"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Conspiracy theorist Candace Owens claims that France’s first lady was born a man. Now the president and his wife will face her in court
When the most notable victim of MAGA-approved conspiracy merchant Candace Owens announced a decision to fight back against her bullying, the response came in typical style.
“Today I have been sued by the First Lady-Man of France,” announced a gleeful Owens, an unrepentant peddler of anti-women, gay and transgender slanders as well as Holocaust denial, on her eponymous Candace video show. “So, let’s just go guys! You are officially a very goofy man, Brigitte. But I got to give it to you. You definitely got balls.”
Owens’ declaration to her millions of YouTube followers of an escalation in her online war with the Macrons came after the French president and his wife served her with a massive defamation suit, filed in Delaware, USA. The couple demanded unspecified damages in a 218-page filing, for “causing pain to us and our families” through what they call a “global campaign of humiliation” in which Owens has repeatedly spread the claim that Madame Macron is a biological man.
“Every time the Macrons leave their home, they do so knowing that countless people have heard, and many believe, these vile fabrications,” the suit states. [...]
