Trump endorsed by far-right French leader Le Pen

[teach1st]

Source: Tampa Bay Times (via Washington Post)

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the controversial father of France's far-right National Front, on Saturday voiced his support for billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump's insurgent bid for the White House.

The de facto endorsement insinuates an unflattering — and unsought — connection between Trump and Le Pen, a known racist who was expelled last year from the National Front for his inflammatory rhetoric.

"If I were American, I would vote Donald Trump," he wrote in French on Twitter on Saturday. "But may God protect him!"

Le Pen has advocated a view of the "inequality of the races" and has downplayed the significance of the Holocaust. He has also been charged with inciting violence against Muslims.

Read more: http://www.tampabay.com/news/nation/trump-endorsed-by-far-right-french-leader-le-pen/2267205

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. That doesn't surprise me

[drray23]

2. birds of a feather flock together.nt.

[redwitch]

3. Fascists love other fascists. nt

[shenmue]

4. Asshole endorses other asshole

[BlueMTexpat]

5. Blech!

They deserve each other.

[pampango]

6. "Le Pen has advocated a view of the "inequality of the races" and has downplayed the ... Holocaust.

He has also been charged with inciting violence against Muslims.

Under the direction of his daughter, Marine Le Pen, the National Front has sought to move into mainstream French political life and has seen growing electoral legitimacy in recent years. But the party's calls for increased border security have been sharply denounced by critics who accuse party leaders of peddling racially tinged, anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim ideas.

Many of Trump's critics have accused him of xenophobia, pointing to his proposal to temporarily ban all Muslims from entering the country and his calls to deport 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.

Trump has strongly dismissed those accusations, pointing to his business relationships with diverse parties. The billionaire grew frustrated Friday when reporters pressed him on a recent endorsement from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, an American white nationalist.

A little racism, Islamophobia, ultra-nationalism, xenophobia - what don't they have in common?

[Major Hogwash]

7. Upon further analysis, there are a lot of similarities between these two.

One is a fairly well-known, egotistical, racist loudmouth POS ignored by most thinking people, who thinks his opinions are important, and doesn't think in advance of how his disgusting habit of speaking out in public while he is spewing hate-filled rants is received by the targets of his comments, supported by his outdated 19th Century belief in "a superior race of men" (which does not include women), and that somehow, despite the odds or his checkered past, his fame and fortune will someday propel him to become a leader in his own country.

The other one is Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Otherwise known as "Le Douche Sac."

[Turborama]

8. No doubt Trump and his believers feel honoured to receive this endorsement. n/t

[Cavallo]

9. I think Trump is a very scary guy. And this just adds more to it.