“We have got to do more as the West than just talk about democratic values. We must live them,” she said, paraphrasing Vance’s remarks. Vance has repeatedly refused to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
In his Munich speech, Vance criticized Europe’s “old, entrenched interests” for “hiding behind ugly, Soviet-era words like ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’” to suppress alternative viewpoints and quash the possibility of an outsider winning an election.
“We support the right of everyone to offer their views in the public square, agree or disagree,” Bruce said, parroting Vance.
Le Pen’s conviction has elicited a wellspring of support from other far-right figures, including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Italian League party boss Matteo Salvini and Dutch populist Geert Wilders.
Le Pen could still appeal her sentence. If her bid fails, she will get a four-year prison sentence ― two of which were suspended and two to be served under house arrest.
