Candace Owens - September 10, 2026


One Year On… To My Friend Charlie Kirk.


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00:00:30.000 All right, you guys. Today marks the one-year anniversary of Charlie's death. Obviously, a lot has changed since September 10th. Our world and certainly my world is never going to be the same. I had been thinking of what to share with you guys on this day, what message to share with you.
00:00:45.420 more memories of Charlie, of course, but I also thought it would be a good idea to take you guys
00:00:49.940 through some journaling that I did throughout this year. Obviously not all of it, but I found
00:00:56.400 that it did help me emotionally throughout the year to write, to write to Charlie. And obviously
00:01:02.780 I wish I also wasn't eight months pregnant doing this when I'm already in a heightened emotional
00:01:06.440 state, but there's not really much I can do about that. So here goes nothing. This first bit I wrote
00:01:12.260 in mid-October when we were out in Wyoming. Okay, it reads. Dear Charlie, I'm really mad at you for
00:01:21.980 being dead. I don't really know how else to open it or how else to say it. I'm sure there are
00:01:27.720 softer or kinder things that I could have gone with, but you know, I'm just so upset with you
00:01:31.700 for not listening to me. You never really listened to me. I'm in Wyoming right now, which is one of
00:01:36.900 our favorite states. We both loved the mountains, and it's reminding me of another time that you
00:01:41.300 didn't listen to me. When I told you that running 10 miles every single day was too much on your
00:01:46.500 body, that you were going to get injured, and then you did. You injured your back. You were always
00:01:51.740 that way, Charlie, like you just couldn't do anything halfway. That's why you hated fishing.
00:01:56.080 I really love that picture of us in British Columbia holding the big salmon because I can
00:02:00.500 hear you and I remember so clearly as soon as the photo was taken, you said, ugh, disgusting.
00:02:06.040 You never appreciated fishing because you weren't really made for slowing down. You always
00:02:10.160 or doing 10 things at once. Anyway, I'm out here because your death almost drove me insane.
00:02:17.580 You won't believe it, but I actually did the thing. It was oddly clinical. I started
00:02:21.740 making my way through the quote-unquote stages of grief. I wept for weeks, and I now realize why we
00:02:28.940 don't use that verb very often, to weep, because it's different from crying. It just comes from a
00:02:34.260 different place. It's distinctly guttural, almost animalistic sounding, and I want you to know that
00:02:39.960 I weep for you, Charlie. I also have to say that I don't need you haunting me in my sleep. I can
00:02:46.120 feel your presence in a way that feels haunting. The dreams are too vivid, and I know deep down
00:02:52.940 that they're not just dreams. I think I know how you felt back in 2018. My priest tells me that
00:02:59.260 you're likely in purgatory and that I need to pray for your soul. I don't really know how it works
00:03:03.880 when you become disincarnate, but I want you to know that I already know, so you don't need to
00:03:08.860 keep insisting. You know, before we even found out that you didn't make it, I knew you were
00:03:14.540 betrayed. I told George that as we prayed in his office, I said, they betrayed him. He replied,
00:03:21.280 we don't know anything yet. And I said, no, I do know. Because I did know. Instantly, Charlie,
00:03:27.420 like an old memory had just been triggered. I also know that they're not going to get away
00:03:33.000 with it. They made a mistake. The devil overplayed his hand this time. I have this deep sense that
00:03:38.600 They wanted me to see you die. The manner in which it was broadcast globally all across social media doesn't make any sense. It defied algorithmic norms. Facebook, TikTok, X. Suddenly, all of their preventative measures that are designed to catch and remove violence from their platforms immediately malfunctioned that day. They wanted everyone to watch you die. For what reason, I'm not sure.
