Bill Ackman denies Candace Owens’ claim he staged – Business News
Bill Ackman fired back Thursday in opposition to claims from political commentator Candace Owens that he orchestrated an “intervention” with Charlie Kirk over Kirk’s stance on Israel — together with allegations of threats and blackmail.
The billionaire founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, posted a prolonged message on X on Tuesday aiming to rebut claims made by Owens and others that he sought to influence Kirk to undertake a more pro-Israel stance during a Hamptons assembly a month earlier than his assassination final Wednesday.
According to Ackman, Owens “slandered me by accusing me of ‘staging an intervention’ with Charlie Kirk in which ‘threats were made’ with respect to his supposed ‘evolving stance’ on Israel at an event I hosted in the Hamptons.”
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman fired back Thursday in opposition to claims from political commentator Candace Owens. REUTERS
Ackman posted a prolonged touch upon X denying claims made by Owens.
“Candace also intimated that I ‘blackmail[ed]’ Charlie,” Ackman wrote on Tuesday.
Ackman wrote that “at no time have I ever threatened Charlie Kirk, Turning Point or anyone associated with him.”
“I have never blackmailed anyone, let alone Charlie Kirk,” Ackman wrote.
Ackman wrote that he “never offered Charlie or Turning Point any money in an attempt to influence Charlie’s opinion on anything.”
“In fact, my interactions with Charlie Kirk have been extremely cordial, albeit limited, regretfully so, as I was very impressed by him and his work and I will sadly never see him again.”
Owens (pictured) “slandered me by accusing me of ‘staging an intervention’ with Charlie Kirk, Ackman wrote.
Ackman was responding to a clip of Owens from her podcast during which she claimed on Monday that Kirk was beneath “increasing amount of pressure” from pro-Israel teams and donors to silence dissenting voices, even declining important funding and an “intervention” orchestrated by Ackman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Owens cited a report on the far-left information website Grayzone, the place stridently anti-Israel journalist Max Blumenthal wrote that Ackman staged a tense “intervention” within the Hamptons this summer time the place he and pro-Israel operatives allegedly “hammered” Kirk over his criticism of Israel.
According to 1 attendee who spoke to Grayzone, Natasha Hausdorff of UK Lawyers for Israel was “screaming” at Kirk during the Hamptons assembly.
Sources instructed the outlet Ackman pressed Kirk to rescind Tucker Carlson’s AmericaFest invite, introduced him with a record of “offenses” in opposition to Israel and left him feeling subjected to “blackmail.”
Ackman has flatly denied the claims, calling them “totally false” and including, “this was not an ‘intervention’ to ‘blackmail’ Charlie Kirk into adopting certain views on Israel.”
A report in a far-left information website claims that Kirk (pictured moments earlier than he was assassinated final Wednesday in Utah) was subjected to threats from pro-Israel figures. AP
Prior to his assassination final week, Kirk made a number of public feedback about Israel. While he was typically supportive of the Jewish state, Kirk often pushed back in opposition to what he noticed as extreme makes an attempt to silence critics of Israel within the US.
Kirk was generally pissed off with the fixed strain and scrutiny about his views on Israel, particularly from each critics and donors.
Kirk mentioned he obtained flack for permitting Dave Smith, a libertarian stand-up comedian and frequent critic of Israel, to look on the current Turning Point USA pupil summit, the place he denounced the Israeli conflict in Gaza.
Kirk’s feedback about Israel and the criticism he obtained for inviting Smith sparked theories on social media insinuating an Israeli position in his homicide, although no proof has surfaced to assist any hyperlink.
Tyler Robinson, 22, was taken into custody by law enforcement officers in Utah. AP
Law enforcement officers arrested Tyler Robinson, 22, of Utah, who’s alleged to have killed Kirk.
A current report by the Anti-Defamation League discovered more than 10,000 posts on X linking Kirk’s killing to Israel.
After Kirk was fatally shot during a Turning Point occasion at a college in Utah final week, Netanyahu mourned Kirk as a “lion-hearted friend of Israel.”
In his X post on Tuesday, Ackman revealed that Kirk instructed him on a Zoom call earlier this 12 months that “young conservatives were getting tired of defending Israel, and this was very concerning to him.”
The Post has sought remark from TPUSA, the Israeli authorities and Hausdorff.
