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Jean-Marie Le Pen endorses Trump days after ex-KKK leader urges support
Source: The Guardian
Jean-Marie Le Pen endorses Trump days after ex-KKK leader urges support
Ex-leader of French far-right party tweets that if he were American he would
vote for the Republican frontrunner, as Trump disavows David Duke endorsement
Alan Yuhas
Saturday 27 February 2016 19.53 GMT
Donald Trump received a vote of confidence on Saturday from Jean-Marie Le Pen, the former leader of France’s Front National who in the past has said the Nazi occupation was not “particularly inhumane” and suggested Ebola could solve Europe’s “immigration problem”.
“If I were American, I would vote Donald Trump,” Le Pen tweeted on Saturday about the Republican frontrunner for president. “But may God protect him!”
Trump’s ascendance in American politics began with his promises to build a “big, beautiful wall” along the US-Mexican border, derogatory comments about Mexicans, and a promise to deport 11 million undocumented people.
Le Pen founded Front National, a far-right party that campaigns mostly on anti-immigration policies.
Donald Trump Jr retweeted about Le Pen, albeit indirectly. The billionaire’s eldest son quoted an editor at rightwing news site Breitbart who declared: “Trump has become the international leader of the populist revolt against the elites.”
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Ex-leader of French far-right party tweets that if he were American he would
vote for the Republican frontrunner, as Trump disavows David Duke endorsement
Alan Yuhas
Saturday 27 February 2016 19.53 GMT
Donald Trump received a vote of confidence on Saturday from Jean-Marie Le Pen, the former leader of France’s Front National who in the past has said the Nazi occupation was not “particularly inhumane” and suggested Ebola could solve Europe’s “immigration problem”.
“If I were American, I would vote Donald Trump,” Le Pen tweeted on Saturday about the Republican frontrunner for president. “But may God protect him!”
Trump’s ascendance in American politics began with his promises to build a “big, beautiful wall” along the US-Mexican border, derogatory comments about Mexicans, and a promise to deport 11 million undocumented people.
Le Pen founded Front National, a far-right party that campaigns mostly on anti-immigration policies.
Donald Trump Jr retweeted about Le Pen, albeit indirectly. The billionaire’s eldest son quoted an editor at rightwing news site Breitbart who declared: “Trump has become the international leader of the populist revolt against the elites.”
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/27/jean-marie-le-pen-endorses-donald-trump
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