{"id":251466,"date":"2016-06-23T02:07:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T02:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-backs-brexit-urges-europeans-to-reconsider-eu-membership\/"},"modified":"2016-06-23T02:07:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T02:07:44","slug":"trump-backs-brexit-urges-europeans-to-reconsider-eu-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-backs-brexit-urges-europeans-to-reconsider-eu-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump backs Brexit, urges Europeans to \u2018reconsider\u2019 EU membership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>        A Trump spokesperson has reaffirmed the presumptive Republican nominee\u2019s support for a Brexit, claiming he is \u201cvery much in favor of countries doing what is best for them and their people.\u201d<\/p>\n<div readability=\"73.792840095465\">\n<p><em>\u201cAmerica is here because of its own little Brexit,\u201d<\/em> the real estate mogul\u2019s national spokesperson Katrina Pierson said in an interview with Sky News on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/345293-trump-visit-protest-scotland\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"https:\/\/img.rt.com\/files\/2016.06\/thumbnail\/57513e2ac46188f7308b45a5.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump \u00a9 Lucy Nicholson\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cFrankly when we look at the global economy we have to take a step back and reconsider with everything the way it is today financially, globally that countries do need to re-evaluate their own standings and what is best for them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pierson\u2019s comments come ahead of Trump\u2019s planned visit to the United Kingdom. The former Apprentice host is expected to fly to Scotland for the ceremonial opening of his Turnberry golf course a day after Britain\u2019s referendum on European Union membership.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Trump suggested the UK would be better off outside the EU, citing high levels of migration.<br \/><em\/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think the migration has been a horrible thing for Europe. A lot of that was pushed by the EU. I would say that they\u2019re better off without it personally, but I\u2019m not making that as a recommendation \u2013 just my feeling,\u201d<\/em> he told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is one of the few voices in US politics on either side of the aisle who has spoken out in favor of a Brexit. His Democratic rival Hillary Clinton has voiced support for the Remain campaign. Clinton\u2019s top policy adviser told the Observer in April: <em>\u201cShe has always valued a strong United Kingdom in a strong EU. And she values a strong British voice in the EU.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/347463-republican-congressmen-brexit-obama\/\">READ MORE:\u00a0Obama\u2019s \u2018misguided\u2019 EU referendum intervention threatens UK sovereignty, say US lawmakers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three republican senators have condemned President Barack Obama\u2019s intervention in the Brexit debate.<\/p>\n<p>During a visit timed to coincide with Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s 90th birthday earlier this year, Obama warned the United States would be in no hurry to agree a bilateral trade deal if Britain was no longer in the EU.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the president last week, the trio, which includes Trump\u2019s former rival for the republican nomination Ted Cruz, wrote that America<em> \u201cmust respect the sovereignty of other democratic peoples and their inalienable right to determine their own destiny.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/347726-trump-brexit-referendum-eu\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Trump spokesperson has reaffirmed the presumptive Republican nominee\u2019s support for a Brexit, claiming he is \u201cvery much in favor of countries doing what is best for them and their people.\u201d \u201cAmerica is here because of its own little Brexit,\u201d the real estate mogul\u2019s national spokesperson Katrina Pierson said in an interview with Sky News [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-251466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}