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Who is Candace Owens, the pro-Trump influencer who attacks Brigitte Macron?

« Mera, father… I am conservative. » This is what Candace Owens’ first video is called, published on July 10, 2017 on YouTube. Since then, the influencer and columnist has methodically developed her discourse and her base of followers. Pro-Trump, pro-Putin, fiercely opposed to the Black Lives Matter movement, today she has a new target: the Macron couple.

But the 35-year-old young woman, originally from Connecticut, did not always have this vocation as a hyperconservative 2.0 commentator. A graduate of Stamford High School, she experienced harassment and racism there, she explained to Connecticut Post in 2016: “It took me seven years to get over it […]. [Quand quelque chose comme ça arrive]we become hostile. We become bitter. I remember I didn’t even want to use my name,” she explained then.

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At this time, Candace Owens had dreams of journalism. In addition to an internship at the magazine Vogueshe manages the Degree180 site (now inactive). On it, in addition to articles on social subjects, there are speculations on the size of Donald Trump’s penis or comparisons between the future presidential candidate and Adolf Hitler.

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Suffice to say that at this time, the journalist was not a frank supporter of the American president. Everything will change in July 2017 with this famous first video on his YouTube channel. She intends, with this project, to be at the head of […] Read more

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