, whom she predicted would publicly back her up? Total silence.

Admittedly, Kirk’s death was bizarre—quick FBI wrap-up, odd security lapses—but Owens’ web of French death squads, Egyptian ghost planes, and Mossad sidekicks feels like QAnon fan-fiction on steroids. Her subscriber count jumped 430K in a week after Kirk died. Coincidence? Maybe…

I’m wired to distrust the official line, but extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence. Right now Candace has none. Until the receipts appear—if they ever do—this is just the loudest echo in the chamber.

I’ll keep watching. After all, my life began with one of the biggest “conspiracy theories” of all time—the assassination of John F. Kennedy—and sixty-two years later we still don’t have all the files on that one. But until proven otherwise—France isn’t running hit teams on American podcasters.