Marine Le Pen made one thing very plain. She is not leaving peacefully.
She might have been embarrassed before a Paris tribunal, convicted of embezzlement, punished, and disqualified from government for five years.
But there was no feeling of remorse or sorrow in her speech to the party’s supporters. You wouldn’t expect there to be. She thinks, or claims, to be the victim of an elite conspiracy, and the people witnessing her speak in Paris agreed wholeheartedly.
The head of the hard-right National Rally party was found guilty of participating in a massive and planned attempt to defraud the European Parliament and its taxpayers by raising millions of euros through bogus accounts.
