French far-right firebrand finds a friendly audience in Trump’s Washington – POLITICO

WASHINGTON — In recent months, leaders of Europe’s far-right nationalist parties have scrambled to distance themselves from the increasingly unpopular policies of U.S. President Donald Trump. But this week in Washington, one aspiring European nationalist rushed headlong into MAGA’s warm embrace: Eric Zemmour, the leader of France’s far-right Reconquest party.

Zemmour, a writer and longtime anti-immigration activist who burst onto the French political scene with a long-shot bid for the presidency in 2022, was nominally in Washington to promote a new English-language translation of his 2014 book “The Suicide of France” — a jeremiad about the ills of mass migration and the decline of traditional French culture.

But Zemmour, who is reportedly laying the groundwork for another presidential bid in 2027, used his trip to visit some of the leading power centers of the Trumpist right. On Monday afternoon, he headlined an event at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank that drew headlines during the 2024 U.S. presidential election for leading the controversial “Project 2025” initiative. Later that evening, Zemmour spoke at a private event hosted by American Moment, a conservative organization that places MAGA-aligned staffers in jobs in the Trump administration and on Capitol Hill.