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Satanism, old photos, a defamatory clairvoyant, and Emmanuel Macron's pink tie: A look into Candace Owens' insanely stupid "transvestigation" into Brigitte Macron

Just when I thought the Daily Wire couldn't get stupider (source: Candace Owens on Daily Wire)

Candace Owens is descending into pure wingnuttery before our very eyes. Last week she declared that there is a secret "Jewish Gang" in Hollywood committing horrifying acts on people and now she's really really descending into Alex Jones territory by declaring that Brigitte Macron is secretly a trans woman, no I'm not kidding.

I'm not familiar enough with Candace Owens to know if this kind of brilliant insight is the norm for her, however I'd just like to state for the record that if Candace Owens is always this insane you'll be seeing a lot more of her on the blog. Lets get into it, strap in folks because this is truly one of the most insane things that I have ever covered on this blog.

03:00, Candace Owens: "So let me tell you about how I happened upon this story. There was just an article that was published in the Daily Mail, here is the headline. 'The proof France's first lady wasn't born a man'."

Here's the full headline that Candace displayed on her show. It seems like she suffers from selective eyesight and could only make out the words "France's first lady" and "born a man".

Yeah, you really shouldn't display an article debunking a conspiracy theory up on the screen before promoting that exact same conspiracy theory as a 100% factually accurate bombshell. This is just pure laziness.

03:15, Candace Owens: "So I of course instantly read it because what a bizarre thing that you need to provide proof that Brigitte Macron was not born a man. And embedded within the article they showed two photos and I'm going to show you right now. This is the first photo, this is allegedly Brigitte Macron when she was a little girl sitting on her moms lap but when I saw this photo the first thing I noticed was that the person on the far left, the boy, that actually looks like Brigitte Macron."

Ok, so Candaces brilliant evidence for her theory that's supposed to prove to me that Brigitte Macron is trans is....that Brigitte has a familial resemblance to her brother.

I'm not sure if Candace realizes this but there's this thing called "genetics" that also explains why Brigitte's brother looks similar to her. Does Candace just assume that every woman who has a brother is secretly trans because that woman's brother brother looks kind of similar to her? I am honestly floored that a grown woman is floating this junk as a serious possibility.

If you're reading this and you take the Daily Wire seriously, consider this your wakeup call because this might take the crown for the stupidest video I have seen in my lifetime. Also, here's the photo in case you're curious.

03:42, Candace Owens: "I'm taking you guys through my thought process."

Candace Owens: A Portrait of Insanity.

03:48, Candace Owens: "Maybe she's a dead ringer for her brother but I don't see any resemblance there with the little girl."

Maybe because that photo was taken when Brigitte was extremely young and had yet to develop any particularly defined facial features? What kind of dumbass argument is that?

"Oh, Brigitte's older brother who had more defined features than her in an old black and white photo has a familial resemblance to Brigitte. Must be because they're secretly the same person!"

And if Brigitte's older brother is in fact trans, who's the girl sitting on Brigitte's mothers lap? A secret relative? Is Brigitte's older brother a trans male? How deep does this go?! New theory, every person on the planet is trans!

03:51, Candace Owens: "Let me show the second photo, debunking --- another young photo allegedly of Brigitte Macron. What I thought when I looked at this photo is that this looks way too new to be a photo of a 70 year old when they were a child."

No it doesn't. In what world does this look like a newer photograph?

Think about it this way, if Brigitte Macron was a trans male that would have left a paper trail. If Macron met her as a female, which by all means he did, then Brigitte would have transitioned before she became a teacher. Surely this would be documented somewhere. She presumably went through some training to become a teacher, maybe there would be records of her attending college there pre-transition.

Also, if Brigitte is indeed trans like Candace is speculating here, the amount of effort it would take to cover this up would be insane. It's totally unrealistic. Too bad the cover-up got exposed by Candace Owens noticing that Brigitte looks kind of similar to her brother!

04:34, Candace Owens: "So the quote-on-quote 'conspiracy theory' is actually a three year thorough investigation that was conducted by journalists that were working with genealogists. It was published in six issues in Faits Et Documents, I'm sorry my French is not that good but yes, they published six issues unpacking what they had discovered after a three year investigation."

