Marine Le Pen Found Guilty in EU Funding Embezzlement Case
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France's Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of misappropriating European funds to finance her far-right National Rally (RN) party, in a case which could lead to her being barred from standing in the 2027 presidential election.
Le Pen was accused, along with more than 20 other senior party figures, of hiring assistants who worked on her RN party affairs rather than for the European Parliament which paid them.
Prosecutors last year said Le Pen's punishment should be not just a €300,000 (£250,000) fine and prison term, but also ineligibility from running for public office for five years.
Crucially, he said the ineligibility should kick in straightaway, and not be suspended pending appeal.
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When is THIS going to start happening HERE, and not just for 5 years.
The American experiment is in danger of dying of naïveté.
Wake up call.
If we’re going to have a ‘nuclear’ program to defend ourselves from the rest of the world, would it not make sense to have fans in our foundation to deter and punish via imprisonment and banning FOREVER from public office those who are running around making a mockery of this nation, contributing to their own enrichment at the expense and endangerment of the entire planet?
WOW read the entirety of your piece, you pretty much said what I've been thinking for years. And you painted "HIM" with a very broad brush but yes you understand exactly what we say when we say conman, elixir salesman, and various other words used to describe "HIM." I truly don't understand why it has take so long for other people to see exactly what he is! What is the name of your book I would love to buy it!
About 1/3rd of Project 2025 has already been enacted. Why are we not seeing on Substack the correlation between what Trump is doing and Project 2025? If you want to see where we are heading just read up on Project 2025. It is happening as we speak. We need to vote out all the congressional members who are a part of Project 2025.
Great writing! By the way, the worst thing, education-wise, the Trumpies have done is make it even harder to turn kids into readers. They are trying to strip school classrooms and libraries of any books most kids will read. I taught high school English for 37 years and I turned hundreds of kids into readers using books by Judy Blume, Robert Parker, Tom Clancy, etc. Kids, esp. boys ,need some sex, violence, and/or sports to stay interested. Lots of liberals are guilty of this as well. The only fight I ever had in my classroom was over the new edition of Sports Illustrated I had brought in for our free reading period. You think there was ever a fight over The Joy Luck Club?
Brilliantly written and right on the mark - so sad to say. I hope your next podcast is more hopeful. I'm at an age when I will not likely survive this nightmare. I would like to have hope that we will turn this around for the generations to come.
ATTENTION: in the context of ‘Everything That Trump Touches Dies’, the following quote needs to posted and spread LOUDLY far and wide.
It appeared today courtesy of Jim Acosta’s SubStack-an unhinged tirade posted in the past two days by Stephen Miller on, where else?, his pimp-master Elon’s private hate forum ‘X’.
Please take in these words. Like England’s late Queen, they need to be seen to be believed, and weighed into the balance found absolutely wanting of any sort of grace that we might have hopes of emerging from this self-inflected insanity still able to hold onto.
And, BTW, I will add that that goes for people in ANY part of this world that this regime is seeking to colonize.
Forget all the hoo-ha about being ‘woke’.
This isn’t about some buzz-word, and it’s not even well written, but folks, it’s about a broken human being who wants to be not Kid Rock, but Kid Buzz Saw.
Read. Be awakened. Be aware.
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“The fundamental error in how immigration is being discussed in the courts and media is pretending that what happened to us over the last four years is a routine civil enforcement matter.
NO.
We were invaded and occupied. Entire neighborhoods were conquered.
Entire towns were subjugated.
Our treasury was in the plundered.
Our democracy was torn apart piece by piece.
A national referendum was held on whether to surrender to the invasion or repel it.
America voted for liberation.
If every foreign trespasser gets to have their own federal trial prior to removal then there is no liberation. There is no restoration. The invasion will be made complete.
Article 4 Section 4 requires the president to halt any invasion and no district court can override that mandate. For the Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
The invading armies and foreign trespassers will be expelled.
The cartels will be smashed.
Liberation will be achieved.”
STEPHEN MILLER
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Wow.
Just……..wow.
WTF’inF….
Himmler, Goering, Goebbels, Eichmann-just roll those four names-such outstanding paragons of the dung heap of history’s worst-other GROWN MEN who’s example could be well populating this feral, sick, manchild psychopath’s list of people he wants most to be like if he ever grows up.
Note I say ‘If’, because, folks, Stehen Miller is a GROWN man.
