Candace Owens responded to the French president Emmanuel Macron And his wife, Brigitte, fileing a defamation complaint against the conservative influencer, saying “to see in court”.

The trial focuses on the repeated affirmations of Owens that the First Lady of France is “in fact a man” and includes 22 counts, in particular defamation, false light and defamation by involvement.

Owens resumed his eponymous podcast in an episode published on Wednesday, saying: “I am fully ready to assume this battle in the whole world.”

Owens called Brigitte Macron to provide blood samples and childhood images. “I would like to come to the discovery, I think we owe it to the world,” she said.

“Go to court,” she added.

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L: Candace Owens is seen on the set of “Candace” on April 19, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. A: French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron arrive at Downing Street on July 9, 2025 in …


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The trial submitted Wednesday at the Superior Court of Delaware, calls on several of Owens’ complaints “of bizarre, defamatory and eccentric fictions” which caused “incessant intimidation on a global scale”, which led to “enormous damage to macrons”.

In a declaration on Wednesday, the Macrons said “because Ms. Owens systematically reaffirmed these lies in response to the repeated requests of our lawyers for a retraction, we finally concluded that the referral to a court was the only avenue remaining for appeal.”

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