Trump promotes baseless election rigging claims as his European allies go down in flames
Marine Le Pen, the far-right French political leader who promotes her friendships with neo-Nazis, and Nigel Farage, the newly elected member of parliament whose campaign staffers were caught spewing racist and homophobic slurs, both have the sympathy of former President Donald Trump.
Trump Monday shared two reports from Breitbart — the site once run by Steve Bannon, the former Trump campaign adviser currently serving time in a federal prison on contempt of Congress charges who also stands accused of criminally defrauding MAGA donors — bemoaning the plight of the two extreme right leaders.
This show of support arrived days after a French left-wing coalition fought off Le Pen's far-right movement by claiming the most seats in a parliamentary election and the United Kingdom's Labour Party's achieved a sweeping victory following 14 years of conservative rule.
Both reports were written by Kurt Zindulka, Deputy Editor for Breitbart London, who cast doubt and scorn on both victories.
"The French election results showed that the 'alliance of dishonour,' between President Emmanuel Macron and the far left," Zindulka wrote.
"[It] effectively blocked the populist National Rally from gaining a majority despite the Le Pen party having won the most votes."
Zindulka then described the race that saw Farage claim his first parliamentary seat as "the most disproportionate in history."
Both Le Pen and Farage have raised serious concerns about the global spread of far-right politics, especially as Trump prepares to mount his second presidential campaign despite facing federal charges that he illegally tried to overturn the 2020 election.
ALSO READ: EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans subpoena ex-Capitol Police intel head for Jan. 6 inquiryCritics call Le Pen a political danger.
"Ms. Le Pen is an authoritarian whose deeply racist and Islamophobic politics threaten to turn France into an outright illiberal state," wrote French political scholar Rim-Sarah Alouane for the Washington Post.
"Though Ms. Le Pen claimed to be moving past her father’s fixation on Jews, she continued to fan the flames — refusing in 2017 to accept France’s culpability for the Vichy regime’s role in the Holocaust and even, in a campaign poster this April, appearing to make a gesture associated with neo-Nazis."
Farage's critics blame him for the Brexit vote that split the U.K. from the European Union in 2016 and spurring Islamophobic rhetoric. One campaign staffer was recently caught spewing slurs and swearwords by a Channel 4 investigative team.
"I tell you what, if you don’t know about Islam, it is the most disgusting cult," Farage's canvasser said. "We’re f---ing kicking all the Muslims out of the mosques and turning them into Wetherspoons.“
George Jones, a veteran of the Brexit Party who ran events for Farage’s campaign, was caught saying “our police officers will be paramilitaries, they won’t be police,” according to the report. He added that Reform UK should “bring back the noose.”
