{"id":8902,"date":"2026-01-09T12:12:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/steve-bannon-backs-le-pen-over-lightweight-bardella-for-french-president\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:12:41","slug":"steve-bannon-backs-le-pen-over-lightweight-bardella-for-french-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/steve-bannon-backs-le-pen-over-lightweight-bardella-for-french-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Bannon backs Le Pen over &#8216;lightweight&#8217; Bardella for French president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\">  <\/picture> <noscript>  <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Steve Bannon in Phoenix, Arizona, US, on December 19, 2025.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">CHENEY ORR \/ REUTERS<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">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 &#8220;lightweight.&#8221; Le Pen as president would help &#8220;break&#8221; the European Union, Steve Bannon said in an interview with television broadcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.franceinfo.fr\/replay-magazine\/france-2\/complement-d-enquete\/document-francetv-venezuela-groenland-liens-avec-marine-le-pen-l-ideologue-steve-bannon-ancien-conseiller-de-donald-trump-repond-aux-questions-de-complement-d-enquete_7728244.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Nouvelle fen\u00eatre\">France 2<\/a> aired Thursday, January 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">A French court last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/politics\/article\/2025\/03\/31\/marine-le-pen-s-2027-presidential-bid-in-jeopardy-after-paris-court-bans-far-right-leader-from-running-for-elections_6739692_5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted Le Pen<\/a> in a graft case, banning her from running for office&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/politics\/article\/2026\/01\/09\/steve-bannon-backs-le-pen-over-lightweight-bardella-for-french-president_6749243_5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Bannon in Phoenix, Arizona, US, on December 19, 2025. CHENEY ORR \/ REUTERS Steve Bannon, a former advisor to Donald Trump, said he hoped French far-right leader Marine Le&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3051,3263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-politique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}