British Foreign Secretary David Cameron flew to Mar-a-Lago on Monday to meet with former President Donald Trump as part of an effort to encourage Republican leaders to open up funding to Ukraine.
The former Conservative prime minister said Ukraine’s victory was “crucial for American and European security.”
The former president and potential Republican candidate is less enthusiastic about continued support from U.S. taxpayers, while his allies in the House of Representatives support a $60 billion aid package for Kiev. ing.
AP report Britain’s Foreign Office confirmed the meeting, calling it “productive”.
The UK government said it was “standard practice” for government ministers to meet with opposition leaders in their allies during election years.
The two would have had a lot to talk about.
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Lord Cameron criticized Mr Trump’s proposal to expel Muslims from the US during his first presidential campaign, calling it “divisive, stupid and wrong”.
At the time, when President Trump had not yet been elected to high office, Lord Cameron said: “If he were to visit our country, we would all unite against him.”
Trump responded by warning that he might not have a “very good relationship” with the prime minister during his term as president.
In his memoirs published in 2019, Lord Cameron went on to say that he found it “depressing” that Trump might win the election, citing Trump’s “protectionist, foreign “Humanistic and misogynistic intervention” was to blame.
He was British Prime Minister during the 2016 referendum on whether to leave the European Union (EU), which he opposed, but which Trump enthusiastically supported.
Lord Cameron resigned after voters rejected his call to remain in the bloc by a wide margin.
During Cameron’s visit to the United States, he will speak with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken about support for Ukraine and stabilizing the Middle East, the U.K. Department of Foreign, Commonwealth and Development said.
