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Sunday, February 28, 2016
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Sunday, February 28, 2016
Jean-Marie Le Pen gives stamp of approval to Trump
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFrench far-right patriarch Jean-Marie Le Pen, kicked out of his own party for xenophobic and anti-Semitic comments, gives controversial US Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump the thumbs up.
“If I was American I would vote for Donald Trump… may God protect him,” tweets the fiery 87-year-old founder of the National Front, now led by his daughter Marine.
Le Pen was booted out of the party after a bitter feud with his daughter over his continued inflammatory, racist and xenophobic comments while she tries to polish the FN’s image to lure voters.
Last year he rehashed familiar comments about Nazi gas chambers being a “detail” of history and said France should get along with Russia to save the “white world.”
— AFP
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