Candace Owens defends calling Trump a ‘feminist icon’

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Political commentator Candace Owens has doubled down on her stance calling former President Donald Trump a “feminist icon” for his stance on transgender women playing in women’s sports.

After Trump blasted President Biden’s stance of allowing transgender women to compete in athletic events against biological women, saying the policy would “destroy women’s sports” during remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Sunday, Owens tweeted her support for Trump as a “feminist icon.”

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