Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neither Is Daily Wire’s Accounting. | Ep 355

Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neither Is Daily Wire’s Accounting. | Ep 355

A viewer in France identified a USB logo on car-floor glass shards from the Charlie Kirk shooting, which Candace Owens says confirms the fragments came from a rigged Rode microphone used to kill him.

Jun 25, 2026 1:02:33 Difficulty: Intermediate Played

TL;DR

Candace Owens dismantles Brian Harpole's emergency room story — calling it physically impossible based on feedback from doctors and nurses — while building a theory that Charlie Kirk's shirt was actually removed in the car to destroy explosive residue evidence. She scrutinizes Frank Turek's CPR claim as a cover story for blood-soaked clothing, examines a viewer-identified USB logo on car-floor glass shards as evidence of a rigged Rode microphone, and savages The Daily Wire's financial collapse, revealing they spent $50M on just 7 episodes of Pendragon. Key takeaway: every suspicious action in the story is explained away using the widow.

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Candace Owens analyzes contradictions in Brian Harpole's emergency room story as recounted by doctors and nurses, examines the car ride to the hospital on 9/10, and covers The Daily Wire's financial decline as reported by Semafor.

Chapter list
  • Candace Owens opens with characteristic energy, thanking the 'sleuths back home' and zeroing in on the torrent of medical professionals who responded to the previous episode's coverage of Brian Harpole's emergency room story. She ridicules the core claim — that Harpole commandeered a gurney, wheeled Charlie Kirk into a vacant room, jumped atop him with scissors, cut off his shirt, directed drug administration, and then stood guard at the door — as something that wouldn't even pass muster in Grey's Anatomy. She specifically singles out the physical absurdity of jumping on top of a patient to cut a shirt, asking whether Harpole is 'miniature' or 'not taller than a bed.' She then previews the episode's secondary thread: Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire is in financial free-fall and is now targeting a retail IPO, which she characterizes as a Hail Mary aimed at the same audience the company has been alienating for years.

  • Candace shares an email from a viewer in France who watched the previous episode and paused when the glass shards from the Kirk shooting SUV were shown on screen. The viewer screenshot the relevant frame, rotated it, and matched the shard's markings to the USB logo on a Rode microphone promo image — forwarding the annotated comparison. Candace calls this a 'Legendary Inspector Gadget finding' and says the show will independently blow up and rotate the image to confirm. She also reports that opticians wrote in to provide a technical education: sunglasses are legally required to pass impact tests because they cover the eyes, meaning they cannot shatter into shards. This eliminates sunglasses as an alternative explanation for the car-floor debris. The combined evidence, Candace argues, firmly supports the theory that the shattered glass came from Charlie Kirk's Rode road microphone.

  • Candace lays out her complete reconstruction of the SUV's interior in the six minutes before the hospital. With Rick Cutler's hands tied holding Harpole from the open door, Frank Turek was the only person free to assist. Candace theorizes he reached over and provided fabric tension on the shirt while Harpole cut through it with medical scissors — exactly the technique anyone who has worked with fabric knows is necessary for medical shears on cotton. Lifting the shirt away from Kirk's body then swept the Rode microphone glass fragments from his body onto the car floor. With a couple of minutes left in the ride, Harpole then grabbed a pack or two of QuikClot to apply to the neck wound, providing at least some evidence of wound care for the receiving team. Candace then argues this reconstruction explains why the FBI, under Kash Patel, expeditiously seized both the internal and external hospital cameras: Charlie would have arrived at the ER shirtless, an inexplicable anomaly that any leaked footage would have immortalized and demanded explanation for. The ER shirt-cutting story is the retroactive cover.

  • Candace reports being flooded with emails from people who have or have had dissociative identity disorder, all describing childhood trauma as the origin. One email specifically cited the NHS website's documentation of observable eye changes during dissociation — the 'trauma stare,' harsh pupil widening, and fixed blank gaze — as matching exactly what viewers noticed about Erica Kirk in her on-camera appearances. Candace connects this to Erica's inconsistent public statements, alternating personalities, and apparent memory gaps. She then broadens the frame significantly: the CIA's MKUltra program and its sub-program Project Monarch (originating in Germany with psychologists brought over post-war) intentionally induced DID in assets used as 'weapons,' with a handler holding the key to trigger personality switches. Candace acknowledges this is a rabbit hole but encourages interested listeners to research further, linking Erica's alleged behavior to the broader history of government-induced trauma dissociation.