Faits Et Documents (Facts And Documents in English) is absolutely not a credible source of information. It's essentially an Infowars-esque far-right magazine that regularly goes on antisemitic tirades about how Jewish people and freemasons control the world. It claims that it's the only French publication to deal with "masonic meetings".

The person who founded it is named Emmanuel Rattier and he is, in the kindest terms, an antisemitic raving lunatic. For a while Rattier worked as the "occult editorial advisor" at Kontre Kulture. Kontre Kulture is a publishing house that has unapologetically republished things like The International Jew, an antisemitic propaganda piece published by Henry Ford in the 1920's that Adolf Hitler himself praised.

Rattier's own publication has also published antisemitic screeds and generally engaged in crazed behavior. Rattier apparently would send his underlings to infiltrate freemason meetings, presumably in the hope that they would discover an occult conspiracy.

The article that Candace links is essentially a blog summarizing Fait Et Documents "findings". It was written by a guy named Lionel Labosse. Here's how he describes himself.

"My interest for this investigation comes from converging coincidences. On the one hand, I am an anti-communist from the beginning. I started the series of now 11 articles chronicling national-covidism at the beginning of March 2020; secondly, I subscribe to Faits & Documents, so I didn't waste time wondering if it was a serious journal; thirdly, I am altersexual (a word of my own invention), so this investigation was particularly relevant to me, and I was relatively expert in this field, and able to distinguish between what falls under transphobia and homophobia, and what falls under the public interest."

So this guy, who is a self-described "anti-communist" subscriber of Fait Et Documents and has written numerous articles concerning something that he calls "national-covidism" is the writer of this post. Don't worry though guys, he's altersexual, which by the way is absolutely not a term that he coined, so he's able to parse through what's transphobic and what's of public interest. I don't see how you can read that and not see the writings of a raving lunatic. Candace Owens however seems to find this all very compelling.

The "genealogist" isn't even a licensed genealogist. His name is Alain Beyrand and he's a self-proclaimed "amateur genealogist".

What he did to merit the description of "genealogist" remains a mystery to me and everyone else in the reality-based community.

The two "journalists" who were involved in this investigation are Xavier Poussard and Natacha Rey. Now, there isn't much information about these two on the internet so I'm only going by what I could scrape together in what amounts to a Google investigation of a bunch of documents written in French conducted in the hallowed hall of journalism that is my tiny apartment. From the looks of it, Xavier is the publishing director for Faits Et Documents and he's also an occult obsessed weirdo, as is Natalie. In the document that Candace Owens cites, he delivers some truly crazed analysis of Brigitte and Emmanuel's wedding.

Of course, how could I not have realized that because Emmanuel Macron wore a pink tie to his wedding and their wedding cake had candles on it, him and his wife are secretly satanists....and his wife is trans. This is all very sane and non-transphobic by the way. God, these people are so profoundly stupid and bigoted.

So, Candace's source of information is a completely insane blog sourced from a completely insane magazine that's obsessed with wingnut satanic conspiracy theories. If I was Ben Shapiro, Candace would be fired so fast that her head would spin.

05:03, Candace Owens: "This is what they have published."

They've also published that Emmanuel Macron wearing a pink tie is somehow proof that he's a satanist. As I said prior, the people writing this are clearly completely insane.

05:04, Candace Owens: "Their theory is that the first lady, Brigitte Macron, was actually born Jean-Michelle. So Brigitte is actually Jean-Michelle. Jean-Michelle lived as a man for thirty years, fathered five children, OK? And then transitioned at the age of thirty to become Brigitte."

Ok genius, who was the mother? It's not like Brigitte just planted child seeds in the front yard and the next day a kid sprouted out of the ground, someone had to have carried those children. Who was that person?! The timeline doesn't make sense, the missing child on the lap doesn't make sense, none of this makes sense!

05:26, Candace Owens: "Now, I'm just gonna show you this before and after photo, just right here. They actually used as a part of their investigation, Chinese software. Uh, and this is a side by side. It is such a dead wringer, it's crazy to me that you would not say that these two individuals look alike."

