Trump Ally And Former Breitbart Contributor Nigel Farage Whitewashes Marine Le Pen's Unapologetic Xenophobia
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Fox News' Shannon Bream invited Nigel Farage, former leader of Great Britain's UKIP to comment on the parallels between President Donald Trump and far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen. Farage, a staunch Trump ally, former Breitbart contributor, and anti-Muslim agitator who has accused British Muslims of having a “split of loyalties” and falsely claimed Sweden is the “rape capital of Europe,” defended Le Pen, saying she “dragged” the Front National “a long way” from their racist past. Le Pen -- who recently announced she was stepping down from running the Front National party to “unite all French people” -- supports expelling non-national legal residents who have been unemployed for six months, drastically reducing immigration, and banning birthright citizenship. She recently denied French involvement in the Holocaust and, after the recent attack in Paris, called for the closing of all Islamist mosques in France. From the April 24 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom: