Story by David Wetzel •Knewz.com
Former United States President Donald Trump told European officials he would turn his back on Europe if it was attacked, a high-ranking E.U. official said.
Thierry Breton, a French commissioner who handles the E.U.'s internal market, said Trump made the comments to European Union President Ursula von der Leyen during the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos, Knewz.com has learned.
According to NBC News, Breton, who attended the meeting, shared Trump's alleged comments at a panel discussion in Brussels on Tuesday, January 9.
“You need to understand that if Europe is under attack, we will never come to help you and to support you,” Breton quoted Trump as saying.
“By the way, NATO is dead, and we will leave, we will quit NATO,” Trump also said, according to Breton.
Thierry Breton, the European Union's commissioner for internal market, made the allegations against former President Donald Trump. By: MEGA© Knewz (CA)
“And by the way, you owe me $400 billion, because you didn’t pay, you Germans, what you had to pay for defense,” Breton quoted Trump as saying.
While Trump was in office, he challenged other countries in NATO, saying that the United States should not have to shoulder so much of the funding. He often said that NATO countries needed to pay their fair share in order to have protection from the United States.
When NBC News asked for von der Leyen's recollection of the Trump allegations, a spokesperson for the European Union essentially declined to comment.
Former President Donald Trump allegedly made the comments to European Union President Ursula von der Leyen. By: MEGA© Knewz (CA)
“Out of principle the President NEVER discloses what her interlocutors have told her during closed door meetings. So, we are not going to comment either way,” the spokesperson said in an email.
On Wednesday night, Trump joined Fox News for a town hall discussion. The former president, who has a large lead in the Republican primary, appeared calm.
Trump, who often is highly critical of media, appeared to be pleased with the way the town hall went.
Former United States President Donald Trump enters the courtroom in his civil fraud trial at State Supreme Court on Thursday, January 11, 2023, in New York City. By: MEGA© Knewz (CA)
"The Town Hall last night received wonderful reviews. Thank you to Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum for doing a really professional job," the former president wrote on Truth Social.
Meanwhile, GOP presidential hopefuls Nikki Haley, the former ambassador to the United Nations, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis traded vicious jabs in the final Republican debate before the Iowa Caucuses.
Last week, President Joe Biden gave a speech in connection to the January 6 insurrection that essentially served as the official launch of his campaign to get re-elected in November. He was highly critical of his likely 2024 opponent.
The European Union has 27 members. By: Unsplash/Guillaume Perigees© Knewz (CA)
According to NBC News, a spokesman for Biden's campaign condemned Trump, an America-first boaster, regarding the European Union report.
“The idea that he would abandon our allies if he doesn’t get his way underscores what we already know to be true about Donald Trump: The only person he cares about is himself," the spokesman said.
According to some of the most recent polling, there is not much separation between Trump and Biden.
Polls by YouGov and Ipsos both had the candidates even, according to projectsfivethirtyeight.com. However, a poll by Morning Consult from January 7 had Biden leading by one point.
An earlier poll by TIPP Insights had Trump leading by three points.
“You need to understand that if Europe is under attack, we will never come to help you and to support you,” Breton quoted Trump as saying.
“By the way, NATO is dead, and we will leave, we will quit NATO,” Trump also said, according to Breton.
Thierry Breton, the European Union's commissioner for internal market, made the allegations against former President Donald Trump. By: MEGA© Knewz (CA)
“And by the way, you owe me $400 billion, because you didn’t pay, you Germans, what you had to pay for defense,” Breton quoted Trump as saying.
While Trump was in office, he challenged other countries in NATO, saying that the United States should not have to shoulder so much of the funding. He often said that NATO countries needed to pay their fair share in order to have protection from the United States.
When NBC News asked for von der Leyen's recollection of the Trump allegations, a spokesperson for the European Union essentially declined to comment.
Former President Donald Trump allegedly made the comments to European Union President Ursula von der Leyen. By: MEGA© Knewz (CA)
“Out of principle the President NEVER discloses what her interlocutors have told her during closed door meetings. So, we are not going to comment either way,” the spokesperson said in an email.
On Wednesday night, Trump joined Fox News for a town hall discussion. The former president, who has a large lead in the Republican primary, appeared calm.
Trump, who often is highly critical of media, appeared to be pleased with the way the town hall went.
Former United States President Donald Trump enters the courtroom in his civil fraud trial at State Supreme Court on Thursday, January 11, 2023, in New York City. By: MEGA© Knewz (CA)
"The Town Hall last night received wonderful reviews. Thank you to Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum for doing a really professional job," the former president wrote on Truth Social.
