She's the reason Brigitte Macron has to prove she's a woman. What's up with the controversial youtube? "A skillful usage of the crisis of trust"

The Macrons haven't reacted publically for a long time. In the summer, they filed a defamation suit against Owens, Delaware. The proceedings are just beginning. However, Brigitte Macron just announced through her lawyer that provide evidence of her gender: old pictures show her with a pregnant belly.

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Few people would think that the presidential couple would go this far, especially due to the conspiracy explanation on the Internet. But now its scope has become besides big. It has to do with Candace Owens herself. With her popularity, with her radicalization. Suzanne Enzerink, an American aide at St. Gallen University, says: "She is an utmost right-wing fan of conspiracy theories.

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This may seem different to a black female in the United States. Unless you know the communicative of Candace Owens herself. It was shaped by 1 key experience. She grew up with her household in social housing in Stamford, Connecticut. erstwhile she was nine, her parents moved in with their children to their grandparents who lived nearby.

Grandpa Robert always told her how he grew up as 1 of 12 children in North Carolina in the south of the United States. Black people were worthless there. They were exposed to attacks and attacks from Ku Klux Klan. And they had to work. As a 5-year-old Robert laid out tobacco leaves on the ground to dry on a white man's farm. small Candace watched her grandpa effort to accept the humiliation he suffered as a black man. Then it happened to her, too.

She has experienced violence, but does not want to be seen as a victim

At 18, she got into a fight with a white classmate. The boy was suspended in student rights. I don't know what it was about. 1 thing is certain: he then bombed Owens malicious voice messages containing racist insults and threatening to kill her. He wasn't the only one.

According to American magazine The fresh Yorker, 3 girls were then accused of attacking Owens in a parking lot and throwing racist insults. As a result, Owens did not go to school for respective weeks, and her household received over $37,000 in compensation from school authorities. All of this left deep scars. In an article published in 2016 in the local Stamford newspaper, she wrote: "I held my head advanced at school, but all night I would come home and cry."

Candace Owens during the right-wing convention in Paris, 28 September 2019.Jo Bouroch / Shutterstock

Candace Owens was a victim, as were her ancestors. But she handled it in her own way: She refused to play the function of sufferer, later rejecting it as “the worst thing in history”, as she said to "New Yorker". And she targeted everyone who claimed to be victims: black people, LGBT people, women.

That's how she got promoted in the right-wing movement. In 2016, she became known nationwide, campaigning for Donald Trump and against the Black Lives substance on her channels. A year later, as a PR specialist, she joined Turning Point USA, a right-wing populist Christian youth organization founded by The late murdered Charlie Kirk. She then radicalized herself. She's an overt anti-Semitic now.. He claims that Jews secretly control the media and that Kirk's execution was Israel's secret work.

During the pandemic, conspiracy theories were multiplied

Candace Owens reached the top. It is written by media from around the world, and its success is simply a reflection of American society.

“ Candace Owens skillfully exploits the U.S. trust crisis, ” comments American Suzanne Enzerink. According to her, it intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis has alarmed people, caused distrust against technological facts, politics and the media. He encouraged conspiracy thinking. In the United States, it was utilized by the right hand. On all channels they shouted: the elite let us down, they're corrupt. “ For this reason Donald Trump came to power,” concluded Enzerink. He said he was an alternative. destruct corruption, drain the swamp.

And the consequence is Candace Owens. The driving force is fake news from which it derives profits. This is why she so eagerly dealt with the false communicative of "Brigitte-gate".

In 2021, this explanation first appeared in France in right-wing circles. In the spring of 2024 Owens took over this subject in her social media programs. Since then, he has provided "proofs" in support of his own version of this absurd theory: Brigitte Macron is "transgender", as a teacher she seduced 14-year-old Emmanuel Macron, all to get to the nearest ellipse of power. Owens dedicated this subject to an 8-part series on YouTube titled "Becoming Brigitte".

The Macron's risky play

All of this pays off for you. “The media interest allowed Candace Owen to importantly increase the number of people watching her, ” concludes Enzerink. Now the Macrons want to put an end to this. The question is: Won't that have the other effect? Won't it strengthen Owens and conspiracy theory?

Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron during a visit to London, 9 July 2025.EPA/CARLOS JASSO / POOL / PAP

Suzanne Enzerink agrees with this, but believes that Macron's suit is simply a “good decision”. due to the fact that there's more than 1 influencer involved, more than 1 conspiracy theory. It's what made her so powerful in the first place: freedom of speech, which is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. The court case draws public attention to the fact that There must be limits to what you can say. If the Macrons do their job, the court will find where that line lies. “ That’s what Emmanuel Macron is trying to achieve,” Enzerink argues. He wants to set an example.

However, the bar is set high. Macron lawyers gotta prove Owens acted in bad faith. Only then will freedom of speech not apply.