Here's the picture Candace shows. Lets unpack this:

Alright, so we've got a part in the hair that looks kind of similar and a facial structure that can basically be explained by the fact that Brigitte is related to her brother. The hair part in particular makes absolutely zero sense. It doesn't even look that similar and guess what, hair styles aren't inherently coded into our biology. Hair can be styled and parted in different ways and there are probably hundreds if not thousands of people out there with similar hair to me. Plus, your hair looks way after you've aged over 50 years.

Hinging your entire conspiracy theory on "Well, this person looks vaguely similar to her brother" is so stupid. Also, if you look really closely you'll notice that the eye colors are different. I guess she just found a way to magically change her eye color for....cosmetic reasons?

05:52, Candace Owens: "Now, I will tell you why this has legs and why I'm going to encourage you to read the very long document that I read which we will include in the link in bio."

I am absolutely horrified that Candace Owens basically ensured that a legion of people will believe that Brigitte Macron is a transgender satanist because she has a familial resemblance to her brother and Emmanuel Macron wore a pink tie to his wedding (which Candace strangely enough doesn't mention, TieGate remains uninvestigated and must be exposed to the world at large!).

06:00, Candace Owens: "The first obvious thing, first obvious reason, that I am very much believing what they have published is that the first lady is simply unable to produce any photos of herself throughout the first thirty years of her life."

Well, she did. Unfortunately in Candace's opinion those are faked so I guess Brigitte technically hasn't produced any photos of herself in the Candace-verse. The thing is that no matter how many photos Brigitte produces, these guys are always going to find some hair tuft that looks kind of similar to her brothers and declare that photo as more proof for their insane theory.

06:46, Candace Owens: "Instead, the only photos they have produced that are circling in the media are the photos that I just showed you and as I said, the first photo, she looks more like the Jean-Michelle who she claims is actually her brother, who she won't just present to the public."

The notion that Brigitte Macron has the obligation to "produce" her brother because of Candace Owens and some insane blog is completely ridiculous.

And even if she did, Candace would probably just say that he's a paid actor and keep pushing this theory. All of Candace's evidence is "Oh, well there's no evidence that she isn't trans". By that logic I could say that a lizard person has possessed Candace Owens and when she protests go "Oh, yeah? Well show me the proof that you're aren't possessed by a lizard person".

07:20, Candace Owens: "So, Jean-Michelle existed for thirty years, according to the genealogist, ok? And then Jean-Michelle stops existing and Brigitte exists, but Brigitte doesn't exist for the first thirty years, ok?"

If Candace or Alain the amateur genealogist can provide any proof of these people vanishing and appearing from and into existence, I'd be happy to review it. Until then there's absolutely no proof of any of this outside of "I said so!"

07:29, Candace Owens: "The second photo, the one that I said to you looked a little too recent for an alleged 70 year old, well yeah they were able to debunk that. That's actually a photo of her daughter. Her daughter Tiphaine, you can see now side by side. Of course that is her daughter, it's a dead wringer for her daughter. So why would you colorize a photo and make it black and white and try to pass it as yourself when it is in fact your daughter?"

Woah, a daughter looks like her mother, that's never happened before. Must be a conspiracy! Also, I guess Brigitte (who is secretly Jean-Michelle) is the first transgender woman to have given birth because that's the only way to explain how she has a daughter in the first place.

God, this is so monumentally stupid.

08:06, Candace Owens: "Here's the second reason that I would say, major red flags. Rather than just producing what should be ample evidence of your existence for the first thirty years of your life, they're suing. Yes, the first lady actually sued two of the journalists who were involved in producing the story."

The people that Brigitte Macron sued were Natacha Rey (told you we'd come back to her!) and Amandine Roy. They got sued for producing a four hour video alleging that Brigitte is secretly trans.

This story gets even stranger when you look into Amandine Roy because apparently she's a self-described clairvoyant and Amandine Roy isn't actually her name, not even joking. Her real name is actually Delphine Jegousse and this isn't the first time she's gotten in trouble with the French government.

In early 2023, the office of the President of the Republic filed a complaint against Roy for posting drawings depicting Macron wearing a Nazi uniform on Twitter. It seems like this woman can't stop getting dragged to court for defamation. She was hit with a fine for the stuff about Brigette being trans but I couldn't find anything about the Hitler drawing. Regardless, these two people are clearly as nuts as some of the other characters who are central figures in this conspiracy theory.