00:04:02.440 i had to come get out to the mountains just to take a breath because i couldn't sleep i couldn't
00:04:09.320 eat i had not had a spell of anorexia since my early 20s but the very first thing i did was i
00:04:16.260 just stopped eating and i'm not proud of that but it was the only thing that i felt like i could
00:04:20.920 immediately control it was for me wyoming or a sanitarium now i'll never forget the moment and
00:04:28.540 the way that George looked at me across the table as I sat there moving somewhere between the grief
00:04:34.840 stages of bargaining and denial. And I was trying to convince him, but mostly I was trying to
00:04:39.820 convince myself that maybe there was a chance that you were alive. I said to him, maybe he's
00:04:47.120 in witness protection. And George looked at me with all of the strength and the paradoxical
00:04:52.900 gentleness that it takes to break reality to someone that you love and he said I think he's
00:04:58.600 dead honey I think Charlie's dead I think at that time he knew that it was time for me to get away
00:05:05.900 I was then made to suffer through watching so many people in the political sphere
00:05:12.740 act like flesh flies and maggots invading your corpse people who hated you selling t-shirts and
00:05:19.520 mugs in your name. Charlie, you're not going to believe me, but Ben Shapiro of all people slid 0.51
00:05:24.460 into your studio within days, $1 million in hand. He told the world he was going to pick up your
00:05:31.680 bloody mic. We'll see about that one. On a similar note, I have to tell you that your memorial was 0.98
00:05:38.720 really weird. It was like an RNC rally. There was just no personality. There was no heart. There was
00:05:44.960 a bunch of suits that were up there telling us how much you loved politics. It was like no one
00:05:50.800 knew who you were outside of this conservative whiz kid with a vision to build a student
00:05:56.920 organization. And they had Susie Wiles speaking. I mean, does anyone believe that you had a vision
00:06:03.520 for Susie Wiles to speak at your funeral one day?
00:06:06.660 i've done my best to correct the record arena and john mappen attended that memorial and arena felt
00:06:17.280 that there was something off immediately for one she told me that she had never seen so many people
00:06:23.160 speaking her native language russian in arizona and i want you to know that when i was drowning
00:06:29.200 demanding answers to what really happened on september 10th she and john tossed me a lifesaver
00:06:34.660 They were your real friends, and they wrote me the most beautiful open letter in your honor, a letter to the world, and it gave me the strength to fight another day.
00:06:45.820 They wrote, in part, Charlie's execution is an assassination with potentially far-reaching political consequences for America and the world.
00:06:56.460 What we have seen so far beggars belief.
00:06:59.500 A crime scene apparently completely destroyed in days and plenty of evidence that simply does not add up.
00:07:05.280 This investigation and the truthful answer as to who was really responsible for deciding that Charlie would be executed in front of the world
00:07:11.780 will affect America's future, its collective soul, and its conscience forever.
00:07:17.220 The truth, when known, and we believe that it will be known, will have far-reaching international consequences.
00:07:23.220 The very idea that someone could be convicted and could receive the death penalty
00:07:26.360 when there remains even the slightest shadow of doubt or a shred of uncertainty,
00:07:30.700 that they may be guilty of that crime 0.98
00:07:32.700 and that Christian souls would tolerate that possibility
00:07:34.960 is anathema to all teachings of Christ. 0.98
00:07:37.940 We are growing rather sick and ashamed
00:07:39.820 of seeing people criticize Candace
00:07:41.580 for doing her level best to get to the bottom of
00:07:43.760 and to the truth of what happened to Charlie on that day.
00:07:48.720 You don't have to agree with Candace on every subject
00:07:50.860 that she addresses on her shows
00:07:52.420 to acknowledge that much of what she is presenting
00:07:54.360 on the subject of Charlie's death
00:07:55.780 is extremely concerning to America and to the world,
00:07:58.280 completely valid and very relevant to the investigation. She has an army of truth seekers
00:08:03.380 worldwide who are helping her in her search and research. This is truly new and modern and has
00:08:10.020 never happened before. This is not 1963 and boomers should get used to it. No one would question how 0.86
00:08:16.420 bright Candace is or that she may indeed be able to help her country get to the truth. She is highly
00:08:20.940 motivated to do so. In our view, the official investigation should be immediately ordered by
00:08:25.820 the appropriate legal authority to proactively share everything they know with Candace and her
00:08:29.720 selected team. That is, if truth and real understanding of who decided to assassinate
00:08:34.140 Charlie and why is their sincere objective. That would go some way towards restoring public trust
00:08:40.280 in the system. It is our view that her actions are not just the actions that any real friend
00:08:45.160 would take for their friend. They are the actions of the highest order of patriotism.
00:08:51.480 Candace's actions are a service to the whole country and to the world. Beyond that, they are
00:08:55.340 truly providential, divinely inspired, and metaphysical. There is a relationship between
00:09:00.380 truth and all living things. There is a relationship between truth and God.
00:09:07.280 I'll stop there, but their words were penetrating, Charlie, and
00:09:10.160 you were sentenced to a public execution. Everybody can see that, and I intend to find out
00:09:17.080 why. Until then, I hope you enjoy your homecoming up in heaven.
00:09:25.340 This is basically the very beginning of Ingresolz and Gil and Jonathan Lusk and it's been amazing.
