Jerome Riviere
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
With this money, she hired people and these people were working for her. But instead of working in Brussels or in Strasbourg, where the European Parliament is located, they were also working in Paris, where she is working as president of her party. And basically, they say this is embezzlement because she was using funding from the European Parliament to do politics in France.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
But when you want to be elected as a member of parliament, when you do your job, you do it in your country. Again, it's part of the idea that the European Parliament doesn't like nations. And to be honest, every single party has done so for the past 25 years. The actual prime minister in France, Francois Bayrou, was accused of the exact same thing.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
He was found not guilty a couple of months ago, but it was the exact same accusation. That's why when Marine Le Pen was sentenced with this terrible sentence, banned from running, he said he was troubled. And he can be troubled because she should not have been sentenced. Do you think the appeal will be successful? Yes, but you have to see what they did. And this is a nuclear bomb.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
That's what she qualified. This lawfare, the weapon they used by banning her from running, makes it that an appeal, if she's successful, will be after the election. So after the election, they'll tell her, oh... You're not guilty, but the election is over. She's not president. She was not candidate. So this is what is really unfair.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
So as a reaction, the high magistrate decided that they are trying to move the agenda so that maybe by the summer of 2026, they might have the appeal and they might have a result. But seriously, it's not up to judges, however good or bad they are, it's not up to judges to decide who's going to be able to run for the presidency of France.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
There is no higher Supreme Court than the French people in France or the US people, American people in the United States. Judges shouldn't be able to do that.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
Yeah, but it's quite different to be prime minister or to be president. Prime minister, you don't go through an election. You get named prime minister because you are the head of the majority of a lot of members of Congress. And I think he's perfectly suited for that. Running for president, it's a specific tie between one candidate and the people. Why did Donald Trump, why was he so successful?
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
Because he established a very specific relationship with the American people. He's talking to them. They relate to what he's saying. This is why he got elected. Another Republican having the exact same program might not have been elected. So Marine Le Pen has been building this relationship with the French people for many years. So yes, Jordan Berdella would step up, I believe so.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
Other people might step up, but the big question is, it's not up to judges to decide about who is going to be running or not.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
People are outraged throughout France. Even the extreme left is feeling uncomfortable with the decision because they have understood that once we let some judges strike and decide that they ban someone from running, it can happen another time. And one thing that we have to... slowly think about is we always talk about the separation of powers.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
It's a big thing, just separation of power between the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch. On principle, of course, it is good and essential. But the question in France now is Who's checking on the judges? And I want to give you two examples because it explains the questioning that a lot of people have right now. Recently, we have a judge.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
He was putting his daughter, 13-year-old daughter, for prostitution on websites. He was discovered. He was brought to trial. And after several tries and mistrials, his sentence was three years, non-executed three years. I mean, what kind of messages does it send to the French people for a politician using political funds that should be used in Europe? They are used in France.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
You go four years in jail and you are banned five years from running. But if you're a judge and you put your 13-year-old child out for prostitution, the only thing you get is basically a slap on the hand. It doesn't make any sense. It is not possible. We also have... Sorry.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
Appointed. They are appointed, and then they cannot go away. We have had, in the news in France, we have a huge problem with immigration, and a lot of it is a violent immigration. And we have a lot of immigrants that are violent criminals that are supposed to be evicted from France. There is a judgment saying that they should be evicted. 90% of them are not evicted.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
The judgment stays without anything being done. And we see a lot of them committing crimes again and again. And we know that some judges decided that the sentence should not be carried out. who at one point will come and decide that it is not fair that those judges are not doing their job properly. So the check and balance works only if there is a real balance.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
You know, when we say we don't want to comment, in France there is a big saying, I don't want to comment on a judicial decision. The judges comment daily on political decisions. They even decide whether they are good or not. So at one point, we have to put this balance back.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
And honestly, what President Trump is doing, just by talking about it, by saying, I don't agree with this judge or this judge's decision, it's making people realize, yes, we can criticize justice when it's not done properly. They don't have some kind of papal knowledge. You know, we say that the pope knows his... knows everything regarding religion. They don't know everything regarding justice.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
We can't criticize them. And they do mistakes. And when they do mistakes, they should be blamed for it.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
To go to your point, the judge, when the judge gave the sentence on Monday to Marine Le Pen, she said... It is, I don't want Marine Le Pen to be able to run. Because if she were found guilty during the appeal, if I don't ban her now, then she would be elected when found guilty later. So I take the personal decision to ban her from running. I mean, she said it's a political decision.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
