Victor Chabert and AFP
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1:05 p.m., February 15, 2022
Éric Zemmour, candidate for the presidential election of the Reconquest party, spoke by telephone for 45 minutes Monday afternoon with former US President Donald Trump who advised him to “hold on”, assured this Tuesday the spokesperson of the polemicist, Guillaume Peltier. According to Éric Zemmour himself, the two men told each other about their respective campaigns. “He told me to be myself, that the media was going to call me brutal but the important thing was that I keep my sincerity. And I think he’s right,” he said.
A “warm” interview
Éric Zemmour’s teams communicated on an exchange described as “long” and “warm”, which they would be at the initiative of through the Republican Party. “When the Donald Trump cabinet responded favorably to our various requests, we took this call with great pleasure”, explained Guillaume Peltier. “There will be exchanges with a certain number of personalities in the coming weeks (…), everyone has understood that the duel which is being prepared in France is between Emmanuel Macron and Éric Zemmour”, added he added.
“They notably mentioned the migratory, security and economic subjects of their two countries”, still assure his relatives. “The meaning of their commitment is the same: Donald Trump wants the United States to remain the United States. Éric Zemmour wants France to remain France”, concludes this press release. Through this telephone meeting with the former President of the United States, Éric Zemmour indeed wants to show that his candidacy now also counts abroad.
Construction of a border wall
Because this phone call is also a snub to Marine Le Pen. Her far-right rival Marine Le Pen made a surprise visit to Trump Tower, where Donald Trump’s New York headquarters was located, in January 2017, but she had not met either the future US president or any member of his team.
Éric Zemmour recently called for the construction of a “wall” at “all the external borders” of the European Union to fight against immigration, recalling Donald Trump’s policy with Mexico. He was also inspired by a poster of the former American president for his way of posing on the cover of his latest book. During his pre-campaign, he had experienced hectic international trips to London and Geneva, after beating his competitor in the fall with Viktor Orban in Budapest.