Candace Owens has said that Amber Rose is "struggling" with rejection and judgment from those on both sides of the political aisle after declaring her support for Donald Trump in this year's election.
Model Rose, who was once a critic of Trump, endorsed the former president in May. However, she faced an avalanche of conservative backlash after it was revealed that she would be speaking at this week's Republican National Convention (RNC), due in part to her involvement in spearheading the Los Angeles "SlutWalk"—a feminist movement against slut-shaming and sexual assault.
During her speech on Monday, Rose said that she realized Trump and his supporters were her "people" because they "love" all people "whether you're Black, white, gay or straight." Trump could be seen smiling from the audience as Rose spoke.
Conservative commentator Owens has revealed on a livestream of her podcast that she recently spoke with Rose and sensed that she was "struggling" with being stuck in a "horrible limbo" between some friends rejecting her for her stance and a faction of Republicans viewing her political switch with cynicism.
Owens advised those upset at Rose's inclusion at the convention that their "quarrel [should] be with the RNC, not with Amber. Let's not join the chorus of people who are denigrating her on the basis that she has an OnlyFans account... and instead try to welcome her.
"I've had, just to be open about this, a conversation with her, and I sensed very much—I'm a gut player—that she was very genuine, and that she is very much struggling right now because of this horrible limbo of realizing that your friends on the left don't want you anymore, because God forbid you wear a MAGA hat, and your potential friends on the right are now pulling through your pages and saying, 'Hahaha, look at this girl.'"
"Let's just not do that," Owens added. "Let's just press pause for a second and give her the space to learn, because she is not going to be what we would want her to be if she decides to stay within this realm. She's simply sharing her story, and I think that she's very much allowed to do that."
Newsweek has contacted a representative of Rose via email for comment.
Elsewhere on her podcast, Owens, who described Rose's RNC speech as "a highlight of the evening," said that "there are very many women who are living a life, or have been living a life, like Amber Rose on OnlyFans, trying to get attention, trying to sell their bodies. Quite literally, that's that's what she was doing in Hollywood, trying to sell your body, to get a magazine cover...
"So people are watching and seeing her try to transition into something else. And it is going to signify—whether you believe it should or not—to other women who are living this sort of a life, that they can be something else."
"And so what I struggle with, with the Republican Party, or rather the conservative movement, are these purity tests," Owens added, before explaining that she was subjected to such treatment when she initially rose to prominence after switching from being a Democrat.
"My videos were going so viral, I was being invited on the Fox News. And of course, I went, because, wow, that's amazing. I can say something I believe in. And they're telling me there's an audience of people that want to hear this? Amazing. And then instantly, the purity test game."
Recounting the questions that were asked of her at the time, Owens went on: "'What does she actually believe about a particular issue?' 'How would she solve what's going on in Afghanistan at the moment?' 'What are her perspectives on abortion?' And suddenly you're being inundated with questions that you've never actually thought through. You just said this thing that you actually believe, and you're not there yet. You haven't actually locked all of these things into place.
"Can we make it easy for people to take that first step? [Rose is] not getting up there and saying she's a Christian. By the way, I don't think very many people that hit that stage could get up there and say that they are Christians or embodying Christianity, because the Republican National Convention is not something that was established for only Christians, right? There's a difference between being a Christian and being conservative and being a Republican. Sometimes you can be all three, but not all the time. And some people are just economic conservatives.
"Maybe [Rose is] an economic conservative. But the point is that she said something that she believed to be true, that she felt the media was lying to her about Donald Trump. And instantly, that leftist media came to her and they said, 'You're not allowed to say that. You want to know why? Because you're our slut. We already sold you leftism, and that's all you'll ever be.'"
Owens surmised that when people face criticism for their evolving views, it "makes other people who are seeing that fearful that they can't also change their minds, that they can't also become something different."
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