What specific threats against Candace Owens were reported in 2025 and when did they occur?
Executive summary
Candace Owens was reported as the target of at least one criminal death-threat incident in 2025: a New Jersey man, Haim Braverman, pleaded guilty and was linked by prosecutors to a social-media video threatening Owens’s life in May 2025 [1] [2]. Later in 2025 Owens publicly advanced multiple unverified claims that she faced assassination plots tied to figures ranging from French officials to alleged conspirators connected to Charlie Kirk’s September 2025 killing; those broader allegations are documented in media coverage but remain unprosecuted and disputed [3] [4] [5].
1. A documented criminal threat in May 2025
Federal filings and reporting identify a concrete incident: Haim Braverman of Morris Plains, New Jersey, was prosecuted after posting a video in which, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he threatened Candace Owens’s life. Coverage in the Times of Israel and JTA reports that Braverman pleaded guilty and that a screenshot of the threatening video showed him wearing a kippah; his sentencing was scheduled for September 15, 2025 [1] [2].
2. How Owens and prosecutors described the May incident
Owens publicly said she was the victim in the Braverman case and that the FBI contacted her; reporting quotes her social-media posts saying her family “endured a series of attacks” after her Piers Morgan debate remarks [1] [2]. The JTA and Times of Israel pieces tie the threat to comments Owens made about Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson and place the arrest and guilty plea in mid‑May 2025 [1] [2].
3. Additional claims by Owens that attracted wider attention
Beyond the Braverman prosecution, Owens circulated a string of broader, high‑profile accusations later in 2025. She alleged threats and conspiracies related to the September 10, 2025, killing of Charlie Kirk—saying “threats were made” to Kirk during an alleged Hamptons “intervention” involving Bill Ackman and others, and later advancing claims linking French officials and the Macrons to plots against her and to Kirk’s death [6] [7] [8] [4] [3]. Media outlets reported her statements and the denials or disputes they generated from the people implicated [7] [8].
4. What the reporting shows — verified threats versus allegations
Reporting separates a prosecuted criminal threat (the Braverman case, May 2025) from Owens’s subsequent public allegations, which are largely unverified in available coverage. Major outlets cite her claims that Charlie Kirk warned of threats the day before his death and that associates or foreign actors were involved; those assertions prompted denials (for example, Bill Ackman called Owens’s Hamptons allegation slander) and have not been substantiated by prosecutors in the sources provided [9] [7] [8] [5]. Available sources do not mention criminal charges tied to Owens’s later claims about French officials or the larger conspiracies she advanced [3] [4].
5. How mainstream coverage responded and where disputes lie
News outlets documented Owens’s assertions and the reactions: some articles report her raising “conspiracy narratives” linking foreign governments to political violence, while others cover pushback from figures she accused and note lack of corroborating evidence in public records [10] [5] [11]. Reporting on the Ackman allegation records his public denial and characterization of her claims as slander [7] [8]. The Times of India and other outlets captured Owens suggesting a text from Charlie Kirk warning “They are going to kill me” the day before his shooting, but those are presented as her recounting rather than independently confirmed fact [9] [12].
6. Limitations, open questions and why precision matters
The only threat incident in these sources tied to criminal prosecution is Braverman’s May 2025 case; that is the factual anchor supported by court filings and multiple news reports [1] [2]. Owens’s subsequent, broader claims about assassination plots involving French officials, Bill Ackman, Egyptian operatives, or ties to Charlie Kirk’s murder are reported as allegations she made and as subjects of denials and legal counter‑claims; available reporting in these sources does not show prosecutions or independent verification of those latter claims [3] [4] [5]. Readers should differentiate confirmed legal developments from public accusations and weigh denials and the absence of corroboration accordingly.
If you want, I can assemble a timeline strictly listing dates and source citations for each reported claim and the official Braverman case.