
When the Republican National Convention opens up this week in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a prominent politician from the United Kingdom will be in attendance, showing his solidarity and support to presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.
Nigel Farage, who is the leader of the Reform UK party, said recently that he’d be traveling this week to the U.S. to support Trump at the RNC. He also said his trip would be in support of the former president following the assassination attempt on his life on Saturday.
In The Telegraph, Farage wrote:
“Next week, I will be travelling (sic) to Milwaukee to the Republican Convention. I do so to support my friend, Donald Trump, as we head into the latter stages of an era-defining election.
“He is the favourite (sic) to win — and after today’s heinous acts he will win — and I am determined to do all I can to ensure the UK’s special relationship with the US is as strong as it can be.”
Farage’s political party in the UK was formerly referred to as the Brexit Party. They pushed hard for the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union, which it eventually succeeded in doing.
The move is seen as a “UK-first” policy, which isn’t altogether different in theory than many of Trump’s America first policies and stances.
In his op-ed piece, Farage wrote that people need to understand that the words they say and write can have a significant impact on real-life events. As he wrote:
“It has become commonplace among the media elite to view Trump as an authoritarian fascist — it is now so normal to hear that those of us on the Right, who care about our countries, are somehow authoritarian dictators.
“Take the last week — [President Joe] Biden declared that Trump should be ‘in a bullseye’ and that he is a ‘dictator.’ We don’t know the motives of the 20-year-old shooter. But we do know that as our political discourse becomes more febrile; and as the Left become more desperate to attack those of us who stand up for what we believe, the more violent it becomes.”
Earlier this month, Farage was successful in his campaign for a seat in the British parliament. It’s the first time he will serve in an official government position, and he will be representing people from Clacton-on-Sea, a seaside town in England.
On Sunday, authorities identified Thomas Matthew Crooks as the shooter in the assassination attempt, which took place while the former president was giving a speech at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Crooks was 20 years old and from nearby Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Authorities said that the gunfire from at least one sharpshooter with the Secret Service killed Crooks as he was perched atop a nearby rooftop.
State voting records show that Crooks was registered as a Republican. But, records with the Federal Election Commission also show he made a 2021 $15 donation to the Progressive Turnout Project. That donation happened on Biden’s Inauguration Day.