K.T. McFarland, the former deputy national security adviser in the first Trump administration, told Newsmax on Tuesday that Marine Le Pen’s criminal conviction and ban from running for president in France is copied from the same playbook the political elites tried to use against President Donald Trump.

McFarland joined “Rob Schmitt Tonight” to react to the embezzlement conviction handed down on Le Pen, leader of the populist National Rally party of France.

“The only crime Marine Le Pen committed is that she’s more popular than they are. The entrenched political class cannot tolerate someone coming in and upending the social order of their corruption, their incompetence, and their suppression of the popular vote,” McFarland said. “It’s the same thing they did to Donald Trump. It’s the same thing they did to [Silvio] Berlusconi in Italy. It’s the same thing they did to [Jair] Bolsonaro in Brazil.

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