While Farage didn’t outright endorse Trump – as he noted, he famously criticized President Obama for telling the British people how they should have voted in the Brexit referendum – he made his thoughts about Hillary Clinton quite clear.
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“I’m going to say to people in this country that the circumstances, the similarities, the parallels, between the people that voted Brexit and the people that voted Clinton in a few weeks’ time here in America are uncanny”. As Trump has done in the past, Farage criticized Obama, adding that he “could not possibly tell you how you should vote in this election”.
The outgoing leader of the nationalist, hard-right U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) who is widely credited with leading the Brexit movement thinks Donald Trump could follow the same path as Ronald Reagan. “You can go out and beat the pollsters, you can beat the commentators, and you can beat Washington”, Farage told a crowd of around 10,000. “They told us our economy would fall off a cliff, they told us there’d be mass unemployment, they told us investment would leave our country”, Farage said, “and David Cameron, then our prime minister, but no longer, told us we might even get World War III”. “What we did in the United Kingdom on the 23 of June, was to strike the first really big blow against the professional political class working hand in glove with the giant multinationals and the big Wall Street banks”, Farage told the FOX Business Network’s Stuart Varney.
He drew parallels between Trump’s bid for the White House and that of the Brexit campaign’s. “And you’ll do it by doing what we did for Brexit in Britain”.
“We reached those people who had been let down by modern global corporatism”, Farage said.
Mr Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, claimed Mrs Clinton, the former Secretary of State, had run a “vast criminal enterprise” out of the US State department.
Trump has support from online ultraconservative writers, activists and trolls-the so-called “alt-right”-and from some white supremacists including former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, who is running to represent Louisiana in the US senate”.
Farage appeared with Trump before a crowd of thousands at the rally in Jackson, Mississipi.
His remarks offered a salve of optimism as Trump finds himself behind in many national and swing state polls.
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A very rattled, anxious-looking Hillary Clinton responded in a press conference and attacked my presence on the stage with Trump.
