Trump ‘delighted’ by his influence on Canada’s election: U.S. journalist
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Atlantic staff writer Ashley Parker says her recent interview with Trump in the Oval Office showed the U.S. president isn't 'fervently' pursuing taking over Canada.
U.S. President Donald Trump “seemed positively delighted” about the impact he had on Canada’s federal election, a U.S. journalist said while recounting a recent interview with the president.
Ashley Parker was one of three writers at The Atlantic who interviewed Trump in the Oval Office for an article published late last month, before Canadians elected a Liberal minority government in last week’s election.
The interview transcript includes a brief section on Canada, where Trump again said he is serious about making Canada an American state, and mused about the “close” election race between the Liberals and the Conservatives.
“Trump sort of gleefully said, ‘Once I became a presence in the Canadian elections, I really turned it into a close call; I kind of threw it from the Conservatives to the Liberals,'” Parker told Mercedes Stephenson in an interview that aired Sunday on the West Block.
“That’s not his political ideology, but he seemed positively delighted at what he saw as the outsized influence he had in another country’s elections.”
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