It's absolutely crazy.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
Prime Minister Orban launched Je suis Marine, yes.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
I don't understand sometimes how some of the French people react. It is true that he has some appeal. His main political agenda is to talk to the newly French, to the Muslim migrants. And he's advocating the fact that Islam should have a bigger place inside France. So there are quite a few people that come from Muslim countries that have immigrated into France.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
So he's making a strong point on that subject. What can I tell you? That's democracy. And, you know, I will fight him politically, but this is the choice of the people. If some people want to vote for him, I will tell them why it's a wrong idea. But, you know, it's a democratic expression.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
He's very daring and indeed he pushes things, but the attention that he gets is diminishing. Right now he's not at all in the run for the presidential election. Marine Le Pen is a good 15 points ahead. of the next candidate. And the next candidate, you have quite a few of them that could be coming from Macron's party or Macron's minority. They are far away.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
And then Mélenchon comes in third place, but he's quite far away.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
Oh, yeah. No, it has been talked for me. You know, we French, we love to change our constitution, right? We have had five so far. We began in 1789, so a little after you, but we have had five so far. The one that we have right now, our constitution, the fifth, was established by General de Gaulle in 1958. So there are indeed a lot of voices saying that it should change. It was established
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
with General de Gaulle in mind, who was quite a strong personality at a time that was different. We don't act with amendments. We do drastic things. That's why we had a revolution. So that's why it's sometimes worrisome to see that we are in a dead end because of the reaction that the French people can have sometimes.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
Yeah, but it's a war that the nationalists have lost, say, the left, all of the left, and the extreme left is trying to impose the idea that France began in 1789, that in fact before the monarchies, 1,500 years before, do not count, that they are bad and that... We enlightened the world, but we enlightened ourselves in 1789, which I think is very wrong.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
And I think this is one of the cultural wars that we have to win. France did not begin in 1789. France began way before. We have so many things that did matter that created this civilization. So this is why you will see all people that bear left ideologically, will always bring back 1789 because to them it is the beginning of the new era. The French Revolution was not that great.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
And we need also a massive genocide. You have to know that in the western part of France, in a place called Vendée, which is a little south of Otagne, in Parliament, the member of Parliament at that time said to General Hoche, who's in charge of repression, Go in there, go in villages, kill everyone, kill everyone, children and women included. We want to get rid of them.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
So it was debated in a parliament in France during the revolution. So there are many things that we should not hold that great about the French Revolution.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
And they put them on boats and they would bomb the boats so that people would drown because they didn't know how to swim. A lot of atrocities were done during the war, during that revolutionary war. The great thing for France is that we were extremely populated. You had a lot of French citizens. Basically, the population of France equaled the rest of Europe.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
That was why Napoleon was a very good strategic guy. But he also had the manpower, if I may say so, because the population of France was so numerous that we were able to sustain long wars with the rest of Europe, against the rest of Europe.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
Those were local battlefields, so it was a lot of people, but mainly it was soldiers dying on shields. Yeah, soldiers.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
Nobody understands it. It's a huge shock. I mean, I think they did believe for a while that President Trump would not do that. They have been living in a dream world. Can you imagine for the past 50 years? NATO, mainly the US, has been paying for the European defense. With Marine Le Pen, we have been advocating the fact that we need to own our own defense.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
When President Sarkozy brought France back into... Because in NATO, you have the political NATO and you have the military integrated command. And France was not part of the military integrated command. We were part of the political organization, but we were doing what we wanted to do. on our own regarding military operations. Sarkozy brought us back into that. We are totally against it.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
A nation should be independent. You have allies, you have an organization in which you don't depend on another country. So Europe has been living a freebie. It's like the US paying and therefore it's easier to spend money on other things. I was expecting it, and all the nationalists are expecting that at one point this would happen. It's brutal. It's going to be difficult.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
But I think that we need to end globalization. Again, I think globalization is something that has made every people in every nation suffer a lot. So it will bring an end to this type of organized trade.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
basically that's mainly where I will post and comment and are you going to be back politically active should we anticipate seeing you speaking publicly I really don't know right now I'm just enjoying taking a little break from politics in France and Europe because it's a little crazy and I don't feel like many things can be achieved right now with politics interesting well thank you for joining us appreciate it very much thank you for having me I appreciate it thank you
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
