{"id":1993,"date":"2025-04-01T08:32:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T03:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/le-pen-conviction-a-very-big-deal-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T08:32:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T03:02:24","slug":"le-pen-conviction-a-very-big-deal-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/le-pen-conviction-a-very-big-deal-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Pen conviction \u2018a very big deal\u2019 \u2013 Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>The trial in France has reminded the US president of the event at home, he said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">US President Donald Trump has said that the criminal prosecution of French opposition leader Marine Le Pen reminds him of his own legal battles under the Biden administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Le Pen, the ex-leader of the conservative National Rally (RN) party, was sentenced to four years in prison, two of which will be suspended, and was barred from holding public office for five years. The embezzlement conviction effectively bars her from the 2027 presidential race.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by reporters in the Oval Office about the verdict, Trump replied, <em>\u201cThat\u2019s a very big deal.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI know all about it, and a lot of people thought she wasn\u2019t going to be convicted of anything,\u201d<\/em> Trump said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut she was banned [from] running for five years, and she\u2019s the leading candidate. That sounds very much like this country,\u201d <\/em>he added.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has often claimed that the court cases and investigations into his activities were part of a politically motivated <em>\u201cwitch hunt\u201d<\/em> led by the Biden administration and the Democrats.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2025.03\/thumbnail\/67ea7de82030270eea3b57c1.jpg\" alt=\"French politician Marine Le Pen arrives at the courtroom for her embezzlement case on March 31, 2025.\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/615010-france-le-pen-sentenced-jail\/\">France\u2019s Le Pen sentenced to four years in jail<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>US State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said earlier that the prosecution of Le Pen was <em>\u201cparticularly concerning, given the aggressive and corrupt lawfare waged against President Trump here in the United States.\u201d<\/em><em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecutors, Le Pen siphoned off the\u00a0EU funds intended for covering her staff\u2019s work in the European Parliament to fund the activities of her party in France. She had denied any wrongdoing and dismissed the verdict as <em>\u201ca fatal day for our democracy.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Le Pen\u2019s party holds the highest number of seats in the National Assembly. According to the Ifop poll published in Le Journal du Dimanche on Sunday, between 34% and 37% of those surveyed said they planned to vote for Le Pen in 2027, which is more than 10 points ahead of her nearest rival, former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe. Le Pen ran for president three times, placing second in 2017 and 2022.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ban on Marine Le Pen running for president of France is a \u201cvery big deal,\u201d US President Donald Trump has said Read Full Article at RT.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Le Pen conviction \u2018a very big deal\u2019 \u2013 Trump - Leading the AI News Frontier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/le-pen-conviction-a-very-big-deal-trump\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Le Pen conviction \u2018a very big deal\u2019 \u2013 Trump - 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