00:09:33.940 So I started this organization when I was 18 years old, born and raised from Chicago, Illinois.
00:09:41.280 This is the place that changed Western civilization.
00:09:44.120 Are you really recording again?
00:09:46.040 Right there, that's the escalator.
00:09:48.080 Here it is, guys.
00:09:49.600 He came down the escalator.
00:09:53.300 And it's Charlie Kirk.
00:09:55.340 Hey, what's the one thing that no one loves?
00:09:58.800 It's such a big day for this guy.
00:10:00.820 Charlie is going to be interviewing the president of the United States.
00:10:04.000 And I will be sitting there watching and trying not to cry like a proud black mom on graduation.
00:10:10.600 That's my baby up there.
00:10:17.980 Hey, Charlie. Sorry that I've not written you in a while.
00:10:20.760 A lot has been happening since Wyoming.
00:10:22.940 I mean, I broke my foot.
00:10:23.860 I found out that I'm pregnant again. I'm also public enemy number one for investigating your
00:10:29.400 wife. I really wanted the world to be wrong about her, but they were not. They were right.
00:10:35.820 And it about broke me in half to come to terms with it. Because no one knew how badly you wanted
00:10:40.520 love more than I did. We talked about it so much. You had the biggest heart, Charlie. I remember
00:10:45.000 even back when you just had a crush on somebody, how much the idea of aspiring toward love and
00:10:51.740 marriage motivated you in every aspect of your life and career. I look back on messages, and
00:10:57.760 they're just so beautiful, like this one. He wrote, she has no freaking clue how paralyzing she is to
00:11:04.560 me, and she is the ideal, and then the reality clashes with it, and it's a freaking primal
00:11:10.840 motivator, unlike anything I've ever experienced. In a funny way, her putting me in this weird cage
00:11:17.020 and Box actually has given to TPUSA
00:11:19.460 the most successful few months ever, lol.
00:11:22.500 And it's all an effort to appease Venus,
00:11:24.340 like the Tom Sawyer story.
00:11:26.080 Try to impress the girl across the street. 0.95
00:11:30.900 I don't think I really know what Erica is. 0.97
00:11:33.700 I know that a wife would not partner with your enemies.
00:11:38.480 I know what she's not.
00:11:40.560 I know about the scheduled will change.
00:11:42.700 I know about the house in the suburbs
00:11:44.200 that you purchased and dreamed about moving into,
00:11:46.160 that she came up with a million excuses not to.
00:11:49.860 I know now that her entire life she has been chasing power,
00:11:52.920 and I think that's why she'll never have it.
00:11:54.900 Not the real kind, at least.
00:11:56.620 I don't think she knows what real power even is.
00:11:59.760 Hindsight is 20-20, and I can see a lot now, much more clearly.
00:12:05.120 The visions that you were having,
00:12:06.460 you know, I'm sorry I didn't believe you when you told me that you were going to die young.
00:12:10.380 Everything that happened in those weeks is unbelievable to reflect on.
00:12:13.740 you know, Catholics, we don't believe in coincidence. Charlie, we believe in providence.
00:12:18.940 And so April and May of 2018 were providential. So many things were set in motion.
00:12:26.180 You and I were listening to Kanye's song, Power, day in and day out.
00:12:30.580 You start telling me with absolute certainty that you have dreamed your death, that you,
00:12:36.680 and you knew that your death would be associated with Turning Point USA in a wider world awakening.
00:12:41.540 you said that it made you sad knowing that you wouldn't be able to see this thing through
00:12:46.400 that I would be the one that had to finish this thing and I told you I didn't want to die
00:12:50.960 and you told me this you said don't fear death embrace it or else you'll lose your mind you
00:12:58.980 were sent here to fix things they won't let it happen they won't kill you instead they'll make
00:13:04.220 stuff up and that won't work they will then try to attack family and that won't work either
00:13:09.420 weeks later kanye tweets i love the way candace owens thinks and it rips a hole in the universe
00:13:15.900 we fly out to see him and just two weeks after that you and i are standing in israel
00:13:20.880 your future wife claims that this is the first time she laid eyes on you at an airport
00:13:26.400 but she chose not to go up to us during the same time i get this overwhelming urge that i need to
00:13:33.540 be in the uk and i tell you for no reason other than a spiritual pull that i know that we need
00:13:39.160 to be in London, that you had to find a reason to get us there. It was a total anomaly, that trip,
00:13:44.660 but I know that it saved my life, Charlie, or I would have stayed on your trajectory.
