If one thinks about how they would discredit Owens, perhaps feed her some bad info from a credible source that links to something she was covering before. Of course she would run with it. It is common to be self obsessed and to view the world as the center of the universe.
The president of France is suing me and president Trump personally called me and asked me to stop reporting on him because it was threatening peace in Ukraine. I didn't want to be responsible for killing anyone so I stopped.
None of that makes any sense, but she was smart enough to realize that powerful people wanted her to shut up and she did.