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Posted on 08/07/2025 10:01:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As you may recall, Candace Owens ran a series of podcasts earlier this year in which she claimed the First Lady of France, Brigitte Macron, was actually a trans woman. A couple weeks ago, the Macrons sued Owens in a US court, seeking damages for 22 separate counts of defamation. There's no dollar amount in the complaint but it's presumably going to run into six or seven figures.
For the record, Owens doesn't deny that there was a person named Brigitte Trogneux who was born a woman. Her story is that at some point, for unknown reasons, Brigitte disappeared and her identity was taken over by another person, her brother Jean-Michel Trogneux who then married Emmanuel Macron.
So now, according to Candace Owens, Brigitte Macron was born a woman, died, and with her dying wish passed on her identity to her brother.
There's no way anyone still believes this crap right?
Come on guys...
You all got taken for a ride by an insane grifter. pic.twitter.com/ASSwUqpOAn— Shawn Farash (@Shawn_Farash) July 30, 2025
There are really two big problems with Owens's theory. First, Jean-Michel Trogneux is still around and has been seen at public events including Macron's inauguration. The other is that Brigitte was previously married and had three children with her first husband. Obviously a trans person can't have children so you have to somehow extend the conspiracy theory to the idea that the kids either aren't really Brigitte's children or that they know their real mom is dead and are pretending their uncle is their mother. It's pretty far out there.
And yet, Owens is still doubling down on this whole story. She appeared on Piers Morgan's show the other day and said she was willing to up a previous bet with Morgan to $300,000.
Candace Owens accepts a $300,000 bet with Piers Morgan over the biological gender of Brigitte Macron.
Full interview now available! 👇
📺 https://t.co/tTTUW6Yfey@piersmorgan | @RealCandaceO pic.twitter.com/IgdkRsIlIp— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) August 5, 2025
That's quite a lot of money but it's still probably only a fraction of what's on the line in the lawsuit itself. And that may be why Owens is now wondering aloud why the Trump administration is not speaking up and trying to defend her from the lawsuit.
"If you are Trump, the first thing you should have done if you purport to care about America and our Constitution...you would come out and you would say 'I don't even know whether I believe that she's a man or a woman'...but you should say 'I'm a leader of this country and it's unacceptable that this leader would threaten the First Amendment in anyway,'" Owens said. She added, "The job of the federal government is to defend us against foreign invaders and I would pretty much say Emmanuel Macron right now is being a foreign invader."
Candace Owens appears PANICKED as she calls the Macrons’ lawsuit a "FOREIGN INVASION," begging for Trump and J.D. Vance to intervene: "It's CRAZY that Trump has been silent on this matter."
She also claims the Macrons want to "impoverish her for speaking." Candace and her… pic.twitter.com/E3OIjGcIvI— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) August 7, 2025
She mentions that President Trump called and tried to warn her off this story. Here's what she told Tucker Carlson.
Owens said the initial request to stop talking about the French first lady came from someone “pretty high up” in the White House. She said she found the demand insulting and refused to comply.
Trump later phoned Owens directly about the issue, she told Carlson, saying that the president told her Macron had pulled him aside to ask if he knew Owens. Owens said she was shocked by the request and stated that Trump had been confused as to why he was being asked to intervene.
“Emmanuel Macron personally flew to D.C. and asked Trump to ask me to shut up, to just stop speaking about his wife,” she told Carlson.
That's evidence that Macron was unhappy about it but not evidence he's lying about his wife. If Owens is in fact spreading a lie about Brigitte Macron, as the lawsuit claims, then it's not surprising Emmanuel Macron would make efforts to get her to stop.
As for the "foreign invasion" claim, It probably goes without saying that defamation is a well-understood and widely acknowledged exception to free speech. Owens is being sued for allegedly making false and defamatory claims which, according to the complaint, she knew were false at the time.
As I said in my previous post, that's going to be a high bar for statements about a public figure like Brigitte Macron, but that doesn't mean some of the claims won't pass that bar. And if they do, that's not a foreign invasion or any kind of violation of US sovereignty, it's just the application of US defamation law to Candace Owens.
