Steve Bannon denied that his gesture was a Nazi salute, describing it as a “wave.”
French far-right leader Jordan Bardera gave a speech planned at a right-wing conference in Washington after an obvious reference to conservative fire truck Steve Bannon. said it had cancelled.
The president of the National Assembly (RN) party was told that Bannon made a clear fascist-style gesture at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday, when he was one of the Bannons behind the 2016 US presidential election. He said he was not present.
“I wasn’t in the room yesterday, but one of the speakers who spoke from the provocation allowed myself to gesture suggesting Nazi ideology. So I gave a speech scheduled for this afternoon. “We have made an immediate decision to cancel,” Bardera said in a statement Friday.
As his CPAC speech approached the end, Bannon suggested that Trump could pursue a constitutionally banned third term and called on the audience to “fight, fight, fight, fight,” and he was forced to I temporarily held it down.
Bannon on Friday denied that he had given a fascist salute, telling French journalists it was a “wave to the crowd.”
Speaking to a journalist at Le Point, Bannon said that if Bardella cancels the appearance via a gesture, it’s “Wimp.”
“If he’s worried about it… then he’s worthless and he’ll never lead France,” Bannon said.
Bannon’s gesture resembles the tech billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk, who was widely compared to Nazi salute last month.
The former Trump strategist and right-wing media executive defied Congressional subpoena last year and sentenced him to four months in prison on January 6, 2021 to testify about the riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Bardella, 29, became RN leader from Marine Le Pen in 2022, leading the European Parliament’s Patriot Group.
Le Pen remains the leader of the parliament. She has been runner-up in the last two French presidential elections and is expected to hold her next presidential election in 2027.
Since taking over from him in 2011, Le Pen has worked hard to render his father Jean-Marie’s co-founding to the party that would make it more attractive to voters.
RN said that the record number of Parliamentary voters last year in snap votes after President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the lower room when Le Pen’s party came to the top of the polls in the European elections. won a seat in the
At a far-right European conference held in Madrid earlier this month, Le Pen nodded Trump’s rally “make America great again” and adopted the slogan as “make Europe great” and Trump’s in the US “Tornadoes” were welcomed. Advances in the European Union.
Bardella in January brought limits to the party’s support for Trump’s idea. “Practicing Donald Trump’s patriotism doesn’t mean being a retainer of the United States,” he said.