Blended martial arts fighter Conor McGregor introduced his run for Eire’s presidency on Thursday, pushing for an anti-immigration stance simply days after assembly with United States President Donald Trump on the White Home.
“Ireland, the choice is yours and it is an easy one,” McGregor stated on X, previously Twitter. “Vote for me as your president and we will SAVE IRELAND TOGETHER!”
In a separate publish, the previous UFC star expressed his opposition to the European Union Migration Pact, a algorithm to evenly distribute migration, asylum, border administration and integration claims extra evenly throughout the bloc.
“Any other Presidential candidate they attempt to put forward will be of no resistance to them. I will!” McGregor wrote.
McGregor, who garnered an enormous following amongst conservative males within the U.S., made his announcement the identical week he met with Trump on the White Home, the place he instructed the president his “work ethic is inspiring.”
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On the White Home, McGregor additionally made anti-immigration feedback, stating, “Ireland is at the cusp of potentially losing its Irishness.”
Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin slammed McGregor’s go to to the White Home in a social media publish Monday, stating “Conor McGregor’s remarks are wrong, and do not reflect the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day, or the views of the people of Ireland.”
McGregor, a distinguished determine within the “manosphere,” has confronted a number of allegations of sexual assault. He’s at present going through a lawsuit by a lady accusing him of sexually assaulting her within the toilet on the Kaseya Middle in the course of the 2023 NBA finals in Miami. Final yr, a Dublin jury discovered McGregor answerable for sexually assaulting a lady in a resort penthouse in 2018.
Rachel Morrogh, the chief govt of the Dublin Rape Disaster Centre, instructed the Guardian that McGregor’s go to to the White Home was “sinister,” calling it “an attempt to rebuild the very damaged reputation of Conor McGregor.”
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“I think what has really shocked us is that the office of the president of the United States, which is so respected and so revered, is being used to launder Conor McGregor’s reputation,” Morrogh stated.
