Nigel Farage claims Donald Trump ‘learned a lot from me’ | Politics News

Nigel Farage has claimed that former US president Donald Trump “learned a lot” by studying his speeches before running for office.

He UK Reform The leader denied that he thought it was the British version of TriumphHe told ITV’s The Leader Interviews – Tonight: “I think we’re very different, but I think we think alike about a lot of things.”

He added: “He has learned a lot from me, I think it goes both ways… He was watching my speeches in the European Parliament for many years… before he decided to run.”

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When asked if the former president had told him this, mr farage He responded, “I know that’s true.”

Farage is close to Trump and has repeatedly praised the former US president.

Before his decision to join Reform UK earlier this month, Farage had said he planned to help Trump with his presidential campaign this year.

But he has since admitted: “If I am elected MP for Clacton and I am there every Friday… it will be more difficult, but not impossible.”

Farage doubles down on Ukraine comments

In the interview, Mr Farage also reiterated his claim that the West “provoked” Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Asked how he would treat the Russian president, he told ITV: “Well, of course we have tried to weaken him through sanctions, but all we have really done is drive him into the arms of China.

“You need to know there is a threat now, you need to know it, you need to know it, up to now and no further.

“I think the West historically, until a few years ago, stupidly provoked Putin.

“I felt that the constant eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union was giving Putin a reason to go to war. I guess the question is, what do we do now? And yes, I support delivering ammunition and helping Ukraine, but I feel that the war is completely stagnant.

“I think the number of lives that are being lost is horrific. There have been no sensible and substantial negotiations of any kind and even if negotiations to try to find peace, to try to find a way out, fail, I think it is better to have those negotiations than not doing it.

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‘That’s a disaster’

Farage also said he has a problem with immigrants coming to Britain and continuing to speak their own language.

He said: “I have a big problem with people coming to Britain and not assimilating and maintaining their own languages.

“You know, not mixing in communities. That’s a disaster.”