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Trump threatens Jerusalem opponents with US funding cutoff
Associated Press ^ | Dec 20, 2017 7:08 PM EST | Edith M. Lederer

Posted on 12/20/2017 6:24:25 PM PST by Olog-hai

President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to cut off U.S. funding to countries that support a resolution criticizing his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

“We’ll save a lot. We don’t care,” he said, alluding to U.S. aid.

The president strongly supported U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley who said Tuesday that the United States “will be taking names” of countries that vote in favor of a General Assembly resolution Thursday declaring that Jerusalem’s status can be changed only by direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

“For all these nations, they take our money and then vote against us. They take hundreds of millions of dollars, even billions of dollars and then they vote against us,” Trump told reporters at a Cabinet meeting in Washington with Haley sitting nearby. “We’re watching those votes. Let them vote against us.”

In a letter to over 180 of the 193 U.N. member states and an even tougher tweet Tuesday, Haley hinted at possible U.S. retaliation, but Trump’s comments made clear to recipients of U.S. assistance that billions of dollars could be at stake.

Haley’s threat drew sharp criticism from the Palestinian and Turkish foreign ministers before they flew to New York for the General Assembly vote. They accused the U.S. of intimidation. …

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To: Olog-hai
I hope Nikki Haley is Pence's VP and runs for POTUS after both of Pence's terms.
101 posted on 12/22/2017 9:37:54 AM PST by ExSoldier ("Terrorists: They hate you yesterday, today, and tomorrow. End it, no more tomorrows for them!)
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To: butlerweave
Now the UN will have secret Vote

But what they don't understand is that since Nov 8th 2016, they've been on double secret probation...

102 posted on 12/22/2017 9:40:22 AM PST by ExSoldier ("Terrorists: They hate you yesterday, today, and tomorrow. End it, no more tomorrows for them!)
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To: ExSoldier

What should have been done, do you mean? The UN is 72 years old. And the League of Nations was essentially dead by the late 1930s, even though it still existed on paper until 1946, which means (funny enough) it coexisted with the UN for six months between October 1945 and April 1946.


103 posted on 12/22/2017 11:03:44 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

I couldn’t believe the UK voted to condemn. WTF? Are they for real?


104 posted on 12/22/2017 11:28:59 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The remoulade was a trifle tart, but the souflee for dessert more than made up for it.)
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To: Phillyred
And just think: We could have ended up with this...

And to make matters worse, the left,the main stream media, would have been praising her day and night like the messiah as she obliterated the country.

105 posted on 12/22/2017 11:40:24 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The remoulade was a trifle tart, but the souflee for dessert more than made up for it.)
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Thank you Lord for this man. Now keep him safe and healthy, and at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for 7 more years!!

(And NO, I am not REMOTELY tired of WINNING yet!!!!)


106 posted on 12/22/2017 2:03:46 PM PST by Simon Foxx
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The Red Tories took over. David Cameron ramming that so-called “Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act” through Parliament back in 2013 should have made clear what that party has become.


107 posted on 12/22/2017 2:19:44 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
President Trump: Don't threaten those creep nations --
Just cut them off! Dispense with the threats.
Let them then come to Washington and meekly ask you
why they aren't getting their US Government checks.
And then tell them why and then tell them to leave the US!
108 posted on 12/22/2017 2:20:53 PM PST by StormEye
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To: Army Air Corps

#unexit


109 posted on 12/23/2017 2:16:42 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Olog-hai

Now look here, Soros told the Anti Defamation League that Trump is a Nazi. A Nazi collaborator ought to know. [Happiest days of Soros’ life.]


110 posted on 12/30/2017 4:20:27 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Never forget that Obama enabled drug runners into US for Iran.)
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