French Le Pen: American administration may have swayed Trump

In an interview on France Info radio on Friday, French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen noted that the US President Trump had apparently changed his mind on the NATO military alliance.

Key Quotes via Bloomberg:

“Undeniably he is in contradiction with the commitments he had made” 

“I am coherent, I don’t change my mind in a few days. He had said he would not be the policeman of the world that he would be the president of the United States and would not be the policeman of the world, but it seems today that he has changed his mind” 

“Will he persist, or is it a political coup which facilitates his domestic policy, I have absolutely no idea. But I am coherent in my analyzes, when something favors France I say so, when it doesn’t I say so too”

“That the American administration bears a part in the decisions of Mr. Trump may also be an explanation, but I am the candidate who defends the superiority of politics over the administration, the bureaucracy, the economic, and so I think it is politics which must decide”

“Why, when I want to be president of the French republic, should I have the least regret for meeting the president of that great country which is Russia, which is a heavyweight in the world”