Candace Owens has dropped new leaked audio that she says came from inside Turning Point USA, and it is already ripping through the conservative world. The clip, which she frames as proof that insiders were bragging about a post-assassination sales boom, lands on top of an already raw fight over how the organization handled Charlie Kirk’s death and its aftermath.
Instead of cooling off, the feud is getting hotter, with Owens publicly accusing Turning Point USA of cashing in on grief while the group fires back with legal threats. The leaked call, the earlier recordings of Erika Kirk, and a fresh cease and desist have turned a private schism into a full-blown public brawl.
The leaked call and Owens’ claim of a Turning Point USA windfall
Owens has been teasing what she calls proof that Turning Point USA insiders were celebrating a surge in business, and the newly surfaced conference call is her centerpiece. In the audio, which she says was recorded inside the organization, she describes staffers talking about a spike in interest and a rush of new money tied to the outpouring around Charlie Kirk’s killing, casting it as a kind of victory lap rather than a somber debrief. One report on the call notes that the discussion included a boast that the group had pulled in over 200,000 for merch sales, a detail Owens points to as evidence that grief was being converted into a marketing pitch linked to over 200,000.
She has paired that claim with a broader accusation that Turning Point USA has quietly enjoyed a massive fundraising boom since Charlie Kirk’s assassination. In a separate broadside, Owens has talked about an alleged $250 m haul, spelling it out as $250 million in donations and revenue that she argues were supercharged by the tragedy. For Owens, the leaked call is not just embarrassing chatter, it is the connective tissue in her argument that the organization turned mourning into a business model.
From Erika Kirk’s “event of the century” to “off putting” laughter
The new call lands on top of earlier audio that already had Erika Kirk under a microscope. In that first leak, Candace Owens shared a recording she said captured Erika, less than two weeks after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, giggling and praising the team for pulling off what she called an “event of the century” around his memorial. Coverage of that clip described how, In the recording, Erika could be heard cheerfully talking about the scale of the gathering and the production, language that critics said sounded more like a conference recap than a widow processing fresh grief.
Owens has leaned hard into that contrast, telling her audience that it was not just what Erika Kirk said but how she said it that bothered her. She described the tone as “Off Putting” and stressed that these were “Remarks Less Than” two “Weeks After Charlie Kirk” and his “Death,” framing the timing as almost as damning as the words themselves. One detailed account of the leak noted that Owens highlighted Erika’s laughter and upbeat cadence as the real problem, arguing that the memorial was being treated as a branding moment rather than a sacred goodbye to Weeks After Charlie.
“Event of the century,” merch talk, and the sales surge narrative
As more people listened to the Erika Kirk clip, specific phrases started to stick. In one widely shared version, Erika could be heard “giggling” while calling Charlie’s memorial an “event of the century,” a line that critics said sounded like a marketing slogan. A breakdown of the recording emphasized that Erika was not just praising the emotional impact but also the logistics, talking about the turnout and the way the team had executed the program, which fed the sense that the memorial was being treated as a high-profile production Erika.
Owens then layered on another piece of audio that she said showed Erika Kirk pivoting from grief to merchandise. In that clip, Erika was described as boasting about how well merch was doing after Charlie’s death, tying the emotional moment to a spike in sales. One report on the leak said that Owens, 36, prefaced the audio by telling viewers that people who knew Erika would recognize the voice, and that she accused Erika of bragging about how much money was coming in from branded items after Charlie.
Owens’ escalating war with Turning Point USA
The leaked audio is not happening in a vacuum, it is part of a broader war between Candace Owens and Turning Point USA that has been building for weeks. Earlier this year, the organization sent Owens a formal demand letter, with TPUSA accusing her of making defamatory statements about its role in Charlie Kirk’s murder and its finances. The letter, detailed in a breakdown that highlighted four key takeaways, warned Owens to stop suggesting financial impropriety and to back off claims that the group had mishandled security around the event where Charlie was killed.
Owens did the opposite. She publicly mocked the legal threat, with one account noting that She ridiculed the idea that her commentary implied wrongdoing and argued that Turning Point seemed more upset about her talking than about fixing any underlying problems. Another report described how Turning Point USA, in turn, threatened Candace Owens and demanded she stop blaming it for Charlie Kirk’s murder, saying her comments about the organization’s cross-country tour and security were unfair and dangerous to Turning Point USA.
How the leaks exploded across conservative media
Once the Erika Kirk audio and the internal call hit the internet, they spread quickly through conservative and pop-culture feeds. One viral post framed it bluntly: “Drama seems to be brewing in the conservative media world” after Candace Owens shared leaked audio allegedly of Erika Kirk, capturing the sense that this was not just a private falling-out but a public spectacle. That post, shared by Drama, helped push the story beyond political junkies and into the broader celebrity-gossip ecosystem.
Other social feeds amplified the same clips with even sharper framing. A Worldstar post spelled out that Candace Owens shared leaked audio of Erika Kirk “Just 11 days after Charlie Kirk was assassinated,” emphasizing how fresh the loss still was when Erika was allegedly caught giggling on the call. That framing, shared by Worldstar, turned the timing itself into a central part of the outrage narrative.
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