Popular podcast host Candace Owens’ latest conspiracy is indistinguishable from satire. In her newest unsubstantiated claim, she released a YouTube episode alleging that the killing of Charlie Kirk is somehow connected to her ongoing legal issues with Brigitte Macron.
Owens’ name has now become synonymous with the Macrons — she has made it her life’s work to convince the world that Brigitte was once a man. Yes, there are lawsuits pending that could bankrupt her if she’s proven to be wildly inaccurate. And to Owens’ credit, she technically didn’t originate the conspiracy; that honor goes to French entertainment writer Natacha Rey, whose now notoriously hard‑to‑find documentary The Hidden Life of Brigitte Macron first floated the idea. Owens merely exported the story to an international audience.
But as the story grew bigger and more controversial — and as Alex Jones’ staggering $1.4 billion settlement to the Sandy Hook families served as a cautionary tale — Owens started to pivot. Because the truth is, very few people care about the French First Lady’s assigned sex at birth, and Owens, a seasoned rabble‑rouser, knows that better than anyone. So she escalated: the Macrons, she now claims, have spent $1.5 million on a hitman to assassinate her. That, she figured, would get people’s attention.
And she didn’t stop there. Having noticed how sensitive her largely conservative audience remains about Charlie Kirk’s killing, she pulled that into her narrative too. Owens now claims Kirk was also deeply invested in Brigitte’s gender and was moments away from helping her prove that Brigitte was part of the elaborate 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. That, she insists, is the missing link in proving Brigitte was born male. Conveniently, Owens says she has now “lost” the evidence. Still, she named supposed members of the experiment and “exposed” them as U.S. Army personnel — except for one, who she believes was actually Brigitte.
— Reverend Jordan Wells (@WellsJorda89710) November 25, 2025
BREAKING: Candace Owens just dropped the mother of all conspiracy bombshells on her show:
“Charlie Kirk was assassinated because I was *this close* to exposing the ultimate truth: Brigitte Macron was a subject in the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. The French government took… pic.twitter.com/tWFp6Y2oMP
At this point, it’s obvious to anyone sane that Owens is spinning a yarn. The temptation is to dismiss her psychobabble as fringe content not worth acknowledging. But as the Macrons likely learned quickly, there’s no such thing as “mainstream media” anymore. A viral YouTube video can now determine who matters, what counts as truth, and which narratives dominate public consciousness.
And while Owens’ claims can be debunked with a simple Google search, her audience isn’t going to do that. She has conditioned them to trust nothing except what she personally says. Now that she has tied Brigitte Macron to Charlie Kirk and the Stanford Experiment, she’s promised to connect it next to the Nixon impeachment — and just about every other geopolitical shift of the 1970s. At this rate, she’ll probably say Brigitte Macron’s life story inspired Forrest Gump.
Owens knows exactly what she’s doing with these allegations, and she should be made to prove every one of them in court. As was the case with Alex Jones, these elaborate conspiracies — often shared for no other reason than entertainment — can end up causing real harm. And if they cross the line into defamation, then perhaps it’s time for the law to take its course.
