India, July 24 -- American influencer Candace Owens is facing a defamation suit by France's President and his wife Brigitte Macron over her assertion that First Lady Brigitte "was born a man", but Owens is refusing to stop and is, in fact, doubling down.

Owens has said that the suit filed in Delaware, US, actually defames her. On her Candace podcast on Wednesday, she said the Macrons are trying to "groom" the courts. "We would be required to depose Donald Trump," she added, suggesting without proof that the US President would agree with her assertion.

This is on continuance of Owens' claims last month that in February she got a call from Trump telling her that President Macron asked him to help him get her to stop talking about his wife...