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Frances Nicolas Sarkozy convicted of corruption, likely to escape jail time Former president denies wrongdoing, says he is victim of witch hunt By Tangi Salaün - 01 March 2021 Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy leaves after the verdict in his trial on charges of corruption and influence peddling, at Paris courthouse, France, on March 1 2021. Image: REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes Frances former president Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of corruption on Monday and ...

Was kind of freaked out about him, there was a class of people coming in along for the ride to influence peddle, to show they had connections, taking pictures with the president, show clients in other countries, impressive to those clients, right, going to make connections and get ready to do business with an administration they saw as virgin territory. >> the other thing people forget is just how easy it was to get to trump in that period. i come from australia. the way our prime minister got t...

Very suspicious, have swampy. thats the biggest take away i have which is donald trump said he was going to come and clean up the swamp. and this is just the swampiest behavior of all. >> i agree its incredibly swampy. guess what they got no where waist their money. the russian wasted rubble rubles on this speaking to thele vadty of the souf revolution, meaning that how do i know because the russians what did he they get in exchange, got sanctions war in syria. >> no investigation into the. >> t...

>> they got us arming the ukraine. so these were rubles terribly they had to go to court to sue the federal government in terms of novartis big pharma didnt get anything it wanted. i have no doubt that michael cohen was really terribly trying to influence peddle. thats a terrible thing and acting swampy. but the reality and the great reality for donald trump is it didnt matter. he was selling a false bill of goods because swamp tactics are done in this white house. we now have a citizen presiden...

Ratn ratner, do you know what thats like? >> the contracts were with the chief lob bists at freddie mac. >> john heilemann, its not against the law to pay 15% taxes if its on capital gains and its not against the law to be a lobbyist. >> just say it. >> or to be a quote influence peddler. however you want to put it. it seems to me that newt gingrich is fighting a losing battle by claiming he wasnt paid millions of dollars to influence-peddle, lobby, to get colleagues to vote the way of the peopl...