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applegrove

(118,677 posts)
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 08:20 PM Jul 2016

Trump Pushed For GOP To Change Ukraine Position, Now Claims He Didn’t

Trump Pushed For GOP To Change Ukraine Position, Now Claims He Didn’t

by S. V. Date at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-ukraine-putin_us_579e5a56e4b0693164c19e09?section=

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WASHINGTON ― Both Donald Trump and his campaign chairman said Sunday they had nothing to do with altering the Republican Party’s position on Ukraine ― which must have been news to GOP leaders who confirmed last week that Trump’s campaign insisted on exactly that change.

The modified party platform drops its call to provide arms to Ukraine in response to Russia’s occupation of that country’s Crimea province in 2014. It represents a victory for Russian president Vladimir Putin, who soon after annexed the region.

Two Republican National Committee officials acknowledged privately last week that Trump’s campaign pushed for the change, which was made in platform committee meetings in the days prior to the start of the Republican convention in Cleveland two weeks ago.

Nevertheless, the celebrity businessman told ABC News on Sunday that he didn’t even know about the change until afterward.


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Trump Pushed For GOP To Change Ukraine Position, Now Claims He Didn’t (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2016 OP
Well Donnie. They didn't change on their own. C_U_L8R Jul 2016 #1
Hard To Tell If He Is Just Clueless or Lying TomCADem Jul 2016 #2

C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)
1. Well Donnie. They didn't change on their own.
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 08:24 PM
Jul 2016

Now why don't you go to your bedroom and think about what you did.
You know no one likes a liar.

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