Ben Shapiro

Role

Co-founder, Daily Wire

Affiliation

Daily Wire

Bio Notes

Per Candace Owens' own account (Dec 2025), was 'an adversary' of Charlie Kirk who 'worked against them behind the scenes,' despite public conservative-movement alliance. Daily Wire/TPUSA have a documented institutional tie (co-produced 'Identity Crisis' 2025 documentary). Real, independently-documented public rupture at TPUSA's AmericaFest: a Groyper confronted Shapiro on stage over the 1967 USS Liberty attack (Israel's attack on a US Navy ship), crowd booed him repeatedly; Shapiro separately 'slammed' Candace Owens at the same event — outlets (The Bulwark) described it as exposing 'a growing civil war inside conservative media.' Harper's/Andrew Cockburn (Jan 2026) separately documented Kirk's own post-Oct-7-2023 drift away from unconditional pro-Israel positioning.