Brexiteer Nigel Farage got a hero's welcome in the United States on Friday, telling the Conservative Political Action Conference that supporting Donald Trump in 2016 was 'the best decision I ever made in my life.'
The swashbuckling anti-establishment Member of the European Parliament was on the event's schedule just hours after Trump delivered a 75-minute stemwinder to a capacity crowd of screaming right-wingers.
Farage first came to the CPAC event in 2015, drawing a polite, tiny crowd estimated at 250 to a hotel ballroom set for 5,000.
Nigel Farage gets hero's welcome at U.S. conservative political convention as he tells right-wingers that Trump-Russia collusion is 'fake news' and he's ready to fight for Brexit all over again
MEP Nigel Farage swept into CPAC with a pro-Trump message that America's right-wing faithful eagerly lapped up
He warned that Brexit might be subject to another referendum, which would mean 'No more Mr. Nice Guy'
Said supporting Donald Trump in 2016 was 'the best decision I ever made in my life,' and that the U.S. president 'has exceeded all expectations'
Farage's audience was fully half the size of Trump's earlier in the day
When he first spoke at the event in 2015, about 250 people turned up to hear him in a ballroom set for 5,000
By David Martosko, US Political Editor For Dailymail.com In Oxon Hill, Maryland
23 February 2018
Brexiteer Nigel Farage got a hero's welcome in the United States on Friday, telling the Conservative Political Action Conference that supporting Donald Trump in 2016 was 'the best decision I ever made in my life.'
The swashbuckling anti-establishment Member of the European Parliament was on the event's schedule just hours after Trump delivered a 75-minute stemwinder to a capacity crowd of screaming right-wingers.
Farage first came to the CPAC event in 2015, drawing a polite, tiny crowd estimated at 250 to a hotel ballroom set for 5,000.
But this year he drew an audience nearly half the size of the U.S. president's, hailed as a kindred spirit by Americans who are willingly riding aboard the Trump Train.
Nigel Farage told the U.S. Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday that Brexit might be subject to another referendum, which would mean 'No more Mr. Nice Guy'
Republicans and others on the political right in the U.S. turned up in droves to see Farage (pictured at centre right)
The MEP said supporting Donald Trump (pictured) in 2016 was 'the best decision I ever made in my life,' and that the U.S. president 'has exceeded all expectations'
'I thought he would be good, but I've got to tell you – he has exceeded all expectations,' Farage said of Trump. 'He is on the way to being a truly great president of this country.'
Farage mocked the American special counsel's probe into alleged collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia, calling it 'fake news' spread by a mass-media that 'has actually become the opposition.'
'They are not objectively reporting news. Ninety per cent of what you see on mainstream media in the States is negative about the president,' he said, echoing Trump's years-long obsession with news outlets he loves to hate.
Pacing the stage without notes, he rattled off an absurdist list of news stories he claimed to have read about himself, announcing that according to center-left broadsheets he is 'a person of interest to the FBI.'
'I have read actually that ... I am the one person connecting Trump, Putin and Julian Assange,' he scoffed. 'I've been running memory sticks back and forth from the White House and the Kremlin to Assange!'
More like minds across the pond: French National Front politician Marion Marechal-Le Pen addressed CPAC on Thursday
Farage has emerged as a clear Trump ally, echoing his claims of 'fake news' and insisting claims of campaign collusion with Russia are pure rubbish
The bombastic Brit, sometimes buffoonish but always in earnest, protested that his sole link with Moscow is that he 'may be guilty of drinking the odd Russian vodka.'
Ultimately, he said, Trump – who is in 'just his first term' – is being set up by an establishment still smarting from its defeat in 2016.
'It's fake news that suggest that the president colluded with the Russians in his election campaign,' Farage said. 'He didn't.'
'But you know what? When this is over they still won't stop. They still will never accept that their view of the world has been turned upside down.'
Farage's windup found its punch with a reminder about Brexit, the 2016 referendum that set the UK on a path to leave the European Union 13 months from now.
The annual Conservative Political Action Conference, held near Washington, D.C. features top-shelf Republican speakers along with training for young activists
Farage drew a few thousand people on Friday – a far better showing than his 2015 CPAC speech (pictured), attended by just a few hundred
He warned of 'an attempt by that unholy trinity of big banks, big business, and big politics to stop Brexit from happening.'
'If they do, in the worst-case scenario, overturn that result,' he said, 'and insult the intelligence and the decency of the British people by making us have that vote again, then I tell you one thing: I will be straight back in the front line of that campaign.'
