Since 2021,
I've been living through what has increasingly been a horrendous divorce.
So if you're familiar with the idea of extortion, then you know the feeling well.
Now, some of these threats were so thinly veiled that I'm
frankly surprised you didn't all guess immediately.
>> Stephen has a lot going on.
Stephen Crowder is now accusing Candace Owens of extortion, and
Candace Owens has absolutely flipped out over those accusations,
which we will get to in just a moment.
But first, let's catch you up in case you missed some of this
ongoing drama, which seems to be increasing even more.
>> Many other people knew about this behind the scenes.
Some, not all, but some of them in positions of power,
influence, leverage, knew of this.
They also knew that the safety of my children included keeping it private.
So if you're familiar with the idea of extortion, then you know the feeling well.
Now, some of these threats were so thinly veiled that I'm
frankly surprised you didn't all guess immediately.
>> Stephen has a lot going on.
I guess it's the best way to say it.
He has a lot going on and that should be clear because people don't do stuff like
this if there's not a lot going on in their lives.
I would like to implore my audience and everybody that isn't paying attention
to this situation not to condemn him, but to pray for him.
Maybe if I feel in further defense, some things should be said.
Or maybe if I feel that the public has a right to understand certain circumstances.
>> And I will continue to do whatever is necessary to protect my children.
Discussing a divorce any further on social media or on this show or
in any public space is not what's best for them.
I'll be handling this through the proper legal avenues and
channels available as a matter of record in which I have more than full confidence.
So I'd ask that you understand the need for and respect our privacy and
what is obviously a pretty tough time.
>> To go back really quickly and
refresh you on what happened in the lead up to this whole drama.
In his video, Stephen Crowder had insisted that this is a slave contract.
The one that was offered to him by The Daily Wire, to the tune,
by the way, of $50 million over four years.
Okay, so he felt that that contract was a slave contract because,
first of all, it wasn't even a contract, okay?
What The Daily Wire had sent him, I forget what the exact wording is,
but it's like the first offer in a negotiation.
And in that offer, there were some elements that indicated that if
Stephen Crowder's content gets demonetized.
Which would mean that The Daily Wire would take a hit because of his
content being demonetized.
Well, then Stephen Crowder would be penalized for
that because of that penalty, that potential penalty,
if he would get demonetized, Crowder thought that it was a slave contract.
Then other Daily Wire people got involved, including Candace Owens.
They went back and forth, and Candace Owens, in her video response to
Crowder at the time, hinted that Crowder has something going on.
He's hiding something from the public.
She kind of threatened to out him on that.
And you can speculate as to what he's trying to hide, but
in this latest video that he put out today, he is making it appear as though it
just has to do with this divorce that he is now going through with his wife.
So, Cenk, what are your thougts?
>> I can't wait to adjudicate.
All right, so first off, I love this right wing food fight.
So, hey, look, it's not just the left that rips each other apart.
Okay, great, happy to see the right wing doing it.
So who's at fault?
Well, they're both at fault.
They're right wingers.
They're both gonna do terribly dirty things, right and they did.
So Crowder started the whole fight by saying that a perfectly great $50
million contract was horrible.
He recorded calls secretly.
These were supposed to be his friends and allies.
And then he leaked the call.
He didn't leak the calls, he just played the calls.
He's calling them slave masters when they were offering him a $50 million.
He was 100% wrong in that context, right?
And you know me I'm not gonna defend the Daily Wire of Candace Owens for sure.
So then Candace Owens comes in, and of course she's dirty.
So she insinuates that I thought she was insinuating that he cheated on
his wife because he was supposed to be a good christian.
You might find out that he wasn't a good christian.
>> That's what you thought she was referring to?
>> Yeah.
>> I thought she was trying to.
Look, we've talked about this before, but
Stephen Crowder seems to have an affinity for cross dressing,
which I don't have a problem with whatsoever, but he seems to like it a lot.
And he's a conservative who has the so
called conservative values that's against transgender people drag queens.
You get what I'm saying?
>> I do, okay but
there's no question that Candace Owens was insinuating something bad.
>> Something nefarious.
>> You're right. And now if he's an actual cross dresser,
we don't think that's bad, but they do, right.
So Candace definitely took a massive shot back at Crowder, for sure.
But was it extortion?
No, she didn't say, unless you do X, Y or Z,
I'm gonna go to the police or I'm gonna do this or that.
No, people throw around this word extortion, and
they're not at all careful with it.
So I think it's totally BS that it was-.
>> Unless there is something-.
>> Unless there's something behind this yet
>> Exactly, there could be
some communication behind the scenes that we're not privy to yet.
