France’s Macron Family Sues Candace Owens for Bizarre Claims | The American Spectator

Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron, the president and first lady of France, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against podcaster Candace Owens.

The case brought to Delaware Superior Court includes 22 allegations that Owens knowingly spread demonstrably false statements, most notably Owens’ claims that Brigitte Macron was born male and identifies as transgender.

Owens’ bizarre claims include that Brigitte Macron may be “Emmanuel Macron’s biological father, we’re hearing that a lot.” In response to being accused of “relentless bullying,” Owens stated, “How old are you? Are you five years old?” but has also ironically accused the Macrons of bullying her for filing the lawsuit. 

The podcaster’s claims did not stop there, as Owens also argued her familiar trope that the CIA orchestrated Macron’s political rise via mind-control programs. 

Owens’ relentless engagement farming is likely to earn her even more notoriety as she pushes the bizarre claim that the world’s most powerful intelligence agency helped orchestrate the rise of a transgender pedophile to the highest levels of the French government.

Tom Clare, the Macrons’ lead counsel, told CNN, “We have attempted to engage with [Owens] for the last year — putting evidence in front of her, request after request after request that she just simply do the right thing.”

The lawsuit by France’s first family also notes that Owens “will say anything, regardless of how outrageous or unfounded, to attract attention, build her platform, and achieve notoriety.”

This complaint seems reasonable in light of Owens’ statement that her lawyer would “be able to sit across and ask Brigitte Macron questions about her penis” and “Brigitte would then be compelled for the first time to answer them under oath.”

The lawsuit is based on an 8-part video series by Owens titled Becoming Brigitte, in which the commentator stated that she would stake her “entire professional reputation” on the claims.

This is a significant gamble by the podcaster, although it is difficult to necessarily label Candace Owens’ reputation as “professional” in the first place. Farming viewership through conspiracies is becoming a lucrative business model within certain factions of the Right, as individuals find a quick hit of success by monetizing stories that are so outlandish the audience can’t look away. 

While the theories will likely draw attention to Owens’ series and overall brand, they ultimately align her more with a tabloid outlet than investigative commentary.

The lawsuit also details how “Owens has dissected their appearance, their marriage, their friends, their family, and their personal history — twisting it all into a grotesque narrative designed to inflame and degrade.”

Owens defended her claims on the familiar script that the Macrons are part of a “sadistic syndicate” of “perverts that run the world,” and that she can only lose the lawsuit if liberal elites tamper with the justice system. 

“I think Hunter Biden kind of notoriously implied that his family controls the courts in Delaware. That is true. Maybe that’s what they’re banking on.”

Much of Owens’ public brand is bolstered by similar clickbait investigations, and she seems to be repeating that pattern by using the lawsuit to promote her series. She has doubled down on the claims, stating that she is “fully prepared to take on this battle.”

In September 2024, Brigitte Macron won a similar defamation suit against two women, Amandine Roy and Natacha Rey, who were convicted and fined for spreading similar false rumors. 

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