  • The Semafor article confirms what Candace says she has been reporting for months: The Daily Wire is in serious financial distress. The piece reveals the $50 million spent on just 7 episodes of Pendragon — Jeremy Boreing's fantasy passion project — exceeding HBO's per-episode Game of Thrones Season 1 budget. The company failed to find a private equity rescuer and is now working with Highmount Capital to raise $100 million in strategic investment at a valuation Candace says is 'absurdly' aspirational given the financial reality. Candace then draws on her private equity background at a distressed debt firm to dissect the Daily Wire's tactics: free and deferred subscriptions allow them to announce 'record subscription years' while generating no meaningful revenue — a classic pre-sale pump. The claimed $48M adjusted EBITDA is, she argues, meaningless without seeing the actual books. The ultimate play is an IPO — the retail investor version of a pump-and-dump, where insiders cash out while the people the company has called antisemites and 'literally Hitler' buy worthless shares. Candace concludes: it's a cult, and a cult cannot survive.

  • Candace reads a series of top comments from medical professionals: a retired ER nurse married to an emergency physician who states only trained staff enter trauma rooms and interference is strictly forbidden; a 22-year hospital nurse who says Harpole's account of wheeling in a patient and jumping on them with scissors is not only impossible but would look like an attack. She also shares a tip from a senior law enforcement source explaining that evidence items — cross necklace, microphone — can only be returned to a family through a district attorney's signed release order. Since that release apparently occurred with no public record, Candace identifies this as a key investigative lead. She also connects Harpole's defibrillator reference to the possibility that bruising on Charlie's chest in the autopsy could be pre-explained as a defibrillation mark.

QuikClot (hemostatic gauze)
A type of wound dressing impregnated with a clotting agent, used to rapidly stop severe bleeding in trauma situations.
EBITDA
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization — a common measure of core business profitability. 'Adjusted EBITDA' adds back items management excludes, which critics say can obscure real losses.
Adjusted EBITDA
A modified version of EBITDA where a company adds back certain costs or losses to make profitability appear stronger; often scrutinized in distressed-company analysis.
IPO (Initial Public Offering)
The process by which a private company first sells shares to the public on a stock exchange, allowing outside investors to buy ownership stakes.
Private equity
Investment firms that buy stakes in private companies, typically to restructure or grow them before selling; Candace contrasted this with The Daily Wire's pivot to a public stock offering.
Distressed debt
Debt of companies in financial difficulty, often purchased at a discount; Candace referenced her background at a private equity firm specializing in this area.
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
A mental health condition in which a person has two or more distinct personality states, often linked to severe childhood trauma, formerly called multiple personality disorder.
Project Monarch
An alleged CIA sub-program of MKUltra said to involve the deliberate induction of dissociation in subjects; referenced by Candace as context for DID and government mind-control claims.
MKUltra
A CIA program (1953–1973) that conducted covert and illegal human experiments in mind control, often using drugs and psychological torture; a documented historical fact.
Explosive residue
Microscopic particles left on surfaces after an explosion that adhere strongly and transfer through contact; key to Candace's theory about why clothing was destroyed.
Hemostatic
Relating to the stoppage of bleeding; hemostatic gauze (like QuikClot) contains agents that accelerate blood clotting in wounds.
Alters
In the context of Dissociative Identity Disorder, distinct identity states or personality configurations that a person switches between, often involuntarily.
Autonomic nervous system
The part of the nervous system that controls involuntary functions like heart rate, breathing, and pupil dilation; relevant to how dissociation produces visible physical changes.
Tempered glass
Safety glass processed to be stronger than standard glass; when it does break, it shatters into small granular chunks rather than sharp shards, relevant to the car-floor debris analysis.
Gurneys
Wheeled stretchers used in hospitals to transport patients; Candace mocked Harpole's claim of commandeering one in the ER.
Porcupine (as euphemism)
Candace's on-air euphemism for a lie, used to avoid saying the word directly while conveying the same meaning.
Pork pie (as euphemism)
British Cockney rhyming slang for a lie ('pork pie' = 'lie'), used by Candace as a colorful substitute for saying someone is lying.
Defibrillator
A medical device that delivers an electric shock to restore normal heart rhythm; Harpole cited preparing for its use as the reason he cut Charlie's shirt, which Candace disputes.
Semaphore / Semafor
An independent news outlet (Semafor) that published an exclusive report on The Daily Wire's financial distress and IPO plans, referenced throughout the Daily Wire segment.
Highmount Capital
The investment advisory firm The Daily Wire is reportedly using to help raise $100 million in strategic investment ahead of a potential IPO, according to the Semafor article.

