Steve Bannon backs Le Pen over ‘lightweight’ Bardella for French president

Steve Bannon, a former advisor to Donald Trump, said he hoped French far-right leader Marine Le Pen could run for president despite her legal woes, dismissing her lieutenant as a “lightweight.” Le Pen as president would help “break” the European Union, Steve Bannon said in an interview with television broadcaster France 2 aired Thursday, January 8.

A French court last year convicted Le Pen in a graft case, banning her from running for office…