Cockburn has been too wrapped up in the Michelle “Michael” Obama saga for the last several years to hear there’s a similar conspiracy developing across the Atlantic against French first lady Brigitte Macron. Fortunately, the wild allegation has been covered in depth by Candace Owens and, on Tuesday, the Daily Wire host staked her career on its credibility.
“After looking into this, I would stake my entire professional reputation on the fact that Brigitte Macron is in fact a man,” Owens wrote on X. “Any journalist or publication that is trying to dismiss this plausibility is immediately identifiable as establishment. I have never seen anything like this in my life. The implications here are terrifying.”
Owens repeats allegations that Brigitte was born Jean-Michel Trogneux, lived as a man for thirty years, fathered five children and then transitioned to a woman. Jean-Michael is Brigitte’s older brother, although little information is available about him online. The rumor was originally published across six issues of the French magazine Facts and Document.
Owens compiled her case with information from “the Pressibus 2022 file, a citizens’ inquiry journal.” The website, complete with an orange background, grainy pictures and pseudoscientific charts, looks like something Cockburn’s niece might create for her international day project. Among the claims that Owens repeated, the website also says that Brigitte’s first husband never existed and that she did not give birth to her three children.
In the Monday episode of her podcast, Owens lambasted the Macrons’ odd relationship, but Cockburn can’t hold the very French love affair against them. At age forty, Brigitte met fifteen-year-old Emmanuel, who was a student in her drama class — the same class in which Brigitte’s daughter was also enrolled. Brigitte was married at the time, but later shared, “Little by little, I was won over by his intelligence. I still haven’t measured all its depths.” The two were married in 2007, two years after Brigitte divorced her previous husband.
The real smoking gun, according to Owens, is that few photos exist of Brigitte as a child. In one family photo, Brigitte bears a striking resemblance to her brother. Using the skills of a Twitter troll poring over Kate Middleton pics, Owens then attempted to show that a photo of Brigitte as a young girl is actually a doctored image of her daughter.
“I am going to tell you why this has legs,” Owens said. “The first obvious reason I am very much believing what they have published is because the first lady is unable to produce any photos of herself throughout the first thirty years of her life. There should be so many photos Brigitte has at her disposal if this is false.” Owens also questioned why Brigitte won’t present her brother to the public and why she sued two women pushing claims about her gender in 2022.
Owen’s most outlandish claim is that an unidentified “they” hand-selected Macron and Brigitte as the leaders of France because the blackmail on their relationship that would make the couple easier to control.
“I’m not a person who just pushes out these narratives,” Owens said in an attempt to establish her credibility. “I’m not a person that’s like, ‘Come with me and we’re gonna examine QAnon or Pizzagate.’” Cockburn isn’t so sure about that. Just last week, he was examining Owens’s take on the Jewish gangs running Hollywood.
