Spanish Prime Minister’s Wife Charged With Corruption; No Wonder He Picked a Fight With Trump

Pedro Sanchez, the current Prime Minister of Spain and Trump’s most vocal critic in Europe, has a serious problem: he already leads a minority government held together by a coalition of left-wing parties, and in the coming elections looks headed toward a major defeat. 

He has been embroiled in questions about his wife’s corruption, and was almost forced to resign when the allegations first arose. 

🇪🇸 Spanish PM Sanchez’s wife charged with corruption

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Spanish PM Sanchez’s wife charged with corruption

Begoña Gómez, the wife of Spanish far-left Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, has been formally charged with multiple corruption-related offenses, including influence peddling, business corruption, embezzlement, and misappropriation.

The investigation began in April 2024 following a complaint by the anti-corruption group Manos Limpias, which accused Gómez of using her position to influence public contracts and secure university sponsorships.

At the time, Pedro Sánchez took a five-day “period of reflection” to consider resigning over the allegations before ultimately deciding to remain in office.

His political life is on the line, which explains why he has turned to the old left-wing lifeline: Orange Man Bad. 

Trump is, objectively, not popular with European audiences, and that unpopularity extends well beyond the transnationalists who are themselves very unpopular with the European electorates. Many of the “leaders” who are spending their time demonizing Trump are less popular than Trump, but here in the United States, they are treated as statesmen whose opinions matter. 

If I were European, I probably wouldn’t like Trump because he holds up a mirror to these countries and forces them to see how weak and largely irrelevant they are. A bit more than a century ago, Europe ruled the world. Now they are bit players. Who likes being forced to realize that they are old and irrelevant? 

Sanchez is betting that his opposition to Trump will help him rise in the polls, and so far it has worked, at least a bit. The rise of the right has stalled, and Sanchez’s party is seeing a tiny rise in the polls. Not by much, but it turns out that TDS is a powerful drug even in Europe. We saw something similar in Canada, although I doubt Spain will see as much of an effect. Switching from Trudeau to Carney played a huge role, allowing Canadians to delude themselves about switching governments without switching parties. 

Sanchez has some time to recover; elections come next year. But that likely means that any TDS bump is irrelevant in the long run. 

European opposition to the Iran war is much more about shoring up the ailing liberal parties in Europe, which are in deep political trouble, than genuine foreign policy principles. 

No doubt these pusillanimous politicians really do prefer weakness over victory, but they likely would have acceded to Biden’s wishes if he had gone to war. The hysteria is all about Trump. 

Starmer is ridiculed, the Spanish electorate will care more about unlimited migration than Iran, and Macron is one of the least popular politicians in the world. Taking any of them seriously is a terrible idea. 

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