Thank you for having me. It's a real pleasure to be able to discuss what's going on in France and to give you a foreign perspective on How lucky you are in the United States to have a Trump administration. I believe that this is something amazing that's going on in the States. And with quite a few people, people that believe in nations in Europe, this is what we have been working towards.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
And we have been shaken, but was decided a couple of days ago when Marine Le Pen, who is the champion for this type of policies, has been banned from running in the next presidential election.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
He's a great guy. He's very independent.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
I think this is what the majority of the people are thinking, is that we feel bad because nations are disappearing. And this is quite visible in Europe because of the European Union. In fact, you have some kind of supranational organization, which is the European Union, that is slowly sucking up all the powers of nations. It began with trades.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
It followed with, during the pandemic, they decided they would take over health. Now they are trying to take over defense. All those powers belong to nations. And when the European Union was first imagined, the idea was to build a free market, not to build some kind of superpower.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
And we feel, at least the people I was working with, National Rally and other political groups, feel that we have to reestablish nations. Because in fact, when you said that it's the end of the American empire, it was not the American empire. It was a globalization, a global power. It had nothing to do with America. It is the idea that a few people, a few establishments,
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
could control rules takes an advantage of whatever was best in whichever country and impose it on a lot of other countries it went through the united states because the us is the largest of all those nations but we have to take our nations back and talk from nations to nations and not obey by by the demands of larger powers
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
I strongly believe this is a financialization of capitalism that made all this happen. Capitalism is good. Too much finance, isn't it? What made it globalization?
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
Yeah, it is strange, but you have to understand that in Europe, a lot of those governments, Macron, same thing in Germany, with the exception of Italy, where we have a more nationalist majority, with the exception of Hungary, where you have Orban who is fighting for nations, all those other countries, France leading the path, have been led by people that believe that power should be given to the European Union.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
Mm-hmm.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
I am out. I decided not to run a couple of months ago. There is so little that one can do. It's not really an open parliament. For example, during the pandemic, there was a contract between the European Union and Pfizer. And as a member of parliament, the first mission that we have is to control the type of contract that we've done. We couldn't look at the contract. They were edited.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
So we don't know who signed what. It is definitely not a democratic practice. So the European Union is a very opaque system in which very little can be done by so-called member of parliament. It is not real parliament. It looks more like, I don't know, some kind of joke.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
Yes, some people are trying to look at history in a positive way. For many, many years, the main point of legacy media and a lot of politicians is a culture of the excuse. You know, we were bad. We have been doing terrible things. We did slave. Not looking at the fact that slaves were, you know, there are multiple ways in which slavery existed, not just
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
is the western europe making taking slaves and bringing them to the states uh we are bad because we we had a great culture and we impose this culture all over you know we we coca-cola is like america europe so we impose coca-cola in china this is bad so the way we have looked our culture for the past 30 to 40 years is being ashamed of it
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
And what the movement that we can see right now, especially with younger people, is that they want to understand it better and they want to be proud of their culture. And we have many reasons to be proud of our culture. We have brought amazing things to civilization. And when you look at history, you cannot just look at the good things, but you definitely cannot just look at the bad things.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
It's a movement. And I strongly believe that it is an amazing progress that the Western civilization made for humanity. We introduced so many great things. And I believe this began with Christianity. So this is something we also have to reconcile ourselves with. Our civilization begins with Christianity. So this is also something that makes Europe feel very uncomfortable.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
We have a very different relationship with religion and God than we do have in the US. We talk about laicity all the time, but we don't feel comfortable with it.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
But you know, I have an anecdote. The first time I met with Steve Bannon, it was in England, not the first time, but among the first time, and it was filmed. And he asked me if I could do the blessing for the lunch we were having. And I reacted as a French politician. I was like, oh no, I cannot do that. It's on TV. It's just like, we don't do it.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
So I told him, you know, it's not part of our culture. And I think this is something that we have to be proud of who we are. And this was a mistake on my part. I think that it is something normal that people can do if they feel comfortable doing. God and religion cannot be excluded from politics. It is also part of it. And I think you have a healthier way of looking at it in the U.S.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
than we do in France, especially.
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Marine Le Pen: Predicted Winner BANNED From French Presidential Election By Court Order w/ Former MEP Jerome Riviere – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 472
It is, in fact, not that complicated. Basically, she was a member of the European Parliament and she was president of her party, the national rally at the time called Front National. As a member of the European Parliament, and I believe it is the same in the United States, you have an allocation money so that you can hire administrative and political assistants.