By Jonathon Van Maren & Karys Rhea
By her own twisted standards, July was a good month for podcaster Candace Owens. The preliminary hearing for the trial of Tyler Robinson, Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer, brought a wealth of new evidence into public view. Owens, who has made a fortune implicating everyone but Robinson in the murder — including the U.S. federal government, Israel, Ben Shapiro, TPUSA, and his widow Erika — kicked into high gear to smear every authority involved. The case, she insists, is a “fedslop” conspiracy.
Owens has plenty of personal motivation for attempting to discredit the courts (aside from the podcast cash she is raking in). She is currently being sued by President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron for defamation in a Delaware court for repeatedly claiming, despite receiving evidence to the contrary, that the First Lady is a man. Owens even claimed that Brigitte might be her husband’s biological father.
Owens is also being sued by Brian Harpole, Charlie Kirk’s head of security. “Since Charlie Kirk's assassination, Owens has intentionally proliferated a campaign intended to impugn the reputation of Harpole,” the filing states. “Without even a modicum of substantiated evidence, she has publicly accused Harpole and Integrity Solutions of foreknowledge, participation in, and cover-up of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, as well as professional unfitness and criminal negligence.”
Others that Owens has accused of involvement in the Kirk murder or cover-up will likely be lining up for their share of the defamation damages after the Tyler Robinson trial is complete.
There may be another personal reason Owens wants to sow distrust: She is currently navigating a heavily documented legal scandal of her own – one involving potential immigration fraud by her British aristocrat husband, George Farmer.
According to arrest records, in August 2023, Nashville police responded to a car crash near Interstate 65 involving a vehicle disabled in a ditch, deployed airbags, and a loaded pistol recovered from the truck. A “stumbling” and “swaying” Farmer, drenched in the “odor of alcohol,” was found near interstate traffic, where he delivered a breathalyzer reading of .261— more than three times the legal limit – and was taken into custody.
The resulting criminal charges against Farmer are a direct reflection of a night spiraling entirely out of control: leaving the scene of a self-induced collision, driving under the influence, and possession of a weapon while legally intoxicated.
When word finally got out, Owens was forced to address the looming scandal on her show. But instead of deploying her signature forensic suspicion, she dismissed the entire incident, claiming that the George Farmer named in the police records was not her husband at all, but a different individual who happened to share the same name and drive on the same Nashville interstate.
Yet the official documents, which RedState has reviewed, list Farmer’s address as a Tennessee Military Department infrastructure node, and the same residence appears in separate civil-action paperwork involving Tracy Robinson v. George Farmer. The phone number in the underlying report, on the other hand, links to Candace Owens’s assistant.
If that isn’t strange enough, the underlying report places the August 2023 incident before Farmer’s American citizenship timeline. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) own N-400 materials require disclosure of arrests, citations, detentions, and related criminal-history documentation, and USCIS policy says good-moral-character issues may arise during the naturalization process.
Were they disclosed as part of Farmer’s naturalization process? And if so, why was Farmer not disqualified on that basis? Who overlooked this qualifying potential felony charge? Was it deliberate?
The issue here is not a local courtroom drama, but defrauding the American government in an immigration application.
Owens completely refused to address any of this, opting instead to reduce a legitimate question of citizenship integrity into a sarcastic internet joke, mocking her detractors on social media. "We are SOOO scared you're going to report us to ICE... won't you miss us if we get deported?" she tweeted.
Had such state-level offenses been tied to a political opponent, Owens would have dissected each one with the prosecutorial zeal of an executioner. She would have instructed her millions of followers to pay attention to the fine print and get to the bottom of the strange addresses tied to state infrastructure, the peculiar use of administrative intermediaries, and the strict timeliness of citizenship and naturalization disclosures.
Candace Owens’ contempt of courts is no surprise. Her reckless smear campaigns will soon be litigated in courtrooms. The legal scandal involving her husband is worse than anything Erika Kirk could possibly be guilty of. Owens has grown shriller and more conspiratorial as the walls close in, but accountability is coming — and the laws don’t care about her feelings. Her best defense, at the end of the day, may be an insanity plea. A jury might even buy it.
Jonathon Van Maren is a Canadian columnist, speaker, podcaster, and activist.
Karys Rhea is an American political commentator and former producer at the Epoch Times and Newsmax.
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