She also speculated that the announcement was meant to distract from a recent interview in which a former Crowder employee accused Crowder of censoring him.Ĭrowder and Owens’ feud dates back to January, when Crowder went public with a job offer he’d received from Owens’ employer, The Daily Wire. Owens theorized that Crowder made his announcement now, after his once-ally Owen Benjamin leaked news of Crowder’s divorce this week. Which is obviously bullshit, but this is what Steven Crowder does. “He knew what people would discern from it, but now he's backtracking it privately by trying to make it seem like video made him feel like it could have been extortion. “So essentially he knew he was lying,” Owens alleged. “The family also released home surveillance footage of Crowder berating his ex-wife while she was heavily pregnant.” Crowder’s personal opinion of the specifically referenced type of misconduct.”Ī Crowder spokesperson did not return The Daily Beast’s request for comment. At most, he has merely opined comparatively the feeling of certain misconduct to his own present state of being Again, at most they are simply reminiscent in Mr.
Crowder’s opinions fall far short of any defamation. “His lawyer came back and basically said that my claims were not actionable because he was using the term ‘extortion’ as a feeling.” “I sent him a cease and desist based off his claims, which made it very clear that he was accusing me of extortion and heavily insinuating that something happened behind the scenes where I somehow threatened him and his child,” Owens told The Daily Beast. On Thursday, she said, she received a response from his lawyer stating that she did not have grounds for a defamation lawsuit. Owens has denied the extortion allegations, and told The Daily Beast she sent Crowder a cease-and-desist. “If you’re familiar with the idea of extortion, then you know the feeling well,” Crowder told his audience, going on to claim that “some other issues or inferences have been more pernicious behind the scenes with demands and threats to use this information, which they believe would be so publicly embarrassing to me and my wife in a difficult time that it could be used, knowingly putting my children in harm’s way.”
THE PROTEGE PLUS
Crowder played clips from a January episode of Owens’ show, in which Owens attributed a feud between Crowder and The Daily Wire to unspecified personal issues in Crowder’s life.Ĭrowder suggested that those comments, plus alleged behind-the-scenes attacks, amounted to extortion, and that Owens was threatening to leak information about his divorce. Crowder claimed he made the announcement in response to veiled threats from rivals on the right-namely Candace Owens, who hosts her own show on The Daily Wire. Right-wing shock jock Steven Crowder tossed a grenade into the conservative webshow world this week when he accused fellow pundit Candace Owens of trying to extort him with details of his divorce-a separation he blamed on his wife.ĭays later, Crowder is now on the back foot, with Crowder’s attorney reportedly rebuffing a cease-and-desist letter from Owens, and with Crowder’s ex-wife’s family releasing a statement accusing Crowder of emotional abuse.Ĭrowder, the host of the show Louder With Crowder, has been in divorce proceedings since 2021, he announced on his show on Tuesday.
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