00:13:49.120 Meeting George in an unplanned trip saved my life. I've been listening to the song Power Daily
00:13:55.880 since you passed. In fact, I texted Gay in the immediate days following your assassination,
00:14:00.380 and I just asked him why he wrote the song, a solitary song which spiritually moved me
00:14:06.040 and moved you. And he wrote back, quote, it's a battle cry to be yourself. And yeah, it is
00:14:13.600 actually. I've now come to the realization that you made it to the third verse of that song.
00:14:20.980 Remember when we were driving up in Colorado and I took you through the lyrics for the first time,
00:14:24.400 I explained to you the meaning. I told you the first verse is what you think the world is when
00:14:29.140 you're young. It's your early perception. For Kanye, it's his younger years in Chicago,
00:14:33.340 struggling to make it, his perception, people telling you what you can or cannot be according
00:14:38.600 to where you begin your life. He writes, screams from the haters, got a nice ring to it. I guess
00:14:44.780 every superhero needs his theme music, and he breaks through. By the second verse, he unlocks
00:14:49.920 another level of understanding. He has fame, he has money, but to his surprise, he is still restricted.
00:14:56.180 Now it's him against the media, his first real cancellation for saying something that was
00:15:00.660 actually true, that the award ceremonies were fake, that it's not a meritocracy. Kanye was the first
00:15:06.940 to tell us that Hollywood was fake, and they tried to destroy his career over it. Then he found
00:15:13.360 Saturday Night Live mocking him, so he starts the verse, FSNL and the whole cast. Tell them,
00:15:19.820 Yeezy says they can kiss my whole ass. He understands that he's going to have to believe 1.00
00:15:24.620 in himself even more if he's going to win a war against the media machine, the very same media
00:15:29.480 that can either make or break people.
00:15:32.080 Then comes your favorite part of the song
00:15:33.760 when he says this.
00:15:59.480 yeah he's at war to stay true to himself it the money is tempting that's why he's looking at his
00:16:10.580 necklace he's at war to not become a part of the machine and he wins that verse too the album that
00:16:17.260 he dropped despite his first cancellation sword's number one he took home a grammy for best rap
00:16:22.340 album for my beautiful dark twisted fan fantasy but it's the last verse that's the most important
00:16:28.400 I told you, and it's the easiest one to misunderstand, politics. He writes, quote,
00:16:34.940 they say I was the abomination, the abomination of Obama's nation. That's a pretty bad way to
00:16:40.300 start the conversation. Now the media realizes that Kanye has become too influential. He's
00:16:46.360 stepping on the toes of the more powerful people in the world, the oldest institutions. And guess
00:16:50.760 what, Charlie? Never believed this, but since you passed and I declared war on the liars who lie 0.95
00:16:55.940 about everything. They're saying I'm the abomination of Trump's nation. Trump actually
00:17:01.040 tweeted out a photo of me sick in a mock-up of Time magazine calling me the most vile person of
00:17:06.820 the year. So I officially made it to the third verse of power, too. Anyway, what does Kanye do
00:17:12.160 about it? Well, Kanye's harder. He knows that this is the big one, and he's presenting like
00:17:16.620 he's confident and like he's okay, but he's anything but. He says, how's Ye doing? I'm
00:17:22.660 surviving. I was drinking earlier and now I'm driving. Where are the bad ladies, huh? Where
00:17:27.520 are y'all hiding? I have the power to make your life so exciting. But it's not what it seems
00:17:32.040 because he's leaning into his ego. And if you listen closely, the word exciting actually turns
00:17:37.080 into suicide. And he echoes that suicide, suicide, because this fight is taking everything out of
00:17:43.340 him, the fight to stay true to himself. But he'd rather accept death than become someone that he's
00:17:49.400 not because that would be a death to his soul.
00:17:53.960 And he knows that if he dies being true to who he is,
00:17:57.040 then it will have been a beautiful death.
00:17:58.840 And that's the best part of the entire song.
00:18:19.400 Oh, hey, oh, hey, oh, hey, hey, hey, let us be a beautiful death, jumping out the window, I'm letting everything go, I'm letting everything go.
