Donald ‘Trumps’ EU by giving Brits hope of swift post-Brexit trade deal
White House hopeful hints he'd torpedo trade deal with EU and make individual deals if he wins
DONALD Trump gave Britain fresh hope of a swift post-Brexit trade deal with America if he wins the White House in November.
Accepting the Republican party’s official nomination to be President in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday, the billionaire businessman hinted he would torpedo TTIP — the planned trade deal between the US and the EU.
The mogul said he would “make individual deals with individual countries” instead.
He added: “No longer will we enter into these massive transactions with many countries that are thousands of pages long and which no one from our country even reads or understands.”
Mr Trump promised: “Using the greatest business people of the world, I’m going to turn our bad trade agreements into great trade agreements.
“I pledge to never sign any trade agreement that hurts our workers, or that diminishes our freedom and Independence.
“We will never ever sign bad trade deals. America first again. American first.”
Outgoing President Barack Obama used a controversial visit to the UK to vow that Brexit Britain would “go to the back of the queue” for a trade deal with America, as they were forging a deal with the EU.
The potential u-turn in US foreign policy came as the head of Europol also appeared to row back on doom-laden warnings made during the referendum campaign.
Rob Wainwright, who heads up the European crime fighting agency, was one of the biggest cheerleaders for Project Fear, and claimed Britain would be a “second tier” country if we quit the EU.
But today he said: “We’re dealing very much with a globalised problem that requires close co-operation with our European neighbours, particularly in information sharing.”
He added: “That’s going to continue of course, even after the UK leaves the EU.”