Donald Trump: EU Was Formed ' to Beat The US at Making Money'
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump claimed that the European Union was created to “beat the United States when it comes to making money”.
Trump also said of the EU “the reason that it got together was like a consortium so that it could compete with the United States”.
The European Union was founded as the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952 in an effort to promote strong cross-border ties in Europe and avoid future wars. It has since evolved to a customs union and eventually to the transnational entity devoted to removing internal trade barriers, building a common market and a fiscal union. Its development has been repeatedly supported by the United States under presidents of both parties.
Trump’s anti-European statements on Saturday come after the Republican nominee repeatedly praised Brexit, the vote by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, including in a press conference in the day after the referendum held at a Trump golf course in Scotland, the Guardian reported.
Trump defended his recent attacks on NATO, saying that countries in the organization needed to pay more to the United States in order for Washington to meet its treaty obligations of mutual defense.”
The Republican nominee also said that his call to ban people from the United States from “any nation that has been compromised by terrorism” was an expansion on his infamous Muslim ban of December, 2015.
“I actually don’t think it’s a rollback. In fact, you could say it’s an expansion,” said Trump, adding, “I’m looking now at territory. People were so upset when I used the word Muslim. Oh, you can’t use the word Muslim. Remember this. And I’m okay with that, because I’m talking territory instead of Muslim.”
He also confirmed reports that he would seek revenge against former presidential nominee rivals John Kasich and Ted Cruz by funding a super PAC in the 2018 cycle to help defeat their respective attempts to win the gubernatorial election in Ohio and US Senate election in Texas.
“I’ll probably do a super PAC, you know, when they run against Kasich, for $10m to $20m, against Ted Cruz,” said Trump. “And maybe one other person that I’m thinking about.”
