Trump heeds NRA, decides to pull U.S. out of Obama-era U.N. arms treaty

[babylonsister]

Posted on Fri, Apr 26th, 2019 by Reuters
Trump heeds NRA, decides to pull U.S. out of Obama-era U.N. arms treaty
By Roberta Rampton


INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday announced at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting that the United States will drop out of an international arms treaty signed in 2013 by then-President Barack Obama but opposed by the NRA and other conservative groups.

Trump told members of the gun lobby that he intends to revoke the status of the United States as a signatory of the Arms Trade Treaty, which was never ratified by the U.S. Senate.

“We’re taking our signature back,” Trump said to thousands of cheering attendees, many wearing red hats emblazoned with the Republican president’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.

The NRA has long opposed the treaty which regulates the $70 billion business in conventional arms and seeks to keep weapons out of the hands of human rights abusers. The lobbying group argues it would undermine domestic gun rights, a view the Obama administration rejected.

Trump added that the United Nations will soon receive formal notice of the withdrawal.

The 193-nation U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the treaty in April 2013 and the United States, the world’s No. 1 arms exporter, voted in favor of it despite fierce opposition from the NRA.

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https://www.politicususa.com/2019/04/26/trump-heeds-nra-decides-to-pull-u-s-out-of-obama-era-u-n-arms-treaty.html

[nycbos]

1. Ze whole point of the doomsday machine is lost...

... if you keep it a secret.

[struggle4progress]

2. Trump speaks to NRA as Maria Butina gets sentenced

President Trump is speaking at their annual convention for the third straight year on the same day as Maria Butina got sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for trying to infiltrate the NRA to influence the 2016 election.
https://www.msnbc.com/velshi-ruhle/watch/trump-speaks-to-nra-as-maria-butina-gets-sentenced-1508378179737

[struggle4progress]

3. Trump Lovingly Reenacts Paris Massacre

Rafi Schwartz
Today 3:05pm

... as Trump began to wind down his remarks, he appeared to veer off-script to deliver a wildly inappropriate reenactment of the 2015 Bataclan nightclub massacre in which ISIS-affiliated terrorists murdered nearly 100 people attending an Eagles of Death Metal concert in Paris ...

https://splinternews.com/trump-lovingly-reenacts-paris-massacre-at-nra-meeting-1834337429

[Blue_Tires]

4. As with all of Donnie's stunts, it's just for show:

Link to tweet

[zackymilly]

5. Too bad the guy who threw his phone at him had a bad aim.

[struggle4progress]

6. Attack on John McCain

BY JESSICA KWONG ON 4/26/19 AT 3:02 PM EDT

... "We got the individual mandate, the absolute worst part of Obamacare eliminated, now we're going for the rest,” Trump said, then referred to John McCain without naming the Arizona senator who passed in 2018.

“And we had it done except for one vote,” Trump said, pointing a finger up. “You know what I'm talking about. One vote."

Though the senator died nearly eight months ago of brain cancer, Trump has not let go of McCain's deciding vote against the White House-backed plan to repeal the majority of the Affordable Care Act, known colloquially as Obamacare. Trump has reenacted John McCain’s thumbs-down gesture several times since that fateful vote in 2017 ...

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-makes-veiled-attack-john-mccain-nra-minutes-after-joe-biden-1407404