Five days after France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzling millions of euros from the European Parliament, President Donald Trump is suddenly decrying the verdict.
Le Pen, 56, was sentenced to four years in prison, two of them suspended, and issued a five-year ban on running for office, effective immediately. That would preclude her from France’s 2027 presidential election—which she had been tipped to win—unless she can get the conviction overturned on appeal.
“The Witch Hunt against Marine Le Pen is another example of European Leftists using Lawfare to silence Free Speech, and censor their Political Opponent, this time going to so far as to put that Opponent in prison,” Trump wrote in a late-night social media post.
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