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What explains Candace Owen’s bizarre crusade against Erika Kirk?
Dinesh tackles this and speaks with one of TPUSA’s top donors, who shares for the first time why he ended his support for Charlie.
(0:00) The Candace Owens Question
(2:36) What’s Driving Candace?
(4:51) Charlie Kirk’s Rise
(6:25) Candace’s Hidden Feelings
(8:10) Charlie Chooses Erika
(9:38) Candace’s Vendetta
(11:56) Revenge Against Charlie
(14:15) Gold And Silver Warning
(15:42) Donor Breaks With Turning Point
(20:01) Israel Controversy Inside TPUSA
(25:28) Tucker Carlson's Influence
(32:12) The Donor Revolt Begins
(36:26) Candace Conspiracy Claims
(43:59) Christian Soldier In The IDF
(51:07) Israel And Religious Freedom
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How do you solve a problem like Candace Owens?
Well, first we have to realize that something is deeply wrong here.
I think most people have realized that.
The next step is to figure out what exactly is wrong.
What's going on with this?
Woman, I believe I can answer this question.
On the final question, what to do?
I have merely a common sense suggestion which I'll give you at the end.
Candace continues her undeclared war against Erika Kirk.
The latest is Candace's multi-episode investigation into Erika's life,
Bride of Charlie.
Erika Kirk has been named the new CEO of Turning Point USA.
My husband's dead.
Like, I'm not trying to be morbid, but he's dead.
It's weird to say excited.
Describes her husband's funeral as the event of the century.
Merch has.
We have 50,000 plus hot orders.
Nobody knows why she's out there in the glittering
pantsuit in a recreated tent that her husband tragically was murdered
and throwing merch out.
Everyone reads differently, so if someone's acting weird,
don't read into that.
Zionists, the Prime Minister of Israel,
all lied through their teeth about Charlie Kirk.
Her operation was in Constanta,
the epicenter of Romania's trafficking scandal.
We earned conversations to have with the 15-year-old.
I'm going to touch your butt,
$8.6 million to their own show company.
What is going on?
Nothing to hide.
My aunt used to tell me, never do something that you don't want on the front page of a newspaper.
Now, this is some weird stuff here.
As my wife says, what business is it of hers?
Why doesn't Candice leave Erika alone?
I'm sure Candice would answer,
because there's a chance that Erika is part of the deep state,
because maybe Erika had something to do with the assassination of Charlie Kirk,
because maybe turning point at the highest levels was also involved.
Of course, if that's true,
if that's true,
then the assassin's cabal is now running turning point,
the most influential youth organization in America.
I'm seeing a lot of memes on social media,
to the effect that Candice is insane.
Candice is a demon.
Candice is a secret leftist,
and also calls for defenders of Candice, notably Meghan Kelly, to dissociate from her.
We not only have to explain Candice,
we also have to explain why people like Meghan
are so reluctant to simply say she's gone nuts.
Now, as many of you know, I know the main players in the story.
Not Erika, I don't know Erika Kirk.
If I met Erika Kirk, I honestly don't remember.
As far as I know, I saw Erika Kirk for the first time at Charlie's memorial.
I was deeply moved when Erika said she forgave Charlie's killer, Debbie,
and I were in the front,
and I could see, I could feel how difficult it was for her to say that.
Father, forgive them,
for they not know what they do.
That man,
that young man,
I forgive him.
Yet it is the purest expression of Christian forgiveness of Christ like agape.
I was deeply moved.
Now, Charlie Kirk, I've known for many years, mainly through various TPUSA events,
and also by doing his podcast shortly after I married Debbie in 2016.
I saw Charlie at a conference, and I introduced my wife to him as Dixie,
which happens to be the name of my ex-wife.
Charlie laughed, I laughed more nervously, Debbie did not laugh.
I've known Candace since her early blexit days, and I've spoken at some of her
blexit events.
I've always liked Candace, there's something quite magnetic, quite effervescent about her.
I get why Megan Kelly is so taken by her, sure.
She's an obvious megalomaniac, but guess what?
Politics is full of the most congressman.
And Senator is a megalomaniac's most public figures are full of themselves.
Being full of yourself is regrettably part of the job description in this field.
I also know people who are very close to Charlie and were and are very close to Candace.
And through them, I believe I figured out what's going on with Candace and Charlie and Erica.
It's a dark triangle of a familiar sort, but with distinctive elements.
Consider the story of a young man who becomes hugely successful through his entrepreneurial genius,
his gift of the gab, and his organizational skills.
He creates a huge organization absolutely blowing away other conservative youth organizations.
In the process, he befriends Trump and Vance, and he creates a massive donor network.
He becomes Charlie Kirk.
But Charlie Kirk is in some respects an awkward fellow.
He has lots of male buddies, but he doesn't relate romantically to women.
I know this from an elderly lady who is one of Charlie's big supporters and was also a long time
friend. She came on board with Charlie from the earliest days.
She tried to set Charlie up with a number of young women from prominent families,
including the Charles Schwab family, but she says none of the women were interested.
They're common complaint quote, Charlie's a nerd.
I don't have any chemistry with him.
Charlie was a successful guy who hadn't found a woman to marry.
This is not to say he didn't have women friends.
