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Days after buddying up with Donald Trump Jr, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has warned Democrats that their legal pursuit of Trump Sr may backfire. In a new hour-long interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, mixed in with spirited discussion about child sacrifice and God’s role as an economic adviser, Bukele suggested that former president Trump’s court ordeal has gifted him “the greatest campaign ever”.
Short highlight from Tucker’s interview with Nayeb Bukele in El Salvador.
Bukele is 100 percent right about Trump.pic.twitter.com/dfQqzg1SPp
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 6, 2024
While Trump’s name wasn’t explicitly used, Carlson asked what advice El Salvador’s President would give to “another former democratically elected leader seeking office who is facing jail time”. As viewers racked their brains as to who he might mean, Bukele suggested of this hypothetical leader that “if there’s no [official] way to stop him from competing in the election, all the things that they do to him will just give him more votes”.
He added: “They’re making a huge mistake.” Democrats accusing their nemesis of being an autocrat will have to contend with him receiving support from the “world’s coolest dictator”...
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