Candace Owens Screws Up Time Zones While Promoting Latest Charlie Kirk Conspiracy

Far-right commentator Candace Owens’s latest attempt at promoting a conspiracy theory about the murder of Charlie Kirk was undermined by her own confusion over time zones.

In a series of Saturday evening tweets on X, Owens wrote:

BREAKING NEWS!

On September 10th, after Charlie’s assasination [sic], an Egyptian Air Force plane flew out of Provo, Utah. Tail number: SU-BTT It’s first trip to America EVER was made on July 20t—to an army base in Nebraska.

Tyler Robinson must have had some powerful friends!

With all we have crowdsourced, it looks like a decision to murder Charlie Kirk in Utah was made around July 18th.

A military meeting with foreign leaders took place on July 20th on U.S soil.

The plane flew into Provo direct from France on September 4th and stayed until just after Charlie was assassinated— flying out to Wilmington on that day.

The plane returned home to Egypt the following day on September 11th.

We now need to reexamine which foreign leaders were in the United States during this approximate time frame, or what happened in the news leading up to this that may have led to someone calling for his murder.

After one commenter said that they didn’t “see how this is connected to Robinson,” the alleged shooter, and asked Owens to “explain this connection to ppl as if we are all 5,” Owens replied: “That was sarcasm. Clearly this was not a lone shooter scenario. It was a military operation.”

As a Community Note now affixed to Owens’s original post notes, though, the plane in question actually departed Provo at 7 a.m. local time, well before Kirk was assassinated later that afternoon.

Other observers pointed out that Owens’s error was likely due to an erroneous assumption that UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) meant something approximating “Utah time.”

Owens has promoted a number of conspiracy theories in the wake of Kirk’s death, one of which was based upon a supposed dream in which the late conservative activist visited her and told her “that he was betrayed.”