Knafo, a crypto-aficionado and supporter of tech billionaire Elon Musk, is one of the leading figures of France’s Reconquest, a fringe nationalist party with strong anti-Islam views led by former presidential candidate Eric Zemmour.
Marine Le Pen may be the dominant figure of the French far right, but in Trump world, a little-known European Parliament lawmaker called Sarah Knafo is making inroads.
Last weekend, she said the RN was “the best placed in France to speak with the Donald Trump administration,” adding that her powerful wingman Jordan Bardella would soon travel to the United States.
National Rally (RN) party chief Le Pen, whom the president famously stood up during a 2017 visit to Trump Tower, sent a three-person RN delegation, but did not personally attend.
She acknowledged Trump’s techno-conservatism is a hard-sell in France, where the welfare state is prized over libertarian disruption, but was betting Trump wouldn’t back Le Pen.