00:18:49.400 Now this would be a beautiful death
00:18:52.380 Jumping out the window
00:18:54.200 Letting everything go
00:18:57.560 Letting everything go
00:19:00.680 Now this would be a beautiful death
00:19:05.000 Jumping out the window
00:19:06.560 Letting everything go
00:19:10.020 Letting everything go
00:19:13.060 You got the power to let power go
00:19:16.440 I remember when we met with the Ace team and they told us that the inspiration behind that
00:19:23.100 beautiful death that he's talking about, that portion, was actually a scene from the movie
00:19:28.100 300 when the Spartan climbs over the mountaintop and he sees that there are thousands upon thousands
00:19:34.540 of their enemies marching toward them. And there's really no way they can survive. And yet he's
00:19:39.700 smiling like a crazy person because all that matters to him is an honorable ending. Take a look.
00:19:46.840 I saw those ships smashed on the rocks.
00:20:10.600 How can this be?
00:20:12.220 We saw but a fraction of the monster that is Xerxes' army.
00:20:16.340 There can be no victory here.
00:20:22.380 Why do you smile?
00:20:26.140 Arcadian, I've fought countless times.
00:20:31.220 Yet I've never met an adversary who could offer me what we Spartans call a beautiful death.
00:20:37.000 I can only hope that with all the world's warriors gathered against us,
00:20:41.740 there might be one down there who's up to the task.
00:20:50.840 That was the inspiration. And I just want you to know that I know that you made it to the third
00:20:57.880 verse and the whole world knows that you were under immense political pressure with Israel 0.64
00:21:02.160 and that they had you surrounded and that your life became the Truman Show, but you chose to
00:21:07.140 die with your soul intact. And that's why the last sentence in the song is a question. Do you have
00:21:12.960 the power to let power go? And you certainly did, Charlie, and I'm really proud of you for that.
00:21:37.140 I'm doing something mean to it. Do it better than anybody you've ever seen. Do it. Screams from the haters. Got a nice ring to it. I guess every super you're going to need this theme music. No one man should have all that power. The clock's ticking, I just count the hours. Stop tripping, I'm tripping off the power.
00:21:57.120 Hey Charlie, we are now coming up on your one year death anniversary and I want you to know
00:22:11.540 that I can laugh again, like really laugh. I was in Spain when it happened for the first time.
00:22:16.460 A girlfriend of mine got really excited about something that was ridiculous. It was one of
00:22:20.620 those things that's not worth explaining because you did have to be there, but the relevant point
00:22:24.120 is that I belly laughed, I had tears in my eyes,
00:22:26.560 and I was really joyful.
00:22:29.320 Something about Spain was very healing to me
00:22:31.300 in every way imaginable,
00:22:32.900 and I'm finally able to think about you
00:22:35.540 and it doesn't make me angry.
00:22:38.000 And I'm thinking about all the things
00:22:39.780 that I'm going to miss,
00:22:40.780 and you know what I'm going to miss the most?
00:22:42.140 The road trips with you. 0.98
00:22:43.060 Singing so many ridiculous songs like this one. 0.93
00:22:54.120 And also this one, which is not in English. 0.90
00:23:16.800 And the 50 Cent Classics.
00:23:24.120 and of course our our favorite thing the mountainside drives with yay all right guys
00:23:36.360 we're doing another road trip to the mountains literally me and charlie's favorite thing to do
00:23:40.500 we love driving because we always have to fly
00:23:42.800 And I'm also going to miss you never letting me drive and mandating when we were allowed to stop for restroom breaks.
00:23:57.840 I would like to report to the Instagram Human Rights Council that Charlie is not letting me stop to go to the bathroom.
00:24:04.640 And I've been holding my bladder for four hours. 1.00
00:24:06.660 She's a dishonest human being.
00:24:07.980 So if you're seeing this, please send help.
00:24:09.640 yeah i'm still pretty mad at you for being dead but i know that you were always headed where you
00:24:17.520 were headed charlie and i would have never listened to you either not in a million years and i think
00:24:21.400 that's what made us great together a couple of weeks ago someone said something that i found to
00:24:26.320 be true they said that in the end you knew that you had accidentally helped create a monster
00:24:32.120 and you weren't sure if you had the strength to do what needed to be done and i i think about that
00:24:39.640 I think about those last days, your last days on Earth, and the pressure that you were under, and the final decision that you made.
00:24:49.120 Like you said, Charlie, we're going to fight, and we are going to win.
00:24:55.380 And I have to tell you, it is at least getting funny now. It's so true.
00:24:58.920 The devil, he can't create because he's always at war. He's at war with creation itself.
00:25:04.860 He can only steal, he can only lie, he can only trick, and he hates being mocked, but he deserves to be laughed at.
