“Free Marine Le Pen!” Trump is lodging the defense of the far -right icon condemned – politico

Trump continued to compare the PEN trial, in which she was found guilty of the EU’s embezzlement, to her many legal misfortunes.

“It is the same” gaming book “that was used against me by a group of crazy and losers, like Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann and Lisa Monaco,” said Trump, calling some of the prosecutors who have worked on business against him over the years. He was finally sentenced in May 2024 to 34 counts of crime of falsification of commercial files to cover a payment to a porn actress … after which he became the first criminal sentenced to win the American presidency.

“I do not know Marine Le Pen, but appreciates how hard she worked for so many years. She has suffered losses, but continued, and now, just before what would be a big victory, they get her in minor load of which she probably did not know anything – looks like an” accounting “error,” said Trump.

“Everything is so bad for France, and the big French people, whatever their side. He added.

Le Pen was sentenced on Monday for the embezzlement of funds from the European Parliament and forbidden to appear in the elections in the next five years, disqualifying an offer in 2027 to win the presidency.

She appealed, with a higher court to make a decision by next summer.