‘FREE MARINE LE PEN!’ Trump Torches ‘European Leftists’ and Cries ‘Lawfare’ in Fiery Defense of Convicted French Far-Right Leader

President Donald Trump leapt to the defense of French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Friday, blasting her embezzlement conviction as “lawfare,” while comparing it to his own legal troubles.

Le Pen, parliamentary leader of the country’s right-wing populist National Rally party (RN) and a long-dominant force on France’s political right, was sentenced to four years for embezzling EU funds this week.

In a scorched-earth Truth Social post Friday, Trump accused “European Leftists” of weaponizing the justice system to sideline political opponents.

He praised the politician’s resilience and dismissed the case as a “bookkeeping error,” likening her legal drama to his own, and name-checking Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, and Lisa Monaco — three prosecutors involved in his various U.S. cases.

Taking to social media, he wrote:

The Witch Hunt against Marine Le Pen is another example of European Leftists using Lawfare to silence Free Speech, and censor their Political Opponent, this time going so far as to put that Opponent in prison. It is the same “playbook” that was used against me by a group of Lunatics and Losers, like Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, and Lisa Monaco. They spent the last nine years thinking of nothing else, and they FAILED, because the People of the United States realized that they were only Corrupt Lawyers and Politicians. I don’t know Marine Le Pen, but do appreciate how hard she worked for so many years. She suffered losses, but kept on going, and now, just before what would be a Big Victory, they get her on a minor charge that she probably knew nothing about – Sounds like a “bookkeeping” error to me. It is all so bad for France, and the Great French People, no matter what side they are on. FREE MARINE LE PEN!

While Le Pen won’t serve jail time — two years were suspended and the other two placed under house arrest — the sentence banned her from seeking political office for five years – blocking her from contesting the 2027 presidential election.

The ruling is on hold pending appeal, but the ban on her candidacy is effective immediately, a rare move in French legal precedent.