00:00Political commentator and conspiracy theorist Candace Owens believes French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron are plotting to assassinate her, according to an outlandish, lengthy tweet she fired off over the weekend.
00:13Two days ago I was contacted by a high-ranking employee of the French government. After determining this person's position and proximity to the French couple, I have deemed the information they gave me to be credible enough to share publicly in the event that something happens.
00:27In short, this person claims that the Macron's have executed upon and paid for my assassination, she wrote on November 22nd.
00:34In the post, Owens went on to claim she was told formalized assassination plans were greenlit to be executed by a team in the elite French special ops unit, National Jean de Marie Intervention Group, while making sure to specify that there was one Israeli among the alleged assassination squad.
00:50She also warned in the post that the supposed assassination plot also endangers French independent journalist Xavier Proussard, who has also vehemently peddled conspiracy theories about the gender and sexuality of Brigitte Macron.
01:03Owens later posted that she has evidence to support her claims including names and international accounts through which money was exchanged, and that she has informed the federal government and the White House of what she called the French and Israeli assassination plot.
01:17In her initial post, she also claimed that Charlie Kirk's assassin was allegedly connected to the French government, saying she was told he had trained with a French brigade, which she wrote was not a coincidence in a later post.
01:31And while many of the comments went on to call the lengthy tirade bat sh**t crazy or a psychiatric breakdown in real time, Telegram founder Pavel Durov chimed in on Owens' allegations of France's involvement in Kirk's death, calling them entirely plausible.
01:46Durov cited the Turning Point USA founder's previous comments about Macron's France, specifically referencing an occasion in which Kirk called for the country to drop charges against him or face 300% tariffs from the US.
01:58Durov was arrested in France in August of 2024 over several alleged organized crime offenses, as well as failing to combat the dissemination of criminal content on the messaging app.
02:10He was under strict travel supervision from the country until it was lifted earlier this month.
02:15Owens' slew of allegations comes amid a lengthy feud between the conspiracy theorist and the French president and first lady.
02:22The couple has been afflicted for years since Emmanuel Macron's presidential win in 2017 by unsubstantiated conspiracy theories being spread online, most notably by Owens, claiming Brigitte is a transgender woman who was initially born a man named Jean-Michel Trognot, which is the name of Brigitte's brother.
02:40After she was slapped with a defamation lawsuit by the Macron's in July, Owens doubled down on her comments about the French first lady.
02:49You were born a man and you will die a man. That's the point I'm making. So give us a sample. I'll send my doctors to take your blood, figure it out real quick, however you want to go about this.
02:59Hey, how about just giving us some pictures again of you growing up, you know, raising your children? That would be fine.
03:06In January, Owens ran an eight part podcast series in which she made the wild claims about the couple who met when Brigitte was the future French leader school teacher in 1993.
03:16She was 39 and he was 15 at the time.
03:20I believe that Emmanuel Macron is a homosexual man that was groomed from his youth, Owens said in one of the episodes.
03:27I believe the individual who groomed him is now his wife.
03:30I believe his wife was born Jean-Michel Trognot and transitioned in his early 30s.
03:35And I believe that the entire state is colluding to protect that secret, she said.
03:41Owens is no stranger to controversy.
03:43She has repeatedly courted outrage with anti-Semitic remarks, minimizing Hitler's ambitions as well as defending Kanye West's social media posts.
03:51She has also amplified a grab bag of conspiracy theories, such as questioning the moon landing and promoting COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.
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