Trump calls British exit ‘great thing’
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US presidential candidate Donald Trump thrust himself into the heart of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union yesterday, calling it a “great thing” and drawing parallels with his own insurgent campaign.
In Scotland to reopen a golf resort he owns, the wealthy New York businessman wasted no time interpreting the outcome of the “Brexit” vote as an example of an uprising around the world against the established order, an argument he said fits in with his own campaign to shake up Washington by renegotiating free trade deals and stopping illegal immigration.
“People want to take their country back. They want to have independence in a sense. You see it with Europe, all over Europe,” said Trump, 70, the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
He said the economic shock from the vote would ebb over time and that more European countries might want to break with the 28-nation European Union.
He said Americans would have a chance “to re-declare their independence” and “reject today’s rule by the global elite” when they vote on November 8.
“So I think you’re going to have this happen more and more. I really believe that, and I think that it’s happening in the United States. It’s happening by the fact that I’ve done so well in the polls,” he said. Trump arrived in his signature helicopter at Turnberry near his clubhouse resort, a Scottish flag blowing in the wind.
Joined by sons Don Jr and Eric and daughter Ivanka, he praised his mother, who was born in Scotland, his children who manage his business affairs and the golf course itself, dismissing complaints from Republicans that he should stick to the campaign trail at home.
Republican officials had said he should concentrate on strengthening his campaign and taking the fight to the presumptive Democratic nominee, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, who is 68.
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