• As if his creepy affection for authoritarians were not plain for all to see, he cast his lot in the French elections with the anti-Muslim instigator Marine Le Pen, who gladly accepted millions from a Russian bank to finance her campaign. (She has also, in true National Front style, denied France's culpability in the roundup and shipment to death camps of French Jews in the 1940s. Holocaust minimization, if not outright denial, seems to be something these fascistic populists share.) He insisted that she is the "strongest on borders, and she's the strongest on what's been going on in France." So much for American moral leadership.