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Candace Owens Reveals Emmanuel Macron Called Trump to Silence Her Over Brigitte Investigation

August 1, 2025

Candace Owens exposes a stunning international incident where French President Emmanuel Macron personally flew to Washington D.C. and asked President Trump to shut down her investigation into Brigitte Macron. What began as a documentary series about France's First Lady escalated into a 200-page lawsuit, banned speaking tours, and threats from one of the world's most powerful intelligence services. Owens details the disturbing allegations surrounding Brigitte's hidden past, a network of powerful figures connected to child abuse, and why she refuses to be silenced despite facing career destruction and legal intimidation from the French state.

The Call From Trump

In February, Candace Owens received a phone call that would change everything. Emmanuel Macron had just visited President Trump in Washington D.C., ostensibly to discuss ending the Russian-Ukrainian war. But during those high-level diplomatic negotiations, the French President took Trump aside with an unusual request: he wanted Candace Owens to stop talking about his wife, Brigitte Macron.

Owens was contacted by an intermediary just hours after Macron left the meeting. The message was blunt: somebody very close to the President of the United States was asking her to stop talking about Brigitte. At first, Owens dismissed it as ridiculous. She was five or six months pregnant at the time and questioned whether it was even real. But the intermediary explained that Macron had presented this as a condition related to ending the Russian-Ukrainian war.

When Trump eventually called, he sounded confused. A leader of a nuclear-armed country had taken him aside during crucial international negotiations to inquire about whether he knew Candace Owens. The situation was so surreal that Owens told her husband no one would ever believe them.

The Investigation That Started It All

Owens' series about Brigitte Macron began organically. She first noticed a Daily Mail article with a video of Emmanuel Macron denying claims his wife was a man. What caught her attention wasn't just the bizarre headline, but how the article made no effort to debunk the claims. There were no childhood photos, no pictures of Brigitte raising her three children, just one solitary photo that looked suspicious.

The story, Owens discovered, didn't originate from far-right conspiracy theorists on Reddit. It began with left-leaning French journalists who wanted to celebrate Brigitte as an empowered woman. When these journalists tried to verify basic information about the First Lady's past, they hit a wall. They couldn't find anything about Brigitte's history for a 30-year period of her life. When they asked basic questions, they were threatened and told to come to the Élysée Palace, where they could only speak to one approved person.

Owens worked with Xavier Poussard, a credible French journalist who had spent eight years investigating the story and eventually had to move his family to Italy because of harassment from the French government. The French intelligence services, Owens notes, are among the most competent and feared in the world, ranking after the CIA and Mossad. They made sure Poussard knew he was being followed.

The Legal Intimidation Campaign

The Macrons never sued anyone for claiming Brigitte was born a man. Instead, they filed charges for invasion of privacy and minor errors in documentation. They sued one journalist for defamation regarding a statement about a birth certificate that turned out to be real. The strategy was to keep critics tied up in court, harassed by legal proceedings, and intimidated into silence.

When the Macrons came after Owens, they retained Tom Clare and Libby Locke, a married couple who run a law firm in suburban Washington D.C. that specializes in making people shut up through intimidation. The first letter arrived in late November, sent to an obscure email inbox that Owens rarely checked. The timing was suspicious - it came right when Owens was meeting with Xavier Poussard in London, even though nobody knew about the interview. Owens believes the French government was monitoring Poussard's communications.

The lawsuit filed against Owens is 200 pages long and, according to her, remarkably sloppy. It argues both that she's doing it for money and that she was fired for talking about it, two claims that contradict each other. The suit attributes statements to Owens that she never actually made, taking words out of context and adding their own sentences.

What They Won't Answer

Before publishing her series, Owens went through proper journalistic channels. She contacted the Macrons through their lawyers and offered to stop the entire series if they would answer basic yes-or-no questions: Was Brigitte Macron born a woman? Did she ever live as a person named Veronique? Owens even offered to fly to France to interview Brigitte and get her side of the story.

The response was essentially a refusal. Tom Clare came back and said Brigitte doesn't have to answer questions or prove anything. They never provided any evidence - no childhood photos, no school yearbooks, no pictures of Brigitte with her children when they were young. Xavier Poussard filed paperwork with the French government to obtain Brigitte's school yearbook and Jean Michel Trogneux's military file. He won the case, but the school refused to release the documents anyway.

Even Brigitte's adult children have remained largely silent. Only one, Tiphaine, has spoken publicly, calling the rumors crazy and upsetting but providing no evidence to refute them. No family photos from childhood, no documentation, nothing.

The Child Abuse Connection

Perhaps most disturbing is what the lawsuit actually admits. For the first time, the Macrons acknowledge that Emmanuel was only 14 or 15 years old when his relationship with Brigitte began. Previously, the press had claimed he was 17, then 16. Now they're saying 15, though Owens presents evidence he was actually 14 when he performed in a play that Brigitte claims made her fall for him.

Emmanuel's parents removed him from the school because of this relationship. Yet Brigitte, a 40-year-old married teacher at the time, is portrayed as the victim in all this. The French press initially described her as irresistibly attractive, comparing her to Claudia Schiffer. But when journalists obtained actual photographs from that period, she looked, according to documents Owens references, like a man in the middle of a transition.

The disturbing pattern extends beyond the Macrons themselves. Owens details an entire orbit of people around them who have been involved in child abuse cases. One of their current lawyers, Eric Dupond-Moretti, whom Brigitte handpicked to be France's Minister of Justice, made his name defending people accused of incest. He famously argued in court for reduced sentences by claiming incidents were "happy incest" - consensual relationships between fathers and daughters. In one case, the Mannechez Affair, he got a man's sentence reduced who had been raping his two daughters. The man was released early and subsequently killed one of his daughters when she tried to escape.

