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FAR-RIGHT FRENCH presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was spotted at Donald Trump’s New York headquarters building today but aides to the US President-elect said no meetings were planned.
The Front National leader was seen having coffee at Trump Ice Cream Parlor on the ground floor of Trump Tower, with three men including her partner Louis Aliot, the party’s vice president.
Also sighted with Le Pen was George “Guido” Lombardi, an Italian businessman who lives in Trump Tower and was described in a Politico profile as Trump’s “self-professed contact to Europe’s far-right parties.”
Asked by journalists if she was there to meet Trump, Le Pen refused to respond.
“She is not meeting with anyone from our team,” Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told reporters.
Earlier, Trump spokesman Sean Spicer said curtly:
No meetings. It’s a public building.
Le Pen’s campaign manager, David Rachline, had said earlier in Paris that Le Pen was on a “private” visit to New York and would not be meeting with the future US president.
In November, Le Pen, who describes herself as “anti-establishment,” rejecting the politics of both right and left, was among the first foreign politicians to congratulate Trump on his surprise election victory.
And she saluted Trump after he said he had persuaded American automaker Ford to produce a certain model in the United States rather than Mexico, though Ford said its decision was based purely on business considerations.
Opinion polls in France predict that Le Pen, an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2012, will make it to the second round of French elections in May to determine a successor to socialist President Francois Hollande.
Trump Tower, in an area with many popular shops, remains accessible to the public, though stringent security measures have been put in place since his election on 8 November.
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Hopefully these people are locked up for a long time,firing rounds at gardai over getting caught for illegal fishing. These people have to be the lowest of the low.
@Richard Brogan: I guess they slipped through the authorities hand
@Richard Brogan: there was no Gardai involved at the scene, on that night of 28th of July, and nowhere did the article state gun fired at gardai!
@Martin: it was fired at the fisheries officer’s
@Martin: does it matter who the target of the firing actually was? Shots were fired at people doing their jobs, surely that is bad enough?
@BriP75: slipped through the net, fishy customers, salmon must have grassed on them.
@Martin: Gardai were far too busy busting hippies growing a few weed plants in their shed. Who cares if our rivers are being plundered? Or that sex offenders roam our streets after getting suspended sentences. Lets expend all police resources and funding on locking up horticulturists instead.
I’m just glad there was someone with the balls and brains to go tackle some actual criminals.
@bubbles mcsmurf: does the article say it was fired at them? If that was the case they would of been arrested that night, I believe the exact line says “a firearm was discharged”
“The fish were fresh in from the sea, having survived a journey from either the coastal waters off west Greenland or the Faroe Island, before being cruelly killed by an illegal net, a few miles from their final destination.”
Would a “legal” net be any less “cruel”?
@Richard Hegarty: A legal net wouldn’t be farming them at this point in their lifecycle.
@Richard Hegarty: Green land why did they not fly home it was a holiday destination aloud
@Richard Hegarty: There aren’t any legal nets for Salmon in this country.
@Robert Conneely: Yes there most certainly is. We have legal draft nets operating here on the River Laune in kerry.
Thank god the caught them.
The fisheries officers turn a blind eye to a lot of salmon netting, the people involved in Kerry at least are too dangerous to confront never mind prosecute…
@David Grey: tell us more
@David Grey: You’re not referring to the boys around the Cashen in Ballyduff are you ?
That’s more of it
@longstrides: I know, those dam culchies at it again!!
How do you NOT ‘cruelly kill’ a fish?
@Tony Gordon: using a priest would be regarded as not cruel
@Martin: ah give over, sure the fish never got over the ‘loaves and fishes’ incident
@Tony Gordon: You certainly know nothing about fishing.
@Billy McNamara: a claim I never made, and a question not answered
@Tony Gordon: hitting it on the head with something blunt is one easiest and quickest for wild fish
@Tony Gordon: hitting it with a blunt object on its head would be considered best way for wild fish
They are at it on the suit, nore, barrow for years. About time the authorities acted.
I think the vehicles used in this type of crime should be confiscated as well. Prison sentences with much more severe sentences handed out.
Typo on the sub-headline. (Investigating).
I pefare the more religus fish
The monk fish lovely fried in butter
There’s so thing very fishy about this story
It ant going to real me in!!!!!
@BriP75: they only discharged the gun to shoot the fish in the barrell
@Tony Gordon: maybe it was the Russians looken for salman rushty
@BriP75: puns tend to work better when spelled correctly.
@Peter Denham: you know Peter putting someone down for a selling mistake is petty, we all got the intended joke.
Some people have spelling difficulty, for many reasons, and maybe a little thought should be put into comments that arbitrarily put someone down.
@BriP75: It was actually the Iranians
@Tony Gordon: What’s a “selling” mistake?
@Tony Gordon: just do a spell check.
@James Kelly: just as long as smell checker recognises the worms correctly.
Poaching is still a thing,? Thought the rivers were empty..
@MickN: only our rivers run free
@MickN: Far from empty, and unfortunately poaching is very common. Angling clubs work closely with Inland Fisheries Ireland to try and catch the poachers and make an example of them.
Something fishy going on there
Down with this sort of stuff
Hang’em…
@M.J. O’ Neill: smokem salmon tastes better smoked
Nine x Y + shot = 20
Poaching of coarse fish is still at high levels. Thankfully work has been done but certain rivers and lakes will take years to get the stock up to previous levels. Whole stretch of canals were emptied out as well.
Happened with Pike in the past and Salmon traditionally but coarse fish had never been targeted so hard
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