Candace Owens out at Daily Wire

Conservative commentator Candace Owens will appear on the Daily Wire, the company announced Friday.

on social media post “The Daily Wire and Candace Owens have ended their relationship,” Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boling wrote on Platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

Boling declined to provide further details about what led to the separation. The Hill has reached out to The Daily Wire for additional comment.

Owens confirmed the news, write “The rumors are true – I’m finally free,” she wrote in her post.

Announcement will be made in a few weeks chatting Owens, one of the right’s most prominent commentators, and his relationship with the Daily Wire, a growing hub for conservative podcasts, streaming shows, and other forms of new media.

Owens has sparked a backlash for months for his comments about the United States’ role in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. statement About Jews in politics and media more generally.

Commentators said this week after the Anti-Defamation League highlighted the fact that white supremacist Nick Fuentes had praised Owens’ rhetoric against Jews. answered on X “I don’t know about Nick Fuentes, but you already know that.”

“What I know is that everyone can see what you guys are doing to me. Your pattern is established and the world is beginning to notice it. for standing up for myself against the network of slander,” she wrote to the ADL.

“My crime is that I don’t believe that American taxpayers should pay for Israel’s wars or any other nation’s wars. I’m not going to change my mind. So the question is: What are you going to do to me? The world is watching.”

Owens sparked criticism within the Daily Wire last fall, along with prominent host Ben Shapiro, who is Jewish. to call Her rhetoric about Israel and Hamas was “disgraceful.”

That gave me an opportunity to start bowling. problem The company issued a statement saying it would not fire Mr. Owens based on its “belief that we do not want to restrict the speech of hosts, even when we disagree with their opinions.”

“Candice is paid to give her opinion, not mine or Ben’s,” he wrote at the time. “As long as those opinions do not violate the law or she violates the terms of her contract in any way, her job is safe and she is welcome at the Daily Wire.”