The ongoing MAGA civil war sparked in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing reached new heights after a pastor speaking at an official Turning Point USA event labeled right-wing influencer Candace Owens as “demonic” and “evil,” Sing of the Cross Media founder John-Henry Westen reported Thursday.

Shared on Thursday, the comments were made by John Amanchukwu Sr., a right-wing preacher and activist, while speaking at a Turning Point USA event at Washington State. Amanchukwu was attacking Owen for her reporting on Kirk, reporting that revealed the Turning Point USA founder had grown disillusioned with the state of Israel before his assasination.

“Candace Owens [is] spending her time trying to tear down the legacy of Charlie Kirk, fighting against Erika Kirk, his wife! I mean, you have to be cruel and demonic to insinuate the things that she has insinuated over the past several weeks,” Amanchukwu said.

“It’s evil! It’s corrupt, it should not take place, she sounds like a jaded person who wishes they were in the role that Charlie Kirk’s wife is in, but she isn’t, and so therefore, she seeks to tear down his legacy. At some point, her husband’s got to walk into that podcast room and start unplugging cords! I mean by now, I would have already done it if it was my wife!”

Owens responded to the remarks Thursday evening, mocking an earlier comment of Amanchukwu’s in which he asked the audience to “clap.”

“‘God wants you to CLAP for me,’” Owens wrote in a social media post on X, alongside a clown emoji, mocking the pastor’s comments.

Owens revealed text messages that showed Kirk – two days before he was killed – vowed to “leave the pro Israel cause,” an alleged message that backed up her previous reporting that Kirk had grown disillusioned with Israel. Turning Point USA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet would later confirm the messages as “authentic.”

However, Owens has gone far beyond her suggestions that Kirk’s support of Israel was waning, and has

suggested

, without evidence, that Israel may have played a role in Kirk’s assassination, a claim that spread far enough to reach Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called the allegation “

insane

.”