Good evening. It's Tuesday, April 1st. As I said last night, I really hate April

Fool, so don't expect any sort of

deceit or fun or anything like that.

There may be some jokes, but not along the April 1st variety because I'm a strong,

ardent opponent of April 1st.

I take that position quite seriously and I intend to follow through with it.

But welcome to a new episode of System Update, which is our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube tonight.

The French right-wing politician Maureen Le Pen is leading many polls to become the next president of France in 2027.

After her National Front Party won the EU parliamentary elections last year, many polls to become the next president of France in 2027,

after her National Front Party won the EU parliamentary elections

last year.

But fortunately for the French establishment, which

has long hated and feared Le Pen,

they have, at least for now, solved their Le Pen problem,

not by persuading French voters to reject her or abandon her,

as one would expect one would

do in a democracy, but instead by securing a criminal conviction against her that magically

results in her being banned from running for office for five years, which just coincidentally

extends to the 2027 French presidential election in which all polls agree she has a good chance to win.

This is not the first time we have seen a right-wing populace leading in the polls suddenly

become banished from the ballot. The opposite is true. It is now becoming commonplace in the so-called

democratic world. In the name of protecting democracy, establishment factions have banned from the ballot,

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