Meanwhile, GOP presidential hopefuls Nikki Haley, the former ambassador to the United Nations, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis traded vicious jabs in the final Republican debate before the Iowa Caucuses.
Last week, President Joe Biden gave a speech in connection to the January 6 insurrection that essentially served as the official launch of his campaign to get re-elected in November. He was highly critical of his likely 2024 opponent.
The European Union has 27 members. By: Unsplash/Guillaume Perigees© Knewz (CA)
According to NBC News, a spokesman for Biden's campaign condemned Trump, an America-first boaster, regarding the European Union report.
“The idea that he would abandon our allies if he doesn’t get his way underscores what we already know to be true about Donald Trump: The only person he cares about is himself," the spokesman said.
According to some of the most recent polling, there is not much separation between Trump and Biden.
Polls by YouGov and Ipsos both had the candidates even, according to projectsfivethirtyeight.com. However, a poll by Morning Consult from January 7 had Biden leading by one point.
An earlier poll by TIPP Insights had Trump leading by three points.
Donald Trump claims credit for ‘miracle’ of overturning right to abortion
Story by David Smith in Washington • THE GUARDIAN
Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP© Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP
Donald Trump, the former US president, boasted about the “miracle” of ending the constitutional right to abortion but warned that Republicans who tout extreme bans are being “decimated” in elections.
Trump was put on the spot on Wednesday during a Fox News town hall in Des Moines, Iowa, his latest attempt at counter-programming a Republican debate that was being shown on CNN at the same time.
A female voter, undecided between Trump and rival Ron DeSantis, raised concerns over the Republican frontrunner’s recent attempts to back away from abortion restrictions unpopular in elections and opinion polls.
She said: “I’ve been vocal in celebrating with you all of your pro-life victories from the past but then in this campaign you’ve also blamed pro-lifers for some of the GOP losses around the country and you’ve called heartbeat laws like Iowa’s terrible.”
The voter added: “I’d just like some clarity on this because it’s such an important question to me. I’d like for you to reassure me that you can protect all life, every person’s right to life without compromise.”
Trump, sitting with co-hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, sought to shore up his conservative credentials by taking credit for the 2022 overturning of Roe v Wade, the ruling that guaranteed the right to abortion nationwide, by a supreme court with three Trump-appointed justices.
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Story by David Smith in Washington • THE GUARDIAN
Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP© Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP
Donald Trump, the former US president, boasted about the “miracle” of ending the constitutional right to abortion but warned that Republicans who tout extreme bans are being “decimated” in elections.
Trump was put on the spot on Wednesday during a Fox News town hall in Des Moines, Iowa, his latest attempt at counter-programming a Republican debate that was being shown on CNN at the same time.
A female voter, undecided between Trump and rival Ron DeSantis, raised concerns over the Republican frontrunner’s recent attempts to back away from abortion restrictions unpopular in elections and opinion polls.
She said: “I’ve been vocal in celebrating with you all of your pro-life victories from the past but then in this campaign you’ve also blamed pro-lifers for some of the GOP losses around the country and you’ve called heartbeat laws like Iowa’s terrible.”
The voter added: “I’d just like some clarity on this because it’s such an important question to me. I’d like for you to reassure me that you can protect all life, every person’s right to life without compromise.”
Trump, sitting with co-hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, sought to shore up his conservative credentials by taking credit for the 2022 overturning of Roe v Wade, the ruling that guaranteed the right to abortion nationwide, by a supreme court with three Trump-appointed justices.
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“You wouldn’t be asking that question, even talking about the issue, because for 54 years they were trying to get Roe v Wade terminated and I did it and I’m proud to have done it,” he said. “Nobody else was going to get that done but me and we did it and we did something that was a miracle.”
But as he has in recent campaign rallies, Trump also struck a note of caution. “Now I happen to be for the exceptions, like Ronald Reagan, with the life of the mother, rape, incest. I just have to be there, I feel. I think probably 78% or so, a poll, about 78%. It was Ronald Reagan. He was for it. I was for it.
“But I will say this: you have to win elections. Otherwise you’re going to be back where you were, and you can’t let that ever happen again. You’ve got to win elections.”
Trump suggested that Florida governor DeSantis’s decision to sign a six-week abortion ban could be one of the reasons for his drop in the polls ahead of Monday’s first presidential nomination contest in Iowa.
“A lot of people say, if you talk five or six weeks, a lot of women don’t know if they’re pregnant in five or six weeks,” he said. “I want to get something where people are happy. You know, this has been tearing our country apart for 50 years. Nobody’s been able to do anything.”
