I think Candace Owens may have just won her defamation lawsuit against “Brigitte Macron”. The individual known as the wife of the French President is officially registered as a man in the tax registry, thereby providing a degree of credibility to Owens’s claims.
Brigitte Macron, the wife of the President of France Emmanuel Macron, is registered as a man in the tax registry. This was reported by the BFM TV channel, citing a representative of the First Lady of France, Tristan Bromet. According to BFM, Brigitte recently discovered that on the French tax website her gender is listed as male, and the name is recorded as Jean-Michel.
Candace notes that the explanation being provided is that the tax registry was hacked, which at first glance is about as convincing as a celebrity claiming their social media account was hacked whenever they drunk-post something that offends people.
The excuse the Elysees palace has concocted is they suspect her account may have been hacked—yet they confess it’s impossible to modify account names so they are unsure how such a hack might have occurred.
While it is, of course, possible that the tax registry account was modified recently, there will be records dating back decades that could not have been changed since the first rumor that “Brigitte” is actually Jean-Michel. That being said, the one thing that might point to it being a recent hack is if there are only references to “Jean-Michel Macron” and none to “Jean-Michel Trogneux”.
I’d be more confident that the tax registry reference was real and conclusive evidence of a real transpiracy if the report cited the full name rather than just the first name. I checked out a few French sites and saw no references to the full name.
« Comme beaucoup de Français, madame Macron a consulté son espace personnel sur le site des impôts, impots.gouv.fr. Elle se connecte et voit qu’il n’est pas écrit Brigitte Macron, mais Jean-Michel dit Brigitte Macron. À ce moment-là, vous êtes totalement surpris », explique-t-il.
“Like many French people, Mrs. Macron checked her personal account on the tax website, impots.gouv.fr. She logged in and saw that it didn’t say Brigitte Macron, but Jean-Michel called Brigitte Macron.
That does sound like a hack if there are no similar references in the system of earlier dates.