Candace Owens Is Out at the Daily Wire, CEO Announces

Conservative commentator Candace Owens parted with the Daily Wire, the outlet’s CEO announced on Friday.
On Friday, Ms. Owens responded to tabloid reports that she was leaving the Daily Wire by saying that “the rumors are true—I am finally free.”
“There will be many announcements in the weeks to come,“ she wrote on X, adding that fans should visit her website to ”support my work“ or donate. The commentator said she would return to YouTube ”after a brief hiatus,” without any more details.
Her departure from the news outlet comes months after she publicly feuded with Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro on social media weeks after the start the Israel–Hamas war, disagreeing on several points. At one point last year, Mr. Shapiro told Ms. Owens on X: “By all means, quit.”
“In my current capacity, I cannot fire Candace Owens,” he said in November, adding that her job was “secure.” “That’s something Ben and I have in common since he is also not an executive in the company and cannot hire or fire people.”
He added: “But even if we could, we would not fire Candace because of another thing we have in common—a desire not to regulate the speech of our hosts, even when we disagree with them.”
“What I do know is that everyone can see what you guys are doing to me. Your pattern is well established and the world is waking up to it. My crime is having stood up for myself against your network of smears,” she wrote back to the ADL on X.
“My crime, is that I do not believe that American taxpayers should have to pay for Israel’s wars or the wars of any other country. I will not change my mind. So the question is what will you do to me next? The world is watching,” Ms. Owens added on the platform on March 21.
“As I explained on Tucker Carlson’s show, like, Ben doesn’t have the power to fire me,” she added. “And it’s not even saying that we disagree on Israel and Palestine. I just think that he’s — obviously, his wife is Israeli. He spends a lot of time in Israel throughout the year. I think when you have an emotional attachment to some place, that sometimes your reaction to anything is going to be more extreme to it. You know?”
As of Friday, Mr. Shapiro, who is Jewish and a firm backer of Israel in the Hamas conflict, has not yet issued a statement on the matter on X, where he is usually very active.
Mr. Boreing’s statement on Friday did not make mention of her dispute with Mr. Shapiro or her opinions regarding the Israel–Hamas war.