Overview
- Ben Shapiro opened the conference by blasting Tucker Carlson for hosting Nick Fuentes and rebuking Candace Owens and Megyn Kelly over what he called conspiracism and cowardice.
- Carlson replied from the same stage, rejecting deplatforming, denying antisemitism, and dismissing talk of a conservative "civil war" as contrived.
- Megyn Kelly told the crowd she no longer considers Shapiro a friend and later accused CBS News chief Bari Weiss of exploiting Erika Kirk in a televised town hall.
- Steve Bannon escalated the fight by calling Shapiro "a cancer" and portraying the dispute as a proxy battle over Israel policy and 2028 positioning.
- Utah prosecutors have charged Tyler Robinson, 22, in Charlie Kirk’s killing and are seeking the death penalty, undercutting Candace Owens’ unverified claims of foreign involvement.