“That sounds like this country" - Trump on Le Pen's verdict

Trump believes that Marine Le Pen's verdict is very similar to the criminal prosecution that was carried out against him in the United States.

“She was banned for five years and she was the leading candidate,” Trump said, referring to Le Pen’s status as the front-runner in polling ahead of the French presidential election. “That sounds like this country, that sounds very much like this country,” he added.

U.S. presidential adviser Elon Musk has lambasted the French court verdict that blocked Marine Le Pen from a 2027 presidential run after the far-right figurehead was found guilty of embezzlement.

“When the radical left can’t win via democratic vote, they abuse the legal system to jail their opponents,” Musk said Monday. “This is their standard playbook throughout the world”,

Musk wrote.