Senator Claude Malhuret is crumbling under the invitations after his noticed speech on Donald Trump

The requests no longer stop. Since his virulent rant against Donald Trump on March 4 in the Senate, the Senator (the self-employed and territories) Claude Malhuret crumbles under hundreds of messages of congratulations and media solicitations, French as foreign. He has already given an interview to the BBC but must also respond to the right -wing Italian daily Il Foglio, to the Dutch conservative weekly EW, to the Wall Street Journal, to Spanish, Estonian titles, to a Czech radio …

The parliamentarian also invited to speak to the “World Forum” in Berlin on February 18 and 19, alongside stakeholders announced as prestigious as the Clinton couple or the Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, author of bestsellers.

“I am surprised,” slides the elected official of the Allier who is not at his first remarkable speech in Parliament. “I am used to what people who watch social networks listen to my speeches,” said the senator, known in France for his sometimes moving, sometimes cruel interventions for his opponents. Among these feats of arms, a charge against conspirators during the COVID crisis in 2021 or very personal testimony, and praised by a standing-ovation at the Versailles Congress, during the constitutionalization of abortion.

“Malhuret showed us the forest”

A statement very quickly translated into English and taken up abundantly by many American media, from CNN to Huffingtonpost which implored its readers: “Stop what you are doing and watch this charge against Trump!” “The speech of Senator Malhuret offered a broader and more global perspective than that to which we are used to. In the United States, when someone is so obsessed with details that he loses sight of the situation as a whole, we say that he does not see the forest because of the trees; Senator Malhuret showed us the forest, ”enthuses Ryan Grenoble, the author of the article.

“What comes most in the comments of the Americans is: Why should it be a Frenchman who says what our politicians should say? “Observes Claude Malhuret, who sees above all in the viral success of his speech the silence of opponents of the American president. “Democrats are paralyzed by Trump. They are struck by their defeat. With attacks against civil servants, the drop in the stock market, American public opinion is anti-Trump. Usually, lecturing the Americans, it goes wrong. But there, it goes well, “adds the elected official who says he has received very many messages from British, German, Polish parliamentarians …

In France too, support messages have flocked. In particular by Édouard Philippe, whose Claude Malhuret is close and to whom he sent an SMS. Just like the former Prime Minister Michel Barnier. Not enough to give desires for a career change to the senator who has mainly planned in the months who have just invested a lot … in the preparation of the municipal elections.