Author and Daily Wire host Candace Owens fired back at a well-known interior designer who attempted to smear her in the media after he was outed for a nasty message he directed at Owens and her husband for merely inquiring about his services.

Owens’ husband George Farmer asked interior designer and Town & Country contributing editor David Netto via his website about possibly acquiring his services after the couple saw his work in a Nashville home. Netto responded by saying he’d “rather get beat in the a** with a wooden plank than ever go near either of you.”

When Netto was asked about the exchange by Vanity Fair, he suggested Owens and Farmer had ties to January 6, seemingly justifying his response.

“He’s fundamentally lying,” Owens told The Daily Wire about Netto. “I think he kind of got caught with his pants down to Vanity Fair. I think that he’s quite embarrassed about his nastiness being made public.”

“After January 6, the joke’s over. People like this should expect to be recognized as complicit with something very dangerous — and I don’t mean Kanye — and expect to be told off in polite society,” Netto told Vanity Fair about Owens and Farmer. “Without Parler the Proud Boys couldn’t talk to each other, so that’s enough for me.”

The BLEXIT founder noted that she was nine-months pregnant on January 6, 2021, and her husband was not running the social media platform Parler at the time of the Capitol breach, contrary to Netto’s suggestion. “This is all easily searchable on Google,” Owens told The Daily Wire.

Via a message to Netto on social media sent in response to the apparent smear in Vanity Fair, Owens informed the interior designer that he is spreading falsehoods about her family.

“I’ve been asked to comment in a few articles on your email to me and my husband and I wanted to personally let you know that my husband is an immigrant and was not even allowed to work in the United States at the time of January 6th,” she wrote to Netto. “I was also 9 months pregnant at that time and was nowhere near the capitol. The insinuation that we were involved in terrorism is just such a lie.”

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“The CEO of Parler at that time was a man by the name of John Matze,” Owens continued. “I would like to believe that you said this because you were genuinely misinformed and not trying to maliciously spread lies about me and my husband. So I thought I’d properly inform you first before I commented further.”

The Daily Wire reached out to Netto for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.

Owens said that when she and her husband received Netto’s response, they “wrote him an email back and just said thank you for considering us,” adding, “We were not going to return the nastiness.”

But the interaction did raise a question in Owens’ mind.

“This does call into question the Left’s position that you ‘have to bake the cake,’” she highlighted, referring to recent legal targeting of conservative Christians who refuse to participate in, for example, same-sex wedding ceremonies.

“That’s the big thing,” the “Blackout” author emphasized. “We said, ‘fine,’ because I don’t believe people should be forced to serve people they fundamentally disagree with.”

The Daily Wire asked Netto his position on the issue, but did not receive an immediate response.

Speaking to Vanity Fair, Owens also made the point that, by liberal standards, Netto’s response to her would have generated major waves in the media. Owens, however, is a black woman who is conservative, not liberal, so she doesn’t fit the bill.

“If a white conservative male had written that email to an outspoken black liberal, he would’ve lost everything,” she said. “They would’ve said it was like Jim Crow.”

Netto has insisted his response to Owens and Farmer was not about race.

Women’s rights activists are worried that an infamous triple murderer who claims he is a woman will land in a female prison when he is sentenced in June.

Dana Rivers, previously David Warfield, 67, was convicted in November of the triple murder of Charlotte Reed and Patricia Wright, a lesbian couple in their late 50s, and their 19-year-old son Benny Diambu-Wright, in Oakland in 2016.

The bodies of both women were found stabbed and shot with a .38 revolver, and the body of their son was found in the street with gunshot wounds. Shortly after police arrived, Rivers walked out of the house, covered in blood and reeking of gasoline. Police searched him and found bullets and brass knuckles.

Rivers was charged with three counts of first-degree murder, as well as arson for dousing the garage with gasoline and setting it on fire, an apparent attempt to destroy the evidence of the murders.

TRAs show support for convicted murderer Dana Rivers by assaulting women who were objecting to him being housed in a women's prison.

To clarify; TRAs support Dana Rivers, who brutally murdered Patricia Wright & Charlotte Reed & their adopted son, Toto ‘Benny’ Diambu-Wright. 😳 pic.twitter.com/6mmcA3aFN2

— gender is harmful (@genderisharmful) December 7, 2022

He is currently housed at Santa Rita Jail about 40 minutes north of San Jose. Rivers is expected to request housing in a women’s prison after he is sentenced on June 14.

California is permissive when it comes to allowing trans-identifying male inmates to be incarcerated in women’s facilities. Since 2021, the state has allowed at least 47 male inmates who identify as transgender or “non-binary” to transfer to women’s prisons. Many of those inmates do not appear to even try to present as female. Female inmates who said they were raped by their trans-identifying male fellow prisoners have sued the California prison system.

In December, a group of women activists with Women’s Declaration International were assaulted while protesting Rivers’ potential transfer to a women’s facility.

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The small group of women were attacked by black-clad transgender activists while quietly holding signs reading “Dana Rivers is a Man” and “No Men in Women’s Prisons.”

The men smashed an egg on the head of Kara Dansky, the president of Women’s Declaration International. They shoved an open umbrella into Dansky and threw multiple pies at the women before ripping their signs away and speeding off on their bikes.

BREAKING: Women with @WDI_USA were just attacked by black-clad trans activists in California.

The women were confronted and had a sign stolen while peacefully demonstrating against the placement of males in female prisons.

Police have been contacted. pic.twitter.com/dCJt5OHPKe

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) December 5, 2022

Women silently protesting the transfer of Dana Rivers, a transsexual convicted of triple homicide, to a women’s prison are violently attacked by two men, and have their sign stolen from them. What we saw recently with @BillboardChris is the norm, not the exception. pic.twitter.com/GYWG1uP5gz

— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) April 6, 2023

Rivers has been in the news since the 1990s.

In 1999, back when he was David Warfield, Rivers was fired from his teacher position at Center High School north of Sacramento after he talked to students about his plans to undergo a sex change.

Rivers told school district officials he was planning to have a sex-change operation and go on cross-sex hormones over the summer and return to teach in the fall as a woman.

District officials directed him not to discuss his sex change plans with students, but Rivers flouted that request and pulled several students aside to explain the situation.

He even gave an interview to the school paper discussing his three failed marriages, alcoholism recovery, and his fear of rejection by students.

“I’m not some freak,” Rivers told the school paper.

Initially, the school board had written a letter to parents informing them about the upcoming sex change, but explaining that Rivers was a tenured teacher with a good performance record, so there was nothing they could do.

After outrage from parents over Rivers’ private conversations with students about the sex change, the school fired him.

That wasn’t the end of the story, though. Rivers sued Center High School over his termination, which catapulted him into international news.

A glowing profile by the Los Angeles Times at the time declared that Warfield was “the teacher who helped low achievers turn it around” before he “became a woman.”

In November 1999, Rivers resigned in exchange for a $150,000 settlement.

Rivers’ life was not boring between those 15 minutes of fame and his triple murder conviction.

First, he became a transgender activist.

Then he became an enforcer for an all-female outlaw biker club called the Deviants, which was associated with Hell’s Angels, according to prosecutors in the murder case. He went by the nickname “Edge” and had tattoos indicating he was a “1 Percenter,” a reference to the supposedly small percentage of motorcycle clubs that are criminal.

One of the two women Rivers killed was a former member of the Deviants.

Rivers and the woman met at a Veterans Affairs Center, where Rivers, who is also a U.S. Navy veteran on top of his other identities, was seeking mental health care. They became friends, and the woman had a short stint as a Deviant before quitting the biker club.