Did Donald Trump have kompromat on Emmanuel Macron within the secret files seized by the FBI from his Mar-a-Lago Xanadu? One of the files is known to have been titled ‘Info re: President of France’. And Trump is known to have bragged for years that he knew details of Macron’s sex life. Well, possibly. There’s plenty of circumstantial evidence to suggest that Macron is not entirely conventional in the sexuality department, not least in his marriage to his former drama teacher, 25 years his senior.
Early in his presidency, Macron himself weirdly volunteered that his former bodyguard Alexandre Benalla was ‘not my boyfriend’
Maybe the spooks of the CIA are better informed than me, but it’s very hard to imagine that Macron has conducted illicit sexual affairs since he was elected president. The president of France has scant opportunity to conduct extra-curricular liaisons without this being noticed. Perhaps the tame Paris media did its best to conceal the affairs of D’Estaing, Chirac, Mitterrand and Hollande from the public for as long as possible, but none were exactly secret from insiders and the era when such matters remained concealed has passed.
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