Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Couldn’t Throw Trump in Jail. Marine Le Pen Wasn’t So Lucky

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

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Is Europe really the “stalwart” of democracy? While the radical Left in America failed to imprison President Donald Trump, their Europeans counterparts are having a successful time prosecuting their political enemies, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:” “Europe is copying the lawfare of the United States. Remember that Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, Jack Smith, and E. Jean Carroll, in civil and criminal suits, for four years tried to destroy Donald Trump. And they had over $400 million in fines that were leveled at one point. And there were 91 felony indictments… “Ms. Le Pen, the head of the most conservative party in France, who has got enormous momentum. Enormous momentum, because, of the violence of radical Islamic groups, inside France. The open borders, the dissatisfaction with the blank check, given Ukraine, etc., I could go on and on… “[The high court] said that she had expropriate funds, campaign funds. In other words, that she was blending—does this sounds familiar—blending her own campaign with funds allotted from the European Union, for other purposes. In other words, there was a difference—a distinction without a difference. “In other words, they only applied this law to her because they were terrified she was going to win, in the next presidential election.” Watch the full epsiode now! Link in show notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's two things that ring true about Europeans and their relationship to us Americans.
0:05.0	Number one, they never feel or they never admit that they're emulated.
0:09.0	They admit they're affected by the ill effects they think of America, but they're not influenced by us.
0:14.0	And number two, they're the stalwarts of democracy.
0:17.0	We have these pathologies of swinging hard to the right or were yokels or anti-democratic
0:23.6	or maga fanatics, but the Europeans are pristine.
0:26.6	Democrats, we're told, and they're independent of America.
0:29.6	But something's happened that belies those two allegations or assumptions.
0:34.6	Suddenly Europe is copying the lawfare of the United States.
0:50.6	Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hanson for the Daily Signal.
1:00.0	There's two things that ring true about Europeans and their relationship to us Americans. Number one, they never feel or they never admit that they're emulated.
1:05.0	They admit they're affected by the ill effects they think of America, but they're not influenced by us. And number two, they're
1:12.1	the stalwarts of democracy. We have these pathologies of swinging hard to the right, or
1:18.3	we're yokels, or we're anti-democratic, or we're maga fanatics, but the Europeans are pristine,
1:26.0	Democrats, we're told, and they're independent of America.
1:30.1	But something's happened that belies those two allegations or assumptions.
1:35.7	Number one, suddenly Europe is copying the lawfare of the United States.
1:41.0	Remember that Latita James, Alvin Bragg, Fannie Willis,
1:46.8	Jack Smith, and E. Jean Carroll in civil and criminal suits for four years tried to destroy
1:52.5	Donald Trump. They had over $400 million in fines that were leveled at one point. And there were
2:04.0	91 felony indictments. I alvenbragg actually convicted him of 32 this was in addition to trying to remove him off the ballot in 20
2:10.4	states and raiding his home so the europeans wouldn't do that would they the second thing is that
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