Speaker 1: Fresh off a firestorm of international headlines, Candice Owens has
Speaker 1: dominated the news with a sprawling defamation lawsuit filed against
Speaker 1: her by French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron.
Speaker 1: This legal drama centers on Owen's repeating the conspiratorial claim
Speaker 1: that Brigitte Macron was born male, a statement widely debunked
Speaker 1: and described by outlets like The Independent as a relentless
Speaker 1: and unjustified smear repeated in her podcast and online. The
Speaker 1: Macrans filed the two hundred nineteen page complaint in Delaware,
Speaker 1: shaking up both US and French media scenes. While most
Speaker 1: pundits speculated that even American free speech defenses would buckle
Speaker 1: under the weight of such litigation, Owens instead doubled down,
Speaker 1: accepting Piers Morgan's on air challenge to a three hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars charity bed that she stands pre stable by
Speaker 1: her claim, and repeatedly telling both Morgan and Tucker Carlson
Speaker 1: that her crusade is about finding the truth, not launching it.
Speaker 1: Owens says she even offered to cancel her multi episode
Speaker 1: investigation series if the Macrons would answer her questions directly
Speaker 1: on the Politics Front, The Independent, and The Economic Times
Speaker 1: both report that Donald Trump personally phoned Owens after being
Speaker 1: approached by President Macron in Washington diplomacy. Trump reportedly said
Speaker 1: the First Lady looks like a woman to him and
Speaker 1: that the subject was making Brigitte Macran miserable. Owens claims
Speaker 1: Trump seemed baffled by the request, but has since remained
Speaker 1: silent in the public arena, which has become a bone
Speaker 1: of contention for her. On a recent episode of her podcast,
Speaker 1: Owens expressed surprise and frustration that neither Trump, nor his
Speaker 1: running mate Jade Vance, nor even the U. S. Attorney
Speaker 1: General has stepped up to defend her on First Amendment grounds,
Speaker 1: despite the international implications for American free speech. Social media
Speaker 1: has been buzzing as well, with reactions spread from support
Speaker 1: of memes and hashtags to sharp criticism. August seventh saw
Speaker 1: her release a new video on YouTube addressing a copyright
Speaker 1: dispute with photographer William Farrington, whose Epstein death scene photos
Speaker 1: her team had posted. Owens said legal threats over the
Speaker 1: reposted photos were inconsequential, even suggesting the episode allowed her
Speaker 1: to track Farrington's location and dismissing the Epstein story as
Speaker 1: full of holes. Feeling further Internet debate, Owens continues to
Speaker 1: fiercely guard her family's privacy, according to ed tech Lens,
Speaker 1: which observed her deliberate strategy of keeping her children out
Speaker 1: of the spotlight, possibly to shield them from the toxic
Speaker 1: glare she regularly courts in her public life. As detailed
Speaker 1: by The Spectator, Owens shows no signs of backing down,
Speaker 1: publicly stating on August eighth that the Macrone's lawsuit has
Speaker 1: only amplified her platform and that she sees her situation
Speaker 1: as a global referendum on limits to free speech. There
Speaker 1: has been the usual speculation and rumor around her personal motivations,
Speaker 1: but verified appearances and direct statements make clear Owens remains
Speaker 1: at the center of one of the summer's most high
Speaker 1: stakes battles over speech, celebrity, and international power. And that
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