What specific threats against candace owens have been reported in 2024 and 2025?
Executive summary
In 2024–2025 reporting, the clearest documented threat against Candace Owens is a September 2024 video in which Haim Braverman, a New Jersey man, threatened to kill a named political commentator (later identified by Owens as herself), saying “I’ll give you the steel bat…I wouldn’t even stop. I’d kill you,” and pleading guilty to transmitting interstate threats in 2025 [1] [2] [3]. Other claims by Owens in 2025 allege wider plots and threats — including public accusations involving Emmanuel Macron and conspiratorial ties to Charlie Kirk’s death — but those broader allegations appear in opinionated coverage and Owens’s own statements rather than in the same kind of criminal filing that documents the Braverman threat [4] [5] [6].
1. The court-documented threat: a New Jersey man with a “steel bat” video
Federal filings describe a Sept. 2024 social-media video in which Haim Braverman, 47, of Morris Plains, New Jersey, held a steel bat and threatened to kill a political commentator by name, saying “I’ll give you the steel bat. I wouldn’t even stop. I’d kill you,” and “I’m threatening a death sentence.” Braverman later pleaded guilty to transmitting threats in interstate commerce; Owens publicly identified herself as the target after the plea [1] [2] [3].
2. The group-chat context and motive described by prosecutors
Prosecutors said Braverman was an administrator of an online messaging group called “Real Jewish,” and that the threats followed Owens’s September 2024 remarks in a televised debate about the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Reporting ties Braverman’s video and group messages to a motive linked to Owens’s comments about Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson [3] [7].
3. How Owens framed the incident publicly and what the reporting shows
Owens said she only learned Braverman’s name and the extent of the threats after the FBI’s disclosures in 2025; she characterized the attacks as led by “deranged zionists” following her debate with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach [2] [7]. Independent outlets (JTA, Times of Israel, Forward, Jewish Telegraphic Agency) cite the same federal complaint and the video description when reporting the criminal case [1] [3] [8].
4. Other allegations Owens has made in 2025: public claims vs. documented criminal threats
In 2025 Owens has amplified additional, more expansive claims — for example, asserting that foreign leaders (she has repeatedly named French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife) put a bounty on her and that international actors were tied to threats surrounding conservative figures. Those allegations primarily appear in Owens’s own statements and in tabloid/aggregate reporting; the provided sources do not show independent criminal filings or guilty pleas supporting those broader claims [4] [5]. Available sources do not mention criminal charges tied to the Macron allegations in the documents provided.
5. Claims tying threats to Charlie Kirk and subsequent reporting
After Charlie Kirk’s death in September 2025 (reported in later items in the collection), Owens made claims that threats had been made to Kirk before he was shot and that powerful figures pressured or threatened him — allegations that some outlets relayed and others pushed back on; Bill Ackman and others denied such accusations [9] [10] [11]. These Kirk-related narratives are distinct from the Braverman threat and, in the supplied reporting, are largely Owens’s assertions and third‑party denials rather than court-documented threats against Owens herself [10] [11].
6. What the record confirms and what it does not
The consolidated, document-based record in the supplied sources confirms one specific, prosecutable threat against a named commentator in a Sept. 2024 video by Haim Braverman, later pled to in federal court; Candace Owens identified herself as that commentator after the plea [1] [2] [3]. The supplied reporting records other public accusations made by Owens in 2025 alleging wider conspiracies and assassination plots (including mentions of Macron and links to Charlie Kirk’s death), but those claims in these sources are presented as Owens’s public allegations or as disputed reporting rather than as corroborated criminal charges [4] [5] [9].
7. Competing perspectives and potential agendas in coverage
Mainstream and Jewish‑community outlets (JTA, Times of Israel, Forward) emphasize the federal complaint and Braverman’s guilty plea, framing the episode as retaliation tied to Owens’s antisemitic remarks [1] [3] [8]. Conservative or sympathetic outlets (including some opinion pages and Owens’s own channels) frame her later claims about foreign plots and conspiracies as warnings and censorial suppression; the supplied sources show denials from those she has accused [11] [4]. Readers should note the actors’ motives: prosecutors rely on criminal evidence; Owens seeks public attention and frames threats as part of a political narrative; accused third parties have incentives to deny explosive allegations.
Limitations: the sources provided end at selective stories and do not include full court documents, the entirety of Owens’s statements, or follow-up investigations beyond those cited. If you want, I can pull direct excerpts from the federal complaint or compile a timeline of Owens’s public claims and the contemporaneous media responses using additional source material.