Flagging right-wing podcast host Candace Owens is so desperate for a conspiracy theory that she’s mining debunked claims about French President Emmanuel Macron being raped by his husband.
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But Owens says she’ll stake her “professional reputation” (as if) on the claim that Brigitte Macron is, in fact, a “perverted” transgender woman who was a man when she met and raped the French president when he was 14.
In reality, Macron and Brigitte first met when he was 15 and she was a 40-year-old instructor at his high school. Years later, Brigitte divorced her husband, the father of her three children, and married the future president.
The rest of Owens’ fairytale fantasy begins with a YouTube video released in France in late 2021, in the thick of Macron’s reelection campaign. In the video, a woman claimed to have spent three years researching Brigitte Macron’s past—her conspiracy theory claimed Brigitte was, in fact, Brigitte’s real-life brother Jean-Michel Trogneux, who later transitioned into a woman.
A group photo of Brigitte’s family showing the resemblance between the two siblings was provided as evidence in the video, among other spurious contentions.
Owens first glommed onto the wild speculation in June, at the same time the two women in the video went on trial in France for defamation. A decision in that case is due September 12.
In the video, Owens falsely implies that the Élysée Palace—the French President’s official residence in Paris—had taken notice of her ramblings on the subject.
As if.
The desperate commentator—too toxic even for far-right “news” site The Daily Wire, which fired her over her overt antisemitism in March—returned to the subject this week following the arrest by French authorities of Pavel Durov, the Russian founder of Telegram, on charges related to allegations of illegal activity on the platform, including arms deals, drug sales and human trafficking.
In her podcast, Owens said, “I mean, the audacity of referring to Pavel Durov as someone who is complicit in abetting pedophilia. That’s what they said. That’s what the French Secret Service, the French state would like us to believe under the authority of Emmanuel Macron, a human being, a child who was statutorily raped—back when he was a child—by his husband, Brigitte Macron.”
“I will say this until I’m blue in the face,” Owens continued, “Brigitte Macron is a man. He transitioned. His name used to be Jean-Michel Trogneux, and then he became Brigitte. And when Brigitte was 40 years old—and no one will counter this fact in the media. Instead, they just call it a ‘conspiracy theory’ because that’s what it’s always—just call everybody names. It’s a conspiracy theory.”
“But the reality is that, yes, Brigitte Macron statutorily raped Emmanuel Macron. So if the state actually cared about stomping out people that were aiding and abetting pedophilia, aiding and abetting crimes against minors, then you would not have Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron in office. That is the reality.”
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MAGA pundit Candace Owens claims French President Emmanuel Macron was raped by his husband