Trump withdraws the U.S. from the UN Human Rights Council Today

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...dy-to-pull-u-s-from-un-s-human-rights-council

The Trump administration plans to announce its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, making good on a pledge to leave a body it has long accused of hypocrisy and criticized as biased against Israel, according to two people familiar with the matter.



Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley plan to announce the withdrawal at the State Department in Washington at 5 p.m., the people said. They asked not to be identified discussing a decision that hadn’t yet been made public.



The 47-member council, based in Geneva and created in 2006, began its latest session on Monday with a broadside against President Donald Trump’s immigration policy by the UN’s high commissioner for human rights. He called the policy of separating children from parents crossing the southern border illegally “unconscionable.”


The U.S. withdrawal had been expected. National Security Adviser John Bolton opposed the body’s creation when he was U.S. ambassador to the UN in 2006. In a speech to the council last year, Haley called out the body for what she said was its “relentless, pathological campaign” against Israel. She has also called for ways to expel members of the council that have poor human rights records themselves.

“For our part, the United States will not sit quietly while this body, supposedly dedicated to human rights, continues to damage the cause of human rights,” Haley said at the time. “In the end, no speech and no structural reforms will save the members of the Human Rights Council from themselves.”

A State Department spokeswoman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, while the UN said it hadn’t received a notification that the U.S. was withdrawing.

The move comes as the Trump administration is under intense criticism from business groups, human rights organizations and lawmakers from both parties over its recently imposed decision to separate children from parents who enter the U.S. illegally.


Even some critics of the human rights council have called for continuing to push for a revamping of the body rather than quitting it.

On the opening day of the council’s current session, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson criticized the body’s perennial agenda item dedicated to Israel and the Palestinian territories, calling it “damaging to the cause of peace.” Nonetheless, he said the U.K. wasn’t “blind to the value of this council.”

The council is scheduled to discuss Israel and the Palestinian territories on July 2, according to its agend
 

ronmch20

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Yeah they want to withdraw because the rest of the world is calling those fuckin' Jews out for their murderous treatment of Palestinians. I despise these descendants of expatriated German Jews. The more I see Jew fucks steal Palestinian land and murder people up and down the Gaza strip with impunity the more I think Hitler might have been on to something :mad:
 

TooTrilla

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roots69

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More Confusion & Distraction!! This president and his crew, has mastered the art of distraction!! Stop getting caught up in the fireworks show and start looking around in the background and keep your eyes and ears open!! The distractions are coming daily now!!
 

sammyjax

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More Confusion & Distraction!! This president and his crew, has mastered the art of distraction!! Stop getting caught up in the fireworks show and start looking around in the background and keep your eyes and ears open!! The distractions are coming daily now!!
Bruh.

You say this same shit with kefta-like regularity.

What are we being distracted from and what should we be looking at?
 

bgbtylvr

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This fool must be giving Mueller more to look into to stop him from finalizing this. Just when we thought we had enough, more dumb shit!
 

dbluesun

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ok how does trump's support of jews resonate with his white supremacist base,he bashes all minorities but them but the base hates jews too,,,,,,i understand why he supports jews{money},,but how do the racist feel about this,,,any insight will help
 

lexdiamonnyc

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This was the main goal.
and to stop paying for damn near everything. Most things he pulled us out of were structured in a manner in which the US pays the biggest percentage and gets the least amount of benefit.

like someone else said.....”smoke & mirrors”
 

Camille

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ok how does trump's support of jews resonate with his white supremacist base,he bashes all minorities but them but the base hates jews too,,,,,,i understand why he supports jews{money},,but how do the racist feel about this,,,any insight will help

They hate American Jews, which tend to be more liberal and what they have termed Jewish Run Media. Israel, which in Christianity has blessings associated with praying for their peace and standing with them is another animal.
 

Camille

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and to stop paying for damn near everything. Most things he pulled us out of were structured in a manner in which the US pays the biggest percentage and gets the least amount of benefit.

like someone else said.....”smoke & mirrors”

Trump was mainly bitching about two things which were trade imbalances and NATO.

For NATO, countries were supposed to pay a certain percentage of their GDP into their own military and defense. The goal date hadn't arrived, and countries were steadily increasing the funding they were paying to meet the guideline.

For trade, there is always going to be an imbalance because of the size of our population. If you live on an island with 100 people, and I live on an island with 25, I am always going to be able to manufacture and sell you more because you have more consumers.
 
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