French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, filed a defamation lawsuit against podcaster Candace Owens on Wednesday because Owens has repeatedly claimed that Brigitte Macron is actually a man named “Jean-Michel Trogneux.” According to a 200-page complaint filed in a Delaware court, the Macrons object to Owens’s claim that Brigitte Macron “was born a man, stole another person’s identity, and transitioned to become Brigitte.”
Advertisement
Brigitte Macron has been the center of longstanding, and completely understandable, rumors that she is a he. To set the proper tone for what follows, please cue up the mood music.
In 2021, the Macrons successfully sued two of France’s leading intellectuals, Amandine Roy, a 52-year-old clairvoyant, and Natacha Rey, 48, who styled herself as a freelance journalist, for making the claim that Brigitte Macron = (more or less) Jean-Michel Trogneux. Despite their victory in court, the Macrons have not been