'If they want that battle to be re-fought, I will be back there,' Farage vowed, 'and for me, it will be "No more Mr. Nice Guy".'
The swashbuckling anti-establishment Member of the European Parliament was on the event's schedule just hours after Trump delivered a 75-minute stemwinder to a capacity crowd of screaming right-wingers.
Farage first came to the CPAC event in 2015, drawing a polite, tiny crowd estimated at 250 to a hotel ballroom set for 5,000.
Nigel Farage gets hero's welcome at U.S. conservative political convention as he tells right-wingers that Trump-Russia collusion is 'fake news' and he's ready to fight for Brexit all over again
MEP Nigel Farage swept into CPAC with a pro-Trump message that America's right-wing faithful eagerly lapped up
He warned that Brexit might be subject to another referendum, which would mean 'No more Mr. Nice Guy'
Said supporting Donald Trump in 2016 was 'the best decision I ever made in my life,' and that the U.S. president 'has exceeded all expectations'
Farage's audience was fully half the size of Trump's earlier in the day
When he first spoke at the event in 2015, about 250 people turned up to hear him in a ballroom set for 5,000
By David Martosko, US Political Editor For Dailymail.com In Oxon Hill, Maryland
23 February 2018
Brexiteer Nigel Farage got a hero's welcome in the United States on Friday, telling the Conservative Political Action Conference that supporting Donald Trump in 2016 was 'the best decision I ever made in my life.'
The swashbuckling anti-establishment Member of the European Parliament was on the event's schedule just hours after Trump delivered a 75-minute stemwinder to a capacity crowd of screaming right-wingers.
Farage first came to the CPAC event in 2015, drawing a polite, tiny crowd estimated at 250 to a hotel ballroom set for 5,000.
But this year he drew an audience nearly half the size of the U.S. president's, hailed as a kindred spirit by Americans who are willingly riding aboard the Trump Train.
Nigel Farage told the U.S. Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday that Brexit might be subject to another referendum, which would mean 'No more Mr. Nice Guy'
Republicans and others on the political right in the U.S. turned up in droves to see Farage (pictured at centre right)
The MEP said supporting Donald Trump (pictured) in 2016 was 'the best decision I ever made in my life,' and that the U.S. president 'has exceeded all expectations'
'I thought he would be good, but I've got to tell you – he has exceeded all expectations,' Farage said of Trump. 'He is on the way to being a truly great president of this country.'
Farage mocked the American special counsel's probe into alleged collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia, calling it 'fake news' spread by a mass-media that 'has actually become the opposition.'
'They are not objectively reporting news. Ninety per cent of what you see on mainstream media in the States is negative about the president,' he said, echoing Trump's years-long obsession with news outlets he loves to hate.
Pacing the stage without notes, he rattled off an absurdist list of news stories he claimed to have read about himself, announcing that according to center-left broadsheets he is 'a person of interest to the FBI.'
'I have read actually that ... I am the one person connecting Trump, Putin and Julian Assange,' he scoffed. 'I've been running memory sticks back and forth from the White House and the Kremlin to Assange!'
More like minds across the pond: French National Front politician Marion Marechal-Le Pen addressed CPAC on Thursday
Farage has emerged as a clear Trump ally, echoing his claims of 'fake news' and insisting claims of campaign collusion with Russia are pure rubbish
The bombastic Brit, sometimes buffoonish but always in earnest, protested that his sole link with Moscow is that he 'may be guilty of drinking the odd Russian vodka.'
Ultimately, he said, Trump – who is in 'just his first term' – is being set up by an establishment still smarting from its defeat in 2016.
'It's fake news that suggest that the president colluded with the Russians in his election campaign,' Farage said. 'He didn't.'
'But you know what? When this is over they still won't stop. They still will never accept that their view of the world has been turned upside down.'
Farage's windup found its punch with a reminder about Brexit, the 2016 referendum that set the UK on a path to leave the European Union 13 months from now.
The annual Conservative Political Action Conference, held near Washington, D.C. features top-shelf Republican speakers along with training for young activists
Farage drew a few thousand people on Friday – a far better showing than his 2015 CPAC speech (pictured), attended by just a few hundred
He warned of 'an attempt by that unholy trinity of big banks, big business, and big politics to stop Brexit from happening.'
'If they do, in the worst-case scenario, overturn that result,' he said, 'and insult the intelligence and the decency of the British people by making us have that vote again, then I tell you one thing: I will be straight back in the front line of that campaign.'
'If they want that battle to be re-fought, I will be back there,' Farage vowed, 'and for me, it will be "No more Mr. Nice Guy".'
