Unwrapping the Beef: What's Up With Tomi Lahren, Candace Owens, and All These Deleted Tweets?
PoliticsRight-wing ghouls with highlighter Tomi Lahren and Candace Owens were beefing on Twitter this week, and shit got really personal really quickly. So sad when bad things happen to good people, you know?
Here’s how it started: Lahren is vehemently opposed to the First Step Act, Congress’ super modest criminal justice reform bill, which is apparently why she got into a Twitter debate about it with another random person you do not know from right-wing media named CJ Pearson.
As this was happening, Candace Owens, Turning Point USA communications director and Kanye West bestie, butted in. In a now deleted tweet (of which there are several), Owens claimed Lahren didn’t even read the bill she was criticizing and accused her of plagiarizing:
Lahren wasn’t amused by the suggestion that she cannot read and also plagiarizes:
Owens then challenged Lahren to a debate about prison reform, but said it in a way that was not sincere or maybe was sincere, okay.
Owens also offered to challenge Lahren to a debate about abortion:
Lahren did not want to debate and got heated:
Uh oh! Time to take catch our breath:
Then Owens said Lahren was “playing the victim” and claimed she texted “nasty things” about her before the two ever met (please send us these texts):