Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has accused Sir Keir Starmer’s “far-left” Labour Party of interfering in the US election.
The Trump-Vance campaign filed a complaint with the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) accusing Labour of illegal foreign campaign donations.
In a statement, the campaign’s co-manager Susie Wiles campaign claimed: “The far-left Labour Party has inspired Kamala’s dangerously liberal policies and rhetoric.
“In recent weeks, they have recruited and sent party members to campaign for Kamala in critical battleground states, attempting to influence our election.”
The complaint referenced a Washington Post report that suggested “strategists linked to Britain’s Labour Party have been offering advice to Kamala Harris about how to earn back disaffected voters and run a winning campaign from the center left”.
It also mentioned a Daily Telegraph report that suggested Morgan McSweeney, Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, and Matthew Doyle, his director of communications, “attended a convention in Chicago and met with Ms Harris’s campaign team”.
The complaint also cited a now deleted LinkedIn post from Sofia Patel, head of operations at the Labour party, who wrote that “nearly 100” current and former Labour party staff would be travelling to the US to help elect Ms Harris.
Mr Trump’s lawyers argue such support amounts to “contributions” from foreign actors, in violation of US campaign finance laws.
This man is an absolute joker.
it would take about two seconds to point out liz truss flying to the us to support republicans on behalf of the tories
Farage almost didn’t stand in the general election because he wanted to be in the US helping Trump. It’d be interesting to see how much time he has spent there vs time spent helping his constituents since.
inspired Kamala’s dangerously liberal policies
I never knew Trump felt so strongly about VAT on private schools.
Good luck. Labour ran on a “Not the Tories” campaign. Which worked because of the 12 or so years of Tory madness.
Starmers labour is far left… Apparently 🤣
That’s a lot (of nonsense), I don’t know where to start.
Probably fine, based on the little information we know about this. But another example of how the new Labour administration doesn’t understand optics of being in government. You can do this in opposition… and you can boast about it on socials. But being in government is a different game.
I still doubt this will go anywhere, though.
What are you talking about?
It’s quite naïve that the Labour party have allowed any hint of election interference to even be perceived. Sorry, was that not obvious from reading the article?
The content of the article
Feels like a pre-emptive tu quoque attack.
