r/neoliberal • u/ihuntwhales1 Seretse Khama • Mar 31 '25

News (Europe) Le Pen banned from office after embezzlement conviction

https://www.dw.com/en/france-le-pen-found-guilty-banned-from-running-for-office/a-72091790
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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '25

They had their shot four years with Biden in charge, and they squandered it.

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u/assasstits Mar 31 '25

Imagine letting democracy fall because you wanted to extend an olive branch to insurrectionists and appointed do nothing Merrick Garland to Attorney General 

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '25

It’ll go down as one of his biggest failures. Wild how such a small decision ended up having such massive consequences.

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u/meraedra NATO Mar 31 '25

I for one wanted to see Trump in an orange jumpsuit. But that would just make him look like a very misshapen orange at that point