All posts tagged "Brigitte Macron"

Right-wing podcaster Candace Owens may have bitten off more than she can chew in the legal fight with the first lady of France, according to a report in The Bulwark.

Since leaving Ben Shapiro's "The Daily Wire," Owens has pushed the outrageous theory that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman who has committed a litany of crimes and has links to a centuries-old cult that's working to undermine Western civilization.

Owens "went so far as to beg the Macrons to sue her" if her claims weren't true, even "offering to pay their legal bills to do it," wrote senior reporter Will Sommer....

Far-right podcaster Candace Owens is facing gibes on social media now that news has broken about a defamation lawsuit brought by French President Emmanuelle Macron and his wife, Brigitte.

The 218-page suit was filed in Delaware on Wednesday, accusing Owens of publishing “outlandish, defamatory, and far-fetched fictions”, including that she "is in fact a man," born under the name Jean-Michel Trogneux.

According to the suit, Owens broadcast that she would "stake [her] entire professional reputation on the fact that Brigitte Macron [The First Lady of France] is in fact a man."...