Liz Truss endorses Donald Trump for US President: ‘The world was safer’

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Former prime minister Liz Truss has endorsed Donald Trump to win this 12 months’s US presidential election.

Ms Truss, Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, stated the “world was safer” underneath Trump’s presidency as she criticised incumbent Joe Biden.

The former PM, who was in workplace for 49 days, urged it “has to be” Trump following the US presidential election on account of happen in November.

“I don’t think (President Joe) Biden has been particularly supportive to the United Kingdom. I think he’s often on the side of the EU. And I certainly think I would like to see a new president in the White House,” she informed LBC.

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Ms Truss claimed the previous president’s financial insurance policies “were actually very effective”, including: “He cut regulation, he cut taxes, he liberated the US energy supply. And this is why the US has had significantly higher economic growth than Britain.. In foreign affairs, he was more effective at preventing aggressive regimes expanding and I think we’d be in a different position if he got re-elected in 2020.”

She doubled-down on these feedback, telling the BBC: “I do agree that under Donald Trump when he was president of the United States, the world was safer.

“I want to work with fellow conservatives to take on what I believe is a real threat of Western society and civilization being undermined by left-wing extreme ideas.”

However, Ms Truss added she doesn’t agree with “absolutely everything he’s ever said”.

Her feedback come as the primary of Mr Trump’s 4 prison trials started in New York.

The failed PM additionally stated she would assist Nigel Farage “becoming an MP” if he had been to re-join the Conservative celebration.

Ms Truss was chatting with mark the launch of her new e-book, Ten Years to Save the West, which was launched on Tuesday.

In her memoir, she defended her strategy to the disastrous mini-budget which despatched the pound right into a nostril dive and sparked a crash within the markets.

She claimed the “pro-Remain” Treasury, Bank of England and Office for Budget Responsibility had been “barriers to our plans”.

Ms Truss has beforehand been criticised for her claims stating she had seen it for herself first-hand as unnamed figures and our bodies “sabotaged my efforts in Britain to cut taxes, reduce the size of government and restore democratic accountability”.

She has struggled to clarify what she means by the deep state.

The former PM not too long ago spoke at a pro-Trump convention within the US, delivering an apocalyptic warning that “the West is doomed” until right-wing politicians like her are put in energy to put it aside.

The failed PM is now striving to position herself on the forefront of a brand new model of right-wing politics, not too long ago launching her so-called Popular Conservatism motion.

The Popular Conservatism group claims it isn’t a direct problem to Mr Sunak’s management, but it surely needs to pile strain on the prime minister to chop taxes, undertake hardline insurance policies on immigration and go away the European Convention on Human Rights.