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OT: American Politics

This is literally batshit fucking crazy.

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Candace Owens Is in Some REAL Trouble

Her wild attacks on Brigitte Macron have led to a serious defamation suit—and diplomatic trouble.
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SINCE LEAVING THE DAILY WIRE in March 2024, Candace Owens has built much of her career as a right-wing media star on a bold claim: that French first lady Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman committing a host of crimes, and that she may be in an incestuous marriage to her “son,” French President Emmanuel Macron. Owens has repeatedly, almost monomaniacally, pushed this theory, even vowing to stake her career on the allegation. She went so far as to beg the Macrons to sue her if it wasn’t true, offering to pay their legal bills to do it.

Well, the Macrons did just that. Following an eight-part podcast series Owens produced laying out her claims, the French couple sued Owens for defamation in Delaware court last week.

And the Macrons aren’t kidding around. Their complaint is 219 pages long, and they’re represented by Clare Locke, the prominent libel firm.1

But Owens isn’t backing down, either. Since being sued, she has devoted four episodes of her show to re-airing her allegations against the Macrons.

Along with having the potential that Owens will have to pay massive damages, the lawsuit is interesting for two reasons: the split it has exposed in the MAGA right between Owens and many of her compatriots, and the potential it has to cause real headaches for Donald Trump, who has had to tend to some awkwardly complicated diplomatic relations.

I recently had the displeasure of diving very deep into Owens’s allegations. And while they’re a little hard to sum up, in part because her story keeps shifting—as the Macrons’ lawsuit notes, Owens dropped some of her “evidence” as it has been disproven—to describe them as unhinged doesn’t go anywhere near far enough.

Essentially, Owens claims that Brigitte Macron is in fact her brother, Jean-Michel Trogneux, who transitioned into Brigitte in his thirties and committed plenty of identity fraud along the way. Owens goes on to allege that Emmanuel Macron is a victim of Jean-Michel’s grooming.

She gets more outlandish from there. The Macrons, she insists, are possibly linked to a centuries-old cult called the “Frankists,” devoted to undermining Western civilization at every turn. Emmanuel Macron is the victim of the CIA’s MKUltra brainwashing (just google it). Perhaps, Owens has said, Emmanuel is Brigitte’s (er, Jean-Michel’s???) son. Owens also alleges that both members of the presidential couple are being blackmailed by a sinister cabal. Who isn’t?
 
Just imagine how many Democrats over the years, if they had the stones, would have been able to do this to the right wing nutters? Democrats could have smothered this movement in it's crib before it was able to monetize and metastasize.
 
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