U.S. President Donald Trump has demanded France grant Marine Le Pen political freedom and labelled her ban from running for high office a “witch hunt” which serves as “another example of European Leftists using lawfare to silence free speech.”
Trump made his damning call in a post on his Truth Social social media network:
A Paris court on Monday barred the National Rally leader from running for office for five years after she was convicted of misappropriating over $3.27 million in E.U. funds to pay party staff in France.
The judge overseeing the case called her actions a “serious and lasting attack on democratic rules in Europe, especially France.” In addition to the five-year ban, Le Pen was sentenced to four years in prison (two suspended),
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