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Origins of the 19 hijackers

Saudi Arabia - 15
United Arab Emirates - 2
Egypt - 1
Lebanon - 1

Why are none of these countries on Trump's list?

Especially Saudi Arabia

 

How Does Trump's Immigration Freeze Square With His Business Interests?

 

The executive action, "Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States," targets seven nations: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Trump has no business interests in those countries.

One other thing they have in common, as NPR's Greg Myre writes: "No Muslim extremist from any of these places has carried out a fatal attack in the U.S. in more than two decades."

The 19 terrorists in the Sept. 11 attacks were from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates, Myre points out. They are among the Muslim-majority countries not affected by Trump's immigration freeze, but where Trump does business.

He has significant commercial interests in Turkey and Azerbaijan, is developing properties in Indonesia and Dubai, and has formed companies in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. His daughter Ivanka said in 2015 that the company was looking at "multiple opportunities in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Saudi Arabia — the four areas where we are seeing the most interest."

Critics said it appears that Trump is picking favorites, overlooking terrorist links in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey that have their own history of terrorism.

And there appear to be conflict-of-interest questions, which could raise legal and constitutional concerns for the Trump White House.

Norman Eisen, a former ethics adviser to President Obama and a current fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, told NPR in an interview:

"I don't believe that our Constitution allows the president to order State Department and other U.S. government employees to discriminate between otherwise identical people, favoring those from countries he likes because they give him unconstitutional foreign emoluments, and punishing those from other countries that do not pay such personal and illegal tribute to him."

Emoluments are gifts. A provision of the U.S. Constitution, called the emoluments clause, prohibits U.S. officials from taking gifts of value from foreign officials or governments.

Eisen said of Trump: "Normally he would, of course, have freer rein legally in these foreign policy, immigration and refugee matters, but his open and notorious violation of the Constitution changes that. This is the corrupt misconduct of a medieval potentate, not an American president

 

http://www.npr.org/2017/01/28/511996783/how-does-trumps-immigration-free...

Why do liberals insist on letting muslim imagrtants in when a small percentage will be radical and want to kill us.   while at the same time tolerate the persecution of Christians. 

I can only be either a complete lack of understanding of history or a mental disorder.

These water protectors are considered terrorists by the Trump regime. native Americans aren't American enough.

http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/sen-franken-wants-fbi-explanation-i...

WASHINGTON – In a letter dated, March 1, 2017, to FBI Director James Comey, U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota),  a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, is requesting an explanation why at least three citizens opposed to the Dakota Access pipeline are being investigated by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF).

“I am concerned that the reported questioning of political activists by one of the FBI’s terrorism task forces threatens to chill constitutionally protected conduct and speech,” Senator Franken writes in the letter.

Franken cites reports that JTTF agents have attempted to question at least three individuals who opposed the Dakota Access pipeline at camps at Standing Rock...

Article V was only "invoked (?)" once: by the US, after 9/11...Many EU soldiers died in Iraq.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-declines-to-back-core-nato-tenet-to-d...

BRUSSELS—President Donald Trump issued tough new spending demands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization while refusing to publicly back the security alliance’s core tenet, that an attack on one member nation is an attack on all.

Mr. Trump’s refusal to say he supports NATO’s common defense provision, known as Article 5, left European diplomats dismayed....

 

>>>>>I can only be either a complete lack of understanding of history or a mental disorder.

You said it.