He did, but he related to them as buddies.
Hey, they might as well have been male.
Charlie talking to them like business associates in some cases and like locker room pals
in other cases.
Now, Candace was in the latter category.
She was a close locker room buddy of Charlie's.
They hung out a lot.
They swapped messages.
They confided in each other.
But here's the key point.
For Charlie, Candace was merely a buddy,
kind of like Tyler Boyer or Andrew Colvet.
These guys who might also know
are now two of the key figures running.
Turning point Charlie would no more think of making the moves on Candace
than he would think of making the moves on Tyler or Andrew.
Charlie's relationship with Candace was from Charlie's point of view,
Platonic, but from Candace's point of view,
not Platonic or at least not according to my sources.
Candace was definitely interested in Charlie.
Candace saw Charlie as some kind of
cosmically important figure just like her.
Candace has made some strange references to how
both she and Charlie had extra terrestrial powers.
Maybe Candace thought that two of them were
celestial beings placed on Earth to find each other.
And then horror of horrors.
Charlie picks Erica.
Erica, now you have to understand
not what Erica Kirk really is,
but what Erica Kirk represents from Candace's point of view.
In reality, Erica seems to be a lovely person,
beautiful, accomplished, someone who came
out of the world of pageants and modeling,
but also established herself as an entrepreneur
and a career professional.
And of course, she also seems to be a devoted mom.
This is how Charlie saw Erica and this is how
most people see her as well, but not Candace.
From Candace's viewpoint,
Erica is a nobody.
What does she know about politics, this
Arizona beauty queen?
She's a bimbo, she's a peasant,
she's completely removed from the brightly
illuminated celestial realm inhabited by special
creatures like Candace and Charlie.
Besides, how did Erica jump out from behind the
curtain and grab this guy?
Why on Earth did he go for her?
After all, he and Candace had been close for so long.
I believe Candace came to the conclusion that
Charlie was hers by destiny, by divine right.
And the fact that Charlie and Erica ended up together
was more than she could bear.
Candace has always been somewhat unhinged,
but now she went completely berserk.
She was inconsolable in her rage.
She developed a vendetta.
Envy is a very powerful force in human nature.
I'm reminded of Othello.
Shakespeare's great saga about the fruits of Envy.
In Othello, the Envy's man is Yago.
And in the play, he expresses the nature of Envy powerfully,
but not in a line about Othello,
but rather about another attractive figure, Casio.
Yago says of Casio.
He has a daily beauty in his life that makes me ugly.
And Yago plots his vendetta against both Casio
and later Othello.
Now, part of Yago's dark cleverness is
to recognize things that are true,
but that public opinion cannot acknowledge.
Yago knows, for example, that Othello's black,
and that makes him strange, controversial,
even repulsive in Christian Venice.
But you can't say that, not even then, not even there,
because Othello is also a war hero.
But Yago plays on Othello's blackness
to carry out his plot against him.
Now, Candace, like Yago,
knows that there is a public mythology
about Charlie and Erica that developed after Charlie's assassination.
It's not that different from what happened to JFK.
Suddenly, after the assassination, JFK
became this wonder boy.
His wife became the peregon of beauty and culture.
None of this was actually true.
Camelot was a public myth.
Same with Charlie and Erica.
They've been canonized into something far more than they were.
Candace sees behind that veil.
Her attack on Erica is based on the premise.
Let me show you the real Erica
behind the veil of public sanctimony.
This is the key to the fascination with Candace's
bride of Erica's series from the point of view
of her devotees.
Candace is exposing the real Erica.
Candace, like Yago, has a vendetta,
but against whom?
The conventional view is that Candace is conducting
a character assassination campaign against Erica.
Most of the comments I see from Candace's critics
are focused on protecting Erica's reputation.
But this, I think, misses the point.
From Candace's point of view,
nothing could be more obvious
than Erica wanting Charlie.
Why wouldn't she want to marry the prince?
The real mystery is why Charlie wanted Erica
and chose Erica over Candace.
Why did Charlie make Erica Charlie's angel?
I think I know the answer to that.
Charlie recognized Candace's talent or dark energy,
but he also knew he didn't want it in his home.
Charlie might have been awkward,
but he was, in a way,
why is he new that Erica would be a nicer,
prettier, more stable life partner
than Candace could ever be?
Imagine being married to Candace.
Imagine being her husband.
Imagine life in that household.
Yeah, I'd like to be a fly on that wall.
I bet I'd have enough gossip to last a lifetime.
Yet for Candace,
Charlie's decision to choose Erica was the real betrayal.
What I'm suggesting,
and this is merely my psychological take
on a strange and complex subject,
is that Candace's target is not Erica.
But Charlie, Candace's vendetta is against Charlie.
Charlie's my friend.
That's what Candace says.
Repeatedly, she implies she's doing it all for Charlie,
but that is the great deception here.
Worthy of Yago, Charlie was her friend,
but then Charlie not only chose Erica over her,
but just as significant,
he expelled Candace from his orbit
in large part because of Erica.
No one saw Candace at Charlie's memorial.
That's because she wasn't there.
She wasn't invited.
So that's when Candace became
Maleficent, the wicked witch of the West,
and when this vendetta got started.
Debbie and I watch a lot of true crime stories.
