Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front party, said Thursday that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to prevent Muslims from visiting or immigrating to the U.S. was too extreme.
“Have you ever heard me say something like that?” Le Pen asked during an interview on a French TV program, according to The New York Times. “I defend all the French people in France, regardless of their origin, regardless of their religion.”
Le Pen is known for her own provocative statements about “illegals” and Islam. In October, she went on trial on charges of inciting racial hatred for comparing Muslims praying on public streets to the Nazi occupation.
Le Pen’s National Front has ridden a recent wave of anti-immigrant hysteria, heightened after Islamic State-affiliated terrorists killed 130 people in Paris on Nov. 13, to the top of the polls. The party took 30 percent of the vote in the first round of France’s regional elections this week.
Who’s next, David Duke?
Ah, here’s the difference. She expects to actually have to govern if elected and realizes that.
Netanyahu and Marine Le Pen are denouncing him, which pretty much speaks for itself, Cameron called Jindal “a complete idiot” for saying what Trump said the other day about no-go zones in London, another 400K Brits want to ban him, he’s dumped on Merkel, been yelling about China since the beginning, Trudeau’s being all Glinda the Good Witch with Syrian immigrants the symbolism of which is hard to miss, the attitude from Mexico south can be guessed at—frankly, at this rate Trump better take Bezos up on the offer to shoot him into space, because he will have literally made himself buffoona non grata on the entire planet.
Ordinarily, I’d have to say that I’m for anything that Cheney, Netanyahu, and Le Pen are against.
Call me another victim of Trump’s disruptive effect.
“I defend all the French people in France, regardless of their origin, regardless of their religion.”
Trump’s plan was about people who weren’t American who weren’t in America, so I’m sort of confused at this response.