As France suffers the fallout from the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris, the far-right National Front party emerged as frontrunners in the regional election primaries.
“I believe the incredible results of the National Front amounts to the revolt of the people against the elite,” Leader Marine Le Pen said Monday on French radio. “The French people have had enough of being treated like a herd of sheep.”
Calling in to MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would “strongly consider” shutting down mosques with suspected terrorist ties and slammed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for discontinuing surveillance of them.
When asked if there was something Trump would do “here in the homeland” to protect against attacks like the one in Paris over the weekend that killed more than 100 people, he responded, “Well, you’re going to have to watch and study the mosques because a lot of talk is going on at the mosques. And from what I heard in the old days, meaning a while ago, we had great surveillance going on in and around mosques in New York City and I understand our mayor totally cut that out. He totally cut it out.”