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COMMENTARY by Candace Owens — "Candace Owens Reacts to SURPRISING Kirk Case Testimony" (published 2026-08-30).
This is third-party opinion/analysis ABOUT State of Utah v. Tyler James Robinson — NOT the court record. It is indexed for comparison against the primary transcripts/filings. Transcript is the YouTube auto-caption track (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EWuGgWCcBQ) — verbatim ASR.
So there's more. The other thing that came out during the preliminary hearing was Lance Twiggs' testimony, which is super important. So Lance Twiggs is allegedly Tyler Robinson's furry lover who he loved so much that he felt motivated to gun down Charlie Kirk over his views on transgenderism. Okay. So if you are that obsessed with and motivated to harm people based on a political view, you would discuss that political view at least once or twice. Now the question is Lance Twiggs was asked during the hearing whether or not he and Tyler Robinson discussed politics and I thought that his answer was um strange considering what Robinson is accused of doing and what the motive was. Take a look. >> Um did you and he ever talk about politics? Um he did more than me. I I didn't really still don't really keep up with politics very much. Uh he usually talked about stuff he heard on the radio on his drive to work in like their work cars. So it sounds like their whole crew went in the same car most of the time, but I I wouldn't say super consistently cuz it wasn't a topic I really contributed much on. About Charlie Kirk, did he ever talk about Charlie Kirk? I personally had never heard him talk about Charlie Kirk before specifically. >> Okay. Um political issues? So did you ever talk about gender identity issues and LGBTQ rights? >> Uh >> No not really? >> [laughter] >> I I just think I don't know. This is subjective obviously. I think that's strange. I think that's super strange. But it also it it should make you angry because Republicans, neocons, took this immediately and said this is an open and shut case. It was a political assassination based on the views of Charlie Kirk and it's because you know people in the LGBTQ community are crazy. And they did this absent any evidence. Absent any evidence, nothing had been confirmed. Uh funny that they always accuse me of going on vibes. That's fundamentally what they did. Right? This narrative was set by a bunch of people who needed it to be true. And now they're being presented with evidence from the person that we are to assume is the closest to him, his boyfriend, who's saying, "Oh no, he never talked to me about Charlie Kirk. I guess the first time he heard about it was in a text message after he had killed Charlie Kirk. He didn't speak to me about LGBTQ issues and he didn't talk to me about politics." And then suddenly he's uh killing a political figure that he never talked about to honor me. I mean none of that makes any sense other than they were trying to stoke the flames in a war between the left and the right as they have it. They keep admitting this that they just wanted to unite the Republican Party which was fractured after the Epstein files and they wanted to get them refocused on fighting the left. >> Mhm. >> That is disgusting. >> I I totally agree. >> disagreements with the left. Left has done tons of things that we that they've actually done that we could talk about. You were going to put like the biggest assassination ever on them just to like repair the party from something that the party should be upset about like the Epstein files? >> Mhm. I mean that's >> That's definitely a good point. And look, I the thing is they were already making these declarations before any real evidence was presented, before any case played out. And I I definitely thought that even if, you know, individuals who perpetuated that narrative weren't in on anything nefarious, it it is kind of sick to politicize something like a political assassination as something that is politically beneficial to yourself, right? Like you're pushing a narrative in order to lead to more conflict among Americans based on political identity. I just I don't know. I I I thought it was sick, just like I thought it was sick that, you know, a few nobodies online might have been like celebrating that Charlie Kirk was shot and killed. That's not representative of the left. I was devastated. I disagreed with Charlie Kirk on a lot of political issues, but he was a guy who was willing to sit down and have those conversations and have those debates with us, and I appreciated that. Not a lot of people are willing to defend their, you know, their views and engage in debate in good faith like he did with me and both at the DNC and the RNC in 2024. Um, okay, the final thing that I'll bring up are the text messages because, you know, one of the things that gets cited by defenders of the official narrative is, "Well, the text messages exist." Uh, Lance Twig said that, you know, uh, Tyler Robinson confessed that he did the murder. What do you make of those text messages, and do you think that is enough to claim that there is overwhelming evidence that the official narrative by our government is is true? >> Absolutely not because the text messages have not been verified yet, and that was one of the things that if you were paying attention to the case, they were saying, "You guys are saying that these messages are real." And Kathy Nester, back in, I want to say it was May, actually, it might have been earlier than May, it