itinerary of a fantasy, from French conspiracists to agitated Trumpists – Libération

Far right

Article reserved for subscribers

Through the voice of Trumpist Candace Owens, the American far right has seized on the fake news according to which Brigitte Macron was born a man. Giving new virality to this theory from a media close to Alain Soral and popularized via the YouTube channel of a medium.

Brigitte Macron would be a man. This conspiratorial fantasy might make us smile, if it did not poison the life of the wife of the President of the Republic and her relatives, harassed for years by conspiracy circles and their self-appointed “investigators”. To the point that the Head of State reacted in person, on March 8 on the sidelines of the ceremony consecrating the entry of the right to abortion into the Constitution, denouncing “this false information and these scenarios created with nonsense, people who end up believing it and disrupt your privacy.” These rantings are also the subject of an investigative book to be published on March 22 by Studiofact, l’Affaire Madame by Obs journalist Emmanuelle Anizon. They are experiencing a new lease of life these days, relayed by the powerful American alt-right, the new avatar of the local extreme right.

The file has in fact attracted the attention of a close friend of the former American president, Candace Owens. This pillar of disinformation made in the USA maintains a community of nearly tr