Tomás Ó Flatharta

This story comes from the reliable source Le Monde, and is appearing on the public TV network.

Trump already has serious criminal convictions imposed by USA courts. Are French courts going to issue warrants for the arrest of the US president?

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Donald Trump deploys US diplomats in Paris to threaten magistrate handling a corruption case against fascist politician Marine Le Pen

US official lobbied French magistrate over Le Pen’s election ban

The magistrate, Magali Lafourcade, said she was sufficiently concerned by the encounter to notify the foreign ministry.

PARIS — A senior policy adviser from the U.S. State Department asked a French magistrate last year whether she could interveneover the election ban on far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

The previously unreported details of the encounter will refocus attention on U.S. efforts to support the European far right. U.S. President Donald Trump has slammed the electoral ban against Le Pen as an example of using “Lawfare to silence Free Speech.”

French magistrate Magali Lafourcade told POLITICO that she and a colleague held a meeting in May with State Department adviser Samuel Samson, who made headlines last year for proposing the use of American taxpayer funds to support Le Pen.