The standard plot is different from what we've been talking about,
but it's still illuminating for our purpose here.
Man and woman have a long-term marriage.
But over time, their romantic relationship dissolves,
and they're just roommates, just friends.
Man takes up with younger, attractive women.
Suddenly, they are always together hand in hand.
Lovey-dovey, their soulmates made for each other.
They do everything together.
His old partner cannot understand
what do those two have in common,
and soon that incomprehension turns to rage,
and sometimes that rage is aimed at the man, not the woman.
That's when the criminal plot to destroy him
gets under weights.
A familiar plotline, and I think the parallels
are obvious to our situation here.
But there's a deeper point I want you to consider.
Vendetta is a typically between equals.
A duke doesn't have a vendetta against a surf.
Duques don't fight duels against surfs.
The duke of York will fight a duel,
but only against the duke of Sussex.
Candace fancies herself in Aristocrat.
They have you noticed who she married in the end?
A British Aristocrat, a maybe pseudo-Aristocrat.
In any case, she went for European royalty,
which is fairly common in Europe these days,
and is also colloquially known as Euro-Trash.
But my point here is that Candace isn't dueling with Erika
because she doesn't consider Erika to be her equal.
She's really battling with Charlie.
Oh, perhaps today we'd have to say she's battling
with Charlie's ghost.
Erika, bride of Charlie, think about that title.
Erika is a subject, but her only identification is bride of Charlie.
Charlie is the real villain of the story, and it's Charlie.
Charlie's reputation, perhaps even Charlie's memory,
that this strange, angry, vengeful woman
is bent on destroying through her relentless crusade.
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My next conversation could be described
in the following headline,
Zionist billionaire, who was the largest donor to Turning Point,
but stopped giving because of Taco Carlson,
speaks out for the first time.
I'm speaking to Bob Schillman, entrepreneur,
philanthropist at his home in California,
about the inside scoop of his involvement and his break
with Turning Point.
Dr. Bob, let me ask you about Turning Point.
You were the largest donor, the biggest supporter of Charlie Kirk,
of Turning Point, and then you stopped.
Why did you stop?
Okay, just a little history.
I think I met Charlie.
It was probably at a David Harwoods Freedom Center conference
called Restoration Weekend, and David was very, very open,
always generous with introducing new talent.
To his audience.
And I was very impressed with Charlie.
I became a donor, probably not his first donor.
I forget the name of the fellow.
He's no longer with us, but I became the second donor
and helped the organization grow and gave him advice whenever he asked for it.
So I was a member of Turning Point's
team for probably 10 years, maybe 12 years.
And I supported various projects within Turning Point.
I also helped Turning Point Action, which is a 501C4,
gave them significant funds to help them,
that to help President Trump get elected.
But about, you know, maybe was, I don't know.
Let me ask you since you're talking about support.
You gave support in the millions of dollars.
Millions of dollars.
About five million, would you say?
It's between three and five, I honestly.
Over, over a period.
Over a 10 year, 12 year period.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, but I became very concerned.
This was about two months before his untimely death.
I became very concerned with, with his,
giving a lot of credence to people like Tucker Carlson.
And when there were big organizational meetings,
like Turning Point Action,
or Turning Point America, or Romero Fest,
right up on the big brochures next to Charlie,
was Tucker Carlson.
And of course, I've been following Tucker Carlson.
He still liked watching him when he was on Fox News.
I liked his attitude.
You know, he's a little sarcastic.
But then, for some reason, something changed.
And he became, in my view, a Jew hater.
I don't use the term anti-Semitic.
And Tucker has his own show and where he platformed
known Jew haters.
So I talked to Charlie about this.
And I was very concerned that that he was being influenced
and giving, giving a platform.
Tucker Carlson, I think, gave a keynote address
at one of the major Turning Point events.
And I didn't get a good answer.
And I told Charlie that, you know, I can't finance you anymore.
I feel very good about, but my past helping,
helping Turning Point and helping you,
you've used the money appropriately,
really helped President Trump get elected,
the ground game that he did in those borderline states.
But going forward, and I don't see,
I don't like the trend of the organization going forward.
So I'm going to stop financing it.
Now, by the way, he didn't need it anymore.
I think he was at the run rate of $60 to $80 million a year.
They were raising.
And it's not like I stabbed him in the back.
We had the discussion.
And it's very common for philanthropists
to give to causes they believe in.
And I did give to causes I believed in,
but then the organization changed.
What do you think was going on with Charlie?
Charlie seemed to be pro-Israel.
He made trips to Israel.
I've seen him pose with the Israeli flag.
He's been at the wall.
He seemed to be a supporter, a sympathizer with Israel.
Was it the case that, in your view,
Charlie was moving in the other direction?
Or was he just saying, hey, listen,
Tucker's a great body of mine.
And he has his own views.
I have my own views.
But on that basis of friendship,
I want to give him a platform.
What was going on in Charlie's mind?
Because I think this is something people are grappling with.
And you've got to see it up close.
Right. And when he began to become a strong supporter of Israel,
and by the way, that was partly motivated
by a donor, Bernie Marcus,
who was founder of Home Depot,
who, as I recall, Charlie told me,
he gave him a $10 million grant
to start a pro-Israel group within Turning Point.
