Marine Le Pen, a shameful Trumpist – Libération

The boss of the French far right has been keeping a low profile since Wednesday November 6 and the return to power of the man she had greeted in New York. However, she has very good reasons to be happy about it.

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In a few years, Marine Le Pen had to, after removing her father's portrait, take down posters of her two idols, Putin and Trump, from the walls of her bedroom. His two contemporary references are no longer decently recommendable… Vladimir Putin had the bad taste to invade Ukraine, which even RN voters moderately appreciated. The radicalization and intensification of the style defying all political codes and all decency of the public debate of an ever more provocative Donald Trump, make the American populist leader, even when he becomes president again, an embarrassing model for the leader of the movement. French extreme right.

Despite the rather pathetic failure, in 2017, of his attempted handshake with his American hero, after having laid siege (in vain) for several hours