Chapter 1 · 00:00

Start

Candace Owens opens with characteristic energy, thanking the 'sleuths back home' and zeroing in on the torrent of medical professionals who responded to the previous episode's coverage of Brian Harpole's emergency room story. She ridicules the core claim — that Harpole commandeered a gurney, wheeled Charlie Kirk into a vacant room, jumped atop him with scissors, cut off his shirt, directed drug administration, and then stood guard at the door — as something that wouldn't even pass muster in Grey's Anatomy. She specifically singles out the physical absurdity of jumping on top of a patient to cut a shirt, asking whether Harpole is 'miniature' or 'not taller than a bed.' She then previews the episode's secondary thread: Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire is in financial free-fall and is now targeting a retail IPO, which she characterizes as a Hail Mary aimed at the same audience the company has been alienating for years.

True Crime
Brian Harpole's ER Fantasy Demolished by Medical Professionals

Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neith… · Jun 25, 2026 True Crime

Doctors, nurses, and ER techs flooded Candace's comments to confirm that Brian Harpole's account of taking command in an emergency room — grabbing a gurney, jumping on the patient, cutting his shirt, directing drug dosages, and guarding the door — violates every known ER protocol. Nobody walks into a trauma room and starts running it.

Chapter 2 · 02:28

Email tip about broken shards in car

Candace shares an email from a viewer in France who watched the previous episode and paused when the glass shards from the Kirk shooting SUV were shown on screen. The viewer screenshot the relevant frame, rotated it, and matched the shard's markings to the USB logo on a Rode microphone promo image — forwarding the annotated comparison. Candace calls this a 'Legendary Inspector Gadget finding' and says the show will independently blow up and rotate the image to confirm. She also reports that opticians wrote in to provide a technical education: sunglasses are legally required to pass impact tests because they cover the eyes, meaning they cannot shatter into shards. This eliminates sunglasses as an alternative explanation for the car-floor debris. The combined evidence, Candace argues, firmly supports the theory that the shattered glass came from Charlie Kirk's Rode road microphone.

Claims made here

Sunglasses are legally required to pass impact safety tests and cannot shatter into glass shards, as confirmed by opticians who contacted the show.

Candace Owens no source cited

True Crime
Sunglasses Can't Shatter — Opticians Confirm

Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neith… · Jun 25, 2026 True Crime

Opticians emailed Candace to explain that sunglasses are legally required to pass impact tests precisely because they cover the eyes — they crack or pop a lens, they do not shatter into shards. The car-floor glass debris from the Kirk shooting therefore cannot be sunglasses, eliminating a possible alternative explanation.

Chapter 3 · 05:17

The hospital car ride story doesn't add up

Candace lays out her complete reconstruction of the SUV's interior in the six minutes before the hospital. With Rick Cutler's hands tied holding Harpole from the open door, Frank Turek was the only person free to assist. Candace theorizes he reached over and provided fabric tension on the shirt while Harpole cut through it with medical scissors — exactly the technique anyone who has worked with fabric knows is necessary for medical shears on cotton. Lifting the shirt away from Kirk's body then swept the Rode microphone glass fragments from his body onto the car floor. With a couple of minutes left in the ride, Harpole then grabbed a pack or two of QuikClot to apply to the neck wound, providing at least some evidence of wound care for the receiving team. Candace then argues this reconstruction explains why the FBI, under Kash Patel, expeditiously seized both the internal and external hospital cameras: Charlie would have arrived at the ER shirtless, an inexplicable anomaly that any leaked footage would have immortalized and demanded explanation for. The ER shirt-cutting story is the retroactive cover.

Claims made here

The hospital was approximately 8 minutes away from the Kirk shooting location at normal driving speed, according to Google Maps.

Candace Owens Google Maps

Brian Harpole stated the SUV was traveling at 60, 80, and 100 miles per hour on the way to the hospital.

Brian Harpole no source cited

Brian Harpole claimed to have applied 36 feet of wound dressing to Charlie Kirk's neck during the car ride to the hospital.

Candace Owens no source cited

Car-floor photos show only one 4x4 QuikClot pack, contradicting Harpole's claim of using 36 feet (approximately 9 rolls at 4 yards per roll) of dressing.

Candace Owens no source cited

A standard dressing roll is only 4 yards, meaning 36 feet would require 9 rolls.

