Podbit · Candace
Brian Harpole told Sean Ryan he wheeled Charlie Kirk into a hospital room himself, jumped on top of him, cut off his white Freedom shirt, directed medical staff on medications, and then stood guard at the door. No hospital in the world operates this way — Candace argues this fantastical tale is a cover story for destroying the single most important piece of physical evidence.
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In what is arguably the episode's most jaw-dropping segment, Candace plays the Brian Harpole clip from the Sean Ryan interview in which Harpole describes himself as essentially running the emergency room. He grabbed the gurney, wheeled it into the room himself, jumped on top of Kirk, cut off the white Freedom shirt with scissors he somehow had, directed medical staff on medications, and then decided — on his own authority — that there were 'enough professionals' so he'd step outside and guard the door. Candace's rebuttal is methodical and devastating: hospitals don't work this way, not even for paramedics, let alone a random civilian. She notes that Kash Patel had to confiscate hospital camera footage — now she understands why, because the footage would have shown a scene 'like a sitcom.' [1] — Candace Owens "Brian Harpole told Sean Ryan he wheeled Charlie Kirk into a hospital room himself, jumped on top of him, cut off his white Freedom shirt, d…" 05:57 Her conclusion: Harpole almost certainly did cut off the shirt, but not heroically — he destroyed the piece of evidence that would have held explosive residue, and he constructed a grandiose false narrative to make it sound justified.
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