{"id":423515,"date":"2025-04-04T11:45:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T09:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/04\/04\/trump-difende-le-pen-usa-tribunale-fondi\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T12:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T10:24:25","slug":"trump-defends-le-pen-witch-hunt-european-left-uses-lawfare-to-silence-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/04\/04\/trump-defends-le-pen-witch-hunt-european-left-uses-lawfare-to-silence-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump defends Le Pen: “Witch hunt, European Left uses Lawfare to silence free speech”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – As US tariffs hit the EU, stoking fears of a breakdown in transatlantic relations, US President Donald Trump<\/strong> offers solidarity with those Europeans who have the potential to threaten the stability of the Union. Last night (April 3), Trump posted<\/a> on his Truth social network a\u00a0message defending<\/strong>\u00a0former Rassemblement National president Marine Le Pen<\/strong>, who was\u00a0sentenced<\/a> to four years in prison, including two years of detention, and, most importantly, to five years of ineligibility with immediate effect<\/strong>, which would prevent her from running to become\u00a0president<\/strong> of the republic in 2027.<\/p>\n

“The Witch Hun<\/strong>t against Marine Le Pen is another example of European Leftists using Lawfare<\/strong> to silence Free Speech and censor their Political Opponent, this time going so far as to put that Opponent in prison<\/strong>,” Trump wrote. The Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office conviction is for misuse of \u20ac2.9 million in European Parliament funds<\/strong> that occurred while Le Pen was a MEP, through hiring and paying dozens of fictitious parliamentary assistants.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t know Marine Le Pen, but do appreciate how hard she worked for so many years. She suffered losses but kept on going, and now, just before what would be a Big Victory, they get her on a minor charge<\/strong> that she probably knew nothing about,” the president continued. “Sounds like a ‘bookkeeping’ error<\/strong> to me. It is all so bad for France, and the Great French People, no matter what side they are on. FREE MARINE LE PEN!”<\/p>\n

It is essential\u00a0to clarify that Le Pen, who filed an appeal<\/a> against the court decision, is not and will not\u00a0go to jail for now<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a post on Truth, President Donald Trump offered solidarity with the leader of the French far-right, who a Paris court convicted for misuse of European Parliament funds. “A bookkeeping error,” according to the commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7883,"featured_media":418714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26261,26411,26140,26583,26584,26104],"class_list":["post-423515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-justice-en","tag-marine-le-pen-en-2","tag-rassemblement-national-en","tag-usa-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423515"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423528,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423515\/revisions\/423528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}