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Top New York Democrats decry Trump for embassy delay
jpost.com ^ | 6/3/17 | Michael Wilner

Posted on 06/04/2017 12:47:55 PM PDT by ColdOne

WASHINGTON – Two leading Democratic lawmakers from New York criticized US President Donald Trump this week for deferring on his campaign promise to relocate the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, questioning silence from their colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking Democrat in the Senate, and Eliot Engel, ranking member of the House Foreign Relations Committee, both issued condemnatory statements after the White House temporarily waived a congressional requirement compelling the embassy move.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: jerusalem; trump45; trumpstatedept; usembassy
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1 posted on 06/04/2017 12:47:55 PM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Chuckie......the Senate master of delay. GFY.


2 posted on 06/04/2017 12:50:40 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: ColdOne

I would guess that Trump is waiting for Israel to go along with it. Things may be in a delicate state with the “Palestinians.” It’s up to the Israeli government to decide if this is the right time.


3 posted on 06/04/2017 12:51:14 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: ColdOne

No such concern when Obama was President.


4 posted on 06/04/2017 12:52:06 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: ColdOne

Of course, if he would have already moved it they would have condemned that as well!


5 posted on 06/04/2017 12:52:06 PM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom not more government.)
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...doesn’t anyone really care about spending millions to move an established embassy to another city.


6 posted on 06/04/2017 12:53:16 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: ColdOne

Then you should have had Obama do it, Shmucky.


7 posted on 06/04/2017 12:54:25 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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Then you should have had Obama do it, Shmucky.
Obama would have moved it to Tehran if he thought he could...And Schumer would have praised him for it.
8 posted on 06/04/2017 1:00:55 PM PDT by lewislynn
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To: ColdOne

I look forward to the embassy moving to Jerusalem.


9 posted on 06/04/2017 1:07:23 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: ColdOne

Does not matter. New York Jews were never going to vote for Trump. And Obama had 8 years to do it. And promised to screw Israel instead. Timing is not up to Schumer. Trump can do it whenever. The good people of Wisconsin and Michigan won’t care.


10 posted on 06/04/2017 1:09:06 PM PDT by poinq
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To: Uncle Sam 911
I look forward to the embassy moving to Jerusalem

and the top Democrats from New York applauding President Trump for moving it to Jerusalem.
11 posted on 06/04/2017 1:09:35 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: lewislynn

Hah! No doubt about it.


12 posted on 06/04/2017 1:13:51 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: ColdOne

The Democrats have been rabidly against the move at all.

Who is this clown trying to kid here?


13 posted on 06/04/2017 1:27:34 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (May the Covfefe be with you...)
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To: Clutch Martin

Glad to see it going there, but it isn’t on the top of my lists of priorities.


14 posted on 06/04/2017 1:27:42 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: ColdOne
I was thinking about this on Friday and it occurred to me that the president is somehow trying to leverage that. Why do something for nothing in this case? Just seems to me that the author of the Art of the Deal would see it that way.
15 posted on 06/04/2017 1:29:18 PM PDT by datricker (Build the wall. If you build it, they won't come - Field of Dreamers)
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Truth, Justice, and the American Way.

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16 posted on 06/04/2017 1:30:03 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (May the Covfefe be with you...)
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To: ColdOne

Dear Chuckie: Obama signed off on it for 8 years. What’s your problem??


17 posted on 06/04/2017 1:31:55 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Cicero
The U.S. embassy will not be moved until the final status of Jerusalem is resolved.

As a successful real estate guy, Trump knows better than anyone else the importance of clear land titles in any project.

18 posted on 06/04/2017 1:40:21 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: ColdOne

If it was up to me I’d not only move the embassy but would move that Dome on the Rock somewhere else and insist Israel rebuild the Temple. Make it clear to the world and especially Mozlems that Islam is not God’s gift to the Universe. Mozlems need to have their noses rubbed vigorously in defeat after defeat.


19 posted on 06/04/2017 1:50:24 PM PDT by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: ColdOne

You know, if we could charge Chuckey $10.00 every time he runs to a microphone, we could put a serious dent in the national debt.
Man I get tired of this guy.


20 posted on 06/04/2017 2:05:29 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (12:01 PM 1/20/2017,,,The end of an error.)
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