I am not trying to be funny here.
Jim Acosta-thank YOU for putting YOUR ass on the line to get this shameful inhumane debasement out there LOUDLY.
In closing, all I can ask is just what in the F does this sorry angry spoilt brat-in his own family a descendant of people who came HERE under the same conditions as he’s trying, in his apparent belief that 1+1=3, to rebrand as arch criminals-WTF does THIS ‘person’ KNOW about ‘Liberation’???
This screed is prosecutorial EXHIBIT A evidence of an inmate who’s being allowed, more and more, every day to try to run the asylum he’s locked into with Donald Trump, his cabinet and staff and the rest of the Project 2025 puppet-master playgroup.
If you want to see a thing of beauty, take a look on facebook at the letter from the President of Mexico to tRump. She really lays out the facts that "Ol Redface" could never imagine.
I just saw an Instagram post saying Vance's children were frightened by the Tesla protests. My take: not nearly as frightened as the court of Louis XVI in 1793.
Rick, Following Lincoln Project and not quit. Joined as an Annual Member, but give me two weeks and I’m in for Founder.
Next, everyone in America should read, “The Theory of Stupidity” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Perfect explanation of ignorance vs. stupidly. Ignorance is a bit harsh so I’ll go with simply not knowing. Am I ignorant because I don’t know how roads are paved, potato chips made, or setting a broken bone? No I’m not. But if I watch, “How It’s Made”, I can learn a bit…not expert, just to expand my mind. Then say, that was cool!
Stupidity, is not knowing, the refusal to read or gather facts, and outright laziness. Stupidity not only harms others but yourself. Do I hear Forest Gump? At least he learned shrimp farming.
Lastly, as a former educator, now retired, when my students jotted down “IDK”, or I don’t know, it was the lazy way out of a question on their quiz. So when or what generation started with this? I suspect those born in the mid-eighties every generation thereafter. The parents of these kids never gave a fuck about education, compassion, teamwork, community, acceptance, all that really makes America great. Yes we had issues in the 70’s, but as that decade drew to a close, much has to be said about the beginning of a pronounced drug culture. Would I teach now? Nope, and get shot? Nope.
How we get back on track I don’t know. What I do know is have a new, special national election now, and kick his butt out of office.
The little I know about presidents, the ones who made it had a home to return to. George W. had his Mt. Vernon, TJ had his Monticello, even John Adams had Peacefield in Quincy, MA. There were in between presidents who were shot, died, married, etc but I think their lives’ were forming and being re-made.
Garfield barely took office when he was shot in the train station and languished for weeks while “physicians” (nothing but barbers) stuck their bare unwashed hands in his wounds trying to “save” him. Death by 19th century “medicine”. Garfield’s final journey after lying on the floor of the White House for weeks trying to live was in northern Jersey at the beloved shore house near the terminus of the train.Then there was Lincoln. His life was such a trajectory that every home was left behind in a dust storm. LBJ had his challenges mostly with depression and heart disease, but he had his (abused) beloved Lady Bird and the ranch. JFK had nothing but the family compound in Hyannis and the house in Georgetown. Not really your own home.
Carter had the peanut farm, George HW had Kennebunkport, Clinton was an outlier but Hilary helped him never have to give up government - an unusual connection to Washington being home. George, jr, anybody from Texas can scratch dirt anywhere in the entire state. Obama grounded in Chicago thanks to Michelle and mother in law.
My point, if you have roots (and give roots) your tired ass old body has a reason to hang. Live well, live long and prosper. Loved the post.
Because we just couldn't have a competent, well spoken, smart, compassionate woman president, could we? As a country, we chose no care over home care, no education of any quality over improvement of the current system, no cure for alzheimers or parkinson's over years of research that could have led to a breakthrough. Give us measles, they said! Give us polluted water and more school shootings! That is what we want with this man. And make the price of eggs go down...God knows we need our eggs over social security checks for grandma. It wasn't as though the voters didn't know what he was going to do. They liked it and they wanted it.
Preach, Brother Wilson! Preach! As a recovering Republican in good standing, I could never have said it as well as you did.
Good morning:
3.31.25 HEADLINE: BBC News
Marine Le Pen Found Guilty in EU Funding Embezzlement Case
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France's Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of misappropriating European funds to finance her far-right National Rally (RN) party, in a case which could lead to her being barred from standing in the 2027 presidential election.
