Conservative provocateur Candace Owens took a political attack to a personal level with a jab at the White House press secretary on Tuesday.

Owens, a top right-wing critic of the American intervention in Iran, posted an unflattering image of Karoline Leavitt on X, overlaid with a statement from Donald Trump’s spokesman from this month, where she wrote: ‘TO BE CLEAR: No such threat from Iran to our homeland exists, and it never did.’

Leavitt’s comment, posted on X, came as a response to an ABC News story, which warned that Iran could attack California with drones as a response to the joint US-Israeli attack on the country last month.

Owens shared the image and quote with the caption: ‘Unserious administration’.   

The picture of Leavitt, with obvious marks from lip filler, and shot in unflattering lighting, was included in a Vanity Fair exposé about senior Trump officials in December.

Users on X were quick to call out Owens for not providing the full context of Leavitt’s comment.

YouTuber Joey Salads wrote, ‘Show the whole thing – it actually destroys your entire narrative.’ The Steak for Breakfast Podcast quoted Owens’s post, calling her a ‘r****d grifter.’

Owens’s direct attack on Leavitt was shocking, given that both she and Leavitt’s careers benefited from the late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.

Candace Owens took a political attack to a personal level with a jab at the White House press secretary

The image of Karoline Leavitt, shot in unflattering lighting, was included in a December Vanity Fair exposé about senior Trump administration officials

Leavitt has heralded Kirk as a key mentor during her political rise, including his support of her congressional campaign in New Hampshire in 2022. 

The White House press secretary still appears to enjoy a close relationship with the Turning Point USA organization.

Leavitt is scheduled to appear at an event with Kirk’s widow, Erika, who has taken over leadership of the non-profit after her husband’s murder.

Erika and Leavitt will appear at George Washington University as part of TPUSA’s This Is The Turning Point Tour on April 2nd at 6.30pm.

Owens herself is also scheduled to appear at a DC event this week.

The podcaster will take the stage at the Catholics For Catholics 3rd annual Catholic Prayer For America Gala on Thursday in Washington, DC.

Although Catholics For Catholics has partnered with Turning Point USA in the past, the group does not appear to be involved in this event or Owens’s speech. 

Owens will also interview former Trump Administration national security official Joe Kent at the March 19 event. 

Shortly after the killing of her former friend, boss, and mentor, Charlie Kirk, Owens appeared to explicitly blame members of President Trump’s administration for Kirk’s murder.

‘He gave so much of his life to Trump and to politics, and they were just like NOPE. That’s it,’ Owens said during an October episode of her show.

Leavitt is scheduled to appear at a TPUSA event with Kirk’s widow, Erika, next month 

Leavitt will appear at the This Is The Turning Point Tour in Washington, DC next month

‘So here’s a holiday. What is with them giving them a holiday after they kill them? As soon as they give you a holiday, they definitely killed you. There’s no question – they killed you.’

A spokesman for Owens denied at the time that she had suggested Trump killed Kirk.

‘Candace never stated that Trump killed Kirk. If you spent the time to watch her full episode, instead of regurgitating a distorted clip that Candace’s opposition paid someone to post, you would know Candace was questioning the FBI covering up Kirk’s death – just as the FBI covered up for MLK’s murder, then the government gave MLK a holiday and a boulevard,’ he said.

After being snubbed from speaking at Kirk’s memorial in Arizona last year, Owens stated that the memorial event, attended by nearly 100,000 people, was ‘being controlled by the White House.’

‘Why would I be invited by anyone in Trump’s Zionist administration, as I am speaking about the topics that I am speaking… It’s common sense they’re not going to allow me to share the stage,’ Owens added at the time.

Kirk was shot dead on September 10 while speaking at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University. Tyler Robinson, 22, a left-wing college dropout, has been charged with his murder.