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Marine Le Pen, an alarming person who would like to lead France into far-right nationalism and xenophobia, is in New York. She is in Trump Tower. But her aides say shes not planning to meet with Donald Trump or his transition team staff, good heavens no. Shes just using her private visit to New York to have coffee in the charming, slightly damp environs of the Trump Tower basement, they told Bloomberg. As one does!
Le Pen is running for president in France; shes the leader of the countrys National Front and the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, an elderly racist and anti-Semite. Le Pen essentially expelled her father from the party in 2015, and has been trying to give the National Front a more humane, less overtly Nazi-ish makeover. But shes still making Islamophobia and opposition to immigration a cornerstone of the partys belief system, supports a ban on letting Muslim women wear headscarves, and wants to leave the European Union to promote what she has called a grand return of nationalism. She was spotted in Trump Tower on Thursday morning, according to Bloomberg, where she had very little interest in clarifying what she was doing there:
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KamaAina
(78,249 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)LeftInTX
(25,720 posts)meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)All she needs is to offer something to Putin, and Russia will infiltrate their election like happened here and she'll win. She just needs that playbook to do it right.
MFM008
(19,827 posts)Can drop dead together.
deminks
(11,022 posts)BainsBane
(53,112 posts)Nice of Vlad to arrange a social get together for his assets.
11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)Occam's razor applies.
deminks
(11,022 posts)blueseas
(11,575 posts)Interesting - to say the least.
How do you post photos? I forgot how to...
deminks
(11,022 posts)Not sure how to answer on this one.
blueseas
(11,575 posts)Use the link at the artlicle
blueseas
(11,575 posts)Signs of right-wing populist meltdowns are everywhere, from Italys erratic Beppe Grillo to the Le Pen family feud.
ROMEAs the honeymoon of the Donald Trump election is reaching its bitter endand even before the new American president is sworn into officeEuropes own motley clan of anti-establishment misfits are on the edge of self-induced implosion.
One striking example is the family feud between French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, her father, whom shes expelled from her party, and her niece Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, who has sided with the old man.
In fact, even as Marine Le Pen, according to our sources, is on her way to New York, presumably for a meeting with Trump, the influence his election and his presidency will have on the European populists is far from clear.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/12/europe-s-right-tears-itself-apart.html