Candace Owens no source cited

CPR cannot be performed effectively on a person lying across two captain's chairs with their midsection elevated.

Candace Owens no source cited

Frank Turek entered the SUV through the trunk without touching Charlie Kirk's body, yet changed into hospital scrubs, claiming he did not want Erica to see blood on his clothes.

Candace Owens no source cited

Explosive residue adheres to surfaces and transfers through casual contact between people; a bomb dog could detect it in seconds.

Candace Owens no source cited

Salmon naturally contains more than 70 parasites, most of which are tiny and nearly impossible to see with the naked eye.

Candace Owens no source cited

Dr. Peter McCullough recommends doing a parasite cleanse at least once a year as a preventative measure.

Candace Owens Dr. Peter McCullough

True Crime
Data point 36 feet

Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neith… · Jun 25, 2026 True Crime

Harpole claims he unrolled 36 feet of wound dressing in a roughly 6-minute car ride. Car-floor photos show only one 4x4 QuikClot pack. A standard dressing roll is just 4 yards, meaning he would have needed 9 rolls. There are no wrappers, no rolls, nothing to support the claim.

True Crime
Harpole's CPR Impossibility

Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neith… · Jun 25, 2026 True Crime

Brian Harpole confirmed multiple times that Charlie Kirk was sprawled across two captain's chairs with his midsection elevated, making effective CPR physically impossible. Frank Turek claimed he tried to perform CPR from the back seat — a position Candace argues is both anatomically and spatially impossible given the car layout.

True Crime
Frank Turek's Blood Problem

Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neith… · Jun 25, 2026 True Crime

Frank Turek entered the SUV cleanly through the trunk in a white polo shirt, never touching Charlie Kirk's body. Yet he changed into hospital scrubs, explaining he discarded his clothes so Erica wouldn't see the blood. Candace argues the CPR story was invented specifically to explain bloodstained clothing that couldn't otherwise exist.

True Crime
Brian's In-Car Shirt Cut: The Reconstuction

Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neith… · Jun 25, 2026 True Crime

With the car door open at 100 mph, Rick Cutler was holding Harpole to prevent him from falling out, leaving Frank Turek free. Candace theorizes Frank held fabric tension while Harpole cut the shirt — exactly how you'd need to cut cotton with medical scissors — and that lifting the shirt swept mic fragments to the floor.

True Crime
The Theory: Shirt Cut in the Car to Kill the Mic Evidence

Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neith… · Jun 25, 2026 True Crime

With Rick Cutler holding Harpole to prevent him falling from the open door and Frank in the back, Candace theorizes Harpole cut Charlie's shirt off in the car with Frank providing fabric tension, which swept explosive mic fragments to the floor. The shirt removal — and the ER lie about it — was about covering up bomb residue, not defibrillator prep.

True Crime
Kash Patel's FBI Seized Hospital Cameras — Here's Why

Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neith… · Jun 25, 2026 True Crime

The FBI, under Kash Patel, rapidly seized both internal and external hospital cameras after the Kirk shooting. At the time, the reason seemed unclear. Candace now theorizes the cameras would have shown Charlie arriving shirtless — visual proof of the in-car shirt removal that the official story cannot explain.

True Crime
Bomb Dogs and Explosive Residue: Why All the Clothes Had to Go

Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neith… · Jun 25, 2026 True Crime

Explosive residue adheres to surfaces and transfers through the most casual contact. If Charlie Kirk was killed by an explosive device, anyone near his body would carry trace particles that a bomb dog would detect in seconds. This explains why every piece of clothing — Turek's, Harpole's, everyone's — had to be destroyed.

Chapter 4 · 33:21

Dissociative Identity Disorder email tip

Candace reports being flooded with emails from people who have or have had dissociative identity disorder, all describing childhood trauma as the origin. One email specifically cited the NHS website's documentation of observable eye changes during dissociation — the 'trauma stare,' harsh pupil widening, and fixed blank gaze — as matching exactly what viewers noticed about Erica Kirk in her on-camera appearances. Candace connects this to Erica's inconsistent public statements, alternating personalities, and apparent memory gaps. She then broadens the frame significantly: the CIA's MKUltra program and its sub-program Project Monarch (originating in Germany with psychologists brought over post-war) intentionally induced DID in assets used as 'weapons,' with a handler holding the key to trigger personality switches. Candace acknowledges this is a rabbit hole but encourages interested listeners to research further, linking Erica's alleged behavior to the broader history of government-induced trauma dissociation.

