On Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, filed a defamation lawsuit against Candace Owens. The popular podcaster has fired back, saying she’ll fight the lawsuit tooth and nail.
An eight-part series produced earlier this year by Candace Owens continually claimed that Brigitte Macron was born a man, then later stole the identity of another woman, before undergoing a sex transition surgery to become a woman.
“These claims are demonstrably false, and Owens knew they were false when she published them,” the lawsuit says. “Yet, she published them anyway. And the reason is clear: it is not the pursuit of truth, but the pursuit of fame.”
In a statement, the Macrons said they grew determined to launch the defamation lawsuit after Owens continued to share the comments after several requests by lawyers for the couple asked for retractions to be made.
“Ms. Owens’ campaign of defamation was plainly designed to harass and cause pain to us and our families and to garner attention and notoriety,” the attorneys said. “We gave her every opportunity to back away from these claims, but she refused. It is our earnest hope that this lawsuit will set the record straight and end this campaign of defamation once and for all.”
To open her podcast on Wednesday, Candace Owens doubled down on her comments about Brigitte Macron.
“You are a very goofy man, Brigitte,” said Owens. “But I’ve got to give it to you, you’ve definitely got balls. Fire everyone around you — and I mean literally everyone around you — who told you this was a very good idea for you to be the first sitting first lady of a country to file a lawsuit against a journalist of another country. You are literally making history in all the wrong ways.”
Owens added that she plans to fight the lawsuit, stating that she was the one being defamed by Emmanuel Macron and his wife by them filing the suit.
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