It is through her that Brigitte Macron must prove that she is a woman. What is the controversial youtuber? “Skillfully uses the crisis of trust”

The Macrons did not react in public for a long time. In the summer, they filed a lawsuit against Owens in Delaware. The proceedings are just beginning. However, Brigitte Macron has just announced through a lawyer that will present evidence of your gender: Old photos show her with a pregnancy tummy.

Radical right -wing youtuberka

Hardly anyone would think that the presidential couple would go so far, especially because of the conspiracy theory from the Internet. However, now its range has become too great. This is related to Candace Owens herself. With its popularity, with its radicalization. Suzanne Enzerink, an assistant professor at the University of St. Gallen, says: – She is an extremely right -wing supporter of conspiracy theories.

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This may seem unusual for a black woman in the USA. Unless you know the story of Candace Owens herself. It was shaped by one key experience. She grew up with her family in social apartments in Stamford, Connecticut. When she was nine, her parents moved to their grandparents who lived nearby.

Grandfather Robert always told her how he grew up as one of 12 children in North Carolina in the south of the USA. Black people were not worth nothing. They were exposed to attacks and attacks from Ku Klux Klan. And they had to be hungry. As a 5-year-old Robert, he arranged tobacco leaves on the ground to dry a white man on the farm. Little Candace watched her grandfather tried to accept the humiliation he suffered as a black man. Later it also happened to her.

She experienced violence, but he doesn't want to be seen as a victim

At the age of 18, she got into a fight with a white classmate. The boy was suspended as a student. It is not known what was going on. One thing is certain: then Bombarded Owens malicious voice messages containing racist insults and threatened to death. He wasn't the only one.

According to the American magazine “The New Yorker”, three girls were then accused of attacking Owens in the parking lot and throwing racist insults. As a result, Owens did not go to school for several weeks, and her family received over 37,000 hole. [obecnie ok. 135 tys. zł] compensation from school authorities. All this left deep scars. In an article published in 2016 in the local newspaper, Stamford wrote: “I kept my head high at school, but I returned home every night and cried.”

Candace Owens during the right -wing convention in Paris, September 28, 2019.Jo Bouroch / Shutterstock

Candace Owens was a victim, just like her ancestors. But she coped with it in her own way: She refused to play the role of a patient, later rejecting her as “the worst thing in history”as she told “New Yorker”. And she was the goal of everyone who claimed that they were victims of: black people, LGBT people, women.

In this way she was promoted to the right -wing movement. In 2016, she became known throughout the country, leading a campaign to Donald Trump and against “Black Lives Matter” on her channels. A year later, as a PR specialist, she joined the US Turning Point, a right-wing Christian Youth Organization founded by Charlie Kirk, who was recently murdered. Then she radicalized. She is now an open anti -Semitic. He claims that Jews secretly control the media and that Kirk's murder was a secret work of Israel.

During the pandemic, conspiracy theories were multiplied

Candace Owens reached the top. Media from around the world write about it, and its success is a reflection of American society.

“Candace Owens skillfully uses a crisis of trust in the USA,” comments Americanist Suzanne Enzerink. According to her, this was intensified through the Covid-19 pandemic. The crisis worried people, sowed distrust of scientific facts, politics and the media. He encouraged conspiracy thinking. In the US the right used it. They shouted on all channels: the elites fail us, they are corrupt. “For this reason, Donald Trump came to power,” sums up Enzerink. He said he was an alternative for this. It will eliminate corruption, drainage the swamp.

And the result is Candace Owens. The driving force is fake news, from which he draws on profits. That is why she eagerly dealt with the false story of “Brigitte-Gate”.

In 2021, this theory appeared for the first time in France in right -wing circles. In the spring of 2024, Owens took over this topic in its social media programs. Since then, he provides “evidence” to support his own version of this absurd theory: Brigitte Macron is “transgender”, as a teacher seduced 14-year-old Emmanuel Macron, all to get to the nearest circle of power. Owens devoted this topic to the 8-part YouTube series entitled “Becoming Brigitte”.

Risky Macronów play

All this pays off youtuber. “The media interest in this matter has allowed Candace Owen to a significant increase in the number of people observing it,” sums up Enzerink. Now the Macronie wants to put an end to this. The question is: Will it not have the opposite effect? Will it not strengthen Owens and conspiracy theory?

Emmanuel and Brigitte Macrones during a visit to London, July 9, 2025.EPA / CARLOS JASSO / POOL / PAP

Suzanne Enzerink agrees with this, but he believes that the Macron's lawsuit is a “good decision.” Because it is more than one influencer, about more than one conspiracy theory. It is about what made her so powerful first: freedom of speech that is written in the US constitution. The court case draws attention to the public that There must be boundaries of what can be said. If the macrones get their own, the court determines where this border is. “This is what Emmanuel Macron wants to achieve,” says Enzerink. – I want to set an example.

However, the bar is set high. Macron lawyers must prove that Owens acted in bad faith. Only then will freedom of speech not apply.