Another example: Owens points to Emmanuel Macron's official presidential portrait, where he chose to display a book by André Gide, an author who openly admitted to being a pedophile who traveled to Algeria and Morocco to abuse young boys. Of all the books Macron could have selected for his official portrait, he chose one by a self-admitted child abuser.

The Deeper Ideology

Owens traces these patterns back to Sigmund Freud and what she describes as a theology of gaslighting. Freud initially acknowledged that the children he studied were being raped by their fathers - he saw the evidence at morgues in Paris while studying under Charcot. But when Freud turned 35, he suddenly pivoted, claiming these children weren't being abused at all. Instead, he theorized they were sexually attracted to their fathers and were the provocateurs.

Jeffrey Masson, who controlled the Sigmund Freud archives, published "The Assault on Truth," exposing letters that proved Freud knew the children were being raped but chose to lie to the public. Masson was subsequently kicked out of the Freud archives for revealing this truth. David Bakan, in "Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition," argued that Freud was mainstreaming Kabbalistic ideas through psychoanalysis, including concepts around "holy sin."

The Freud family legacy extends directly to modern propaganda and public relations. Edward Bernays, Freud's nephew, created the propaganda techniques used during World War II and pioneered modern PR. Today, Matthew Freud, a direct descendant, serves as the PR representative for the British royal family and was married to Rupert Murdoch's daughter.

Owens argues this represents a system designed to gaslight entire populations - to make people question obvious truths, to invert blame, to punish truth-tellers while protecting the powerful.

Why She Won't Back Down

When asked if she'll try to have the lawsuit dismissed, Owens gave a surprising answer: she doesn't want it dismissed. She wants discovery. She wants a courtroom. Unlike most defendants who desperately want frivolous lawsuits thrown out, Owens sees this as an opportunity to force the truth into the open.

The Macrons filed in Delaware, a jurisdiction known for compliant judges and where Tom Clare has had previous success, including in the Dominion case against Fox News. But Owens and her legal team want the case moved to Tennessee. She believes this case is too important to simply make go away.

Owens survived an unprecedented campaign to destroy her career in the previous year. She was banned from Australia, fired publicly, and subjected to relentless smears claiming she was anti-Semitic. Speaking events were canceled. Articles attacked everything about her. The goal, she says, was to kill her career completely. But she survived because she had truth on her side.

The lawsuit appears designed either to intimidate Owens into silence or to give the Macrons a PR victory they can spin in the press. They're likely counting on the case being dismissed so they can claim they tried to hold her accountable but American free speech laws protected her lies. Or, Owens speculates, they might claim Brigitte died from the grief of being defamed, avoiding discovery altogether.

But Owens made clear she's not motivated by money. She's guided by being able to put her head on the pillow at night knowing she did the right thing. She directly challenged Tom Clare, asking if representing clients he knows are lying, in cases involving harm to children, is really worth the paycheck.

The Stakes

This case represents something unprecedented: a sitting president of a foreign country suing a journalist in another country for telling the truth. There's no historical precedent for how this works or whether Macron could even collect a judgment. But Owens sees it as much bigger than her own situation.

If powerful people can impoverish truth-tellers simply for speaking facts, if they can use the legal system to punish those who expose their secrets, then truth itself becomes a crime. The message being sent is clear: even if everything Owens says is true, even if the Macrons did engage in inappropriate relationships with a minor, even if they are surrounded by people involved in child abuse, speaking about it will result in financial destruction.

During a CNN interview, Jake Tapper sat down with Tom Clare and called Owens deranged, crazy, and a conspiracy theorist, setting up softball questions for Clare. But when Tapper asked what evidence they presented to Owens that Brigitte was a woman, Clare couldn't answer. He deflected, saying people could read the claims in the lawsuit and that they told her Brigitte was a woman. But they never presented actual evidence.

Owens noted that her series has now gone viral in Asia, with people in China somehow watching it despite YouTube being blocked there. The lawsuit, rather than silencing her, has drawn more attention to the allegations. People recognize that presidents don't sue random podcasters over easily disproven lies. They sue when there's something they desperately need to keep hidden.

The Pattern Across History

Owens connected this case to broader patterns of how truth gets suppressed. She pointed to how working-class Americans have been under assault, their communities destroyed, and then they're blamed for their "medieval attitudes" and called racist. The victims of economic devastation are gaslit into believing they're the problem. Meanwhile, the people who created the policies that destroyed their livelihoods get richer and face no accountability.

She sees the same dynamic playing out with her investigation. The Macrons and their allies in the media want people to believe that questioning obvious inconsistencies in Brigitte's background is the real crime, not whatever they might be hiding. They want to make caring about potential harm to children seem like extremism.

Throughout the conversation, Owens emphasized that she's only asking people to read the same books she's read and look at the same evidence. She's not asking for blind trust in her conclusions. She started a book club specifically so people could educate themselves about Freud, Bernays, the psychoanalytic movement, and how gaslighting became institutionalized.

The people in power, she argued, have had a tremendous head start. They've run experiments on populations, they understand how minds work, they've had relationships with state power for generations. They are the state. And they're constantly trying to infect minds with lies, to make people doubt obvious truths, to invert reality itself.

The only way to defeat this system is to first understand it, and then to speak truth regardless of the consequences. That's why Owens refuses to be silenced, why she survived the attempts to destroy her career, and why she actually wants this case to go to trial. Truth requires much less energy than lying. You only have to say it once, and it resonates because people can feel that it's real.

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