Claims made here

Dissociative disorders can produce observable physical changes in the eyes, including harsh widening, unblinking stares, and pupil dilation, according to the NHS.

Candace Owens NHS website

Health & Fitness
Dissociative Identity Disorder and Erica Kirk's Eyes

Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neith… · Jun 25, 2026 Health & Fitness

Viewers with DID wrote in to say Erica Kirk's harsh eye widening, unblinking stares, and vacant expressions are textbook dissociation symptoms, citing NHS documentation on the 'trauma stare.' Candace extends this to MKUltra and Project Monarch, arguing the CIA intentionally weaponizes dissociation.

Chapter 5 · 37:14

Dave Rubin is not smart & Daily Wire is still in decline

The Semafor article confirms what Candace says she has been reporting for months: The Daily Wire is in serious financial distress. The piece reveals the $50 million spent on just 7 episodes of Pendragon — Jeremy Boreing's fantasy passion project — exceeding HBO's per-episode Game of Thrones Season 1 budget. The company failed to find a private equity rescuer and is now working with Highmount Capital to raise $100 million in strategic investment at a valuation Candace says is 'absurdly' aspirational given the financial reality. Candace then draws on her private equity background at a distressed debt firm to dissect the Daily Wire's tactics: free and deferred subscriptions allow them to announce 'record subscription years' while generating no meaningful revenue — a classic pre-sale pump. The claimed $48M adjusted EBITDA is, she argues, meaningless without seeing the actual books. The ultimate play is an IPO — the retail investor version of a pump-and-dump, where insiders cash out while the people the company has called antisemites and 'literally Hitler' buy worthless shares. Candace concludes: it's a cult, and a cult cannot survive.

Claims made here

Dave Rubin incorrectly stated that there were no ongoing Israeli military operations in Gaza and no remaining hostages during a Jubilee debate.

Candace Owens no source cited

Dave Rubin's book 'Don't Burn This Book' incorrectly stated that Ukraine was a member of NATO.

Candace Owens Dave Rubin, 'Don't Burn This Book' (published approx. 2020)

The Daily Wire is seeking at least $100 million in strategic investment via Highmount Capital with an eye toward an IPO.

Candace Owens Semafor exclusive: 'Daily Wire under pressure, seeks strategic investors and ta…

The Daily Wire spent $50 million producing 7 episodes of Pendragon, Jeremy Boreing's fantasy series, more per episode than HBO spent on Game of Thrones Season 1.

Candace Owens Semafor exclusive article on The Daily Wire

Business
Data point $50M/7 eps

Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neith… · Jun 25, 2026 Business

The Daily Wire spent at least $50 million producing just 7 episodes of Pendragon, Jeremy Boreing's fantasy passion project. That is more money per episode than HBO spent on Game of Thrones Season 1. Candace calls this the single greatest contributor to the company's financial collapse.

Business
How Struggling Companies Fake Subscription Growth

Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neith… · Jun 25, 2026 Business

The Daily Wire gave away free memberships through 'buy one get one' and deferred payment schemes, then announced record subscription years. Candace, who worked in private equity at a distressed debt firm, explains this is a classic pump-before-sale tactic: you can show subscriber highs without revealing you made no profit.

Business
Data point 0% sub growth

Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neith… · Jun 25, 2026 Business

Semaphore published a revenue and subscriber chart for The Daily Wire showing growth slowdown and a collapse in advertising. The steepest decline aligns with Candace's exit and was followed by Brett Cooper's departure. No subscriber growth was recorded in the most recent year.

Business
Daily Wire's IPO Is a Last Ditch Cash Grab

Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neith… · Jun 25, 2026 Business

Having failed to secure private equity rescue money, The Daily Wire is pursuing a $100M strategic investment via Highmount Capital with an eye toward an IPO. Candace compares this to a Trump meme coin: the insiders cash out while retail investors take the loss, all while being called antisemites by the very company they're funding.

Chapter 6 · 51:14

Comments

Candace reads a series of top comments from medical professionals: a retired ER nurse married to an emergency physician who states only trained staff enter trauma rooms and interference is strictly forbidden; a 22-year hospital nurse who says Harpole's account of wheeling in a patient and jumping on them with scissors is not only impossible but would look like an attack. She also shares a tip from a senior law enforcement source explaining that evidence items — cross necklace, microphone — can only be returned to a family through a district attorney's signed release order. Since that release apparently occurred with no public record, Candace identifies this as a key investigative lead. She also connects Harpole's defibrillator reference to the possibility that bruising on Charlie's chest in the autopsy could be pre-explained as a defibrillation mark.

