{"id":349656,"date":"2018-02-24T11:24:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T10:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ex-ukip-leader-farage-admits-to-russian-vodka-connection-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2018-02-24T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T10:24:16","slug":"ex-ukip-leader-farage-admits-to-russian-vodka-connection-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ex-ukip-leader-farage-admits-to-russian-vodka-connection-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-UKIP leader Farage admits to Russian (vodka) connection \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.02\/thumbnail\/5a912719dda4c85d4d8b45db.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Nigel Farage opened up about his &#8216;liver-damaging links&#8217; to Russia while speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Friday, confessing that he has tossed back a few vodkas over the years.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve never been to Russia. I\u2019ve never been to Moscow. I\u2019ve never met a Russian operative or agent. I\u2019ve never done business in Russia. I\u2019ve never taken money from Russia,\u201d<\/em> the former UKIP leader told the annual conservative conference.\u00a0But Farage conceded that he <em>\u201cmay be guilty of drinking the odd Russian vodka.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hSxIrUspm68\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Noting that he was reportedly a <em>\u201cperson of interest to the FBI,\u201d<\/em> Farage marveled at conspiracy theories linking himself to a shadowy Kremlin cabal tasked with undermining Western democracy.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve read that actually I\u2019m the center of an international spider\u2019s web,\u201d<\/em> Farage, a vocal Trump supporter credited with Brexit\u2019s referendum victory, sarcastically said. <em>\u201cI\u2019m the one person connecting Trump, Putin and Julian Assange. I\u2019ve been running memory sticks back and forth, from the White House to the Kremlin, to Assange.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/419662-farage-america-corbyn-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE:\u00a0Farage in the USA: \u2018In the UK, people are beginning to get the Trump message\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Farage also mocked <em>\u201cnewspapers in America and the UK\u201d <\/em>who<em> \u201csay I colluded with the Russians.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/419725-farage-russian-vodka-connection\/?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>Nigel Farage opened up about his &#8216;liver-damaging links&#8217; to Russia while speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Friday, confessing that he has tossed back a few vodkas over the years. \u201cI\u2019ve never been to Russia. I\u2019ve never been to Moscow. I\u2019ve never met a Russian operative or agent. I\u2019ve never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":349657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349656","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\/349656","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=349656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}