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skip fox

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Mon Nov 13, 2017, 09:22 AM Nov 2017

"We could learn a lot from East Asia." . . . Please come CAPTION Donald Trump!! [View all]




Donald ("And you've weaponized 'Just say no.'" ) Trump is saying: "I've told everyone I'm going to bring up human rights, so I will. . . . But human rights or not, I've got to hand it to you, Rodrigo. You did a great job. . . . First you vetted the press (extreme vetting, I might say) and since then there's not been a single charge brought against you. . . . It's win-win as far as I'm concerned. . . There, I've brought it up."




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Above CAPTION based on Trump's meeting with Rodrigo Duterte, the butcher of the Philippines, as reported by NPR:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/13/563688200/human-rights-barely-registers-in-meeting-between-trump-philippines-duterte


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