Farage: Harris should pardon Trump to curb threat of unrest if she wins
Nigel Farage has said Kamala Harris should pardon his friend Donald Trump to “dampen down” the threat of unrest if she wins the US election.
The Reform UK leader also suggested the Republican candidate should concede defeat and “go and play golf” in Scotland rather than claim the vote was stolen if he suffers a “clear and decisive” loss on Tuesday.
Mr Trump faces sentencing later in November after he was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records over the payment of hush money to adult film actress Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 election.
Mr Farage, who last month accused Labour of “direct interference” in the American vote after it emerged that party activists had volunteered for Ms Harris’s campaign, said: “If she gets in on Tuesday I hope she pardons him.
“She could look magnanimous and it would dampen down potential tensions.”
Civil disorder
Washington is braced for potential civil disorder after the storming of the US Capitol by pro-Trump insurrectionists following Joe Biden’s 2020 election win, with polls placing the Republican candidate and Ms Harris in a dead heat.
Mr Farage suggested his friend should avoid rejecting Tuesday’s result, as he did four years ago if he loses decisively to his Democrat rival.
“If it was clear and decisive then maybe it’s time (for Mr Trump) to go and play golf at Turnberry,” he said.
“It’s all hypothetical and I still think he is going to win.”
‘Election interference’
His intervention comes after he last month accused Labour of “direct election interference” over its staffers helping the Democrats, which the party says is common practice and done at activists’ own expense and in line with US laws.
“This is direct election interference by the governing Labour Party, and particularly stupid if Trump wins. Who is paying for all this?” he had written on X, formerly Twitter.
The Clacton MP has travelled to the US to support Mr Trump on multiple occasions, including a visit in July for which he declared £32,836 from a private donor for flights and accommodation.
In the register of MP interests, he said the purpose of the trip was “to support a friend who was almost killed and to represent Clacton on the world stage”.
Mr Farage turned up at the Trump rally in the swing state of Pennsylvania on Monday, where both US candidates converged in a final push before election day.
As recently as Sunday, Mr Trump renewed his false claims that American elections are rigged against him, mused about violence against journalists and said he “shouldn’t have left” the White House in 2021.
Ms Harris has vowed to be a president “for all Americans” and urged voters to take the opportunity to “turn the page” on the politics of “division”.
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hmmmm, has he held a constituency meeting yet…
You need to ask the residents of Clacton.
A text from a Clacton constituent was read out on LBC a day or two ago asking how the hell he can get hold of his MP.
Farage should stay out of Politics.
He has. He’s the pseudo MP for Clacton.
Trump has gone throughout his entire over-privileged life thus far without facing any consequences for his actions. Should Harris win, the very last thing she should do is pardon him. Americans need to see that justice applies to the rich and privileged as well as to the working poor, particularly as that seems so often not to be the case. In any properly functioning justice system, Trump would have been in prison years ago. As for Farage, it’s about time he shut his mouth and started working for his constituents, rather than treating them with contempt while he continues to… Read more »
I wonder if the part time MP for Clacton will call for clemency for Tommy Robinson to prevent unrest when hopefully he gets banged up under anti terrorism laws.
So, farage a great friend of a convicted felon, multiple convictions, many say they are beautiful convictions, no on has ever had such excellent convictions (30+). Friend of a self confessed and convicted sex pest (conviction details are terrible and worse and people are coming forward now with more claims). Friend of a bloke that set the mob on a vice president because Pence refuse to break the US law and wave Trump in. Friend of a bloke that will tear up the US to line his own pocket and burn the world and because his hate is so great… Read more »
This needs to go on Trumps’ ‘Truth Social’ because ain’t it the truth?
Truth Social is an interesting dive into who supports him and how. Grift writ large. The flow of money and who is lobbing that loot about needs a good investigative reporter to expose it.
Wonder if the truths get deleted from truth social.
I strongly suspect that truth doesn’t make it on there which is why your epic statement of the truth would not be accepted there.
Ah yes because the last thing we should be doing is not bringing a known and open fascist to justice!
Farage would like to ‘dampen down’ the threat of unrest in the U.S. but in the UK, he likes to fire it up – literally!
Funnily enough repeating a misogynistic bloke without fact checking and who is in court for some pretty serious crimes on women.
Why should Trump be pardoned? If you incite a riot that causes the deaths of 5 people then you should go to jail. If any other politician had done or said the things that Trump has done, their career would have been finished before it even started.
Farage has suggested Trump should spend his time on the golf course if he loses the election. I would venture a better distraction. He could come to Clacton and get a job serving fries at McDonalds alongside Farage serving the milkshakes.
at least Nige would finally be seen to be serving the people of Clacton.