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BlueMTexpat

(15,603 posts)
Fri Jul 1, 2016, 10:15 AM Jul 2016

French president endorses Hillary Clinton, attacks Donald Trump [View all]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/06/30/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-francois-hollande-france/86552272/

I may not be a huge fan of Hollande, but he's spot on with this.

Foreign leaders have made no secret of their disdain for Donald Trump — and now French President Francois Hollande has made it explicit, endorsing Hillary Clinton for the White House.

"The best thing the Democrats can do is to get Hillary Clinton elected," Hollande wrote in a column for a French newspaper, according to a translation by Politico.

Trump, meanwhile, offers slogans that are "barely different from the extreme right in Europe and in France," and electing him “would complicate relations between Europe and the U.S.," Hollande wrote.

It is unusual for a foreign leader to make such an explicit endorsement in a U.S. presidential election.


When even foreign Heads of State endorse the all-but-official nominee before her primary opponent does, one truly has to wonder about that opponent's motives. If anything, leverage is being sapped away. But that's his problem, not hers. She'll be just fine.
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