Donald Trump’s marketing campaign has accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Get together of “blatant foreign interference” within the US presidential election after its volunteers traveled to the US to assist marketing campaign for Kamala Harris.
The marketing campaign has filed a criticism with the Federal Election Fee in Washington, calling for a direct investigation into what it referred to as “apparent illegal foreign national contributions made by the Labour Party of the United Kingdom and accepted by Harris for President.”
Former President Donald Trump speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally at Greensboro Coliseum, on Oct. 22, 2024, in Greensboro, NC. AP
The criticism cited media reviews and a now-deleted LinkedIn submit from Sofia Patel, head of operations at Britain’s Labour Get together, who wrote that “nearly 100” present and former Labour Get together employees can be touring to the US within the coming weeks to assist elect Harris, the Democratic vice-president.
“Those searching for foreign interference in our elections need to look no further than [the] LinkedIn post,” the letter of criticism stated.
“The interference is occurring in plain sight.”
The middle-left Labour Get together, which sees the US Democrats as its sister get together, swept to energy in July.
(L-R) British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and French President Emmanuel Macron posing for a photograph at a diplomatic assembly in Berlin AFP through Getty Photographs
Vice President Kamala Harris and former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., attend a marketing campaign occasion on Oct. 21, 2024, in Brookfield, Wis. AP
Starmer has since sought to construct ties with Trump, assembly him at his Trump Tower throughout a go to to New York in September.
Starmer, touring on a flight to Samoa, instructed reporters he didn’t anticipate the criticism to pressure relations with Trump if he wins the election on Nov. 5, including Labour volunteers had gone to just about each US election.
“They’re doing it in their spare time, they’re doing it as volunteers, they’re staying I think with other volunteers over there,” he stated.
“That’s what they’ve done in previous elections, that’s what they’re doing in this election and that’s really straightforward.”
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