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Undated: Nigel Paul Farage (born 3 April 1964) is a British politician, broadcaster[4] and political analyst.[5] He has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South East England constituency since 1999 and is a Vice-Chairman of the pro-Brexit organisation Leave Means Leave.

He is best known as the former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and again from 2010 to 2016.[6] He co-chairs the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (formerly "Europe of Freedom and Democracy") group.[7] A prominent Eurosceptic in the UK, he has been noted for his speeches in the European Parliament,[8][9] and has strongly criticised the euro currency.

In a May 2016 interview with Robert Peston, Farage said that, whilst he had reservations on the views and character of 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, if he were an eligible US voter he would vote for Trump in 2016 presidential election, to prevent Hillary Clinton becoming president.[133] In July 2016, Farage visited the Republican convention in Cleveland with his aide and office manager George Cottrell.[134] Both Farage and Cottrell appeared on American television and engaged in discussions with Trump's aides[134] before Cottrell was arrested by the FBI on 21 federal counts of fraud, money laundering and extortion.[135] Farage "was unaware of Cottrell's alleged illegal activities and his arrest by the FBI came as a shock."[135] Cottrell's arrest left Farage unable to access his personal diary.[134] Cottrell ultimately pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud as part of a plea agreement with U.S. federal prosecutors and was sentenced to eight months in U.S. federal prison and was fined $30,000; the crime had been committed before Cottrell joined UKIP.[136][137]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Farage


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November 12: The UKIP interim leader Nigel Farage has said he and his companions are "just tourists" as they visited Trump Tower.

UKIP has since said Mr Farage has become the first British politician to meet Donald Trump since Mr Trump became president-elect of the US.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-37964698/us-election-farage-is-just-a-tourist-on-trump-visit

November 12: Brexit leader Nigel Farage tells Donald Trump not to grope British Prime Minister

Donald Trump's biggest support in Britain — the original Mr. Brexit — jokingly warned the President-elect not to grope the Prime Minister, the second woman in history to hold the title.

"Don't touch her, for God's sake!" Independence Party leader Nigel Farage said in a radio interview while discussing how Trump should handle his first meeting with Theresa May.

Farage, the right-wing politician who supported the Republican throughout his White House bid, met with future the President at Trump Tower on Saturday and insisted that he could mediate talks between the American businessman known for bragging about sexual assault and the UK's highest-ranking woman in politics.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/brexit-leader-nigel-farage-warns-trump-groping-article-1.2870416


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November 22: The UK has rejected a suggestion by US President-elect Donald Trump that it should appoint the figurehead of the Brexit movement, Nigel Farage, as ambassador to the US.

Trump caused diplomatic ripples when he said on Twitter that Farage, interim leader of the anti-immigrant UK Independence Party (UKIP), would "do a great job" in the post.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/22/world/donald-trump-nigel-farage-us-ambassador/index.html


November 22: Twitter blows up over Trump's call for Farage as U.K. ambassador to U.S.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/11/22/nigel-farage-donald-trump/94283378/


November 30: Nigel Farage on the Story Behind His Friendship with Trump

How the far-right, anti-immigration leader of Britain’s fourth-largest political party, became the first foreign politician to have a face-to-face with the President-elect.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/nigel-farage-on-the-story-behind-his-friendship-with-trump


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June 1: Nigel Farage is 'person of interest' in FBI investigation into Trump and Russia

FBI interested in former Ukip leader’s ties with people connected to US president and WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/01/nigel-farage-is-person-of-interest-in-fbi-investigation-into-trump-and-russia

June 1: Donald Trump’s white nationalist campaign attracted anti-immigrant, pro-Russia politicians from across Europe. In particular “Brexit” leader Nigel Farage, the proudly racist and sexist former head of the nationalist UK Independence Party, made an unprecedented trans-Atlantic push for Trump. Farage attended the Republican convention, did media appearances to support Trump, joined in raising the rabble at Trump rallies, and even defended Trump’s ugly Access Hollywood statements as just the bragging of an “alpha male.” Farage is also an admirer of Trump adviser Steve Bannon, with a Breitbart-friendly relationship that extends back at least three years. And now Trump and Farage have something else in common:

Nigel Farage is a “person of interest” in the US counter-intelligence investigation that is looking into possible collusion between the Kremlin and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the Guardian has been told.

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Farage says he’s never even been to Russia … though he refuses to say if he’s received payment from RT or other Russian state media. Farage has met with Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, with Assange-friendly whackadoodle Roger Stone, and seems to have just incidentally been involved with a lot of people whose names keep showing up on the FBI radar.

“He’s right in the middle of these relationships. He turns up over and over again. There’s a lot of attention being paid to him.”

Farage has some recent FBI experience. In July, the FBI nabbed Farage’s top aide, for laundering drug money through the dark net.

The aide, George Cottrell, previously ran the UKIP offices as well as Farage’s personal blog. He was arrested by the FBI when Farage and Cottrell came to the US for the Republican Convention. Cottrell was later found guilty of wire fraud for offering to help criminals launder funds.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/1/1667871/-Nigel-Farage-joins-other-Trump-associates-as-person-of-interest-in-FBI-investigation


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June 6: Last week, the Guardian published a report revealing a new and odd twist in the Trump-Russia scandal: Nigel Farage, the British politician who led the Brexit movement in Great Britain, is a “person of interest” in the FBI investigation of interactions between Trump associates and the Russian government. The newspaper reported that Farage was under FBI scrutiny because he had relationships with both the Trump camp and WikiLeaks, which disseminated Democratic emails swiped by Russian hackers in an effort to help Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Farage dismissed the story as “hysteria” and said he had not been contacted by the FBI. But Farage did meet with Trump during the campaign. And a source close to the Trump camp tells Mother Jones that a Trump-Farage meeting was set up by Roger Stone, the veteran political dirty-trickster and long-time Trump adviser who has come under investigation in the Trump-Russia inquiry.

