Donald Trump ought to concede defeat and “go and play golf” in Scotland if he loses to Kamala Harris, mentioned Nigel Farage, however added that the Democratic candidate ought to pardon Trump to “dampen down” the specter of unrest.
Farage, a buddy of Trump who has spoken on the former president’s rallies previously, mentioned he hoped Harris would look “magnanimous” if she secured a “clear and decisive” victory on Tuesday.
The Reform UK chief is within the US for the election however mentioned he hoped there can be no unrest after the end result. Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts and is dealing with sentencing later in November for falsifying enterprise information over funds to the grownup movie star Stormy Daniels days earlier than his victorious 2016 election.
Farage, who has criticised Labour activists for travelling to marketing campaign for Harris, mentioned: “If she gets in on Tuesday I hope she pardons him. She could look magnanimous and it would dampen down potential tensions.
“If it was clear and decisive then maybe it’s time to go and play golf at Turnberry,” he mentioned. “It’s all hypothetical and I still think he is going to win.”
Farage attended Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania on Monday, a key swing state the place each candidates held rallies the day earlier than the election.
He instructed the Telegraph: “I just hope to God it’s a clear result. It is nearly a quarter of a century ago we had the hanging chads and dimpled chads and here we are 25 years on with huge questions about how Americans conduct elections. I find it incredible.”
Farage additionally mentioned he hoped Trump would usher in Elon Musk, the proprietor of X and Tesla, to make large cuts to US spending, saying that was aligned with Reform UK’s considering in Britain.
“This is the sexy bit: Elon comes in and takes a knife to the deep state. Just like when he bought Twitter he sacked 80% of the staff,” Farage mentioned. “There are going to be mass layoffs, whole departments closing and I’m hoping and praying that’s the blueprint for what we then do on our side of the pond.
“Because that’s what Reform UK believes in – that we’re overbureaucratised and none of it works. This assault on the bureaucratic state is the thing that’s really exciting.”
Farage additionally attended the Republican nationwide conference in Milwaukee in July. His entry within the MPs’ register of pursuits says the near-£33,000 prices for him and a staffer had been paid for by a Thai-based British businessman, Christopher Harborne.
Farage listed the aim of the journey as “to support a friend who was almost killed and to represent Clacton [his constituency] on the world stage”.