And when I saw that happening,
I spoke to Charlie, an event that I was attending with him.
And I said, this is a mistake, Charlie.
Even though I'm very pro-Israel, of course,
I'm known to be a Zionist.
I told him it was a mistake for him
to take positions outside of the main core
of what Turning Point is all about.
Turning Point is about free enterprise, capitalism,
that literal interpretation of the Constitution,
and freedom, freedom of speech.
And I said, as soon as you start being involved in other
peripheral causes, although they may be good,
in my view, it's a good one, you shouldn't do it.
You shouldn't do it.
So even though he was doing something
that I would normally approve of outside of Turning Point,
I suggested he not do it.
In the same way, when he became somewhat not he,
but he was promoting people who are anti-Israel
or anti-Zionist or Jew haters, I told him you shouldn't do it.
It seems like what you were saying to Charlie,
and in fact, was...
It's sick to your knitting.
And stick to America first.
America.
Don't go outside of the American agenda.
As soon as you start, and I think what happened,
he went to college campuses,
and this was after October 7th, 2023.
And there were a lot of questions by the students,
which I don't know if they were prepared ahead of time,
but they were poking him about Israel.
Why are you so interested in Israel?
It's not American, it's not pro-American.
So I think that that helped change his mind
or his direction.
And he never said anything that would indicate
that he was a Jewator or an anti-Semite.
But certainly by keeping Candace Owens on their website,
I don't know if you can still find her there,
but she was probably not given the relationship with...
Now.
Now, but she was there when I was involved,
and I said, I thought she was out, she was still there,
you'd have to find it.
But certainly Tucker Carlson was being promoted,
and I think that's what happened.
It was in reaction to all the questions
he was getting by the students on college campuses.
So I think what you're saying here,
and to me this is not an unfamiliar story.
When I was at the American Enterprise Institute,
we had free market economists,
and we would get sometimes funding from some big business,
which supported free market capitalism.
But on the other hand, when it came, for example,
to a subsidy to that business,
they would want the subsidy.
And then the free market economists would revolt and say,
you know, we're being bought off.
And so the head of AEI of the American Enterprise Institute
was caught between the scholars over here
and the donors over here.
So to me, this is like this happens.
This happens, right?
And I think what you're describing is here is Charlie,
and he wanted, did he take the money from Bernie Marcus?
Did he take the 10 million?
Yes, he did, okay.
So he's committed over here.
And at the same time, the students are kind of over here.
So when Charlie said I'm being,
he said I'm being pressured by the donors,
but really what?
No, it wasn't pressured by that.
I never tried to pressure him.
I just said, this is not consistent
with the mission of turning point.
That's what I said.
You should stick to the mission of turning point.
And although you may get less tweets
or less people attending your conference,
this is what you should be doing.
Because this is what you set out to do.
That's what he set out to do.
And that was, that's what I funded.
And obviously, I think part of what you're saying as well
is that a donor has every right to give money
to a cause that you believe in.
And if the organization or the individual
marches off in a different direction,
you stop giving them money.
Why on earth would you want to?
There's no entitlement to the money.
Right.
In some way.
And there's no intentional, I didn't try to get the money back
that I already gave up.
They were going to name a building after you.
Yes, there was the Shulman Center,
the Shulman Freedom Center.
And what did you tell them?
I told them and I had made most of the payments
that I promised to do was in stages
based on where the building was
and the purchase of the building and everything.
And I said, I'm not going to make the last payment.
But you can name the building.
The agreement was, it was supposed to be named
after the Shulman Shulman Foundation.
Said, you can name the building anything you want
except Shulman.
Don't use your name.
Don't use my name.
Don't use my name.
Right.
And what was Charlie's reaction when you told him that?
They said they'd have to think about it
and they never got back to me
and they never distanced themselves
from Tucker in any way.
And I think he was influenced by the number of followers
that he gets with Tucker there.
Or the Tucker's an influencer
who has a large audience, unfortunately.
It is something that people have grappled with, right?
Tucker, what caused Tucker to change money?
And you're saying it's money.
The reason I think, the reason I've been myself
flabbergasted by it is people do change their mind, right?
Whitaker Chambers used to be a communist
and then he became an anti-communist.
But he wrote a 600-page book, witness, explaining
how he shifted, what caused him to change
if I notice that Tucker has never done this.
He's never given any kind of account.
And yet suddenly you have this sort of new Tucker
and he is saying the things that younger Tucker
is the opposite of what he said.
But you think it's financial.
That's my belief, yep.
And in the country of Cutter,
has a history of making huge donations
to various universities to fund Middle Eastern schools
and most of those organizations
have become centers of radicals and those universities
to the deterrent, to the negative effect of our society.
Most of the university campuses
that were inflamed by October 7th,
by Israel after the day after the war,
Israel didn't do anything for months after they were attacked.
But the next day there are all these campus protests
and those come from the organizations
within the universities that are financed by Cutter.
And that's well-documented, how many billions of dollars
they've spent undermining universities in America.
Do you think that Tucker was,
or maybe is, trying to take over turning point?
I imagine that would be a goal.
I don't think he'll be able to do that.
I hope he won't be able to do that.
I just say this because Tucker had clearly built
inroads into the Heritage Foundation.
