French President Emmanuel Macron blasted online provocateur Candace Owens as a liar who “knew very well that she was spreading false information” about his wife Brigitte being born male. The French leader criticized Owens in his first public comments since filing a defamation suit in Delaware last month,

French President Emmanuel Macron was adamant in an interview with a French magazine about the defamation lawsuit he and his wife Brigitte Macron filed against far-right podcaster Candace Owens for her repeated claims that the First Lady of France was secretly born male,

The remarks were a considerable shift for France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, who called Moscow a potential threat for many European countries.

I think he [Russian President Vladimir Putin] wants to make a deal,” Trump whispered to French President Emmanuel Macron in the East Room.

The far-right commentator says the U.S. president intervened on behalf of the French president to get her to stop spreading lies.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spoke by phone on Wednesday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and discussed U.S. tariffs and the Mercosur-European Union trade deal, Brazil's government said in a statement.

In July, France and Saudi Arabia had agreed to revive the push for a two-state solution at a UN conference in New York in September.

This has become so widespread in the United States that we had to react,’ the French president says in his first public remarks about the case