Candace Owens on Wednesday revealed that she was warned against interviewing Mitchell Snow, whose made claims on her podcast are now the focus of a defamation lawsuit launched by the former head of security for Charlie Kirk, by social media influencers who operate military-themed YouTube channels.
Owens revealed she received the warnings in response to the latest communications she received from attorneys representing Brian Harpole, who is suing Owens and Snow over claims they conspired to spread a false narrative that lead the public to believe Harpole, Erika Kirk, and a sitting congressman attended a meeting at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, to plan the assassination of Charlie Kirk, one day before he was killed.
According Owens (pictured above), Harpole’s attorneys this week served her with preservation letters, but also asked her legal team to provide a home address for Ian Carroll, who has been described as an antisemitic influencer by Jerusalem Post.
“They were operating, it appears to me, like under some delusion that he was a regular co-host of this show or a host of the show and that he worked for me actually,” said Owens, describing Carroll as “nomadic.” She added, “He just filled in for me while I was on maternity leave last year, and we paid for his Airbnb while he did.”
But, according to Owens, Carroll should have nothing to do with the claims about Harpole made on her podcast by Snow:
I have to say I was very confused as to what Ian Carroll has to do with, really, anything pertaining to Brian Harpole, other than the fact that, very early on, he was used actually, by the other side, YouTubers, remember Paramount Tactical? You had Valhalla and they were like, ‘Ah, are these military guys trying to warn you?” Who I told you about this at the time against featuring Mitch on my snow. I was going to have the show with Mitch. They got to work getting a bunch of people to tell me if I did this, that it was going to be a big, big, big mistake. I would never recover from this. My career was going to be over.”
Owens claimed these influencers instructed Carroll to tell her that Snow was lying about his military record, that he never entered Fort Huachuca, and that he had a troubled personal life, but that she was able to disprove portions of their claims.
They had a lot of things to say, first and foremost that Mitch was never at Fort Huachuca, that he was a complete fraud. He could not even get onto the base because he never served in the military. That’s what they were saying initially. He never even served in the military, he had never been there.
“He couldn’t have produced more evidence. I’ve looked at the metadata,” said Owens. “He recorded videos while he was there because it was sort of a trip down memory lane for him from when he was serving. He also had submitted to me his hotel receipts. I was very confident that they were spinning BS and I wasn’t quite sure why.”
After questioning why Harpole filed his defamation suit against her and snow, but not other social media influencers she suggested made more egregious claims about Harpole, Owens suggested that the YouTube influencers may have been assisting with a greater plot.
“I would say there’s only two possible reasons for how everyone reacted. First possible reason is that they really were, just as was expressed from the military bros before I even hosted Mitch, plotting a defamation lawsuit,” said Owens.
She offered, “The second option is that they were really at Fort Huachuca.”
Owens indicated last week that she could use the lawsuit to advance her self-styled investigation into the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which she said could allow her to depose his widow, Erika Kirk, and subpoena never-before-seen footage of the shot that killed the Turning Point USA founder.
Authorities in Utah and the FBI have charged Tyler Robinson with the murder.
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Tom Pappert is a 2025 recipient of the Dao Prize and the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star. He also reports for the Star News Network. Follow Tom on X. Email tips to [email protected].
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