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Uh, your new hot-crazy matrix is flawed. The “Tranny” square should be above 10 on the crazy scale.
He doesn’t strike me as any brighter than she is. His father has made some statements though, and may go further.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/flashes/663235
Exactly what part of your tranny fantasy is there evidence?
What does it explain for you?
There is something wrong with Candice Owens. She can come across as very intelligent, articulate, etc., but why in heck pursue something like this? Why push a claim the plaintiff can disprove easily with a DNA test and letters from her physicians?
The only out for Owens is that to prevail (in US court at least), the plaintiff must show that Owens is 1) incorrect; 2) knows it; and 3) made the false claim with malicious intent. Given that even if the allegation is true, it’s really no one’s business; what motives can Owens have but malice or greed (sensationalism to sell ads via podcasts)? This is an “own goal” of career-destroying proportions and she deserves it.
That only tell us how easily you are fooled by Owens’ rhetorical ‘sleight of hand.’
It's also well known that the standard of proving defamation for public figures is extremely high.
Penthouse got away with implying Jerry Falwell had sex with his mother.
So, the lawsuit is silly and waste of the court's time. But, it's equally absurd Owens is making an issue of this.
Macrons laid a good groundwork for this lawsuit against Owens. They contacted her numerous times, presenting family photos and public records of Brigette, asking Owens to stop the libel.
US requires the claims to be "demonstrably false" with a "reckless disregard for the truth" and a "refusal to retract".
What does it explain for you?
Barak Obama controls a large part of Democrat Party policy.
Perhaps the Obama Administration/Biden Administration/Democrat party obsession with forcing the tranny agenda down the throats of America may have something to do with a trans Obama family member.
Barak Obama controls a large part of Democrat Party policy.
The people who control Barack Obama control a large part of Democrat Party policy.
Obama is an idiot, who can’t string two coherent sentences together without a teleprompter.
I felt the same way until the lawsuit was published and I heard lawyers commenting on it.
I think now that the Macrons have a good chance.
Well, there is that.
Valid point.
Nonsense. Trans politics is all about destroying the western culture. And the left will stop at nothing to destroy.
Matters not what is personal. This would be happening no matter what.
Candace has ALWAYS, since she was in high school, taken some current “HOT” topic, made it somehow all about her, in some way or another, and exploited it to make money. It’s a “Candace against the big, bad, world crusade on steroids, for MONEY, ATTENTION, and FAME tour!”, no matter if it’s true or not.
Jean-Michel is an 80 year old MAN and lives in France. And yes, there ARE photos of him AND Brigitte, in the same room, taken by NEWSPAPER and T.V. photographers, at Macron’s swearing ceremony. And unlike the stupid photoshopped pictures of Brigitte and the MOOCH, vis-a-vis supposedly showing that they have male genitalia, these pictures are untouched/not photoshopped nor memed.
Besides the idiotic EIGHT PART, almost SIX SOLID HOURS of Candace’s faux “documentary” series on the Macrons, she has also ranted, raved, and SCREAMED such things as “YOU WERE BORN A MAN AND YOU’LL DIE A MAN” at Brigitte, staring into a camera lens, with a wild eyed, hate filled expression on her face.Ad to that, her lies about NOT getting ANYTHING at all from the Macrons, that she had demanded ( family photos throughout Brigitte’s life and pictures of ALL of her family members, school registration papers when she was little, a birth certificate, etc. ), her DEMANDING that Brigitte have a DNA blood test, DONE BY CANDACE’S DOCTOR, claiming that the Macrons belong to the Rothschild family, which “RULES THE WORLD, and much more of likewise INSANELY ridiculous garbage. It’s NOT just the tranny tripe, she has also claimed that the Macron marriage is incestual, since Brigitte is Emmanuel’s mother and at another time that she is his FATHER.
First of all, the bet between Candace & Piers is still ongoing.
Secondly the writer of that book is in HIDING, in Italy, and he didn't win any case.
Thirdly, the case against the two French women was WON by the Macrons; upon appeal, what they had to pay the Macrons was lowered by at least half the original amount, which they have yet to pay.
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