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Jose Garcia

(2,592 posts)
Thu Jan 12, 2017, 01:01 PM Jan 2017

Le Pen Spotted at Trump Tower During Unannounced New York Visit

Source: Bloomberg

French National Front leader Marine Le Pen was spotted at Trump Tower during an unannounced visit to New York less than four months before France’s presidential election.

An aide to Le Pen, who leads in the latest opinion poll for the presidency, declined to comment on her reason for being in the lobby of the building on Thursday. Le Pen waved off reporters when approached.

Donald Trump had no plans to meet with Le Pen, according to an aide to the president-elect, who asked not to be identified without authorization to speak publicly. Neither is she on Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon’s schedule, a person familiar said. Le Pen’s campaign chief of staff, David Rachline, said earlier that she was making a private visit to New York.

“It’s not on her public agenda,” Rachline said in a text message exchange, when asked if she planned a meeting with Trump or officials close to him. “We don’t communicate about private visits.”

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-12/le-pen-in-new-york-for-unannounced-visit-during-french-race

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Le Pen Spotted at Trump Tower During Unannounced New York Visit (Original Post) Jose Garcia Jan 2017 OP
Soulmates 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2017 #1
Fasten yer seatbelts, kids... 2naSalit Jan 2017 #2
And we're off! Generator Jan 2017 #6
It's been so bad for the privileged whites, hasn't it? Dopers_Greed Jan 2017 #7
Well meet again MFM008 Jan 2017 #8
All ready for her ethno-nationalist close-up BeyondGeography Jan 2017 #3
Le Pen enid602 Jan 2017 #4
Dark Network TranssexualKaren Jan 2017 #5
Le Pen meeting with Trump's 'European Fixer' deminks Jan 2017 #9
Looks like it sounds... 2naSalit Jan 2017 #11
Probably conferring with Paul Manafort on how to coordinate her campaign with Russia/Wikileaks wishstar Jan 2017 #10
Yup. Is Manfort in the picture in my post above? 2naSalit Jan 2017 #12
Maybe- not sure from that angle but Manafort does resemble the dark haired one in pic wishstar Jan 2017 #13
I will see you all in the Gulag!! At least we will be in excellent company!! nt adigal Jan 2017 #14
40 years ago it was predicted BumRushDaShow Jan 2017 #15
A new fascist Axis. Trump, LePen and Putin. Just what we need SteamAddict Jan 2017 #16
They claim they are anti-"globalist" and want closed borders MountCleaners Jan 2017 #17
 

Generator

(7,770 posts)
6. And we're off!
Thu Jan 12, 2017, 01:56 PM
Jan 2017

No NATO, no Merkel. LePen. May. Putin. Trump. What a wonderful world. Cue the music.

Dopers_Greed

(2,640 posts)
7. It's been so bad for the privileged whites, hasn't it?
Thu Jan 12, 2017, 02:02 PM
Jan 2017

Let's see how things will be for them under global fascist rule. My prediction is that they'll like it less, not more.

TranssexualKaren

(364 posts)
5. Dark Network
Thu Jan 12, 2017, 01:55 PM
Jan 2017

I just finished reading an article about Trumps' visit to the Soviet Union in the 1980s, he didn't like Gorbachev because "He said his “problem” with then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was that he was “not a firm enough hand.”". I always thought that if worse came to worse I could flee to Canada, but there's really no where to run that is safe from an international right wing authoritarian conspiracy. Friends, the fight is here!!!!!

2naSalit

(86,524 posts)
11. Looks like it sounds...
Thu Jan 12, 2017, 05:08 PM
Jan 2017

Not convinced?

Lookit...



And one of the guys is named Guido, his real name, and this is how the world domination is finalized.

wishstar

(5,268 posts)
10. Probably conferring with Paul Manafort on how to coordinate her campaign with Russia/Wikileaks
Thu Jan 12, 2017, 05:07 PM
Jan 2017

Last I heard, Manafort still lives in Trump Tower

MountCleaners

(1,148 posts)
17. They claim they are anti-"globalist" and want closed borders
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 09:25 AM
Jan 2017

But they and the movements backing them are international and they support each other, share info. This is an international movement that purports to be isolationist. Just shows you how dishonest they are.

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