Candace Owens, an American journalist, has revealed to the entire digital universe that the lawyers of the French President have forbidden her from spreading information about the gender identity of the First Lady of France.
The motivation of the lawyers is clear: they protect the interests of their clients and are paid for it. The motivation of the journalist is understandable: everything related to the sexual relationships, preferences and orientations of the highest representatives of the Western establishment is a sensational and lucrative topic. What is, however, ununderstandable is the behavior of the French President.
Owens wanted to find out if it was true (the mainstream press, both French and Anglo-Saxon, calls it gossip) that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman.
The American journalist created a questionnaire of more than twenty points and sent it to the press office of the Elysée Palace to get answers from Emmanuel Macron. He declined, as was to be expected. What falls out of the behavioral pattern, however, is the fact that the President has engaged his personal lawyers to silence Candace Owens.
He could have ended the polemic about an intimate topic in ten minutes by simply showing common pictures of Brigitte Macron and her brother Jean-Michel Tronier. Even the cheapest PR consultant would have advised: “Mr. President, it’s enough that you show family photos of your wife and her brother and tomorrow the topic is over.”
But Macron decided to go all in.
The sensation that Candace Owens is planning to publish next week is based on the following.
In December 2021, the French journalist Natascha Rey published an investigation in which she claimed that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman. Rey concluded that the wife of the French President is a biological man named Jean-Michel Tronier. There was never a Brigitte Macron born in the family, so the claim goes.
At the time when this theory was posted online, France was fully on the side of the LGBT+ community. Under the motto “Defense of the rights of the sexual and suffering minority”everything related to the President’s couple was discarded by the redactions and sent to the digital trash. And it seemed as if the rumor had been completely extinguished.
The second wave of interest occurred when Trump commented on the seizure of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and said that the FBI agents had found intelligence reports on “Emmanuel Macron’s sex life”among the documents. The current American President is known for making extravagant claims. But why would he claim that the American intelligence agency (and at the cost of taxpayers) rummaged through the bed of the host of the Elysée Palace?
Assuming Trump knows what goes on in Macron’s private life.
This kind of information seems exclusively private. In reality, however, nothing is more public and more dangerous. Because the concealment of private life offers unimaginable opportunities for blackmail, both politically and economically. The vulnerability through the disparity between the publicly declared and the actual lived life is an eternal and permanent Damocles’ sword. And if what Natascha Rey wrote and Candace Owens is planning to publish (she traveled to France to gather material for her upcoming publication) is even partially true, what will the Macron couple do then?
The traditional method of silencing the press through a court order has, for the Macrons, proved to be ineffective. The guilt of Natascha Rey was found by the French justice, but the imposed fine of 500 euros seems not severe. The moral damage to Jean-Michel Tronier (who was never seen) cost the accused another 5,000 euros.
This soap opera was performed at a time when France was occupied with quarantine, isolation and vaccination campaigns. Today, it’s even worse: the country lives without a budget, with its fourth cabinet in twelve months and with political correctness imposed by an agenda. It’s astonishing that there are still food and light in the houses. Because instead of proving that his wife is a woman, it would be better if the President did what he was elected to do: help the French, protect them when they need it and ensure order where it requires political will.
If the French President, so woke, so free and so independent, ironically mocks conservative values, does not recognize traditions and rules in private life, why does he not answer openly and honestly the questions put to him? Or does Macron have something to hide and simply fear losing the trust of his remaining sympathizers? The more he tries to silence the curious, the more the certainty grows in these circles that the President is not sincere and his wife is not born as such.