So you think of the Heritage Foundation
as one of the key think tanks
who think of turning point as the youth organization.
And so looking at it from Tucker's point of view,
this is the way I...
It might even be...
If I'm trying to move the Republican party
in a different direction, what better way
to manage turning point?
That would be the way.
It might be that the Cutter has invested in turning point.
I wouldn't be surprised.
They'll be very wise of them to do.
So I wouldn't be surprised if they are a large donor.
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Have you come across the name of Nick Fuentes
in connection to Charlie talked about him?
Never, he never mentioned him, never mentioned him at all.
Yeah, because Charlie had texted me,
I did a debate with Nick on the Iran issue.
It was not about Nick's full philosophy
or debating the Trump strike on Iran.
We had this pretty feisty exchange.
I think I got the better of it.
Most people thought I got the better of it,
but Charlie, when he found out about it,
he was very agitated and sent me a series of texts,
basically saying, why are you platforming this guy?
He's vermin, he's horrible.
I only say this because...
He was on Tucker show.
He was on Tucker show and precisely
some of the same things that Nick has been saying.
Tucker has been saying.
Right.
And so it's very interesting.
I kind of wonder, Charlie, the assassination,
he does no more Charlie
and it's hard to know what Charlie
would make of all the stuff going on now.
With turning point and also with Tucker.
Because Tucker is most blatant.
I wouldn't say it's not just anti-Israel,
it's not just anti-Jew,
but now an emerging pro-Islamic side is emerging, right?
Coming back to Tucker and your pulling away from turning point,
as you know, they do a lot of good
and you supported the good stuff they were doing.
Did you think that what Tucker was saying was
what, insidious enough, bad enough,
poison in the minds of young people?
I'm trying to get at what is it that you said?
Listen, I love this organization.
I love what they were doing.
But guess what?
I'm out.
It's probably took a lot because I was at the,
in 2022, I was in Phoenix at a turning point donor event
which I spoke, you were there.
You stood up and you said something like,
which really, I mean, I remember it's so vivid.
You were like, I am trying to give away my money.
You said, I think you would put up $100,000.
You were asking people to match it.
And you were the number one turning point superfan.
Yes, and donor event.
Charlie put me in that position at every major event
to make the ask.
To make the ask, to talk about why I'm a donor
and that I think all of you who are in this room
believe in the mission, and now it's time to write a check.
Right, and I'm good at that, you know,
I put my money where my mouth is.
So, but you were asking about why,
okay, why couldn't I overlook it?
It's because it's, you know, in the posters,
advertising, turning point, a mirror-faster, whatever.
There were lots of speakers.
Donald Trump's son was a speaker and various senators,
but right in the upper left corner for us
who was Charlie and next to him was Tucker Carlson.
And Tucker was a keynote speaker,
or maybe the keynote speaker.
So, you know, I can overlook it.
You know, there are people with different views
and a lot of things, you know, they hate Jews.
You know, if it's one out of, you know,
30 other people who were on this poster,
but he was, he was a key element in these presentations
and that's what did it for me.
That's what did it for me.
And not only me, other donors too.
I mean, I got, I was in contact,
mainly they contacted me and told me that they, you know,
that they were very upset and didn't understand it
and didn't see it getting any better.
That's the problem, didn't see it getting any better.
We know a guy in Texas who is a billionaire or close to it
and we got wind of this because the message
from turning point was our donors are pulling out,
you need to up your donations.
So they were pitching other donors to make it up.
And so, you know, at the time,
we were very much on the outside,
but this is very intriguing to hear this rumbling going on.
I don't know if you remember,
but you sent me what turned out to be a very ill-timed text.
It was actually like a day or two before Charlie was assassinated
and you were like, I'm done, I'm out.
I'm not gonna give them another penny.
And then of course, obviously you and I,
we have knowing this two days later,
or Charlie is shot, he's killed
and then you immediately sent me a text going,
I feel horrible, you said me something basically saying,
you realized that this was something
that you had sent right before.
And what do you make of all the questions?
Now, he was a wonderful person.
I have to tell you, really impressive.
I mean, it's rare for me to give this kind of money
to any particular organization, there are a few,
but in his presentations, he didn't have notes.
He had such a memory for the details
and he'd go through what he promised last year
and how they did on those promises.
And these were two or three hour presentations that he would make.
And they were exciting, you know,
they were interspersed with videos of what his groups were doing,
whether it was turning point faith or blackset or this or that.
And it was just, he was a very impressive individual.
And I thought a good Christian.
And, you know, I admire Christians
and I support Christian organizations.
So you had no problem as a Jew giving money
to you, or to Charlie as a Christian,
or even turning point faith,
which was quite openly in a sense advocating.
Charlie was surrounded with pastor,
and you didn't mind any of that.
I loved it because it was all pro-America, you know?
And he had these different groups
and it's important to have all these different groups
that have a slightly different focus.
So he had this turning point faith, which I loved.
And I think probably some of my donations
were targeted to turning point faith.
Yeah.
What do you make of the, you know, the cheers Charlie,
he's assassinated.
The assassin is turned in by his own family.
Right.
He's connected with this kind of trans network.
Lately a lot of these acts of violence are by trans.
Have some trans.