Claims made here

Only a district attorney can authorize the release of evidence items such as a cross necklace or microphone back to a victim's family.

Candace Owens Senior law enforcement source (emailed tip)

American Financing customers are saving an average of $800 per month by eliminating high-interest debt, with mortgage rates currently in the 5s.

Candace Owens no source cited

True Crime
Evidence Returned to Erica: Who Signed the DA Release?

Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neith… · Jun 25, 2026 True Crime

A high-ranking police source emailed Candace to point out that evidence items like the cross necklace and microphone can only be returned to a family member via a district attorney's signed release order. Nobody has asked how Erica Kirk got these items back, and Candace says that is a major investigative lead.

True Crime
Where Is Dan Flood?

Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neith… · Jun 25, 2026 True Crime

Dan Flood, who sat in the SUV passenger seat, has been the most publicly silent of all the men present at Charlie Kirk's shooting. He declined a post-death promotion offered by Erica Kirk. Candace says he is 'positively guilt-ridden' and his silence is the most telling thing about the whole case.

No indexed bits in this chapter.

Show stoppers

Business
Data point $50M/7 eps

Charlie’s Final Ride To The Hospital Isn’t Adding Up. Neith… · Jun 25, 2026 Business

The Daily Wire spent at least $50 million producing just 7 episodes of Pendragon, Jeremy Boreing's fantasy passion project. That is more money per episode than HBO spent on Game of Thrones Season 1. Candace calls this the single greatest contributor to the company's financial collapse.

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Factual claims made this episode, and whether a source was named.

Brian Harpole claimed to have applied 36 feet of wound dressing to Charlie Kirk's neck during the car ride to the hospital.

Candace Owens no source cited

Car-floor photos show only one 4x4 QuikClot pack, contradicting Harpole's claim of using 36 feet (approximately 9 rolls at 4 yards per roll) of dressing.

Candace Owens no source cited

A standard dressing roll is only 4 yards, meaning 36 feet would require 9 rolls.

Candace Owens no source cited

The hospital was approximately 8 minutes away from the Kirk shooting location at normal driving speed, according to Google Maps.

Candace Owens Google Maps

Brian Harpole stated the SUV was traveling at 60, 80, and 100 miles per hour on the way to the hospital.

Brian Harpole no source cited

CPR cannot be performed effectively on a person lying across two captain's chairs with their midsection elevated.

Candace Owens no source cited

Frank Turek entered the SUV through the trunk without touching Charlie Kirk's body, yet changed into hospital scrubs, claiming he did not want Erica to see blood on his clothes.

Candace Owens no source cited

Sunglasses are legally required to pass impact safety tests and cannot shatter into glass shards, as confirmed by opticians who contacted the show.

Candace Owens no source cited

The Daily Wire spent $50 million producing 7 episodes of Pendragon, Jeremy Boreing's fantasy series, more per episode than HBO spent on Game of Thrones Season 1.

Candace Owens Semafor exclusive article on The Daily Wire

The Daily Wire is seeking at least $100 million in strategic investment via Highmount Capital with an eye toward an IPO.

Candace Owens Semafor exclusive: 'Daily Wire under pressure, seeks strategic investors and ta…

Explosive residue adheres to surfaces and transfers through casual contact between people; a bomb dog could detect it in seconds.

Candace Owens no source cited

Only a district attorney can authorize the release of evidence items such as a cross necklace or microphone back to a victim's family.

Candace Owens Senior law enforcement source (emailed tip)

Dissociative disorders can produce observable physical changes in the eyes, including harsh widening, unblinking stares, and pupil dilation, according to the NHS.

Candace Owens NHS website

Dave Rubin incorrectly stated that there were no ongoing Israeli military operations in Gaza and no remaining hostages during a Jubilee debate.

Candace Owens no source cited

Dave Rubin's book 'Don't Burn This Book' incorrectly stated that Ukraine was a member of NATO.

Candace Owens Dave Rubin, 'Don't Burn This Book' (published approx. 2020)

Salmon naturally contains more than 70 parasites, most of which are tiny and nearly impossible to see with the naked eye.

Candace Owens no source cited

Dr. Peter McCullough recommends doing a parasite cleanse at least once a year as a preventative measure.

Candace Owens Dr. Peter McCullough

American Financing customers are saving an average of $800 per month by eliminating high-interest debt, with mortgage rates currently in the 5s.

Candace Owens no source cited