Speaker 1: Candace Owens is at the epicentre of a high profile
Speaker 1: legal storm after French President Emmanuel Macraw and First Lady
Speaker 1: Brigitte Macraw filed a sweeping twenty two count lawsuit against
Speaker 1: her for allegedly spreading defamatory claims that Brigitte is transgender,
Speaker 1: a conspiracy theory Owens has repeated to her millions of
Speaker 1: followers for months. Marcrone, quoted by Paris Match and b
Speaker 1: E T, admitted he felt compelled to act to defend
Speaker 1: his wife's honour after the story gained traction in the US,
Speaker 1: making headlines not just for the salacious nature of the accusation,
Speaker 1: but for its implications in Transatlantic politics. Macron's legal team
Speaker 1: is seeking substantial punitive damages and asserted Owens knowingly spread
Speaker 1: these verifiably false and devastating lies. Owens, however, is publicly
Speaker 1: mocking the lawsuit, calling it goofy and labeling the Macron's
Speaker 1: actions as a PR stunt, even selling merchandise thirty dollars
Speaker 1: free in manual T shirts to offset looming legal fees.
Speaker 1: She's openly pleaded for support from Donald Trump and VP
Speaker 1: J d Vance, frustrated they haven't publicly defended her and
Speaker 1: went as far as demanding their intervention, while lambast the
Speaker 1: silence from right wing leaders. Simultaneously, Owens found herself embroiled
Speaker 1: in another major headline after Blake Lively subpoened her over
Speaker 1: smear campaign allegations against Justin Baldoni. Owens responded during a
Speaker 1: live podcast, pulling out her text, claiming confusion about the
Speaker 1: subpoena's basis, and criticized Lively's team for letting TMZ break
Speaker 1: the news before Owens had any formal notification. Amidst these
Speaker 1: legal dramas, Owens made waves with combative debate moments opposite
Speaker 1: Piers Morgan on his Uncensored show, further sharpening her persona
Speaker 1: as an unapologetic right wing commentator who relishes controversy on
Speaker 1: social media, Owens's recent Instagram activity offered rare glimpses of
Speaker 1: her private life. Images of her and her children jeering
Speaker 1: up for the fall sparked speculation about whether she is
Speaker 1: attempting to soften her public image or if these appearances
Speaker 1: are merely accidental exposure. Annalysts note that her usual strategy
Speaker 1: is to shield her family from the media, with some
Speaker 1: interpreting the timing of these posts as efforts to humanize
Speaker 1: her amid legal turmoil, though no official statement has clarified
Speaker 1: her intent, Owens's camp, through statements to Deadline and Just Jared,
Speaker 1: framed the Macrone lawsuit as a First Amendment battle, rejecting
Speaker 1: the ideas she'd be silenced by a foreign government. None
Speaker 1: the less, legal experts in French and U S media
Speaker 1: debate whether Owens's free speech protections will shield her from
Speaker 1: potentially ruinous damages. These past days have highlighted Candace Owen's
Speaker 1: gift for staying at the center of culture wars. Her
Speaker 1: personal brand thrives on drama and division, leveraging every controversy
Speaker 1: to rally her audience, all while the long term consequences
Speaker 1: of these bitter legal battles remain uncertain. And that is
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