Musk slams Le Pen ruling, says it will 'backfire' like Trump's as some on global right face legal troubles

JERUSALEM — The stunning tribunal condemnation of fashionable right-wing person Marine Le Pen connected Monday for embezzlement sparked outrage from President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency head, Elon Musk, who compared her destiny to Trump’s ineligible troubles.

Musk said aft the verdict that, "This volition backfire, similar the ineligible attacks against President Trump." Musk pinned the blasted connected the near for the condemnation of Le Pen. He wrote connected X, "When the extremist near can’t triumph via antiauthoritarian vote, they maltreatment the ineligible strategy to jailhouse their opponents. This is their modular playbook passim the world."

The condemnation of Le Pen, which bans her from moving for bureau for 5 years, comes amid ineligible prosecutions of different right-wing politicians, ranging from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Romania’s Călin Georgescu to erstwhile Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

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French right-wing person Marine Le Pen arrives astatine a Paris tribunal expected to present a verdict successful an embezzlement lawsuit connected Monday, March 31, 2025 successful Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Fox News Digital reported past year, aft a Manhattan assemblage convicted then-former President Trump of falsifying concern records, that ineligible experts saw similarities betwixt his lawsuit and the ongoing corruption prosecution against Netanyahu.

When asked connected Monday astir Le Pen's sentence, Trump told reporters it was "a large deal," adding, "But she was banned for moving for 5 years, and she's the starring candidate. That sounds similar this country, that sounds precise overmuch similar this country."

Other cases wherever satellite leaders and politicians connected the close person been targeted see Netanyahu, who was charged with fraud, breach of spot and accepting bribes successful a ineligible saga that started 4 years agone and is inactive unfolding. Netanyahu has flatly denied each the accusations against him.

Calin Georgescu, the victor of Romania's archetypal circular of the statesmanlike election, annulled by the Constitutional Court, waves to supporters gathered for a protestation extracurricular the Romanian parliament successful Bucharest, Romania, connected Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexandru Dobre, File)

Romania’s right-wing statesmanlike frontrunner, Georgescu, was barred from the contention nether transgression charges helium compared to those Trump faced.

"We are faced with a communist authorities arsenic well," Georgescu told Fox News Digital conscionable earlier a Romanian electoral bureau barred him from moving successful a May statesmanlike predetermination rerun. Prosecutors opened a transgression lawsuit against him 2 weeks prior. 

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the property arsenic helium arrives astatine the Brasilia International Airport successful Brasilia, Brazil, connected March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Nova)

Just past week, Brazil’s Supreme Court accepted charges against erstwhile President Bolsonaro implicit an alleged effort to stay successful bureau aft his 2022 predetermination defeat, ordering the erstwhile person to basal trial.

Italy’s Vice Premier Matteo Salvini, who was cleared successful December of illegally detaining migrants, called his lawsuit "a declaration of warfare by Brussels."

Eugene Kontorovich, a ineligible adept and elder chap at the Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, told Fox News Digital, "France follows the signifier of governmental prosecutions successful the U.S. and Israel, wherever transgression prosecutions for obscure victimless offenses are utilized to sound retired fashionable leaders of close helping parties, and usage to courts to basal betwixt the electorate and their preferred candidates. It is improbable these cases are each happening wrong a twelvemonth of each other: Leftists astir the satellite are learning from, and legitimizing, each other’s tactics."

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President Donald Trump, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talk during a quality league successful the East Room of the White House connected Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (Alex Brandon/AP)

The bosom of the embezzlement lawsuit revolves astir accusations against Le Pen and much than 20 different National Rally figures who allegedly utilized EU funds to prosecute employees to enactment for the National Rally alternatively of matters involving the European Parliament arsenic required by EU regulations successful Brussels.

The French tribunal besides imposed a four-year situation condemnation connected Le Pen. The condemnation unleashed a governmental earthquake successful France, wherever the adjacent statesmanlike predetermination is slated for 2027.

Right-wing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, an state of Trump, posted successful French connected societal media a solidarity message, "Je suis Marine!" ("I americium Marine"), an evident notation to the slogan "Je suis Charlie" that was formulated aft extremist Islamist terrorists murdered journalists successful 2015 from the Charlie Hebdo satirical mag successful Paris.

Le Pen has transformed the anti-immigration enactment National Rally (formerly called the National Front) into a superior governmental unit that is simply a morganatic contender to triumph the 2027 statesmanlike election.

Marine Le Pen, president of the National Rally radical successful the National Assembly, joins Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally (Rassemblement National), astatine the last rally earlier the precocious held European Parliament predetermination connected June 9. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

She ousted her father, the precocious Jean-Marie Le Pen, who founded the National Front, and rejected his antisemitism. He was fined for terming the Holocaust state chambers a "detail of history".

Marine Le Pen's protégé, the 29-year-old Jordan Bardella, precocious spoke past week astatine an Israeli authorities league connected combating antisemitism. He is expected to instrumentality implicit the National Rally. He urged a "peaceful mobilization" to protestation the verdict. 

According to French24, Bardella said the blameworthy verdict has "killed" French democracy. His enactment launched a petition that states:"It is no longer the authorities of judges, but the dictatorship of judges, which wishes to forestall the French radical from expressing themselves."

Le Pen's lawyer, Rodolphe Bosselut, announced that helium would entreaty the verdict. 

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Leader of Italy's right-wing League Party Matteo Salvini reacts arsenic helium leaves a tribunal aft a proceeding successful the proceedings against him connected charges of kidnapping implicit his determination to forestall much than 100 migrants from landing successful the state successful 2019, successful Palermo, Italy, connected Oct. 23, 2021. (REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello)

"I americium shocked by the incredibly pugnacious verdict against Marine Le Pen," said Holland’s right-wing politician, Geert Wilders, who has been dubbed the Dutch mentation of Trump. 

He added,"I enactment and judge successful her 100% and I spot she volition triumph the entreaty and go President of France."

Fox News Digital's Morgan Phillips, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.