Le Pen was accused, along with more than 20 other senior party figures, of hiring assistants who worked on her RN party affairs rather than for the European Parliament which paid them.
Prosecutors last year said Le Pen's punishment should be not just a €300,000 (£250,000) fine and prison term, but also ineligibility from running for public office for five years.
Crucially, he said the ineligibility should kick in straightaway, and not be suspended pending appeal.
-
When is THIS going to start happening HERE, and not just for 5 years.
The American experiment is in danger of dying of naïveté.
Wake up call.
If we’re going to have a ‘nuclear’ program to defend ourselves from the rest of the world, would it not make sense to have fans in our foundation to deter and punish via imprisonment and banning FOREVER from public office those who are running around making a mockery of this nation, contributing to their own enrichment at the expense and endangerment of the entire planet?
WOW read the entirety of your piece, you pretty much said what I've been thinking for years. And you painted "HIM" with a very broad brush but yes you understand exactly what we say when we say conman, elixir salesman, and various other words used to describe "HIM." I truly don't understand why it has take so long for other people to see exactly what he is! What is the name of your book I would love to buy it!
Trying hard to keep America alive. The Trump plague is taking its toll. Thanks for sharing this piece from your book Rick.
About 1/3rd of Project 2025 has already been enacted. Why are we not seeing on Substack the correlation between what Trump is doing and Project 2025? If you want to see where we are heading just read up on Project 2025. It is happening as we speak. We need to vote out all the congressional members who are a part of Project 2025.
2018 omg
Great writing! By the way, the worst thing, education-wise, the Trumpies have done is make it even harder to turn kids into readers. They are trying to strip school classrooms and libraries of any books most kids will read. I taught high school English for 37 years and I turned hundreds of kids into readers using books by Judy Blume, Robert Parker, Tom Clancy, etc. Kids, esp. boys ,need some sex, violence, and/or sports to stay interested. Lots of liberals are guilty of this as well. The only fight I ever had in my classroom was over the new edition of Sports Illustrated I had brought in for our free reading period. You think there was ever a fight over The Joy Luck Club?
Brilliantly written and right on the mark - so sad to say. I hope your next podcast is more hopeful. I'm at an age when I will not likely survive this nightmare. I would like to have hope that we will turn this around for the generations to come.
Right there with you! I do not expect to out live this madness. And I cry alone at night, when I think of my grandchildren.
ATTENTION: in the context of ‘Everything That Trump Touches Dies’, the following quote needs to posted and spread LOUDLY far and wide.
It appeared today courtesy of Jim Acosta’s SubStack-an unhinged tirade posted in the past two days by Stephen Miller on, where else?, his pimp-master Elon’s private hate forum ‘X’.
Please take in these words. Like England’s late Queen, they need to be seen to be believed, and weighed into the balance found absolutely wanting of any sort of grace that we might have hopes of emerging from this self-inflected insanity still able to hold onto.
And, BTW, I will add that that goes for people in ANY part of this world that this regime is seeking to colonize.
Forget all the hoo-ha about being ‘woke’.
This isn’t about some buzz-word, and it’s not even well written, but folks, it’s about a broken human being who wants to be not Kid Rock, but Kid Buzz Saw.
Read. Be awakened. Be aware.
-
“The fundamental error in how immigration is being discussed in the courts and media is pretending that what happened to us over the last four years is a routine civil enforcement matter.
NO.
We were invaded and occupied. Entire neighborhoods were conquered.
Entire towns were subjugated.
Our treasury was in the plundered.
Our democracy was torn apart piece by piece.
A national referendum was held on whether to surrender to the invasion or repel it.
America voted for liberation.
If every foreign trespasser gets to have their own federal trial prior to removal then there is no liberation. There is no restoration. The invasion will be made complete.
Article 4 Section 4 requires the president to halt any invasion and no district court can override that mandate. For the Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
The invading armies and foreign trespassers will be expelled.
The cartels will be smashed.
Liberation will be achieved.”
STEPHEN MILLER
-
Wow.
Just……..wow.
WTF’inF….
Himmler, Goering, Goebbels, Eichmann-just roll those four names-such outstanding paragons of the dung heap of history’s worst-other GROWN MEN who’s example could be well populating this feral, sick, manchild psychopath’s list of people he wants most to be like if he ever grows up.
