Posted on 08/21/2025 4:26:10 AM PDT by dennisw
French president Emmanuel Macron has claimed the lawsuit he and his wife have filed against right-wing American influencer Candace Owens was put forward to 'defend his honour.'
Since last year, 36-year-old Owens has espoused a crackpot theory to her four million YouTube subscribers that Macron's 72-year-old wife Brigitte was born a man.
Owens launched a podcast series called Becoming Brigitte, in which she delves into the conspiracy. She claims that Brigitte was born under the name 'Jean-Michel Trogneux.'
Her actions led Macron and his wife to file a lawsuit in the US against Owens in July, claiming that they had 'suffered substantial reputational damage' and spent 'considerable sums of money to correct the public record.'
Macron told Paris Match that while he was warned that taking legal action against Owens may result in the '"Streisand effect", drawing even more attention to these lies... It grew so big in the United States that we had to respond.
'It is a matter of upholding the truth. It’s about defending my honour. Because this is nonsense.'
He also hit out at the Trump administration, dismissing arguments that his lawsuits was an impingement on free speech.
Referring to the Trump administration's decision to ban some mainstream outlets, he said: 'It is not freedom of speech to want to prevent the truth from being restored. Those who talk about this supposed freedom of speech are the people who ban journalists from the Oval Office. I don’t accept that.'
Instead, he claims, Owens 'knew very well that she was using false news to cause damage, in the service of an ideology and with established connections with the far Right.'
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I’m thinking more Freeps watch the View or Oprah than are lettin’ on.
Do you watch The View or Oprag?
It would not bother me in the slightest to have a dna test and announce my sex.
I have nothing to hide and am proud of being a bio male.
“It would not bother me in the slightest to have a dna test and announce my sex.
I have nothing to hide and am proud of being a bio male.”
Personnally I would not submit to nor mistake dominance and distain for the respect of my privacy. Especially towards bullying, which is clearly on display by these untoward remarks targeting the Macrons or anyone else!
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