While Democrats’ collective hair is on fire over Russia’s alleged meddling in the U.S. presidential election, they so far are silent about their former Dear Leader’s very public attempt to sway the minds of French voters in Sunday’s presidential vote.
L'espoir est en marche. Merci @BarackObama. pic.twitter.com/0azZHLZLse
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) May 4, 2017
Leftist candidate Emmanuel Macron shared a video former U.S. President Barack Obama made for him, urging voters to back his candidacy.
“I’m not planning to get involved in many elections now that I don’t have to run for office again, but the French election is very important to the future of France and the values we care so much about,” Obama says.
“Because the success of France matters to the entire world,” he says in the endorsement video.
“I have admired the campaign that Emmanuel Macron has run. He has stood up for liberal values,” the foreign former president said.
It’s not the first time Obama has attempted to meddle in a French election.
According to Wikileaks:
All major French political parties were targeted for infiltration by the CIA’s human (“HUMINT”) and electronic (“SIGINT”) spies in the seven months leading up to France’s 2012 presidential election. The revelations are contained within three CIA tasking orders published today by WikiLeaks as context for its forth coming CIA Vault 7 series. Named specifically as targets are the French Socialist Party (PS), the National Front (FN) and Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) together with current President Francois Hollande, then President Nicolas Sarkozy, current round one presidential front runner Marine Le Pen, and former presidential candidates Martine Aubry and Dominique Strauss-Khan.
“The espionage order for ‘Non Ruling Political Parties and Candidates Strategic Election Plans’ which targeted Francois Holland, Marine Le Pen and other opposition figures requires obtaining opposition parties’ strategies for the election; information on internal party dynamics and rising leaders; efforts to influence and implement political decisions; support from local government officials, government elites or business elites; views of the United States; efforts to reach out to other countries, including Germany, U.K., Libya, Israel, Palestine, Syria & Cote d’Ivoire; as well as information about party and candidate funding,” the government transparency group claimed in February.
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