might have been April, they had a hearing and she's like, "We can't go forward because we haven't even been granted our discovery requests. I can't I haven't even accessed my client's phone. You're telling me that Lance Twig is saying this." Well, something that that your audience should know is Lance Twig was given use immunity for that testimony. What that means in the state of Utah is anything he says in that, he on that screen, as he's giving his video interview, cannot be used against him down the line. Like, why did he require use immunity to talk about something that actually happened. Why would he need use immunity? What is What is the fear here about this particular testimony that he was uh given this extraordinary use immunity to provide it? And so, we do not know if those text messages are real. If they are real, by the way, we don't know where they came from. Uh like I said during the Andrew Wilson debate, uh somebody could be in my Apple login right now sending text messages from my phone, but I'm here live with you. That's why they wanted their discovery request cuz it would allow them to see look at the geolocation. Where is it coming from? Did it come from a laptop? Did it come from an actual device? Where was my client actually at that time? You're telling me that his boyfriend is saying uh that this is his This is what his Discord said and this is what the text messages said. Well, it tends to be that lovers share logins, right? That's how it goes. They live together, they share logins. Was he honest computer? Lance to me is a very suspicious character in all of this because the feds have bent over backwards to attack him, and I am on the ground investigating this. I spoke to the Twiggs family, and they were the first ones who told me that they found it to be remarkably suspicious that the feds were not looking further into Twiggs, okay? He has a background, he's got anger issues, he's got allegedly he has drug abuse issues. I will say allegedly. Um he has been passed around the family because of these reasons. He's into uh weird internet stuff, allegedly. Again, coming from his family's direct testimony, they're going, "I don't understand why they are not looking further into him." That's not a good vote of confidence to come from your family that's saying this. And on the other side of this, when I'm speaking to the Robinson family orbit, they're saying the exact opposite. This is not Tyler Robinson. This isn't what he would do. Uh he's uh yeah, had great grades all through school, graduated with I think about a 4.0. But we're supposed to believe he texted the most thorough uh confession that I've ever seen in my life. I mean, walking you through everything he did on that day, down to they caught me on the surveillance cameras. I was hoping I would live this out. This is This is my motive. This is why I did this. Everybody with any sense would know don't text that. Ever Anybody would know that. Like on your iMessages, it's all just so ridiculous. And so we have no confirmation about these messages because the prosecution actually they blamed the feds would not give um certain discovery requests to the SBI or to the prosecution ahead of this probative hearing which you just saw. >> I I was led to believe that Tyler Robinson was turned in by his own family. Is that why? >> Absolute >> lie. His family took him to the police station. And actually, if you go back and look, Sheriff Brooksby told the truth about what had happened. Essentially, they told him, uh you have no other option. They're going to arrest you one way or the other. You we can do this peaceably or we can do this the hard way uh with people banging down the door, you know, whether it's SWAT or whatever units would be doing that. Uh and you would put your family at risk. And he agreed to go in peaceably, which is why you see even in the little footage that they show, he he's coming in and he's still got his phone and he's in his hand uh during the preliminary hearing they showed him and he's got a bottle of water and he's obviously gone into a room that is essentially we're going to you know, we're going to speak to you. This is us doing this the nice way. And that was what was agreed to because he had no other option. So obviously, you can see that his parents did not There's no statements that they mentioned that the parents made um or uh you know, saw a sworn affidavit, no signed statements. They did not. That was one of the first things I was told when I started investigating this and got in touch with the orbit from the Robinson family was that the media completely lied by suggesting that Matt Robinson turned his son in. No, he went with his son and drove his son to the police department because he had to. >> It's amazing, honestly. Um and look, I don't know a lot about what happened that day, but I do know one thing. Aggravated murder carries an incredibly high burden of proof and there is a lot of doubt in this case that isn't being addressed at all by your naysayers. And so, for anyone who's calling you crazy, anyone who's going to come at me for drawing attention to what you've been presenting on your show, um how about just address the substance of the material that's being shared and the arguments that are actually being made, not arguments that they are putting in your mouth, but arguments that are actually being made. But, they're not and I think that that is telling. >> Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true, but it does keep you updated on our live shows.