Who would like to see Leah pursue legal action against Candace Owens and the others who have repeatedly called her a fraud?
I’m seriously considering organizing a crowdfunding campaign to help Leah obtain legal representation. And judging by the number of people throwing around accusations they apparently couldn’t substantiate if their lives depended on it, we might need a pretty substantial legal fund.
Let’s start with a little remedial education for the comment section.
Fraud is a legal allegation, not a fancy insult for someone you dislike. Generally, fraud involves a material false representation, knowledge of its falsity, intent to deceive, reliance, and resulting damages. The precise elements vary depending on the jurisdiction and type of claim.
Defamation is another matter. Generally, it involves a false statement of fact communicated to someone other than the person being discussed, resulting in reputational harm, with the required degree of fault. Public figures also face additional legal hurdles.
In other words, you don’t get to repeatedly call someone a fraud, destroy their professional credibility, and assume that adding a laughing emoji makes you legally untouchable.
Now, let’s talk about Candace.
There is something particularly revealing about watching someone build an audience around exposing other people’s supposed dishonesty while repeatedly positioning herself as the unquestionable authority on what everyone else should believe.
Candace has a massive platform. She knows her words reach hundreds of thousands of people. Yet look at how this situation has unfolded. Leah becomes the target of weeks of public scrutiny, personal attacks, insinuations, and ridicule. Candace’s audience is encouraged to view Leah through the lens of Candace’s narrative, and anyone who questions that narrative becomes another target of suspicion.
That’s mean-girl behavior with a media platform and a microphone.
It’s the familiar high-school formula: establish who the group is supposed to dislike, control the narrative, make dissent socially expensive, and let the crowd do the rest. Except this isn’t a high-school cafeteria. These are adults with careers, reputations, and livelihoods.
And the hypocrisy is almost comical. Candace can make sweeping allegations, offer insinuations, and deliver commentary with absolute certainty, yet Leah is expected to defend every comma, every chart, every source, and every research decision. Apparently, the standards of evidence only apply when you’re not Candace Owens.
And let’s not forget the convenient moral packaging. Add some religious language, invoke a crisis, sell a message, and suddenly everyone is supposed to forget the way another human being was treated. Saying Christ is King doesn’t magically transform cruelty into righteousness. Neither does having a successful broadcast.
Meanwhile, some of these followers are so busy defending Candace that they’ve apparently forgotten how to distinguish an allegation from evidence. The intellectual bar is on the floor, and they’re bringing shovels.
If Leah made false statements, identify them. If her research is wrong, demonstrate where. If there is evidence of fraud, produce it. But repeating an accusation 10,000 times doesn’t make it true. It just makes 10,000 repetitions of an accusation.
I want Leah to have the opportunity to consult qualified legal counsel, review the statements made about her, and determine whether there are grounds for legal action.
@leahfiles If I organize a crowdfunding campaign to help cover your legal expenses, would you be willing to pursue legal action against those who have repeatedly called you a fraud?
I’m serious about helping.
And to everyone who has spent weeks participating in this spectacle: You don’t get to demand accountability from everyone except the person you worship. That’s not integrity. That’s a fan club with a persecution complex
Well she's exposed herself as a fraud, and a histrionic liar, she could easily quit posting, and quit trying to stir shitty drama, and she would have been ok. 🤷🏻