MAGA firestorm erupts as influencer demands right to speak: 'Masterclass in manipulation'

A fresh wave of drama in the far-right ecosystem took place on Tuesday, as the CEO of the Daily Wire got confronted by its ex-personality Candace Owens over her firing.

Owens, once one of the outlet's most prominent pundits, was fired in 2024 after she posted antisemitic conspiracy theories as the Israeli occupation of Gaza escalated — and she has been on a vendetta against the organization ever since.

The latest kerfuffle began after Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing responded to an Owens fan on X, who accused him of "firing someone for saying Genocide is always wrong."

"I wonder if you are being deliberately misleading, or if you are truly brainwashed," said Boreing. "If the latter, I understand. She is better at lying than most people are at discerning truth."

Owens punched back at him with a post of her own.

"Hey Jeremy, since you are now accusing me of lying and/or having brainwashed my audience regarding the reasons I was fired from the Daily Wire — why don’t you simply grant me permission, publicly, to drop the document where you listed the reasons for my termination," she said. "It’s been 3 years. I grow tired of your psychotic fixation with my life. Let’s simply drop the document and let the public see for themselves? I have nothing to hide. Do you?"

Boreing then replied with a lengthy response.

"Candace offers another masterclass in manipulation," he said. "First, she asks me to give her permission to violate the confidentiality provisions of her separation agreement with Daily Wire, which, of course, I cannot do, since I am no longer with Daily Wire and thus have no authority over how they enforce their sundry agreements with her. Note, too, that she wants my permission to drop only 'the document where you listed the reasons for my termination.' Candace, as Candace, has access to all of the agreements she has signed. I, as the former CEO of DW, have access to none of them. So even if I could give such permission — I can't — Candace would be free to selectively release only what suits her and serves her narrative. This is selective disclosure dressed up as a demand for transparency. It's heads I win, tails you lose, as it always is with her manipulations."

Boreing accused Candace of "enjoying" her nondisclosure agreement, "because it allows her to present herself as being muzzled when, in reality, she violates the terms of every contract she ever signs anyway, but only as far as it benefits her." Meanwhile, she is "currently making millions of dollars a month off her psychotic fixation with Erika Kirk, TPUSA, and The Jews™."

"It's a textbook loaded question, but also something of a Kafka trap: the failure to comply with her demand becomes evidence of the very guilt she is insinuating," said Boreing. "Obviously if I don’t do the thing she demanded, which she doesn’t even want and which she knows I have no legal authority to do, that means YES! Truly, she's an artist. This is why I say she is better at lying than most people are at discerning truth."