BREAKING:Trump’s top UK ally quits Parliament 24 hours after Trump’s endorsement
Trump’s endorsement just claimed another victim.
Less than 24 hours after Trump threw his full support behind Nigel Farage on Truth Social, his closest ally in Britain announced he is resigning from Parliament. Farage, the leader of the hard-right Reform UK party, is stepping down from the seat he won less than two years ago as scandal after scandal piles up around his finances.
Farage is already under investigation by the UK Parliament’s standards commissioner over a $6.6 million gift from a businessman based in Thailand. Then this weekend, The Sunday Times revealed he had also been taking money from George Cottrell, a convicted fraudster who served eight months in a US prison, co-wrote a how-to guide called “How to Launder Money,” and is now petitioning Trump for a pardon.
Cottrell’s money paid for Farage’s bodyguards, drivers, and social media staff. Cottrell also handed Farage the keys to a five-story mansion near Buckingham Palace. Farage publicly disclosed only about $12,000 of it. Cottrell’s mother, meanwhile, donated over $675,000 to Farage’s party last year.
Farage insists he has done nothing wrong and is calling the investigation an “establishment hit job,” a defense that will sound very familiar to Americans. He delivered his resignation speech at an event journalists were barred from attending, then announced he will run in the special election for his own seat, claiming the stunt lets him stick “two fingers up to the entire establishment.”
Farage was the first foreign politician to visit Trump Tower after the 2016 election, and the two have run in tandem for a decade. Trump publicly backed him Monday, sharing an article claiming Farage was the victim of an anti-Trump style playbook. One day later, Farage was out.
Trump’s public support has a track record, and it is not a good one.
