Nigel Farage, the leader of the British pro-Brexit campaign, stumped for Donald Trump in MS yesterday, calling on voters to back the Republican presidential nominee as a way to defy the political establishment.
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During a speech Thursday night, Clinton said: “Just yesterday, one of Britain’s most prominent right-wing leaders, a man named Nigel Farage, who stoked anti-immigrant sentiments to win the referendum, to have Britain leave the European Union, campaigned with Donald Trump in Mississippi”.
The latter drew parallels between the Brexit movement and the support Mr Trump has received from many Americans who feel left behind.
Farage, disputed Clinton’s remarks, telling Breitbart London he believes her comments are “extraordinary”.
She continued a regular strategy of drawing connections between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who she called contemporary right-wing nationalism’s “grand godfather”.
Clinton’s comments come a day after Farage joined Trump on the campaign trail at a MS rally. “In fact, Farage has appeared regularly on Russian propaganda programmes”, she said. Trump has even said that soon people could be calling him “Mr Brexit”. “Now he’s standing on the same stage as the Republican nominee”.
She represents the failed past and would do better going out meeting American voters rather than attacking me.
In her Nevada speech, Mrs Clinton sought to link Mr Trump with the extreme right movement, saying he espoused “a steady stream of bigotry” and claiming: “This is someone who retweets white supremacists”.
He also said he has given Theresa May the benefit of the doubt over Brexit and approved the appointment of “the three Brexiteers” – David Davis, Boris Johnson and Liam Fox, but urged her not to take too long in triggering Article 50.
“Perhaps Mrs. Clinton should spend more time speaking to normal, working people in her country than trying to attack me using dodgy half-quotes”.
Farage – who stepped down from leading UKIP after the referendum victory – said in July that a woman who has been on maternity leave ‘is worth far less to her employer when she comes back than when she went away’.
And she said that Trump was fueling America’s “radical fringe” with racist rhetoric.
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Mrs Clinton said Mr Trump’s proposed “softening” was the third different immigration position he had expressed in 24 hours.
