*Right-wing influencer Candace Owens has clapped back at claims made against her by fellow conservative Steven Crowder that she attempted to extort him.
The two have apparently been feuding about something since January, and the bad blood seems to stem from Crowder turning down a $50 million deal to join the Daily Wire. Owens hosts a podcast on the platform and earlier this year, she urged her audience to “pray” for Crowder because he has “a lot going on” in his personal life – such as a divorce.
As Mediaite reports, on Tuesday, Crowder revealed that since 2021 he’s been going through “what has increasingly been a horrendous divorce.” He then called out “other people” in “positions of power, influence, [and] leverage” and said these people “knew that the safety of my children included, keeping it private. So if you’re familiar with the idea of extortion. Then you know the feeling.”
“Well, now some of these threats were so thinly veiled that I’m frankly surprised you didn’t all guess immediately,” Crowder added before playing a clip of Owens.
Steven Crowder drops the news on @rumblevideo that he is going through a divorce, basically accuses Candace Owens of extortion & hints he might take legal action if needed for anyone discussing his divorce in a way he deems too far. pic.twitter.com/s5EXPUC3Pk
— An0maly (@LegendaryEnergy) April 25, 2023
“I’ll be handling this through the proper legal avenues and channels available as a matter of record in which I have more than full confidence,” he said.
Owens responded to Crowder on her Daily Wire show.
“He’s now upping the ante and suggesting that I extorted him. I will not take that lightly,” she said.
As Mediaite reports, Owens added: “That is very serious stuff that he is saying. And so what I did this morning after this clip was sent to me is I contacted a defamation lawyer and I am sending Steven Crowder a cease and desist and I’m going to demand a full throated retraction to the idea that Candace Owens threated him or extorted him and not that I simply did a little math. One plus one equals two.”
“A crazy man doing these sorts of things to his friends obviously means that something is going on personally,” Owens continued. “Honestly, this time, I’m not even going to suggest anybody should pray for him.”
“I’m going to hope that he does the right thing, that he does another one of his live feeds on the exact same platform via the exact same medium and offers me an apology and takes back every single word that he says,” Owens concluded.
We Publish News 24/7. Don’t Miss A Story. Click HERE to SUBSCRIBE to Our Newsletter Now!
