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Chibok Girls And Trump Appear In Unannounced Photo Op
National Public Radio's Goats and Soda ^ | June 30, 2017 | Courtney Columbus

Posted on 07/01/2017 3:43:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The White House usually picks a photo of the day. On June 28, the image they chose showed two girls from Nigeria who were abducted in 2014 by Boko Haram but managed to escape: Joy Bishara and Lydia Pogu. They're flanked by President Donald Trump and his daughter, Ivanka Trump. The photo had been taken the day before.

Trump is giving a thumbs up.

The meeting was not publicized in advance. NPR's White House correspondent Tamara Keith says the administration didn't notify the press corps about it, it didn't appear on the White House daily schedule and it was not discussed in any of that day's briefings.

How did these two girls get to the White House? Doug Wead, who is also in the photo, was the point of contact.

He's the president of Canyonville Christian Academy, the Christian boarding school in Canyonville, Ore. that the girls just graduated from.

Wead was an assistant to President George H.W. Bush and has published many books, including Game of Thorns: The Inside Story of Hillary Clinton's Failed Campaign and Donald Trump's Winning Strategy. He told NPR that Ivanka Trump reached out to him after his appearance on a BBC program about presidential children. The two got in touch via email and kept in contact.....

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: africa; refugees; trump

1 posted on 07/01/2017 3:43:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey look, we returned two of the girls. Remember that one day that the Obama Administration pretended to care about these kidnappings? Usually the democrats could care less about women being kidnapped, raped, oppressed, and sold into slavery.


2 posted on 07/01/2017 4:14:50 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Someone post that pathetic photo of Michelle with the hashtag sign.


3 posted on 07/01/2017 4:59:44 PM PDT by Mercat (Everytime an old man farts, a butterfly dies.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
Hey look, we returned two of the girls.

Actually, WE didn't. They've been here since 2014...........But you knew that, you just missed it while reading the article....

4 posted on 07/01/2017 5:14:18 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco

It sounds like they were brought here by a Christian-rights organization after they escaped from Boko Harum.


5 posted on 07/01/2017 5:29:48 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Hot Tabasco

I don’t know about you, but I was living in this country in 2014.


6 posted on 07/01/2017 6:21:00 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Amazingly NPR takes a beautiful story of two young ladies and manages to make it sound like Trump was hiding sometime because the media wasn’t informed about the meeting.


7 posted on 07/01/2017 9:05:26 PM PDT by Popman
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