Donald Trump News for June 7, 2016
06/07/2016 / By JD Heyes
(Trump.news) He’s calling them out and they don’t like it: The German ambassador to NATO has fired back at prospective GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump for his comments that most NATO countries (including Germany) are not contributing their fair share to the defense alliance, relying instead on the American taxpayer. This, from Foreign Policy:
In an implicit rebuttal to Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, Germany’s ambassador to NATO offered a full-throated defense of his country’s contributions to European security and pushed back at accusations that Berlin was relying on Washington for protection rather than taking responsibility for defending itself.
Noting Germany’s deployment of troops to Afghanistan and Kosovo, its lead diplomatic role on the Ukraine crisis, and its contribution of 5,000 troops to a new NATO force charged with protecting the alliance’s eastern and southern flanks, Ambassador Hans Dieter Lucas said criticisms about Germany’s purported lack of engagement don’t reflect reality.
“Germany is heavily engaged in all NATO missions,” he said during an interview at the German embassy in Washington. “Engaged like probably not many others.”
Being “engaged” in missions and actually living up to NATO membership requirements are two separate issues. Take Germany’s involvement in Afghanistan: Most troops were sequestered safely behind walls at a military compound adjacent to the international airport at Kabul, as were troops of many other “contributing NATO members.” Other German troops were deployed in the north and west of the country, where fighting was minimal.
This is done so that contributing nations can say “hey, look, we’ve contributed,” without putting their troops in too much danger because their own populations would demand their troops be withdrawn if they were to be taken anywhere near the casualties that U.S. and British troops have taken.
Anyway, Trump has reasons for what he has said, and the FP piece covers those as well, here.
And then there were two: It looks as though Trump’s Democratic opponent has been chosen by voters of that party, after Hillary Clinton carried California Tuesday night. The game is afoot! More on Clinton’s victory, here.
The Donald Said it first: Speaking of NATO, the alliance is moving to create a new intelligence chief post, so that U.S. and European members can more easily share intelligence information (why wasn’t this done during the Cold War?). From The Wall Street Journal:
The Western alliance is moving toward creating a powerful new intelligence post, according to U.S. and European officials, in a bid to improve how Europe and America share sensitive information on terrorism and other threats.
In the face of the terror attacks in Paris and Brussels, Europe has struggled to improve cross-border intelligence sharing. Some officials believe the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which relies heavily on U.S. intelligence, could facilitate improved information exchange if it were driven by a new senior intelligence official.
But, as Trump tweeted yesterday, “See, when I said NATO was obsolete because of no terrorism protection, they made the change without giving me credit.” The WSJ article is behind a paywall, but for subscribers, it is here.
About that Hispanic judge kerfuffle, which, again, is much ado about nothing, Trump was right – once again – to call him out for possibly being biased against him due to Trump’s pledge to “build a wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border and “make Mexico pay for it.”
The federal judge presiding over a pair of lawsuits against Trump University, U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, as well as the group brining the suit both have ties to La Raza, a Latino hate group that is biased against whites, in particular (“La Raza” translated literally means “The Race”). As reported by WorldNetDaily:
The federal judge presiding over the Trump University class action lawsuit is a member of the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association, a group that while not a branch of the National Council of La Raza, has ties to the controversial organization…
WND reported the San Diego firm paid $675,000 to the Clintons for speeches, and the firm’s founder is a wealthy San Diego lawyer who served a two-year sentence in federal prison for his role in a kickback scheme to mobilize plaintiffs for class-action lawsuits. Read the full report here.
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