Yeah, yeah, we shouldn't make guns illegal.
We should make trans illegal.
Yeah.
And so this is what baffles me, right?
Because you have here these violent networks.
And by the way, some of them do military training.
There's an antifa side to what these trans activists do.
And yet, just as we're closing in on a public,
like Xpoze of the whole thing,
and of course a trial of this guy, the shooter,
we now have these conspiracy theories
brewing on the right that, well, some of them,
it was Mossad, it's the Egyptian planes.
It is, it is, you know, it's Macron.
You haven't heard about, no, no, there's an element
of the Macron's or there's a French legion,
military connection.
I mean, 99% of this is coming from Candace,
who has essentially made a, maybe not a career,
but certainly a portfolio of conspiracy.
Well, I call it the Candace Intelligence Agency.
There's new CIA.
If she's like, I, me and my followers
are going to investigate and bust open and reveal
who the true killers are.
And she's saying, I'm not saying it isn't this guy.
I'm simply saying that it's a much wider, yeah,
I'm going to expose the people, be, what do you make of all this?
It doesn't seem like you follow it all that closely.
Thank goodness.
I don't, you know, I have other things to do,
more productive things to do with my day.
But I know people who follow it closely
and the only thing I can make of it is that, you know,
the technology has given everybody a microphone.
Everybody has a microphone.
And the more radical you are, the more people
are going to pay attention to you,
even to argue with you.
And that's such a mistake.
If you don't believe in what somebody's saying,
just turn the channel.
Don't send another text to them
or to tell your friends about why he or she is wrong.
Just ignore it, ignore it all.
It's noise and Candace must have something.
Seriously, and I knew Candace way back when her first job,
as I believe was with the David Harwoods Freedom Center.
He gave her the start.
He gave her the start.
And from there, I think she went to Prager.
For a while, she was at Prager University.
And from there, she went to Ben Shapiro
and Ben finally had a fire her because she became,
I think, anti-ajouhater during that period.
So these are Jews who gave her the start at David Harwoods,
Dennis Prager and Ben Shapiro, all Jews.
And she was a nobody.
She was a nobody.
Earlier, you described yourself as a Zionist.
And we seem to be in an atmosphere today
where particularly among young people,
there's the sense that sort of,
that American Jews who are Zionists
are putting Israel first,
or that Israel is controlling America,
or that APAC, the American Israel Public Election Committee,
is a foreign front that needs to register
under the Foreign Agents Act.
What do you make of all of this?
And how do you address it?
This idea that sort of your interests
are not America first, they're Israel first.
Well, I live in America.
America gave me this opportunity
and it is the best finest country in the world.
And at the same time, I believe that Israel has a right
to exist, the history as shown by some of your movies,
as a matter of fact, prove that the archaeology proves
that the Jews were there first.
Okay, they are the inherent,
the original inhabitants of the land.
And so I think it's important for Jews
to have their own country.
There are 52, I think maybe it's more,
52 Islamic countries in the world.
Don't the Jews, shouldn't the Jews have one?
And even though it's a country that's run by Jews
and for Jews, everyone has the same rights.
It's the only place in the Middle East
where Muslims can practice their faith,
Christians can practice their faith,
and Jews can, or Hindus, whoever.
The, there's, let's see, a strange sect in,
I think it's in Tel Aviv, I won't forget about that,
but they have the right to practice their faith,
and that's not how I, whatever it is.
So it's the only country where you have freedom of religion,
right, of all faiths, any faith.
And it's a very special thing,
but the country is, that border it, don't believe in that,
and they want to destroy Israel.
So when I say I'm a Zionist,
I'm in favor of there being a country for the Jews,
for the Jews.
And what you're saying is that I can be,
I can be America first, I can be pro-American
with an allegiance to America.
And I don't think that the interests of Israel
conflict with that at all.
Matter of fact, Israel comes closest
to the American ethics of freedom and democracy
and open free enterprise.
It comes the closest to America.
So of course, I wanted to exist.
I would like every country to be as free as Israel is.
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I'm in Israel and Jerusalem.
In fact, in the very futuristic TBN studios here in Jerusalem.
And I wanted to interview not just someone
who is in the IDF, the Israel Defense Forces,
but a Christian who has served in the IDF.
And today we have one.
It is Ethan Heading.
Ethan, what's a nice Christian boy doing
in the military services of a Jewish state?
So I was in the IDF between April 2022 until December 2024.
So it went over that period of October 7, 2023.
The largest loss of life to the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
As a Christian going in, I never knew
that I would find myself in that situation.
I certainly didn't expect that at the age of 21,
after having done university and started my career,
that I would actually want to draft.
But I felt obligated.
Not only is a Christian, theologically,
but also because of my family and my family's values,
my family come from South Africa originally.
We were exiled in 1986 because my grandfather preached against a partate
and the system of government there.
And the only, one of the few countries that still had relations
where South Africa at the time was Israel.
Let's slow down and follow this a little closely.
So your grandfather was a pastor.
That's right.
And he was a pastor in the assemblies of God.
Yeah.
And did you, did he mainly have a white church or a black church?
It was mixed.
It was a mixed church.
But he was a critic of apartheid.
That's right.
And they threw him out.
They threw him out.
