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Republicans in Cleveland line up behind Trump to support Brexit
Source: The Guardian
Republicans in Cleveland line up behind Trump to support Brexit
With Nigel Farage visiting Cleveland, prominent party figures weigh in
on EU referendum that is ‘only good for liberal progressives’
Ben Jacobs in Cleveland
Wednesday 20 July 2016 14.00 BST
Donald Trump, one of the few international political figures to endorse Brexit, saw a party mostly united behind that stance at the Republican national convention in Cleveland this week.
The Republican nominee, who held a press conference in Scotland where he hailed the British vote to leave the European Union and “exercise the sacred right of all free peoples”, has repeatedly taken credit for predicting the result in the month since and Republicans seem ready to echo him, with none expressing their disappointment with the result.
Carl Paladino, a longtime Trump backer and former Republican nominee for governor of New York, hailed the result of the referendum. Paladino told the Guardian: “I think (the European Union) is only good for liberal progressives who want to go in there and use this union of bureaucrats to control people’s lives, because that’s their mission in life: to control every aspect of your life and make your life as miserable as possible.”
The outspoken New Yorker thought the referendum result was connected to Trump’s rise in the United States. “I think the UK was just a preliminary symbol of what’s happening in America right now.” In Paladino’s opinion, “the people are speaking up. The middle class has had enough of being marginalized. The establishment in our capital has taken it way beyond the reservation, way beyond the powers that the people have granted them, and it’s time for that establishment to take a break and find something else to do in life.”
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With Nigel Farage visiting Cleveland, prominent party figures weigh in
on EU referendum that is ‘only good for liberal progressives’
Ben Jacobs in Cleveland
Wednesday 20 July 2016 14.00 BST
Donald Trump, one of the few international political figures to endorse Brexit, saw a party mostly united behind that stance at the Republican national convention in Cleveland this week.
The Republican nominee, who held a press conference in Scotland where he hailed the British vote to leave the European Union and “exercise the sacred right of all free peoples”, has repeatedly taken credit for predicting the result in the month since and Republicans seem ready to echo him, with none expressing their disappointment with the result.
Carl Paladino, a longtime Trump backer and former Republican nominee for governor of New York, hailed the result of the referendum. Paladino told the Guardian: “I think (the European Union) is only good for liberal progressives who want to go in there and use this union of bureaucrats to control people’s lives, because that’s their mission in life: to control every aspect of your life and make your life as miserable as possible.”
The outspoken New Yorker thought the referendum result was connected to Trump’s rise in the United States. “I think the UK was just a preliminary symbol of what’s happening in America right now.” In Paladino’s opinion, “the people are speaking up. The middle class has had enough of being marginalized. The establishment in our capital has taken it way beyond the reservation, way beyond the powers that the people have granted them, and it’s time for that establishment to take a break and find something else to do in life.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/20/republicans-brexit-trump-eu-referendum