00:25:09.640 the lies they are telling now.
00:25:11.900 I mean, you have the best sense of humor,
00:25:14.000 so I know that you have to be laughing like I am.
00:25:16.700 I mean, they reimagined your entire life,
00:25:18.640 your friendships, what you believed in.
00:25:20.680 I think you're now friends with Laura Loomer, Charlie.
00:25:23.800 Me and you, though?
00:25:25.160 No, you just hated me.
00:25:26.460 And you loved neocons.
00:25:28.200 That might surprise you.
00:25:29.100 Each and every one of them.
00:25:30.120 Bring on the wars.
00:25:31.060 You didn't much favor Tucker Carlson, so I'm told.
00:25:34.840 Charlie, there is not a piece of you
00:25:36.060 that they did not try to sell.
00:25:37.460 I'm talking personal letters that you wrote, the tent that you died beneath, the microphone that you were holding, and I'm finally at the point where I can just laugh at it all because the Department of War is sending out the real crazies now.
00:25:53.920 I went to Ye's concert last week. You're not going to believe it, but after six years, he returned to Chicago, and he did it during the week of your anniversary.
00:26:01.920 I had been trying for over a year to get his song Ghost Town for my podcast intro, best song on the Ye album.
00:26:10.460 And you remember when you flew me out to Wyoming where he recorded that?
00:26:18.020 I arrived at his album release party and I just kept replaying that track for you over and over and over again.
00:26:24.240 Kid Cudi is featured in the vocals of that, but Ye and Kid Cudi then had a massive public falling out in 2022.
00:26:31.920 So you have to imagine my shock and surprise when he brought him out on stage to close the show
00:26:37.100 and they sang that exact song. I honestly could not believe it. It all came together. The Wyoming
00:26:43.180 album. One year on, Ghost Town. I was losing my mind because it's been a long year. The lowest
00:26:49.480 lows of my life, without a doubt. I was just surviving for a little bit, for a long time,
00:26:53.820 but now I'm back. And the whole world knows that you were betrayed. The whole world knows that
00:26:59.540 your assassination was ordered by the most powerful people in the world. But you should
00:27:04.220 also know that your name is trending every day. And I keep telling everyone that I feel you with
00:27:12.040 me in a positive way now. Like we're reunited on stage again too, doing one last tour.
00:27:19.400 You were right, Charlie. Your death came early and you did nothing to stop that. And that took
00:27:24.280 a tremendous amount of bravery. You were right when you wrote that you would have to choose
00:27:28.980 between those you love and your mission.
00:27:33.360 Ghost Town, the song, is about a choice too,
00:27:35.460 trying for a long time to make the world love you
00:27:38.620 before you realize that there's no freedom in that,
00:27:42.100 and that the happy ending is in freeing yourself
00:27:44.400 from that pursuit,
00:27:45.740 freeing yourself from trying to police a system
00:27:48.040 that's never going to actually love you back.
00:27:51.620 Shortly after you died,
00:27:52.620 a mutual friend of ours told me,
00:27:54.720 quote,
00:27:55.820 a soul in struggle will eventually free itself.
00:27:58.980 And I think you freed yourself, Charlie.
00:28:01.300 And I know that I will see you again.
00:28:03.640 Until then, love, Candice.
00:28:07.600 Charlie really was an amazing person.
00:28:10.680 You know, he was like, we were really close.
00:28:14.540 And he was my best friend and my brother.
00:28:19.100 And I will never unsee the footage of what I saw.
00:28:25.820 He didn't deserve that ending.
00:28:27.080 You know, he's really young.
00:28:27.780 But I know that we will carry the torch.
00:28:32.240 I will never allow the memory of Charlie to be forgotten, obviously,
00:28:36.080 because there is no Candace without Charlie.
00:28:39.800 We came up in politics together, and so I don't know what else to say, guys,
00:28:44.160 other than a lot of pain right now.
00:28:48.400 And I love you, Charlie, and I'll see you when I'll see you.
00:28:52.700 I love you very much.
00:28:57.780 to be our haters better have a lot of stamina because we are just getting started because if
00:29:04.020 you think you're going to outwork candace owens and charlie kirk you're wrong because we're going
00:29:07.940 to win and they're going to lose thank you guys thank you guys we're still the kids we used to be
00:29:20.820 I put my hand on a stove
00:29:27.840 To see if I still bleed
00:29:32.680 And nothing hurts anymore
00:29:36.020 I feel kind of free
00:29:50.820 You