“In the most aggressive point in the debate, Andrew Wilson makes an attempt to force Candace Owens to defend her conspiracy mongering at the 2:34:00 timestamp: “Do you actually believe that anybody in TPUSA or Erika Kirk […] actually participated, had foreknowledge of, or facilitated the murder of Charlie Kirk?” This was an excellent way to put the question to Candace, such that she’d have no choice but to take a stand one way or the other….”
(Evangelical Dark Web) On August 14, 2026 at 11:00 AM (EDT), Candace Owens finally sat down to defend her alternative theories regarding the Charlie Kirk shooting with Christian ethicist and prolific debater Andrew Wilson. We covered the ongoing saga of this on again, off again debate here. To this point, Ms. Owens has refused any sort of public debate on the topic, only agreeing to it now after Wilson and Brian Atlas (Whatever Podcast) both kicked in $150K for the opportunity to sit down for 3.5 hours to debate “Tyler Robinson: Guilty or Patsy?”. Instead of Joe Rogan or Michael Knowles, it would be moderated by Patrick Bet-David. We did a live reaction thread to the debate on X that you can find here, which may be helpful to you if you’re watching after the fact.
Introductions
Both speakers started with brief opening statements. Andrew Wilson went first, simply saying that the evidence supports Tyler Robinson acting alone as the shooter and that there is no evidence of a grand conspiracy where he was the fall guy or possibly not even the shooter at all. He says that this view is based on witness testimony, physical evidence, and confessions, and he is here to cross-examine Candace’s alternative theories, none of which he finds compelling. Andrew also read a previously unreleased text message from Charlie, the day before he was shot, in which he told his security team that he was afraid that “the left” was trying to kill him. Wilson is 75-85% sure that Tyler Robinson is guilty and acted alone.
For Owens’ opening, she focused on the evidence that more strongly supports that Tyler was a patsy, based mostly on forensic inconsistencies and government narrative issues. Candace pushed back on Andrew, saying that she has presented plenty of evidence on her show. She is 0% sure that Tyler Robinson is guilty, which actually creates an impossible burden of proof for her to achieve.
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