Interview · moment 3 of 20
The Legal Standoff With the Elysée Palace
from Candace Owens Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #441 · #441
3 min
Guest
Candace explains how she offered to drop the documentary series if the Macrons would answer a simple yes-or-no question about Brigitte's birth sex, which they refused to do, and discusses the actual malice legal standard protecting her reporting.
- Tim explains the strategy: offer to stop the series if Rajit simply answers yes or no about being born female.
- Refusing to answer on record would have exposed them to liability by proving actual malice under libel law.
- Tim's broader point: we know almost nothing about the people running our lives, and that's the real problem.
- Trump's popularity stemmed partly from the fact that people knew him for 30 years—love him or hate him, he wasn't a mystery.
- When journalists try to research the backstories of powerful people, they get attacked for it.
- Emanuel has become exposed in ways that were previously contained to French journalists and insiders.
- Left-wing journalists tried to write feminist pieces promoting Rajit, then fell down a hole when the person didn't exist.
- Imagine if Ivanka Trump's yearbooks got locked down and you couldn't confirm her childhood—that would be a red flag.
- It should be trivially easy to fact-check that somebody existed and find photos from school or hospitals where they were born.
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