Exclusive: Leaked meeting notes show Boris Johnson said Trump was 'making America great again'
From https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/05/exclusive-leaked-meeting-notes-show-boris-johnson-said-trump/
Exclusive: Leaked meeting notes show Boris Johnson said Trump was 'making America great again'
The Prime Minister is quoted telling the US ambassador in August 2017, when foreign secretary, that Mr Trump was doing 'fantastic stuff'
By Ben Riley-Smith,
US EDITOR
5 September 2020 9:38pm
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Mr Johnson's praise for Mr Trump in private goes much further than he usually does in public, and is eye-catching given polls consistently show a majority of the British people disapprove of the US president. Its disclosure could see the Prime Minister get dragged into the US election campaign, with the president eager to tout overseas support and Democratic nominee Joe Biden already on-record once calling Mr Johnson a Trump "clone".
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It can also be reported:
• Mr Trump pushed back hard on Theresa Mays pleas to expel Russian diplomats after the Skripal poisoning, saying I would rather follow than lead
• The US president wondered why there was so much hatred in Northern Ireland and asked Mrs May during a lunch why Mr Johnson was not prime minister
• Mr Johnson built close working relationships with Jared Kushner, the presidents son-in-law, and adviser Stephen Miller, while forging ties with the Trump inner circle
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