In a dramatic authorized salvo, French President Emmanuel Macron and his spouse Brigitte have filed a landmark defamation swimsuit in Delaware in opposition to far-right US commentator Candace Owens, accusing her of spreading a “verifiably false and devastating” conspiracy that Brigitte was born male. Via her eight-part podcast Changing into Brigitte, Owens amplified a broadly debunked narrative from far-right circles,, triggering a high-stakes battle for fact, dignity, honour and thousands and thousands in damages. FRANCE 24’s François Picard welcomes Eric Lisann, Authorized Analyst and former US Federal Prosecutor, to delve in deeper into an unprecedented transatlantic courtroom case with all of the makings of a telenovela.
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