Farage compares Trump to Reagan

NIGEL FARAGE has compared Donald Trump to Ronald Reagan as he defended the US presidential hopeful.

The former UK Independence Party leader spoke at a rally for Mr Trump this week where he attacked Democrat candidate Hilary Clinton.

Mr Farage said: “It is worth remembering that virtually everyone thought that Ronald Reagan was unfit to be the US president before he made a huge success of his two terms.”

Mr Farage added that the majority of the people in the crowd he addressed at a Trump rally in Jackson, Mississippi had never voted before and these “are the same people who made Brexit happen”.

While admitting that Mr Trump had “made a lot of mistakes”, he said he did not believe the Republican candidate was the “monster” he had been made out to be.

Mr Farage said he had been asked to speak at the last minute.