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Europe's far-right leaders have learned a powerful trick from Trump
The Ballot Box Is Not a Laundromat for CorruptionThe Real StoryThe source text is about Marine Le Pen and Nigel Farage trying to convert legal exposure into political martyrdom. Le Pen has a conviction for embezzling European funds; Farage is facing allegations of undeclared gifts and an investigation into possible money laundering. That is the factual core. Everything else is an effort to repackage accountability as persecution.Who Has PowerThe people with actual institutional power here are not judges. They are the politicians who built careers on anti-elite resentment while demanding…
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