Trump: France Banning Le Pen From Running “Sounds Very Much Like This Country”
President Trump remarked Monday that the banning of the “leading candidate” in France’s 2027 election sounds a lot like what Democrats attempted to do to him.
France’s populist candidate Marine Le Pen and 20 other National Rally party members, were handed a five-year ban from politics, with Le Pen sentenced to four years in prison, with two suspended, on charges of embezzlement of EU funds.
A French court ruled that Le Pen misused 4.4 million euros allocated to pay assistants to lawmakers in the European Parliament for labor.
BREAKING:
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) March 31, 2025
Today marks the day democracy died in France.
A judge ruled Marine Le Pen is ineligible to run for president in 2027.
She is the frontrunner.
8 MEPs from her party are also barred from participating in elections.
Judges are now deciding elections across the EU. pic.twitter.com/HHuMv8hsja
The court ruled that Le Pen and her Party members used the money illegally to instead pay staffers who were not sanctioned to carry out parliament work.
Le Pen and her supporters are calling it a trumped up bureaucratic charge.
France's Marine Le Pen has spoken for the first time after being barred from the French presidential election.
— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 31, 2025
The National Rally leader says she is "innocent" after she was convicted of embezzlement and banned from running for public office for five years. pic.twitter.com/3MCoPx4t0z
Lawfare against the European right-wing is being taken to a whole new level.
— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) March 31, 2025
Marine Le Pen @MLP_officiel has been convicted for “misusing” European funds and has been BARRED from running for President of France, yet @vonderleyen is under investigation for corruption and refuses… pic.twitter.com/CQK8sL5Tbc
When asked about Le Pen’s conviction and ban, Trump told reporters, “that’s a big deal. That’s a very big deal. I know all about it.”
“A lot of people thought she wasn’t going to be convicted of anything,” he continued, adding “She was banned from running for five years and she was the leading candidate. That sounds like this country. That sounds very much like this country.”
Watch:
President Trump just called out France for putting Marine Le Pen in jail.
— George (@BehizyTweets) March 31, 2025
"I know all about it… A lot of people thought she wasn't going to be convicted of anything… She was the leading candidate. That sounds very much like this country."
Emmanuel Macron should be ashamed… pic.twitter.com/c6dySa0rEb
Le Pen will appeal the ruling and if upheld, her sentence will not begin until the appeal process has concluded.
Conservatives have charged that the development is part of a trend of going after populist leaders with lawfare to prevent them from being elected.
It's just a huge coincidence that the poll-leading right-wing populists candidates all commit crimes just in the nick of time to ban them from the ballot, while the establishment's preferred candidates are all super-law-abiding, clean and filled with integrity: https://t.co/LOuQCJIItq
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 31, 2025
The same political establishment that continually asserts its prime purpose is to 'protect democracy' is systematically abusing the justice system to ban every populist candidate from winning a democratic election. https://t.co/LzIDAIpNhk
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) March 31, 2025
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— Rachel Elizabeth Nightingale (@GlamGrafter) March 31, 2025
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