Erika Kirk sat down for an in-person meeting with Candace Owens to address comments she’s made in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination. Tomi Lahren says she wouldn’t have taken the meeting.
While appearing on Fox News on Monday, Lahren said that she could understand why Erika Kirk would want to meet with Owens, “because she wants to put it to rest,” but said she wouldn’t have given Candace Owens the time of day.
“If I were her, I wouldn’t do the meeting,” Lahren said bluntly. “I wouldn’t give this other person any content because that’s what this person is going to use it for — content … You need content, and you need to use other people for your content because you’re a vulture! So I wouldn’t give that person any content. I would ignore them, and I would not feed the beast. Now, I understand wanting to do it and wanting to put it to rest, but I think it’s never going to be for some people because they will just continue, continue, continue to feed off that carcass. And I would hope that at some point it ends and some people would find some decency.
“But I think they’re making way too much money,” Lahren continued of Owens. “And that’s the unfortunate part about social media. There used to be a time in media where if you said horrible, disgusting things, you didn’t have much of a platform anymore because nobody would touch you. But then social media happened and YouTube happened, and suddenly you can say awful, horrible things and you can still have an audience and you could make a lot of money.”
Tomi Lahren concluded by saying that it’s “really disgusting” that Owens could profit from her comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Lahren’s comments came in advance of both Erika Kirk and Candace Owens calling their meeting — which Owens revealed lasted for 4.5 hours — “extremely productive.”
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