And why Israel?
Israel at the time had great relations with South Africa,
as well as Taiwan.
And South Africa was under international condemnation
for the system of government, of course, segregation.
That only really came to close in 1995, 1994.
And so they either had the option of going into an internment camp
or leaving and going to Israel, which is certainly not as developed
as it is today at that time.
And it's an important story for me because while I still retain
and fully believe in my Christian values that have come down,
three generations now, it's guided my life principles.
And I felt it was extremely important for me
as a Christian to join the idea.
Because in an actual fact, we have so much in common
with the Jewish people as Christians.
We have the similar values.
We base half our book, the Old Testament is, of course,
the Tanakh, the main source of Jewish life
and belief.
And so I woke up one day and I felt that I needed to join.
And so I volunteered.
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Are there Christians in the IDF?
Or the only one?
No, there's about every year 200 to 300 volunteers.
The majority of them are Greek Orthodox Christians.
That's an interesting statistic.
It's about 70% of Christian volunteers
are Greek Orthodox.
And the rest are generally Messianic Jews,
so Jews that believe that Jesus is Messiah.
Or in my case, just regular old Protestants
that are Christians, Ionists.
Now I've seen these young people in the Israeli military
and it's always a little bit startling
because we think of seasoned IDF commandos
and a lot of these young people are 19.
And they're kids, really.
And in your case, there's mandatory military service
but you volunteered.
You chose to go into the military
and your reason was what?
My reason was that there is no greater state on the planet.
State on the planet.
There better protects my rights and my freedoms
as a Christian and my community
to practice my religion freely than the state of Israel.
There are two main events that have affected
and changed the way the Middle East is understood
to Christians in the area.
And that is ISIS in 2014.
At the turn of the century,
the Christians made up around 20% of the Middle East population.
Today that number is 5%.
A lot of that was at the hands of Sunni Islamic jihadist groups
such as Al-Qaeda and Daesh or ISIS
that illuminated millions of ethnic Christians
such as Assyrian Christians or AMAX from Iraq and Syria.
Today, there's about 16 million Christians in the Middle East,
eight million of which are thereabouts are Coptics in Egypt.
But Israel also has a very sizable population.
We have about 190,000 that is the only Christian population
in the Middle East that is actually growing,
not declining, which is contrary to the trend.
And that is because we enjoy the rights.
That if we look around us,
are being taken away by other Christians,
if we see what's going on in Syria,
Northeast Syria at the moment,
with the collapse of the autonomous region,
Kurdish region, Anis,
we see that you actually have Islamic jihadist groups,
many of whom are ISIS, around 10,000 ISIS militants
that were in detainment camps,
have been overrunning the semi-autonomous region,
which has been populated by some of the oldest Christian
communities since the time of Jesus.
These are Christians that have participated
in their political life there.
They have their own Christian militias.
And so as a Christian who finds himself in Israel,
I understood very, very quickly
that if I want to defend my freedoms
and my churches, which many Christians come and visit yearly,
I understand that I have to defend the state that protects them.
So you're saying that Israel is an island of freedom,
of religious freedom in the sea of repression?
Yeah. Contrary to Taco Carlson,
who says that Qatar instead is that religious freedom
haven't, I would beg to differ,
because here you have Christians that since October 7th
are actually turning towards Israel,
the IDF reports that volunteer numbers
have actually tripled within the Christian community here,
because young Christians, my age and below,
understand what's at stake.
On October 7th, Hamas didn't just kill Jews.
They killed Sunni Muslims.
They killed Thai workers.
And they indiscriminately killed Christians
who they, for all they cared were Jews, they didn't care.
And so we have understood on October 7th
that radical Islam doesn't discriminate.
It goes after every system of government
that is contrary to Sharia law.
It's indiscriminately hostile.
That's correct.
And you're saying and you can assure us
that as based on your own experience
over a lifetime and your family,
that as a Christian, you're perfectly safe
and free to practice your faith in Israel unmolisted.
Sunday's a working day.
To us, that's our day of Sabbath.
But while I was in the army, my commanders
from the lieutenant, all the way up
to the Brigadier General level, understood and made sure
that at 4 p.m., every day, on a Sunday,
I was able to go to church and worship freely unmolisted
without fail.
Christmas, Easter.
The, all of the feasts that many,
perhaps do not have such a prominent meaning to us,
they insisted that I would not have my holidays changed
and that I could benefit from being able to celebrate
with my own community without fail.
As a Christian, you're saying that the IDF
is a force for good.
There's no doubt in my mind that Israel is not only a force
for good for the local believers in Israel,
but is changing the way that the Middle East itself is.
Is, we look at the Hamas, Israel war,
we eliminated the head of Khizbullah, Hassan Nasullah,
and destroying Khizbullah's command and control system
had a knock on effect where Khizbullah was no longer able
to prop up the Assad regime in Syria.
And as a result, the Free Syrian rebel army
was able to destroy the regime
and fundamentally push back Iranian influence.
And that is the direct result of Israeli intervention
and fighting for her people
and defending them no matter what.
It's part of what you're saying
that because radical Islam is such a threat
and is such a threat across such a wide region,
the fact that the IDF is almost single-handedly
battling these forces of radical Islam
and doing it very effectively
that Christians not only in Israel,
but in the entire region are in a certain sense
able to breathe more easily.
