Trump blames Obama for Brexit

By Sarah Bedford

Published June 24, 2016 11:38am ET

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Trump blames Obama for Brexit — The presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, in Scotland the day after the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU, saluted the decision, saying the nation's citizens "took back their country." (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP) | Andrew Milligan

Donald Trump said Friday that President Obama was partly to blame for Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, and said Obama’s effort to weigh in on the “Brexit” referendum was “inappropriate.”

“If he had not said it, I think the result might have been different,” Trump said during a speech at the opening of his golf course in Scotland Friday.

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