UN criticism of Trump prompts Russian response

[kpete]

GENEVA – Diplomats tell The Associated Press that Russia's government lodged a formal complaint last month with the United Nations over a top U.N. official's condemnations of Donald Trump and some European politicians.

The intervention underscores the unusual links between the Kremlin and the Republican presidential nominee.

There is no evidence Trump sought Russia's assistance, or was even aware of the criticism by Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights.

But three diplomats say the criticism prompted Vitaly Churkin, Russia's U.N. ambassador, to issue a verbal "demarche" to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a private meeting on Sept. 13.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/07/apnewsbreak-un-criticism-trump-prompts-russian-response.html

[rbrnmw]

1. There something seriously wrong with this picture

All Americans should feel disturbed by this.

[randome]

8. Even more seriously than at first glance.

A political novice would know enough not to give the appearance of coming to Trump's defense. There are back channels to use for that sort of thing, not public statements.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

[rbrnmw]

10. right?

it's chilling

[Rex]

2. Well let us be fair, Trump is a Russian troll so Putin has to back up his puppet.

The GOP is voting for a Russian spy...oh the irony!

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Is that 800 million

Russian Loans starting to surface? Something smells,and there is a German Bank that is having issues with their business practices. Something about a money laundry involving Cyprus Putin and other Oligarchs from Russia.

Ka-Boom!!!

[world wide wally]

4. Russia sure is counting on Trump to do something big for them whether he knows it or not

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. This makes me want to vomit.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Here's what he said - primarily aimed at Geert Wilders (who also loves Putin)

I wish to address this short statement to Mr Geert Wilders, his acolytes, indeed to all those like him – the populists, demagogues and political fantasists.
...
I am a Muslim, who is, confusingly to racists, also white-skinned; whose mother is European and father, Arab. And I am angry, too. Because of Mr Wilder’s lies and half-truths, manipulations and peddling of fear. You see, twenty years ago I served in the UN peacekeeping force during the Balkan wars – wars so cruel, so devastating, which flowed from this same factory of deceit, bigotry and ethnic nationalism.

Geert Wilders released his grotesque eleven-point manifesto only days ago, and a month ago he spoke along similar lines in Cleveland, in the United States. I will not repeat what he has said, but there are many who will, and his party is expected to do well in the elections in March.

And yet what Mr Wilders shares in common with Mr Trump, Mr Orban, Mr Zeman, Mr Hofer, Mr Fico, Madame Le Pen, Mr Farage, he also shares with Da’esh.
All seek in varying degrees to recover a past, halcyon and so pure in form, where sunlit fields are settled by peoples united by ethnicity or religion – living peacefully in isolation, pilots of their fate, free of crime, foreign influence and war. A past that most certainly, in reality, did not exist anywhere, ever. Europe’s past, as we all know, was for centuries anything but that.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/06/un-human-rights-high-commisioner-zeid-raad-al-husseins-speech-reject-populist-bigots-in-full

[maryellen99]

7. And it pisses me off that his stupid supporters don't care about this either nt

[MicaelS]

9. Wonder how the Putin lovers will

Get their heads around Putin's apparatchiks defending Trump?