Madison Czopek, PolitiFact

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Hit with a defamation lawsuit, conservative commentator Candace Owens is not backing away from her baseless claims that France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, is a man.

Responding to the lawsuit July 23, Owens said Brigitte Macron “is definitely a man,” and called the Macrons’ lawsuit a public relations strategy.

“They don’t care if they win,” Owens said. “This is about running it through the press.”

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French President Emmanuel Macron and the first lady filed the lawsuit more than a year after Owens initially made headlines for promoting the false claim that Brigitte Macron was born a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux. (Trogneux is Brigitte’s older

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