Donald Trump and JD Vance support the leader of the French far right – Liberation
President Donald Trump called on Thursday evening at the « release » de Marine Le Pen, judging that his sentence to an ineligibility sentence was a « witch hunt » To prevent him from winning the French presidential election in 2027. Shortly before, Thursday, his vice-president JD Vance, had also castigated the condemnation by the justice of the far-right leader, believing that « This is not democracy ». « I don’t know Marine Le Pen but I am sensitive to the fact that she has been working hard for so many years »wrote the president of the United States on Thursday to Friday on his Truth Social network.
« She suffered failures but she continued and now, just before what would be a big victory, they attack her on a minor accusation of which she probably knew nothing – it looks for me an accounting error »continued the tenant of the White House in allusion to The conviction Monday of Marine Le Penwhich could prevent him from competing for the next presidential election. This was scheduled in principle in the spring of 2027 at the end of the second term of President Emmanuel Macron.
« It’s so bad for France and for the great people of France (…) Libez Marine Le Pen! »urged Donald Trump into capital letters. Without ever quoting justice and the executive in France, the American president, whose relatives JD Vance and Elon Musk openly support far -right parties in Europe, judged that Marine Le Pen was the victim of a « witch hunt » by « European leftists who use the legal weapon to silence freedom of expression ».
His vice-president JD Vance also supported the leader of the National Rally (RN). “She is in the lead in certain polls. And for a particularly minor accusation (…) they try to put it in prison and dismiss it from the ballot ”he said on television Newsmax, one of the favorite channels of the US ultra-conservative right. He also hinted, wrongly, that Marine Le Pen was not personally « Involved » in fact allegedly accused by French justice. « It’s not democracy »he hammered.
Deemed guilty Monday in Paris of embezzlement of public funds in the case of European parliamentary assistants, Marine Le Pen was inflicted four years in prison (including two farm developed under electronic bracelet), a fine of 100,000 euros and especially five years of ineligibility with provisional execution. After this conviction, The triple presidential candidate received support Many foreign leaders of the radical right. Donald Trump had even compared her to his own legal affairs in the United States, believing that Marine Le Pen’s fate was « A very important affair ». In February, JD Vance had stunned Europeans During his speech at the Munich Security Conference. He had accused them of stifling freedom of expression and religious freedom, calling them to break the « CORDON SANITARY » Against the extreme right.
Simultaneously, Marine Le Pen called on Thursday evening to the establishment of a « Intelligent protectionism » In Europe, after the announcement of 20 % of additional American customs duties on all imported products from the European Union. The president of the RN group in the National Assembly denounced on X announcements « Brutal and for the benefit of the United States alone when we could have built new rules for international trade without the denial of frenzied globalists ».