I think without a doubt that Christians within Israel
are able to breathe more easily.
I think when you start talking about Syria and Iraq
and Egypt, it becomes much more complicated
and that's not Israel's fault.
Israel does what it can with what it has,
but her power and her influence is limited contrary to
what many people and at least in the West like to inflate.
There are many different actors, both state and non-state,
that are vying for control all over the Middle East,
not just the United States.
And it's important that Israel does take a stand
which she has traditionally done,
especially in the Kurdish case,
Prime Minister Benjamin Danielle and Prime Minister Gideon Tsar
have been very clear from the start
that a Kurdish movement in Northeastern Syria
and Northwest Iraq is paramount to Israel's security
and pushing back Iranian and Turkish influence.
So Israel does try and exert and build networks of connection
and to support those people with humanitarian aid
with other means, but at the end of the day,
she can only do so much.
She doesn't have that type of capital
that other states might have.
What would you say to the argument that the Old Testament
is based on kind of an ethic of vengeance, an eye for an eye.
The New Testament is based upon an ethic of forgiveness,
of love, and that a Jewish state by definition
would follow the Jewish code,
which would be the eye for an eye,
and that this is not only un-Christian,
but kind of anti-Christian because it's not in the spirit
of the New Testament.
As a Christian, how do you think about the relationship
of the Old Testament and the New
and the seeming shift from an ethic of vengeance
to an ethic of forgiveness?
I'm not a theologian.
So perhaps I can't quote the exact scripture
but I read my Bible and I go to church
and I know that Jesus also said to feed my lamps.
And how do you interpret that?
I think that means that you can't also sit by
and watch the world go into flames
and say, well, it's somebody else's problem.
No one else is coming and this is the understanding
that as Christians in the Middle East,
we have come and we have paid a price for by blood
that there is contrary to many claims,
really, no other power in the Middle East
that is actively putting those sons and daughters
on the line, regardless of the fact
that 20% of Israel's population is Muslim Arab,
that 2% of the population is Christian.
Israel and the IDF does not discriminate
in who she defends.
You're saying the Jews are putting their lives
on the line to save Christian lives and Muslim lives?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
October 7th showed that Hamas or any Islamic
jihadist group that they're allied with,
like al-Qaeda or ISIS,
chose to soar to anybody that doesn't follow their ideology.
Christians are in that and I think Israel will pay
any price as we saw with all of the hostages,
the 253 hostages that we're taking on October 7th,
we will pay any price to protect our people,
dead or alive and we didn't discriminate
on if those hostages were believers in Christ,
were they atheists or were they Jews,
were they ultra-orthodox Jews,
there was no discrimination.
Ethan, you were right in the thick of things and by that,
I mean, you were in the intelligence services,
but in the combat aspect of it.
In other words, you weren't just sitting at a desk,
you were actively coordinating operations.
What would you say has the IDF done as much as it can,
as much as it should to minimize civilian casualties?
We have done what we can and then some.
The Palestinian Authority estimates
that 254,000 Palestinians in Gaza
have left and or been killed since October 7th.
So the majority of those are people
that voluntarily migrated outside of Israel,
outside of Gaza through Israel,
and we facilitated as a country
to move the gazons that didn't want to stay in the war zone.
So that's about 10% of the 2.2 million gazons
that supposedly stayed there since before October 7th.
And I think if that's a genocide and it's a very,
very poor one and it's not a genocide at all,
it's not ethnic cleansing.
You're saying 10% of the people left
and people do like to run away from war zones,
but are you saying that the population of Gaza
has not substantially shrunk apart from that?
Because presumably in the genocide,
if you start out with a million people,
you end up with half a million,
it's like where are the other half million?
But you're saying that the missing people are accounted for,
the vast majority of them chose to leave.
I'm not saying that the Palestinian Authority
is saying that, Ramallah is saying that.
So that's not an Israeli source.
And I'll tell you which population has declined
radically under Hamas and Gaza, and it's the Christian one.
When Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2007
and gave all of Gaza City and the surrounding settlements
to the Palestinian Authority,
there were 3,000 Christians there that had been there
since before the dawn of Islam.
Today, that number is maybe 500, 700.
And even before October 7th,
it was down to around 1,000 Christians.
And that had nothing to do with Israeli administration
or targeting of churches contrary to a lot of Western claims.
That's under Hamas Palestinian administered Gaza.
Did you watch that strange interview
that Taka Carlson did with the nun?
I sarcastically call of the nun with the moustache,
but the point here is that evidently,
the woman is the sister of George Stephanopoulos.
She's related to George Stephanopoulos in any event.
And she gave a picture of Christians tormented
and persecuted in Israel and Christians flourishing
in Gaza and in Muslim land.
And you're saying that that is the very opposite of the truth.
It's a very opposite of the truth.
And I'm not surprised Taka Carlson
would put such a mouthpiece of Hamas on his show.
I would say the opposite is fundamentally true.
You can go just down the road to the old city
and you can see the rain forest of churches
that exist there, Messianic, Greek Orthodox Catholic,
and Lincoln, it could not be further from the truth.
Ethan, thank you very much.
I really appreciate it.
Thank you.
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