Candace Owens, the far-right media personality now facing a defamation lawsuit from French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron, claims President Donald Trump personally intervened to urge her to stop spreading conspiracy theories about the French First Lady’s gender identity. The claims about Trump come just days after the Macrons filed a 218-page lawsuit in Delaware Superior Court accusing Owens of leading a “campaign of global humiliation.” The suit cites Owens’s eight-part YouTube series Becoming Brigitte, which promotes false claims that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman who assumed the identity of her brother, Jean-Michel Trogneux. Owens also alleged in the series that the Macrons are blood relatives and that the French president is the product of CIA experimentation.
Author: Christopher Wiggins
Published at: 2025-08-05 21:33:38
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