US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that the election of Vice President Kamala Harris to the highest government post would lead to significant economic losses for the country, including the loss of the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency.
“We will lose our wealth, we will lose our power and we will lose our reserve currency status, which will be tantamount to losing the war. If we lose this, the consequences will be terrible, but we are already losing it,” Trump said at a rally in Detroit, Day reports. Az with reference to TASS.
He added that the Chinese yuan seeks to take the place of the dollar on the world stage, this is one of Beijing’s goals. “We can deal with China, we can deal with Russia and North Korea,” the Republican asserted.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting organized by TASS with the heads of international news agencies, called the use of the dollar as a tool of sanctions a big mistake for the United States and noted that they undermine confidence in this currency. According to the president, the United States is killing this currency with its own hands. This encourages other countries to switch to national currencies for payments, Putin added.