Submission statement: Magali Lafourcade, the general secretary of the governmental organization CNCDH, who monitors human rights and counsels the government in judicial matters, revealed on Sunday that she had been approached by two officials of the US State Department in May 2025 over the conviction of Marine Le Pen in March of the same year.
Marine Le Pen, who led the far-right National Front (rebranded as National Rally) for ten years and currently presides the RN's parliamentary delegation, was found guilty of embezzlement in a vast corruption scheme that siphoned more than €4.3 million from the European Parliament through fake jobs and unduly perceived subsidies, and sentenced to four years of imprisonment and a five-year ban from holding office – executed under the provisional regime that enforces the ban even during the appeal process, depriving Le Pen of a fourth presidential run in 2027.
Magali Lafourcade says she was approached by Christopher Anderson and Samuel Samson – who advocated for direct financial support to Le Pen through US public funds -, two officials of the US State Department, two months after Le Pen filed appeal on her conviction. Lafourcade alleges that the two diplomats "sought elements giving credit to their theory that this was a politically motivated trial" and described them as "ill-intentioned", saying she alerted the French Foreign Ministry after the meeting concluded.
The revelations confirm the aggressive pivot taken by the second Trump administration against their European allies, and their collusion with European far-right parties aligned on their anti-immigration, "civilizational" worldview. The White House took direct aim at European governments – particularly the UK, France and Germany – over what they described as the "civilizational erasure" of Europe, confirming they would seek direct interferences in the legal systems of European nations to shield and promote their far-right allies against legal consequences for their corruption and violence.
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!ping EUROPE&FRANCE
To be noted, the president of the Tribunal de Paris, where Le Pen was convicted and is currently tried on appeal, [warned two weeks ago](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/01/08/french-judges-alarmed-by-rumors-of-potential-us-sanctions_6749193_4.html) that the US may seek to sanction French magistrates with asset freezes or visa bans if Le Pen was to be convicted on appeal. This isn’t bluster.
They’re trying to install far right leaders all across the world.