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That left an indelible and permanent mark on the conscience, something you remember for the rest of your days. Now, the two events are not the same in terms of their scale, severity, geopolitical importance or death toll, obviously, but they were so shocking, so morally outrageous that they imprint themselves somewhere deep in your soul like a kind of psychological impact crater. I also remember just as vividly the conspiracy theories that almost immediately sprouted up like weeds around the Sandy Hook shooting. Within days of the attack, if not hours, it had been decided by legions of Internet commenters and a few prominent right wing personalities, Alex Jones most famously, that the attack never actually happened. It was staged. It was a hoax. The government had perpetrated an elaborate ruse, one that apparently involved hundreds of people, including not just government officials, but members of the media and and so on. The dead children were not actually dead or maybe never existed. The grieving parents were frauds, crisis actors playing a role. Now none of this was true, of course. There there was no evidence to support any of it, but many people apparently believed it anyway. They pointed to weird details surrounding the event, and from those data points, if we can call them that, they constructed an entire cinematic universe. The conspiracy theorists said that the initial reports out of the school were inconsistent and contradictory. There was talk of a second shooter, but then it turned out that it was only one shooter. They pointed to other things, like news articles about the shooting, with timestamps appearing to show that the articles were published by before the event occurred. And most of all, most of all, they pointed to the mannerisms of the parents. They circulated clips of the parents smiling or appearing to chuckle, or behaving in other ways that were deemed strange and inappropriate. Now, rather than conclude that people respond to grief differently, especially when there are cameras pointed at their faces, the theorists decided that an inappropriately timed smile must be evidence that everything we think we know about the crime isn't true. And instead, their wild competing narrative, for which there was no actual evidence, is true. In reality, there were reasonable explanations for all of the weird details. Early reports out of mass casualty events are almost always inconsistent. Reports of phantom second shooters are extremely common. Time stamps on news articles can be wrong, and people who are grieving sometimes smile. Anyone who's ever been to a funeral knows that. At any rate, even if these little tidbits were unexplained, even if we all agreed that they were somehow bizarre and troubling, they still wouldn't prove the conspiracy theory. Indeed, if Sandy Hook was all a highly coordinated government ruse, then why would they post news articles about it ahead of time? Why would they put out inconsistent information? Why would their paid crisis actors be smiling? As is often the case, the conspiracy theory makes less sense of these points than the so called official narrative does. The conspiracy theory does not do the single thing that a legitimate theory is supposed to do, which is to make sense of the facts on the ground. It makes less sense of them. It introduces even more unexplained and unexplainable variables. It takes a well supported narrative with maybe a few holes and replaces it with a new narrative that has 10,000 more holes. Now, in the case of Sandy Hook, this wild and baseless theorizing was not just an academic exercise. Real children actually died. Real parents were dealing with a trauma beyond comprehension. And now, thanks to the Sandy Hook truthers, they found themselves cast as the villains of the story. You know, it wasn't enough to suffer the worst tragedy of their lives. Now they also had to deal with being demonized and defamed for no good reason. I bring all this up because it reminds me very much, to an almost eerie degree of the third national tragedy that impacted me and many millions of Americans so deeply that we'll never forget where we were when we heard about it. That would be the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Just like Sandy Hook, Charlie's Kirk assassination has become the subject of wild and baseless conspiracy theories. And just like Sandy Hook, one of the living victims of this tragedy, in this case, Erica Kirk has become, for no good reason, a target. She's been demonized and defamed, and on the exact same basis, the Internet peanut Gallery has decided that she smiles at inappropriate times, she rubs them the wrong way, they don't like her vibes, and for that reason, she must be the villain of the story rather than the victim. Now we're finding out that the Internet is like the matrix. It allows you to construct whatever reality you want for yourself. That's how the trans craze took hold. That's every weird subreddit full of bizarre perverts living out their fetishes in the company of other perverts who share the same interests. And it's what conspiracy theorists do. They marinate in a selectively curated assortment of facts that stitch together whatever story they're telling themselves. The Earth is flat. Sandy Hook was staged. Erica Kirk conspired with a half dozen foreign intelligence agencies to murder her husband and frame a gay, furry, etc. And this time around, the chief media personality promoting the alternative version of events is, of course, Candace Owens. Now, as you may remember, a couple of months ago, I laid out the reasons why. Contrary to claims by Candace, it's clear that Tyler Robinson killed Charlie Kirk. To the extent there was any evidence of a potential conspiracy, it involved the several trans activists who posted messages online that appeared to indicate, at a minimum, that they may have had advanced knowledge of the assassination plot. And of course, there were the strange text messages between Robinson and his roommate in which Robinson stated that his roommate had seen him engraving bullets. But there was no evidence whatsoever to suggest that Charlie Kirk's associates or Erica Kirk or Turning Point USA or the French government or the Israeli government or the US Military had anything to do with Charlie's murder. Now, for months, Candace has stated otherwise. In October she wrote this message on X, quote, with all we've crowdsourced, it looks like a decision to murder Charlie Kirk in Utah was made around July 18. A military meeting with foreign leaders took place on July 20 on US soil. The plane flew into Provo direct from France on September 4th and stayed until just after Charlie was assassinated. Flying out to Wilmington on that day, the plane returned home to Egypt the following day. On September 11th in November, Candace provided the following update quote, urgent two days ago I was contacted by a high ranking employee of the French government. After determining this person's position and proximity to the French couple, I've deemed the information they gave me to be credible enough to share publicly in the event that something happens. In short, this person claims that the Macrons have executed upon and paid for my assassination. Yes, you read that correctly. I'm told there is one Israeli that is on this assassination squad and the plans were formalized. Again, this person provided concrete proof that they were well placed within the French government apparatus. Further to this point, this person claims that Charlie Kirk's assassin trained with the French Legion 13th Brigade with a multi state involvement. I have more specific information which is definitively verifiable should they care to reach out to me. That same month she posted this message, quote, today is going to be a big day. What we will present in the Charlie Kirk investigation is going to change everything. That is not an exaggeration. Nothing will be the same in December. Candace followed up with this message on Instagram, quote, it feels like today will be the day that the government can no longer deny it. Charlie Kirk was assassinated and our military was involved. I can't, I can't wait to share this information with you guys today. She also wrote the following on X, quote, I received information last night that put the final pieces together for me. I can now say with full confidence that I believe Charlie Kirk was betrayed by the leadership of Turning Point USA and some of the very people who eulogized him on stage. Yes, I'll be naming names, providing evidence for my claims. You were lied to and leadership knew. Now, around the same time, Candace interviewed a guy named Mitch Snow who she says she was connected with via email. And Mitch Snow claimed with 95% certainty that he saw Charlie Kirk's head of security along with Erica Kirk at a military installation in Arizona right before Charlie was murdered. Watch.