Are populist leaders facing a global crackdown?

The leading presidential candidate in France is now ineligible to run for political office.

Marine Le Pen was expected to come out on top in the French presidential elections,

but she has now been found guilty of embezzlement and has been sentenced to four years in prison.

This happens amid a global trend of populist leaders around the world,

facing very similar legal attacks.

And meanwhile, President Trump signed an executive order

aiming to bring an end to some powers used by government unions.

It makes it so that federal government agencies no longer have to bargain

with the unions for things like reductions in force. And there is also rumors of infighting in the

Trump administration. Some news outlets are alleging that Elon Musk will soon be pushed out of the

administration and that the Doge department could soon need to find new leadership.

And now Elon Musk has spoken out saying this is fake news.

I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip and you're listening to Crossroads.

Populist leaders all around the world, they're facing legal attacks.

And some of them are alleging this is working as a global campaign to keep these new parties

out of politics.

Now, the latest of these attacks comes in France, and this is against the right-wing national

leader, Marine Le Pen.

Now, on this, the leading presidential candidate in France, she is now in France and this is against the right wing national leader, Marine Le Pen. Now on this,

the leading presidential candidate in France, she is now ineligible to run for political office,

at least for now. Marine Le Pen, she was expected to be the top presidential candidate. She looked that she was going to win and the national rally. This was the front runner in the polls for the

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