Also, a lawsuit is actually really unhelpful to the conspiracy narrative because a lawsuit would force Brigitte to prove that she isn't trans. If there is indeed this massive lack of evidence of Brigitte being born a woman and she wants to cover that up for.....whatever reason, her taking this to court is probably one of the worst decisions that she could make.

08:32, Candace Owens: "Something to note is what exactly Brigitte is suing for. She's suing them for 'violation of privacy and fundamental personal rights' plus 'illicit use of her image'. But what does that mean? That doesn't mean anything."

I don't really know much about French law and neither does Candace Owens. However, they definitely did use her image illicitly judging from the information I could find about privacy laws in France. In France, people have the exclusive right to their own image. What this means in simple terms is that you are in full control of the redistribution and use of pictures that are taken of you and if somebody uses a picture of you without your consent you can sue because in France that's considered a violation of your privacy.

I figured this out in the roughly five seconds it took me to Google "right of image, France" and the two minutes it took me to read an article on a public service website. If I can do that on my budget of zero dollars, Candace Owens can do that with the massive budget that the Daily Wire provides for her.

09:06, Candace Owens: "Now, the two journalists being sued by the way are Amandine Roy and Natacha Rey and they were eventually punished with symbolic fines for, I guess, invading the privacy of the first lady. It's gonna get even crazier though because journalists that worked on this case were also threatened. They sent the police to threaten them while they were conducting research. Natacha Rey, the woman that was punished with a symbolic fine, as she was conducting research she reached out to somebody to ask questions about the first ladies upbringing, the first 30 years of the first ladies life. And then what happened as she was examining these inconsistencies in the story was the police burst into her home on July 13th, 2021. They then took her into custody, without being summoned, on the pretext of a complaint that was filed by one of the individuals that she had reached out to."

There are two places where I have heard this claim being made.

1): The Candace Owens Show

2): The blog that Candace links that also claims that Macron wearing a pink tie is a sign that he's a satanist. The blog also doesn't provide any evidence that this arrest actually took place. How do I know that Candace got this from the blog? Because she basically read what the blog said verbatim.

Unless there's hard evidence that any of this took place, I'm throwing this in the bullshit pile.

10:40, Candace Owens: "They similarly arrested a man named Éric Verhaeghe, another journalist working on the story. Similarly had no charges, they just wanted to question him."

Candace left the a couple parts out of this. Such as the part where Eric Verhaeghe is a writer for the Russian state funded propaganda outlet RT and unapologetically repeated a Russian state TV outlets claims that Donald Trump's "secret file" contained dirt of Brigette Macron. If this guy doesn't have Russian asset written all over him I don't know who does.

If this alleged arrest did actually occur, it was most likely because this guy works for Russian state media and was spreading disinformation about a prominent politician. Plus, even in his story it's not like anything really came of it. He was arrested and then let out, allowed to carry on his investigation as if nothing happened. If the French government really wanted to suppress this story, surely they wouldn't have let him out.

11:21, Candace Owens: "What keeps happening throughout the years of her being the first lady, so since 2017, every time the first lady tells a story about herself in her childhood the math doesn't quite math, right? For example, she recalled living alone in the United States during Neil Armstrongs moon landing in 1969. The only problem is that she would've been just sixteen years old."

What a shock, a 70 year old woman doesn't have a perfect memory of every detail in her life. My grandmother fully believes that she was able to drive stick, the only problem is that my three uncles and my father all have told me that she never touched a manual transmission in her life. Your memory starts to go when you're older.

Conclusion:

Somehow, that was even dumber than I expected. One thing it was thought was an absolutely wild ride. I expected things like the photos, what I didn't expect was a conspiracy theory declaring that candles and pink ties are satanic that was written by a raging antisemite being used as a primary source and one of their other primary sources being a guy who works for RT.

Also, I've never seen pictures of Candace Owens as a kid. Clearly this means that she's transgender. It's even though because she's never seen pictures of me as a kid meaning that I'm a transwoman. All this theory proves is that the right is rehashing conspiracy theories that weren't even that good to begin with, is Michelle Obama still a man? I guess so. Everyone that Candace Owens doesn't like is trans, which naturally makes all those people that much cooler in my eyes.

Cheers and I'll see you in the next one!

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Brigitte Macron Transgender Conspiracy Debunk

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