Le Pen Aides Downplay Speech Plagiarism

Aides to French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen are downplaying criticism of a speech she gave Monday that included passages from an earlier speech by former rival Francois Fillon. The May Day address to her supporters featured mentions of the geography of France and its "three maritime borders."It also had a quote by former Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau that Fillon used word for word in his speech last month. Florian Philippot, the deputy leader of Le Pen's...

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