WorldNetDaily’s Joe Kovacs gleefully wrote in a July 14 article:
Was the first lady of France actually born a man?
Brigitte Macron is now going to the highest court in France after being “devastated” by a lower court ruling last week that let off two women who claim she’s actually male.
The pair had originally been convicted for spreading false information before the Paris appeals court on Thursday overturned the verdict. The initial ruling ordered the two women to pay $9,300 in damages to Brigitte Macron, and $5,800 to her brother.
[…]The case has been followed closely by American political commentator Candace Owens, who is among those promoting the notion that Brigitte, 72, is a man.
Owens says she was personally phoned by U.S. President Donald Trump in February when French President Emmanuel Macron was visiting Washington, D.C., and says the commander in chief urged her to stop discussing Brigitte because it was interfering with talks on ending Russia’s war against Ukraine.
In a video she released on June 30, Owens said of Trump’s call: “It is hard to catch my breath to comprehend that four days ago I’m ending a series about Brigitte Macron, and now I’m speaking to the president of the United States and the topic of conversation no matter which way you wanna slice it is about Macron’s wife’s penis. I mean there’s no other way to say it.”
She continued: “I explained to him that she has had this amazing doctor who specializes in transgenderism surgeries or feminization procedures. I’m talking to the president of the United States about this, guys. This is crazy this wacky. … But I’m just trying to get him to understand the truth.
“And then I explained to him why I don’t feel so great about this request, because that’s the more important part.”
“Like you are requesting that I really, and despite your reasoning, which is very sound, that I stop telling the truth. And I said to Trump, and I will be honest, that at that moment I realized that one day this is gonna go into my autobiography and so I got to say something funny, and I just said, I said to him, ‘You know, respectfully, Mr. President, it’s not my fault that he married someone with a penis.'”
Note that Kovacs cites no actual evidence Owens offered to back up her claim. But when Owens started facing consequences for her malicious claims, Kovacs seemed a little less gleeful in a July 23 article:
Fed-up with claims the first lady of France was actually born a man, French President Emmanuel Macron is now suing American political commentator Candace Owens who has been championing the theory.
Macron filed the 219-page complaint Wednesday in Delaware over “demonstrably false” claims about his wife Brigitte Macron.
“These outlandish, defamatory, and far-fetched fictions included that Mrs. Macron was born a man, stole another person’s identity, and transitioned to become Brigitte; Mrs. Macron and President Macron are blood relatives committing incest; President Macron was chosen to be the President of France as part of the CIA-operated MKUltra program or a similar mind-control program; and Mrs. Macron and President Macron are committing forgery, fraud, and abuses of power to conceal these secrets,” the lawsuit reads.
“These lies have caused tremendous damage to the Macrons,” says the suit, which notes the allegations have subjected the couple to a “campaign of global humiliation, turning their lives into fodder for profit-driven lies.”
“Owens has dissected their appearance, their marriage, their friends, their family, and their personal history – twisting it all into a grotesque narrative designed to inflame and degrade,” the complaint alleges.
Kovacs rehashed Owens’ previous evidence-free defense, than added: “Owens responded to Macron’s lawsuit in her Wednesday broadcast, saying: ‘I am ready for this fight. All sickos will be exposed.'” No mention of the fact that the apparent sicko here is Owens — or her embrace of anti-Semitism.