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France's 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 France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of corruption on Monday and sentenced to three years in prison, a stunning fall from grace for a man who led his country and b...

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 to trump, he had to get his number from greg norman the golfer. no meetings happened. the state depar...

Very suspicious, have swampy. that's 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 it's 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. >> they got us argument the yurn. so these were rubles terribly spent in terms of atennessee they had ...

>> 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 didn't get anything it wanted. i have no doubt that michael cohen was really terribly trying to influence peddle. that's a terrible thing and acting swampy. but the reality and the great reality for donald trump is it didn't matter. he was selling a false bill of goods because swamp tactics are done in this white house. we now have a citizen president, someone sow o with no government experience before. a mogul who can't be bought and wasn't bou...

Ratn ratner, do you know what that's like? >> the contracts were with the chief lob bists at freddie mac. >> john heilemann, it's not against the law to pay 15% taxes if it's on capital gains and it's 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 wasn't paid millions of dollars to influence-peddle, lobby, to get colleagues to vote the way of the people that were paying him. >> i think one of the key questions here, romney last night accused gin...