That source is Stone himself.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/roger-stone-nigel-farage-donald-trump-russia-fbi/

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January 20: Nigel Farage allegedly held several secret meetings with Julian Assange and gave him a USB stick with data on it, a US congressional enquiry has heard.
https://www.france24.com/en/20180120-usa-uk-nigel-farage-julian-assange-secret-meetings-congressional-enquiry

May 11: Right-wing British politician Nigel Farage has said he will start a petition to have Donald Trump nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, saying the award would lose legitimacy in the eyes of millions if the US president had a successful North Korean summit and subsequently did not receive it.

Mr Trump is among those who believes he deserves becoming a recipient of the Norwegian-based prize and has claimed such an opinion is widely shared.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-nobel-peace-prize-nigel-farage-norway-north-korea-iran-nuclear-deal-a8347246.html

June 16: Leading Brexit Campaigner Apparently Passed Documents on U.S. Probe into George Cottrell to the Russians

A top Brexit campaigner, who met repeatedly with Russian officials, appeared to share details of the indictment of George Cottrell, a dark web operator working for the campaign.

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One of the Brexit campaign chiefs appeared to pass documents detailing an American law enforcement investigation to a Russian official, according to a cache of leaked emails.

The papers, which detailed a probe into dark web money laundering, were apparently shared with the Russian embassy in London by Leave.EU executive Andy Wigmore. They concerned the arrest of Brexit financier George Cottrell, who was seized at an airport on the way home from the Republican convention in 2016 where Donald Trump had just been nominated as the presidential candidate.

Cottrell had been at the convention in Cleveland with his boss Nigel Farage, who dined with Roger Stone and met a string of other Republican operatives and elected officials.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/leading-brexit-campaigner-passed-documents-on-us-probe-into-george-cottrell-to-the-russians

June 28: How the 'Bad Boys of Brexit' forged ties with Russia and the Trump campaign and came under scrutiny
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-brexit-farage-russia-trump-campaign-20180628-story.html

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July 3: 'Donald Trump must not meet Nigel Farage': Downing St accused of laying down red line ahead of UK visit
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/07/03/donald-trump-must-not-meet-nigel-farage-downing-st-accused-laying/

July 4: UK reportedly tells Trump he cannot meet with Brexit architect Nigel Farage

Trump has embraced Farage, who is also a Fox News contributor, and called him “the man behind Brexit” during the 2016 campaign.

Farage told Fox News he would not comment on any conversations he had with the White House but said the Telegraph report was “utterly consistent” with past behavior from the U.K. government.

“The one thing they do not want me doing is having a photograph with the U.S. president when he’s in London with both of us saying ‘Brexit is a great idea, why doesn’t the government just get on with it?’”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/uk-reportedly-tells-trump-he-cannot-meet-with-brexit-architect-nigel-farage

July 6: Trump baby blimp is 'biggest ever insult to a sitting president', Nigel Farage claims

Nigel Farage has branded plans to let an "angry baby" Trump blimp fly over London during his forthcoming visit "the biggest insult to a sitting US president ever".

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The former UKIP leader and longtime Trump ally claimed that Sadiq Khan's decision to allow the giant balloon to fly over Westminster "makes London look ridiculous".

Weighing in to a febrile debate over the six-metre inflatable, he asked: "Would this be happening if it was Obama?"

His comments stoked responses on Twitter ranging from support to mockery as some pointed out that other US presidents have also been subject to hostile behaviour.

"JFK getting shot in the head is probably more insulting than a flying ... balloon," wrote one man.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/trump-baby-blimp-is-biggest-ever-insult-to-a-sitting-president-nigel-farage-claims-a3880756.html

July 13:
Farage angling for a meeting with Trump

Any meeting with the former UKIP leader would be seen as another blow to May.

President Donald Trump may not be finished embarrassing British Prime Minister Theresa May — even after stating Friday that their relationship was “very, very strong” despite his comments undermining her Brexit strategy.

Nigel Farage, the right-wing British politician and Brexit mastermind, is scheduled to visit Washington, D.C., on July 19, two people familiar with his travel plans said, and is working to set up a meeting with Trump while he is there.

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“As someone with unique insight into Brexit, the transatlantic relationship, and what’s going on with the panicked EU member states, Nigel will be on hand for the president whenever Mr. Trump sees fit to talk,” said a Farage associate who has been back-channeling with the White House about a potential meeting. Those plans, a second source cautioned, were still up in the air.
https://www.politico.eu/article/nigel-farage-donald-trump-theresa-may-angling-for-a-meeting-with-trump/

November 13: Mueller seeking more details on Nigel Farage, key Russia inquiry target says

Jerome Corsi, a conservative author, said prosecutors working for Mueller questioned him about Farage, the key campaigner behind Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, two weeks ago in Washington.

Corsi said investigators for the special counsel also pressed him for information on Ted Malloch, a London-based American academic with ties to Farage, who informally advised Donald Trump and was interviewed by FBI agents earlier this year.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/13/nigel-farage-mueller-russia-investigation-trump-latest-jerome-corsi-claim

November 14: Nigel Farage’s Name Keeps Coming Up in the Mueller Probe

As the special counsel scrutinizes WikiLeaks, might the Bad Boys of Brexit be the missing link between Trumpworld and Russia?
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/nigel-farages-name-keeps-coming-up-in-the-robert-mueller-probe


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