We'll see how this develops but I do want to go to Candace Owens and
her insane reaction to all of this.
She doesn't take well to being accused of anything.
But I also want to remind you that when Jesse Single, a journalist,
reached out to her for comment on a story that he was working on.
She immediately responded by accusing him of engaging in misconduct that makes women
uncomfortable without providing a shred of evidence.
We had talked about that on the show before.
>> Yeah, they're both supernova toxic, right?
The minute you touch them, they turn on you and
say the most toxic sludge you could ever imagine.
And the thing is, they're both so dirty that you would believe anything about them
except when it comes from the other person, because they're all massive liars.
>> So when that video of Stephen Crowder was posted
on Twitter by an account that goes by Anomaly,
Candace Owens responded to it with fully Looney Tunes.
I would end it there but she, of course, couldn't help herself.
So she continued, Stephen Crowder accusing me of extortion is so
patently insane that it honestly makes me question
how there are still people who cannot see how thoroughly undone he has become.
This is not stable behavior.
He is a man on a spiral, outright bizarre and concerning.
If you are going to use your children as human shields to block people from digging
further into your divorce, please do so without inserting me into the narrative.
>> Shut up, Candace.
You're the one who inserted yourself.
You did a video going, I wonder what's going on with Crowder.
>> So let me just say,
I think that the Daily Wire's response to Crowder was pretty good.
I think they handled it well until Candace got involved.
>> Yeah, of course.
>> Candace took it because The Daily Wire had the high ground.
They offered the guy $50 million, and Crowder was treating it as if it was
a slave contract, like everyone was on their side.
And then you have Candace Owens come out and
honestly, she had an interview on Tim Poole show.
And my read of it I could be wrong.
This is just my perspective.
My read of it is based on what she said,
that she was hinting that Stephen Crowder is either bisexual or gay.
Okay, I don't know and I don't care, right?
But Crowder says in the beginning of the video that there was no infidelity in
the divorce.
Now I want to get to his video, right?
Because there's two parts of it that I thought were totally absurd.
So, first of all, he's going through a divorce.
My heart goes out to him.
My heart goes out to his kids.
That's normal, it happens all the time.
And in as much as these politics is so goddamn dirty, I wish people would leave
people's families out of it and we certainly do, okay?
But he went over the top and he said, look, you should respect my kids privacy.
Absolutely right.
>> Who's talking about your children?
No one's talking about my children. >> No,
that's the one part Candace is right about.
He is using the kids as a shield because if you leave it at privacy,
then everybody agrees, right?
But he said over and over again in the video and by kids safety wait,
I know it's not leftists.
There's no leftists who are threatening Stephen Crowder's kids.
That doesn't make any sense, right?
And I've never heard of that.
There's no such thing.
So are other right wingers threatened to harm your kids?
Because that would be a hell of a story.
Like, do you have anybody, Candace owns or otherwise,
who said I'm going to hurt your kids?
That would be a massive story.
My guess is you're lying and you're making it up,
no one threatened to harm your kids, that's my guess.
And if they did, by the way, and they're a leftist, I'll go attack them for
you, okay?
So that is unacceptable, but I think you're a total liar.
Okay, so now, the next thing is, and this is the super bizarre part he kept saying,
like in Texas, my wife wanted to divorce me and in Texas she's just allowed to.
>> Actually, I have to go to that video right now.
>> Yeah.
>> So we're going to skip ahead because it is shocking that he said this out loud.
>> It's unbelievable.
So let's go to this part of his lengthy video about the divorce.
>> There is no infidelity any kind of physical abuse at all on either side.
And no, this was not my choice.
My then wife decided that she didn't want to be married anymore.
And in the state of Texas, that is completely permitted.
And I still believe that children need a mom and
a dad and that divorce is horrible.
But in today's legal system, my beliefs don't matter.
In Texas, divorce is permitted when one party wants it, period.
I loved a woman so much that I married her.
A woman who, despite all of this, I still love as the mother of my children.
And she wanted something else for her life.
That's not my choice, she simply wanted out and
the law says that that's how it works.
Now, of course look, I get it there are multiple sides to every story.
But one thing that is undeniable in this case is that it's no one's fault but
my own in that I picked wrong.
And that's certainly not the fault of my children.
>> Super creepy.
Yeah, if one party no longer wants to be married, they can file for divorce.
That is how the system, in my opinion, should work.
You shouldn't be held captive in a marriage that makes you miserable and
unhappy.
>> Of course it's not your kids fault.
Who the hell is saying it's your kids fault?
But to the main point, what did you want to have her?
Did you want to kidnap her and make sure she couldn't leave the marriage?