Note I say ‘If’, because, folks, Stehen Miller is a GROWN man.
I am not trying to be funny here.
Jim Acosta-thank YOU for putting YOUR ass on the line to get this shameful inhumane debasement out there LOUDLY.
In closing, all I can ask is just what in the F does this sorry angry spoilt brat-in his own family a descendant of people who came HERE under the same conditions as he’s trying, in his apparent belief that 1+1=3, to rebrand as arch criminals-WTF does THIS ‘person’ KNOW about ‘Liberation’???
This screed is prosecutorial EXHIBIT A evidence of an inmate who’s being allowed, more and more, every day to try to run the asylum he’s locked into with Donald Trump, his cabinet and staff and the rest of the Project 2025 puppet-master playgroup.
Wake up, America.
WAKE UP!
Rick,
If you want to see a thing of beauty, take a look on facebook at the letter from the President of Mexico to tRump. She really lays out the facts that "Ol Redface" could never imagine.
No truer words ever spoken..great job Rick Wilson! I'd love to be able to share this with the assholes I fight with every day on FB!
I just saw an Instagram post saying Vance's children were frightened by the Tesla protests. My take: not nearly as frightened as the court of Louis XVI in 1793.
Get a clue, courtiers of Mar-a-Versailles.
Rick, Following Lincoln Project and not quit. Joined as an Annual Member, but give me two weeks and I’m in for Founder.
Next, everyone in America should read, “The Theory of Stupidity” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Perfect explanation of ignorance vs. stupidly. Ignorance is a bit harsh so I’ll go with simply not knowing. Am I ignorant because I don’t know how roads are paved, potato chips made, or setting a broken bone? No I’m not. But if I watch, “How It’s Made”, I can learn a bit…not expert, just to expand my mind. Then say, that was cool!
Stupidity, is not knowing, the refusal to read or gather facts, and outright laziness. Stupidity not only harms others but yourself. Do I hear Forest Gump? At least he learned shrimp farming.
Lastly, as a former educator, now retired, when my students jotted down “IDK”, or I don’t know, it was the lazy way out of a question on their quiz. So when or what generation started with this? I suspect those born in the mid-eighties every generation thereafter. The parents of these kids never gave a fuck about education, compassion, teamwork, community, acceptance, all that really makes America great. Yes we had issues in the 70’s, but as that decade drew to a close, much has to be said about the beginning of a pronounced drug culture. Would I teach now? Nope, and get shot? Nope.
How we get back on track I don’t know. What I do know is have a new, special national election now, and kick his butt out of office.
Well said!
The little I know about presidents, the ones who made it had a home to return to. George W. had his Mt. Vernon, TJ had his Monticello, even John Adams had Peacefield in Quincy, MA. There were in between presidents who were shot, died, married, etc but I think their lives’ were forming and being re-made.
Garfield barely took office when he was shot in the train station and languished for weeks while “physicians” (nothing but barbers) stuck their bare unwashed hands in his wounds trying to “save” him. Death by 19th century “medicine”. Garfield’s final journey after lying on the floor of the White House for weeks trying to live was in northern Jersey at the beloved shore house near the terminus of the train.Then there was Lincoln. His life was such a trajectory that every home was left behind in a dust storm. LBJ had his challenges mostly with depression and heart disease, but he had his (abused) beloved Lady Bird and the ranch. JFK had nothing but the family compound in Hyannis and the house in Georgetown. Not really your own home.
Carter had the peanut farm, George HW had Kennebunkport, Clinton was an outlier but Hilary helped him never have to give up government - an unusual connection to Washington being home. George, jr, anybody from Texas can scratch dirt anywhere in the entire state. Obama grounded in Chicago thanks to Michelle and mother in law.
My point, if you have roots (and give roots) your tired ass old body has a reason to hang. Live well, live long and prosper. Loved the post.
Because we just couldn't have a competent, well spoken, smart, compassionate woman president, could we? As a country, we chose no care over home care, no education of any quality over improvement of the current system, no cure for alzheimers or parkinson's over years of research that could have led to a breakthrough. Give us measles, they said! Give us polluted water and more school shootings! That is what we want with this man. And make the price of eggs go down...God knows we need our eggs over social security checks for grandma. It wasn't as though the voters didn't know what he was going to do. They liked it and they wanted it.
Brilliant.