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Macron Attacks Trump over Candace Owens' Claims that His Wife Brigitte Was Born a Man

2025-08-22

The claim is astonishingly stupid. About what we’ve learnt to expect from the physically attractive, attention-seeking Ms Owens, so at least she’s consistent.

[GatewayPundit] When unpopular French President Emmanuel Macron isn’t abroad inserting himself into the Russia-Ukraine peace process (where he has no place), he goes back home where only problems await him — not least of all his own elderly
ouch!
wife.
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Owens called the libel suit ’goofy’, a vicious PR move to silence her.

She’s wrong about that, too — it’s not vicious.

"In his Paris Match interview, Mr. Macron took a thinly veiled swipe at the Trump administration, dismissing claims that lawsuits such as this flouted free speech, saying: "It is not freedom of speech to want to prevent the truth from being restored.

I’m not sure what President Trump has to do with it, except that poor Mr. Macron loathes him for not being one of the in crowd.

’Those who talk about this supposed freedom of speech are the people who ban journalists from the Oval Office. I don’t accept that’."

Posted by:Anomalous Sources

#6 I completely agree that Mrs. Macron is a vile human being, Super Hose. I was shocked to discover that so is Ms Owens, who i used to respect, though somewhat differently vile in that her vileness is wholesale and at a distance rather than retail.

Posted by: trailing wife 2025-08-22 23:26

#5 Under US law, truth is a defense against charges of libel and defamation, with the burden of proof on the defendant.

This promises to be both entertaining and stupid. Already I don't care.

Posted by: SteveS 2025-08-22 22:38

#4 I am not a supporter of Candice Owens, but she has rights within our judicial system. She has standing if she is being sued. I don’t like when our judicial system creeps into other countries. I don’t like when globalists dabble in our judicial system. I am an anti-Globalist. I don’t care for the Macrons for that reason. I care little about most people’s personal choices but their situation, at its very best, is a 38 year old teacher grooming a 14 year old student. The trans issue seems immaterial to that criminality. To me that’s like arguing about whether Jeffery Dahmer was racist. My only interest, in this case, is that the defendant get’s treated correctly within our judicial system. I have seen our judicial system get perverted too many times this last couple of decades.

Posted by: Super Hose 2025-08-22 16:17

#3 Again, Mrs Macron is from a large family, she has 3 biological children and at least 3 biological grandchildren.

A DNA examination of members of her family and her biological descendants would make any glaring discrepancy between her official biography and biological reality equally glaringly obvious.

To keep Owens' allegation a secret the French government would literally have to keep the entire Macron-Trogneux-Auzière clan hermetically sealed off from the world.

Macron is not a good guy and the official story of Brigitte and Emmanuel is creepy but Owens is also a loon.

Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-08-22 15:57

#2 There won’t be any discovery, Super Hose — Ms Owens has absolutely no standing to demand that her fevered imaginings be indulged about the spouse of the French head of state in France, nor would that kind of nuisance suit be put on the court docket in America or England, where she lives and has citizenship.

Posted by: trailing wife 2025-08-22 15:29

#1 Looks like we will get an answer to the conspiracy theory in the discovery of this case. A close to 40 year old teacher that develops a relationship with a 14 year old is not someone that I care to defend regardless of how the DNA test comes out.

Posted by: Super Hose 2025-08-22 07:03

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