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Thu Jul 6, 2017, 02:45 PM Jul 2017

Did a far right activist help Trump with Warsaw speech?

Source: Rawstory/Newsweek

A Polish historian accused of anti-Semitism reportedly helped draft President Donald Trump’s speech in Warsaw and travelled to Poland as part of the presidential delegation.

In a landmark speech on his vision of the future of Europe Thursday, on the first leg of his European trip, Trump praised Poland, whose government shares his hardline anti-immigration stance: "The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive," he said, and argued that the country helped to defend Western freedoms.

But questions have been raised about Trump’s alleged decision to consult a Polish historian and far-right activist about the speech, which was delivered at the monument to the 1944 Warsaw uprising against the Nazis. Polish Jewish leaders have criticized Trump for being the first U.S. president in decades to visit Warsaw and not to make a visit to the monument of the 1942 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Jews, reported Haaretz.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/did-a-far-right-activist-help-trump-with-warsaw-speech/



Looks like the whole trip is a totalitarian love fest.
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