Candace Owens Increasingly Isolated With Wild Macron ‘Assassination’ Claims

Conspiracy Watch director Rudy Reichstadt has been interviewed by Euronews about the Candace Owens affair and her latest false allegations that Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron were involved in a plot to assassinate her — with the help of Israel.

The wife of the French President and her husband have been relentlessly targeted by the hateful extreme right American conspiracy theorist, who has become a prolific peddler of viral misogynistic, homophobic and antisemitic narratives.

Owens, with more than 7 million followers on X and more than 5 million on YouTube, flogs weight-loss products and dubious financial services as she monetizes her long-debunked hoax that Brigitte Macron is a man and a pedophile. Owens also claims that the French First Lady somehow “transitioned” from her brother (a man who never existed according to her), while attacking Emmanuel Macron’s sexuality as part of a supposed international cover-up.

Owens’ Macron obsession — and her French Connection

As Euronews noted, citing Conspiracy Watch’s Reichstadt, the lie first emerged in 2021, when pro-Kremlin YouTuber Natacha Rey alleged that France’s First Lady was assigned male at birth. "From then on, the conspiracy theory went international in 2024 when Candace Owens picked up on it, joining forces with one of the major players in spreading this conspiracy theory: Xavier Poussard", Rudy Reichstadt told The Cube, Euronews’ fact-checking unit. Poussard is the former editor of the far-right magazine Faits & Documents and a key figure peddling conspiracy theories about Brigitte Macron being a man. In July, the Macrons filed a defamation lawsuit against Owens. They have also pursued 10 French conspiracy theorists for cyber-harassment in France.

"Candace Owens' headlong rush into the most radical conspiracy theories is probably linked to the legal proceedings brought against her a few months ago by Mr and Mrs Macron in a Delaware court in the United States for defamation," Reichstadt said. "She started out as a figure of the American conservative right, but then began to adopt increasingly controversial positions, peddling conspiracy theories and antisemitic claims."

"She has claimed that dinosaurs never existed, that humans never walked on the moon. She has also spread a range of crazy theories about the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the Jeffrey Epstein case," he continued. "Today, she has been abandoned by one arm of the conspiracist sphere."

Bogus claims of a French-Israel plot to assassinate Owens

On November 22, Owens posted an “urgent” message claiming that a “high-ranking employee of the French government” had informed her that a Franco-Israeli hit squad had been given the “green light” to “eliminate” her. The post was viewed tens of millions of times — unsurprising given that Owens has over 7 million followers on X and more than 5 million subscribers on YouTube. She increasingly aligns herself with Tucker Carlson, the pro-Hitler podcaster whose conspiratorial, antisemitic and openly pro-Russian worldview dovetails seamlessly with Owens’ own radicalisation.

Yesterday, after a six-day disappearance from her show — which she suggested was because she had to hide herself from the French plot against her — Owens returned with a podcast that resembled a mash-up of every conspiracy theory she has ever encountered, all fused into one delirious master plot centred entirely on herself.

“We are back!” she announced on X. “Today on the show: I announced that France was involved in Charlie Kirk’s assassination. I also announced that they attempted to organize my assassination. Just in case you’ve lost track…”

At the outset of her latest program, Owens immediately resumed her obsessive slanders of Brigitte Macron fused with references to the Occult.

“Imagine being so protected that you force multiple nation states to collude to hide the obvious fact that you were born with a penis. Right? That is real power. Satanic power.”

Owens then escalated her already-refuted fabrications about French involvement in Charlie Kirk’s death:

“Don't you feel a sense of urgency right now in the wake of me having learned that France apparently paid for my assassination and that the French Foreign Legion was apparently involved and on the ground at UVU (University of Utah) on the day of Charlie Kirk's assassination?”

As usual, she offered no evidence — only a rambling anonymous email referencing a “red crane” and “France’s Delaware web.” Owens was widely mocked online — including by some MAGA influencers and accounts linked to Charlie Kirk’s circle — after admitting that she had not contacted any authorities and had merely “sent a text message” to “a high-up person at the FBI,” which went unread and unanswered.

Wilmington, Delaware controlled by France?

Owens then broadened her narrative into a sweeping historical conspiracy, asserting that “the whole history of America is warring factions of Freemasons competing for American territory,” and presenting Wilmington, Delaware — where the Macrons sued her — as a covert French stronghold. She read aloud at length from an anonymous email and some of the most extreme nuggets included:

• “France has effectively been running the streets in Wilmington, Delaware since before the Revolutionary War.”
• “Wilmington is more French than people would initially assume once you look at its history.”
• “North French Street is actually the northern stretch of the original French Street. A large cluster of French-speaking refugees settled along it in the 1790s and the nickname French Street took over.”
• “Across from 920 King there is a red crane… able to confirm the French are absolutely involved in this somehow.”
• “I found direct U.S.–French alignment near 920 North King Street using structural aviation markers, financial lineage, corporate fronts and historical French corridors.”

Claims of a multi-governmental “plot against Owens”

Owens then claimed the entire affair was part of a sweeping psyops campaign involving the Americans, French and Israelis.

“I feel like I was set up by the federal government in terms of this lawsuit… This wasn’t just Brigitte and Emmanuel sitting down making a mistake by filing this cross-national lawsuit, but rather federal agencies colluding about how to put an end to my research into who Brigitte was… because all of these governments are implicated — France, the United States and Israel.”

Owens concluded by attempting once again to pull Brigitte Macron’s brother, Jean-Michel Trogneux, into the plot, drifting into moon-landing conspiracism:

“Whatever the hell Jean-Michel Trogneux was up to during the missing years of his life… Brigitte says he was in America. We know Brigitte was in America in the 60s for the moon landing — no details provided about what Brigitte was doing when he experienced the moon landing with Americans.”