‘It may be too late’: Dotcom assesses Trump’s grim prognosis

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7 September 2024 23:00 GMT

The Republican presidential candidate said that sanctions are killing the dollar.

The businessman Kim Dotcomwho was the owner of Megaupload (the largest file sharing site), this Saturday reported the statements of the Republican candidate for the US presidency, Donald Trump, who said that the punitive measures that Washington is putting against his enemies damaging its own national currency and can turn the US into a third world country.

“Trump is right. It may be too late“, write Dotcom in X, linking to the release of the video clip of a speech which Trump delivered at an event in New York. In his speech, the Republican warned that the sanctions “they will kill the dollar.”

“I think we would lose a war if we lost the dollar as a world currency. I think that would be equivalent to losing a war, something that is we would make a third world country, and we can’t let that happen,” Trump said.

The Republican recalled that he imposed “very powerful sanctions against countries that deserve them” and then fired them. “Because, look, you lose Iran, you lose Russia.. China is there, trying to make its currency the main currency,” he said. “That’s why I want to use sanctions as little as possible”he concluded.

At the end of July, Trump already said that he is not in favor of sanctions. “What we are doing is the sanctions make everyone go we”, held. In addition, he made it clear that he does not support US efforts to “punish” Moscow for its specific actions in Ukraine.