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Navi Pillay Jokes About Sharing Nobel Prize With Trump
- On Friday, President Donald Trump attacked the Norwegian Nobel Committee during a rally in Syracuse, New York, calling the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay "an indelible stain on the country of Norway."
- Trump claimed the award was an indelible stain on Norway, saying he should have received the Nobel Peace Prize but didn't, and described Pillay as "a liberal person who works at the United Nations who nobody has ever heard of."
- Republican candidate Bruce Blakeman joined Trump onstage at the rally, seeking to boost his campaign just 25 days before midterm elections that will determine whether Republicans can keep control of Congress.
- In a sarcastic press release, Governor Kathy Hochul's campaign described Trump's visit as "an extremely boring puppet show," emphasizing Blakeman's ties to the president to undermine her Republican foe at the ballot box.
- Recent polling from the Associated Press-NORC Center shows 71% of U.S. adults disapprove of Trump's handling of Iran, while only 26% approve of his economic management as Republicans face midterm elections.
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Trump veers into Nobel Prize grievances during upstate New York rally on day award is announced
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — U.S. President Donald Trump veered far from midterm election politics during a rally in upstate New York on Friday, aiming a bitter diatribe at the Norwegian Nobel Committee for giving the Peace Prize he has long sought to South African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, a former U.N. human rights chief, for her work on justice and accountability for war crimes and genocide. Trump unspooled a lengthy argument explaining why the aw…
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For Donald Trump, there is only one Nobel Peace Prize winner: himself. He has never heard of the now honored Pillay. He criticises the decision in a country that can't help it.
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