France’s far-right party boss Jordan Bardella revealed to have erased Facebook messages following revelations of antisemitic writings

>**Jordan Bardella deleted a Facebook profile in an attempt to save his head**

>Jordan Bardella has, once again, tripped himself up in his denials regarding the antisemitic writings unearthed by Mediapart. On October 5th, on CNews, Pascal Praud suggested a rather silly idea to the National Rally leader to help him exonerate himself: since Bardella denies having written such nonsense, he simply has to prove that it doesn’t exist to put out the fire…

>A very easy demonstration to make, as the star presenter of the Bolloré company himself pointed out: “He must have had a Facebook account: why doesn’t he extract all his conversations himself? If someone tells me I’ve said horrible things, I’ll go see Mr. Meta and say to him, ‘Can you extract all the conversations I’ve had since the dawn of time?’ and then I’ll do it with a bailiff and that’ll be the end of it…”

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This post came right after a post about a Green party candidate from Wisconsin having an antisemitic road rage incident in my feed. These idiots have all come out of the woodwork across the political spectrum and I’m fucking tired.