>> Yeah.
>> That's super weird.
>> Sounds like it. >> Yeah,
if she wants to leave you know you have to let her leave, right?
What's the alternative?
Do we tie her up in your house?
Do you not let someone get divorced when they say,
I don't want to be with this person anymore?
They can't get divorced, that's the alternative.
They can't get divorced and they must listen to be their husband's captive or
something?
No, we don't agree to that at all.
That's crazy talk, guys look, Crowder, there's nothing wrong with a divorce.
And it's throughout the video he's acting like it was a national tragedy.
So you got divorced along with, like, 50% of other Americans.
So what?
It's not that.
Look, it happens.
We're not the ones blaming you for it, I don't get it.
Why are you so, you're personally torn up about your divorce?
That makes sense, right?
But he's treating it like he committed a crime.
Brother divorce is a divorce, you didn't do anything wrong.
I don't know why all the drama?
So my point, Ana, is I can't tell if all of this nonsense
drama is over a simple divorce that no one objects to, right?
Or is he still hiding something and he's pretending it's?
>> Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know, that might be the case I have no idea.
I will say this is a legitimate question that isn't just about Stephen Crowder,
but as public figures do we have a responsibility or
obligation to share elements of our personal lives with our audience?
If I'm going through something with my husband,
I'm not reporting it to you guys, ever, ever.
>> No, but to be fair to Crowder,
in this case Candace Owen is the one that brought it up.
>> Sure.
>> Right, then you're forced to respond.
You know how that works, right?
People attack us all the time, and then you're forced to respond.
Then when you respond, people are like, how dare you respond?
You're like, what am I supposed to do, right?
>> Yeah.
>> But in this case, Crowder remember started everything.
>> Yeah, and I got to say, Candace going after someone that she doesn't like,
someone that she doesn't agree with,
going after their personal lives is particularly disgusting.
Nonetheless, she did talk about this on her show, final video,
final element to this, for now at least.
Let's hear what she had to say.
>> I then went onto my platform and I said, pray for Stephen Crowder, honestly,
because that's what he needs, needs a prayer.
And apparently nobody's answering those prayers right now because he's
still acting erratic.
He's now upping the ante and suggesting that I extorted him.
I will not take that lightly, okay?
I am not Hillary Crowder.
I am not anybody in his family.
I am not going to take somebody going onto his platform and alleging that I either
harassed, threatened, or did anything that would put his children at risk.
That is very serious stuff that he is saying.
And so what I did this morning after this clip was sent to me is I contacted
a defamation lawyer and I am sending Stephen Crowder a cease and desist.
And I'm going to demand a full throated retraction to the idea
that Candace Owens threatened him or extorted him.
>> She wants a full throated retraction?
>> Yeah, look, what I can't stand about this drama is both of them pretending
that they're so innocent, right?
Like as if Candace Owens just got attacked for no reason.
She's just minding her business and then Crowder comes and attacks.
No, you're the one who insinuated terrible things about him without saying it.
You know what you did.
Now I don't think it's extortion, right?
But really, you're going to sue him for defamation?
>> Yeah.
>> Come on.
And the degree to which Candace owns has defamed other people and
now she's catching feelings because somebody criticized her.
>> It's pretty incredible.
>> No, both of them are like, golly, T, I'm so innocent.
When one of them is like, I'll show you what I secretly recorded with my friends
and I will call them slave owners.
Another one's like, I bet he's gay or cheating on his wife or something, right?
And then they were like, my God, I'm so innocent.
How did I get stuck in this?
>> And what set Candace Owens off was Crowder's fans,
like constantly asking her if she's locked into a slave contract, right?
And it's like she caught feelings over that.
It's like, listen, people are going to try to stir the pot no matter what.
She doesn't have it in her to just ignore that, right?
>> No, they're going to rip into-. >> So she gives into and
takes the bait from people trying to stir the pot.
So that's what kind of sparked the feud and it's gonna keep going, I guess.
>> Yeah, look, here's the moral of the story.
First of all, if you're in media or politics at all, be careful.
It's a nest of vipers, okay?
>> 1000%.
>> Second of all, if you're on the right wing side, they're legendarily vipers.
They will betray you for the slightest profit.
And it doesn't go against their principles when the left tears each other down,
it goes against their stated principles of working together,
helping someone they don't know, etc.
And it's more hypocritical when the right does it, it's not even hypocritical,
they're like, we're the bad guys if you trust us, you're idiots.
So right wing pundits stabbing each other in the back is Tuesday.
And so now we're seeing it in spectacular fashion here.
So who's right?
Who's wrong?
As usual with these two, they're both wrong.