Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk has reached her “breaking point” over the conspiracy theories circulating about the assassination of her husband, TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk.

Kirk torched conspiracy theorists on Wednesday in an appearance on Fox News while promoting her late husband’s posthumously published book, “Stop In The Name Of God.” She addressed rumors about her, her friends, and her organization, saying that empty hypothesizing has led to a torrent of death threats and harassment against them.

“Call me what you want, go down that rabbit hole, whatever. But when you go after my family, my Turning Point USA family, my ‘Charlie Kirk Show’ family, when you go after the people that I love and you’re making hundreds and thousands of dollars every single episode going after the people that I love, because somehow they’re in on this? No,” said Kirk.

“This is righteous anger, because this is not okay. It’s not healthy. This is a mind virus,” she added.

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Kirk and Turning Point USA have been the center of conspiracy theories since Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking at a Utah college in September. The conspiracists have heaped suspicion on a number of Charlie’s closest friends and family members, including Erika. Kirk said on Wednesday that even her jewelry, which she has dubbed the “conspiracy collection,” has become a topic of debate.

Despite the suspicion cast upon her and Turning Point, Kirk says she has compassion for the conspiracists.

“You know what I thought? I thought, these people are human, we’re all grieving in our own way, and they are trying to find the answer to something that happened that was so evil. They are trying so hard, and I get that. We’re doing the same.”

But the conspiracies and scrutiny have become too much for many of the people at Turning Point.

“My team are not machines and they’re not robots. They are human. We have more death threats on our team and our side than I have ever seen. I have kidnapping threats. You name it, we have it, and my poor team is exhausted,” she added. “Every time they bring this back up, what are we supposed to do? Relive that trauma all over again? They watched my husband get murdered.”

Kirk and Turning Point USA had been silent about the conspiracies until last week, when the organization tackled them head-on in a livestream. The organization invited Candace Owens, who has pushed conspiracy theories about the assassination, to join the podcast. Owens said she could not attend.

On Wednesday, Kirk was adamant that Turning Point USA would not be distracted by the conspiracies and would continue to do the work her husband began.

“I’m not going to sit in a corner and cry and be in a fetal position. This is a duty to my husband, and it’s an absolute honor, and I will never back down. And so my message to them is to stop,” Kirk said.

Owens once said she would stop promoting the conspiracies about Turning Point USA if Erika Kirk asked her to. But she appeared to recant that position on Wednesday and called Kirk’s comments “an unbelievably emotional response that is absent of any logic.”

Actor Russell Crowe had some words of condemnation for the film “Gladiator 2,” which he says was missing a crucial component compared to the first one.

“I think the recent sequel that, you know, we don’t have to name out loud is a really unfortunate example of even the people in that engine room not actually understanding what made the first one special,” Crowe said while speaking with Australia’s Triple J. “It wasn’t the pomp. It wasn’t the circumstance. It wasn’t the action. It was the moral core.”

Crowe won an Oscar for his portrayal of Maximus in the first “Gladiator” (2000). The sequel was released nearly a quarter of a century later, in 2024.

The actor said he was instrumental in keeping the “moral core” of Maximus while filming the original, saying it was important to him because it fit the character.

“The thing is, there was a daily fight on that set. It was a daily fight to keep that moral core of the character,” Crowe went on. “The amount of times they suggested sex scenes and stuff like that for Maximus, it’s like you’re taking away his power. So you’re saying at the same time he had this relationship with his wife, he was f***king this other girl? What are you talking about? It’s crazy.”

Many commenters on the interview agreed that the second movie did not live up to the caliber of the first.

“It was an awful sequel that in no way lived up to its predecessor,” one person wrote.

“100% agree with his take and this is one of the many reasons Maximus is one of my favorite movie protagonists,” another person agreed. “One of the few stories who the hero is fueled by revenge for their love that was taken from them and they actually stay loyal and honor the memory of that person they’re on this crusade for.”

One of the issues Crowe seems to have with “Gladiator 2” was that its premise included Maximus having had an affair which resulted in the birth of a son, who was the protagonist in the film.

This isn’t the first time the “Gladiator” star brought up the issue of morality in the films. He said in 2024, “I’m slightly uncomfortable with the fact they’re making another one — because, of course, I’m dead and I have no say in what gets done. But a couple of the things I’ve heard I’m like — no, no, no, that’s not in the moral journey of that particular character. But I can’t say anything, it’s not my place.”

The Australian actor also said at the time that he was fed up with people asking him about the film when he had no say in it.

“They should be f***ing paying me for the amount of questions I am asked about a film I am not even in,” Crowe said in 2023.

“It has nothing to do with me. In that world, I am dead. Six feet under. But I do admit to a certain tinge of jealousy, because it reminds me of when I was younger and what it meant for me, in my life.”