Podbit · Candace
Bomb dogs kept away, soil paved over in 3 days, necklace given to the widow, handheld mic encased in glass, no gunshot residue test, footage pulled, no ambulance on standby, witnesses who changed their stories — Candace runs through a growing list of anomalies that all make logical sense only if the murder weapon was a rigged road microphone.
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This segment is the episode's most viscerally compelling sequence. Candace plays three successive interviews given by Sarah Tewell on the day of the shooting. In the first, recorded at 1:17 PM, Tewell gives a graphic, confident account: she watched Kirk get hit directly in the chest, 'blood gushing right out where his heart is,' and she was in the fourth row with her mother. [1] — Candace Owens "Student Sarah Tewell gave three separate interviews on the day of the shooting. In the first she graphically described Kirk being hit in th…" 19:00 In the second interview, just 51 minutes later, the wound location has moved entirely — 'it was in the neck.' By the third interview with ABC News, Tewell has somehow become an expert in sound ballistics, estimating the shooter was 'about 200 yards away,' a figure that precisely matches the Pelosi Center distance. Candace notes no one around Tewell disputes her original account, no obvious external pressure is visible, and there is no logical reason for a genuine eyewitness to improve her testimony this dramatically in a matter of hours — unless the original account was coached and then had to be revised when the official narrative changed.
In a third interview with ABC News, the same witness claimed the shooter was approximately 200 yards away — a figure she did not know in her first two accounts.
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