Forty minutes.

This is the duration of the "long and warm" exchange between the far-right candidate Eric Zemmour spoke with former US President Donald Trump on Monday February 14.

They exchanged "yesterday at 6 p.m. during a forty-minute interview where Donald Trump was able to say to Éric Zemmour: don't give in, hold on, stay courageous, it's tenacity and courage. endurance which end at the end of a campaign by paying", told Guillaume Peltier on France 2 the spokesperson for the candidate of Reconquest!.

"When the Donald Trump cabinet responded favorably to our various requests, we took this call with great pleasure," he explained.

"There will be exchanges with a certain number of personalities in the coming weeks (...), everyone has understood that the duel which is being prepared in France is between Emmanuel Macron and Éric Zemmour", added added Guillaume Peltier.

In a press release, the candidate's team underlines that the two men "in particular mentioned the migratory, security and economic subjects of their two countries".

A source of inspiration for Eric Zemmour

"The meaning of their commitment is the same: Donald Trump wants the United States to remain the United States. Éric Zemmour wants France to remain France", concludes this press release.

Éric Zemmour recently called for the construction of a "wall" at "all the external borders" of the European Union to fight against immigration, recalling Donald Trump's policy with Mexico.

He was also inspired by a poster of the former American president for his way of posing on the cover of his latest book.

Her far-right rival Marine Le Pen made a surprise visit to Trump Tower, where Donald Trump's New York headquarters was located, in January 2017, but she had not met either the future US president or any member of his team.

Éric Zemmour had experienced in his pre-campaign hectic international trips to London and Geneva, after having beaten his competitor in the fall with Viktor Orban in Budapest.

AFP

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