Shadows of Power: Candace Owens’ Chilling Claims of a French Assassination Plot

In the high-stakes world of conservative media, few voices resonate as boldly as Candace Owens’. But in recent weeks, her rhetoric has veered into the realm of life-or-death peril. On November 22, 2025, Owens stunned her millions of followers with a bombshell allegation: French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, have allegedly authorized a $1.5 million hit on her life.

This isn’t idle gossip—Owens claims it’s a meticulously choreographed assassination plot, executed through elite French operatives and foreign accomplices. As she put it in a raw X post, “The Macrons have executed upon and paid for my assassination.” With her podcast abruptly going dark for the week, the stakes feel existential. But what sparked this fury from the Élysée Palace? And how does it connect to the unsolved murder of her one-time ally, Charlie Kirk?

The saga traces back to Owens’ relentless eight-part series, Becoming Brigitte, launched earlier this year. In it, she propagated a conspiracy theory that Brigitte Macron was born male under the name Jean-Michel Trogneux, allegedly stole a woman’s identity, and underwent gender transition surgery in the 1980s.

Owens tied this to shadowy post-WWII Operation Paperclip programs, suggesting Brigitte’s “missing years” align with CIA precursor MKUltra experiments on mind control and programmable assassins. These claims, which Owens insists are backed by French archival discrepancies—like the Macron family’s “chocolate dynasty” in Nazi-occupied Amiens being impossible to verify—have been roundly debunked as baseless and transphobic. Yet, they exploded online, amassing tens of millions of views and drawing fierce backlash from the Macrons.