You know you’ve messed up when President Donald Trump has to tell you to chill out! In the case of conservative commentator Candace Owens, she could’ve saved herself some headache if she only listened to the president’s advice. Well…at least that’s what she claims.
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As we previously reported, Owens was hit with a 22-count defamation lawsuit last month by France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife. The massive lawsuit came after the podcaster repeatedly claimed First Lady Brigitte Macron is transgender. But before the suit was even filed, Owens said Trump personally intervened to try to talk her down from the ledge.
Owens went on Tucker Carlson’s podcaster, telling her fellow conservative that Trump gave her a call back in February, shortly after the French leader came to the White House. It was in this alleged phone conversation that Trump told Owens to kill her attacks on the first lady.
“Emmanuel Macron personally flew to D.C. and asked Trump to ask me to shut up, to just stop speaking about his wife,” Owens told Carlson. “He [Trump] sounded very confused…he said he was very confused when the leader of France took him aside during negotiations for Ukraine and Russia to inquire about whether or not he knew Candace Owens.”
The alleged conversation between the two conservatives continued with Trump allegedly telling Owens that her previous remarks about Macron’s wife were “distressing” her. “I saw her up close and she looks like a woman to me,” Owens claimed Trump told her. “I had dinner with her at the top of the Eiffel Tower.”
Owens apparently responded, “Respectfully, Mr. President, it’s not my fault that he married somebody with a penis.” The 36-year-old podcaster has perpetuated the conspiracy theory that First Lady Brigitte was born male. This false narrative has been debunked, but that hasn’t stopped Owens from repeating it to her millions of followers across social media.
Trump allegedly told Owens that her comments were impacting a potential deal to end the war in Ukraine. Although Owens told Carlson she agreed to tone it down, the French first family moved to formally sue her in July.
“These claims are demonstrably false, and Owens knew they were false when she published them. Yet, she published them anyway. And the reason is clear: it is not the pursuit of truth, but the pursuit of fame,” The Macron lawsuit said. They first sent Owens a letter demanding a retraction, but she simply ignored it.
In response to Owens’ alleged private conversation with Trump, the White House told TMZ, “We do not comment on the President’s private conversations that may or may not have occurred.”
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