Hillary Clinton has launched a scathing attack on Nigel Farage after the former UKIP leader spoke at a rally for her White House rival Donald Trump.
The Democrat presidential candidate branded Mr Farage as “one of Britain’s most prominent right wing leaders” and accused him of being aligned to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Mr Farage spoke at a rally for outspoken Republican nominee Donald Trump in Mississippi on Wednesday, drawing parallels between the EU referendum campaign and the property billionaire’s White House bid.
“If I was an American citizen I wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton if you paid me,” he told the cheering pro-Trump crowd.
The remark clearly irked the former First Lady, who singled out Farage in a speech in Reno, Nevada yesterday, claiming he stirred up anti-immigrant feelings to help win June’s Brexit vote.
“Just yesterday, one of Britain’s most prominent right-wing leaders, a man named Nigel Farage, who stoked anti-immigrant sentiments to win the referendum, to have Britain leave the European Union, campaigned with Donald Trump in Mississippi,” she said.
“Farage has called for a bar on the children of legal immigrants from public schools and health services, has said women, and I quote, are ‘worth less than men’, and supports scrapping laws that prevent employers discriminating based on race.
“That’s who Donald Trump wants by his side when he’s addressing an audience of American voters. And the grand godfather of this global brand of extreme nationalism is Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
She continued: “In fact, Farage regularly appears on Russian propaganda programmes.
"Now he’s standing on the same stage as the Republican nominee. This is part of a broader story: The rising tide of hard-line right-wing nationalism around the world.”
Mr Farage hit back last night, saying Mrs Clinton was “running scared.”
“Her attacks on me are completely baseless,” he told Bretbart London.
“She sounds rather like Bob Geldof and can’t accept Brexit. Perhaps Mrs Clinton should spend more time speaking to normal, working people in her country than trying to attack me using dodgy half-quotes,” he added.
In her Nevada speech, Mrs Clinton sought to link Mr Trump with the extreme right movement, saying he espoused “a steady stream of bigotry” and claiming: “This is someone who retweets white supremacists.”
At a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, Mr Trump said Mrs Clinton was accusing his supporters “of being racists, which we’re not.”
