Trump weighs on the conviction of Marine Le Pen

“Marine Le Pen!”

With this frank call, strange insofar as the leader of the French extreme right is walking in the streets of Paris, President Trump has waded in the policy of an ally, condemning his conviction this week on the accusations of embezzlement and his disqualification of the candidacy for a public service.

The conviction was “another example of European leftists using the law to silence freedom of expression,” wrote Trump on Truth Social. Elon Musk, his billionaire assistant, returned home: “The free pen!” Mr. Musk echoes his social media platform X.

More than an extraordinary American intervention in French politics, the declarations have ignored the overwhelming evidence arranged against Ms. Le Pen, who was sentenced to having helped orchestrate a system for many years to divert the money from European taxpayers to compensate the acute financial difficulties of his national Rallye party in France illegal.

For the American president and his team, as well as for an angry refrain from Le Pen supporters at home, his case has become a vigorous campaign to undermine the separation of powers and the rule of law. Vice-president JD Vance and others accused the liberals of using the law to stifle the extreme right and cancel the democratic choice.

Ms. Le Pen will speak during a big demonstration of the National Rally on Sunday in Paris under the banner “Let us save democracy!” The national rally was founded in 1972 under the name of the National Front, an anti-Semitic party of fascist roots, by his father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. It has long been considered a direct threat to the democratic reign of the fifth republic, before Mrs. Le Pen hides in a makeover.