英国主要反对党领袖杰里米·科尔宾指责唐纳德·特朗普试图干涉即将到来的英国选举,此前特朗普在一个电话节目中批评了特朗普,并表示支持鲍里斯·约翰逊担任首相和电台节目主持人奈杰尔·法拉奇。
工党领袖科尔宾对特朗普的采访做出了回应周四晚上给了伦敦广播公司电台在英国退出欧盟党领导人奈杰尔·法拉奇主持的一个节目中,他与总统关系密切,并在他的集会上发言。
特朗普说:“我希望看到你和鲍里斯聚在一起,因为你真的会有一些数字,因为你在上次选举中表现得非常出色。
唐纳德·特朗普(右),2016年8月24日,在密西西比州杰克逊市密西西比州体育馆的竞选集会上,与英国退出欧盟建筑师奈杰尔·法拉奇合影。特朗普参加了法拉吉的伦敦广播节目。
“他对你很尊重和喜欢。我只希望你们两个能聚在一起——我想这将是一件很棒的事情。”
“当你是美国总统时,你和包括鲍里斯在内的许多领导人都有很好的关系,他是一个了不起的人,我认为他是这个时代最合适的人选。
“我知道,如果你和他像不可阻挡的力量一样聚在一起,你和他最终会做一些非常棒的事情。”
法拉吉周五在12月12日投票之前发起了他的英国退出欧盟党竞选活动,并呼吁约翰逊放弃英国退出欧盟协议,并“建立一个左翼联盟”英国广播公司报道。
特朗普猛烈抨击工党领袖,说:“科尔宾会对你的国家如此不利,他会如此不利,他会带你走上如此糟糕的道路。他会带你去这么糟糕的地方。”
但科尔宾周四在推特上表达了他对一名外国领导人就选举发表的此类言论的担忧。过去,英国和美国领导人不会对其他国家的候选人发表政治声明。
科尔宾写道:“唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)正试图干涉英国的选举,让他的朋友鲍里斯·约翰逊(Boris Johnson)当选。
科尔宾在提到总统的评论时说:“特朗普在6月份说国民医疗保健系统已经准备就绪。”在他6月份的英国之行中关于英国的医疗保健系统,该系统在使用时是免费的,并且在关于美国全民医疗保健的公共讨论中被用作政治足球。
科尔宾还表示,特朗普“知道如果工党赢了,美国公司不会染指。”他补充道:“我们的国民健康保险是不出售的。”
特朗普否认他关注国民医疗保险制度,他告诉法拉吉:“我甚至不知道[从哪里开始接管你的医疗保健系统。我是说这太荒谬了。我认为科尔宾把它放在那里了,但是想一想,它甚至从来没有被提到过,”他说。
特朗普对约翰逊赞不绝口,但他对首相从欧盟获得的英国退出欧盟协议持批评态度,总统称该协议将使美国更难与英国进行贸易
特朗普说:“老实说...这笔交易...在交易的某些方面...你做不到,你做不到,你不能交易。
特朗普表示:“我们无法与英国达成贸易协议,因为我认为我们可以做的数字是目前的许多倍,当然比你在欧盟下做的数字要大得多。”。
特朗普对后英国退出欧盟时代贸易的评论被英国政府驳回,英国政府在一份声明中表示,它“确保我们夺回对法律、贸易、边境和货币的控制权”据英国广播公司报道。
TRUMP ACCUSED OF INTERFERING IN U.K. ELECTION TO HELP 'FRIEND' BORIS JOHNSON
Britain's main opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn has accused Donald Trump of trying to interfere in the upcoming U.K. election after the president criticized him in a phone-in program and showed support for both Boris Johnson as prime minister and the radio show's host Nigel Farage.
Corbyn, who leads the Labour party, was reacting to the interview that Trump gave the LBC radio station on Thursday night, in a program hosted by leader of the Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, who has close links with the president and has spoken at his rallies.
Trump said: "I would like to see you and Boris get together because you would really have some numbers, because you did fantastically in the election, the last election.
Donald Trump, right, pictured with Brexit architect Nigel Farage to speak during a campaign rally at the Mississippi Coliseum on August 24, 2016 in Jackson, Mississippi. Trump called in to Farage’s London radio show.
"He has a lot of respect and like for you. I just wish you two guys could get together—I think it would be a great thing."
"When you are the president of the United States you have great relationships with many of the leaders, including Boris, he's a fantastic man, and I think he's the exact right guy for the times.
"And I know that you and him will end up doing something that could be terrific if you and he get together as, you know, an unstoppable force."
Farage launched his Brexit party election campaign on Friday, ahead of the ballot on December 12 and called on Johnson to ditch his Brexit deal and "build a Leave alliance," the BBC reported.
Trump took a swipe at the Labour leader, saying, "Corbyn would be so bad for your country, he'd be so bad, he'd take you on such a bad way. He'd take you into such bad places."
But Corbyn tweeted on Thursday his concern at such comments being made about the election by a foreign leader. In the past, British and American leaders would refrain from making political statements about other countries' election candidates.
Corbyn wrote: "Donald Trump is trying to interfere in Britain's election to get his friend Boris Johnson elected.
"It was Trump who said in June the NHS is 'on the table,' Corbyn said, referring to the president's comments on his U.K. visit in June about the British health care system which is free at the point of use and which has been used as a political football in public discourse over universal health care for Americans.
Corbyn also said that Trump "knows if Labour wins, U.S. corporations won't get their hands on it." He added: "Our NHS is not for sale."
Trump has denied that he has his eye on the NHS, telling Farage: "I don't even know where [it] started with respect to us taking over your health care system. I mean it's so ridiculous. I think Corbyn put that out there, but to even think, it was never even mentioned," he said.
While Trump lavished praise on Johnson, he was critical of the Brexit deal that the prime minister got from the European Union, which the president said would make it harder for the U.S. to trade with the U.K.
Trump said: "To be honest with you... this deal... under certain aspects of the deal... you can't do it, you can't do it, you can't trade.
"We can't make a trade deal with the U.K. because I think we can do many times the numbers that we're doing right now and certainly much bigger numbers than you are doing under the European Union," Trump said.
Trump's comments on post-Brexit trade were dismissed by the British government, which said in a statement that it "ensures that we take back control of our laws, trade, borders and money," according to the BBC.