Trump went on to claim that Democrats were “the radicals” and repeated his false claim that they are willing to kill babies in the eighth or ninth month or pregnancy or even after birth.
The exchange illustrated how Trump, who has a long history of veering between “pro-choice” and “pro-life” positions, is attempting to walk a fine line between his conservative base and electoral expediency.
But his embrace of the demise of Roe v Wade handed Democrats more ammunition. Joe Biden’s X account released a video clip of Trump’s answer, commenting: “Just like he said: he did it.”
The 77-year-old also used the town hall to claim that he was “not going to be a dictator” and promise “the largest deportation effort in the history of our country”. He also revealed that he had decided the identity of his running mate.
Asked who he would pick as potential vice-president, Trump replied: “Well, I can’t tell you that, really. I mean, I know who it’s going to be but –”
Baier entreated: “Give us a hint.”
But Trump offered only: “We’ll do another show some time.”
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“You wouldn’t be asking that question, even talking about the issue, because for 54 years they were trying to get Roe v Wade terminated and I did it and I’m proud to have done it,” he said. “Nobody else was going to get that done but me and we did it and we did something that was a miracle.”
But as he has in recent campaign rallies, Trump also struck a note of caution. “Now I happen to be for the exceptions, like Ronald Reagan, with the life of the mother, rape, incest. I just have to be there, I feel. I think probably 78% or so, a poll, about 78%. It was Ronald Reagan. He was for it. I was for it.
“But I will say this: you have to win elections. Otherwise you’re going to be back where you were, and you can’t let that ever happen again. You’ve got to win elections.”
Trump suggested that Florida governor DeSantis’s decision to sign a six-week abortion ban could be one of the reasons for his drop in the polls ahead of Monday’s first presidential nomination contest in Iowa.
“A lot of people say, if you talk five or six weeks, a lot of women don’t know if they’re pregnant in five or six weeks,” he said. “I want to get something where people are happy. You know, this has been tearing our country apart for 50 years. Nobody’s been able to do anything.”
Trump went on to claim that Democrats were “the radicals” and repeated his false claim that they are willing to kill babies in the eighth or ninth month or pregnancy or even after birth.
The exchange illustrated how Trump, who has a long history of veering between “pro-choice” and “pro-life” positions, is attempting to walk a fine line between his conservative base and electoral expediency.
But his embrace of the demise of Roe v Wade handed Democrats more ammunition. Joe Biden’s X account released a video clip of Trump’s answer, commenting: “Just like he said: he did it.”
The 77-year-old also used the town hall to claim that he was “not going to be a dictator” and promise “the largest deportation effort in the history of our country”. He also revealed that he had decided the identity of his running mate.
Asked who he would pick as potential vice-president, Trump replied: “Well, I can’t tell you that, really. I mean, I know who it’s going to be but –”
Baier entreated: “Give us a hint.”
But Trump offered only: “We’ll do another show some time.”
Trump Says We Should Have Negotiated Around the Civil War. Here’s What Would Have Happened.
Composite image. Donald Trump’s official portrait and Abe Lincoln, photo by Alexander Gardner.© provided by RawStory
Former President Donald Trump raised hackles from historians recently when he insisted that he could have negotiated a solution that would have prevented the American Civil War.
This led historian Joshua Zeitz to conduct a thought experiment: What if Trump or someone like him had been president instead of Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War?
In an essay in Politico, Zeitz posited that "in all likelihood, chattel slavery in North America would have persisted, even grown, well into the 20th century" had Trump been president in the 1860s.
According to Zeitz, the notion that slavery would have died out on its own was likely wishful thinking given how much Southern states were dedicated to expanding it out into new territories.
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Additionally, Zeitz points out, Lincoln did try to negotiate a more gradual end to slavery, only to be slapped away by Southern plantation owners.
"The only plausible program for gradual abolition was compensated emancipation, a scheme by which the government would pay slaveowners to emancipate their enslaved workers," he argues. "White Southerners bitterly resisted that option."
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On top of all that, writes Zeitz, the aftermath of the American Civil War resulted in policies that led to industrialization that turned America into an economic powerhouse.
"The world Donald Trump envisioned is both easy and awful to imagine: a world in which Lincoln and his cabinet agreed to the Crittenden compromise, slavery persisted into the 20th century — ending, perhaps, in violent revolution, or under global pressure — and the nation’s economic and political trajectory took a markedly different course," he contends. "The U.S. would have remained an economic powerhouse, most likely, but much of the nation’s industrial development and urbanization would have been delayed by decades."
Read the whole essay here.
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