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Donald Trump: If The U.S. Is Attacked, Japan ‘Can Sit Home And Watch Sony Television’


Donald Trump said something eyebrow-raising again.
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“If we’re attacked, Japan doesn’t have to do anything.“

By Paige Lavender
08/06/2016 04:22 pm ET

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/donald-trump/ ] claimed Japan, an ally of the United States, can “sit home and watch Sony television” if the U.S. is ever attacked.

“You know we have a treaty with Japan, where if Japan is attacked, we have to use the full force and might of the United States,” Trump said [ https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-japanese-watch-sony-tv-us-attacked-223910147.html (complete event video included in the post to which this is a reply)] during an appearance in Iowa on Friday. “If we’re attacked, Japan doesn’t have to do anything. They can sit home and watch Sony television, OK?”

Trump told The New York Times [ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/us/politics/donald-trump-foreign-policy-interview.html ] in July that he would judge [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-nato-hillary-clinton_us_5790ffe1e4b0fc06ec5c0f7d ] NATO members’ spending on security before helping them face down a potential invasion. The businessman had previously stated he wants Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and NATO countries to “pay up.”

“They owe us tremendously, we’re taking care of all those people and what I want them to do is pay up,” he said [ http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/02/politics/donald-trump-nuclear-weapons-japan/ ] in June.

Earlier this week, a group of foreign policy experts [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/04/republicans-among-new-list-of-foreign-policy-experts-denouncing-trump/ (below)] ? including several Republicans ? denounced what they called the “disgraceful” Trump comments on NATO, along with his call for Russia [ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-clinton-emails.html ] to find Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/hillary-clinton/ ]’s missing emails from her time as U.S. secretary of state.

Trump has had one of the worst weeks in modern American politics. Read more about it here [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-donald-trump-worst-week_us_57a56964e4b021fd9878be0e ].

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-violence_us_56e1f16fe4b0b25c91815913 ] and is a serial liar [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-911_565b1950e4b08e945feb7326 ], rampant xenophobe [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/9-outrageous-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-latinos_55e483a1e4b0c818f618904b ], racist [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-racist-examples_us_56d47177e4b03260bf777e83 ], misogynist [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/18-real-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-women_us_55d356a8e4b07addcb442023 ] and birther [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-stephen-colbert-birther_56022a33e4b00310edf92f7a ] who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims ? 1.6 billion members of an entire religion ? from entering the U.S.

Copyright © 2016 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-japan-sony_us_57a638d8e4b03ba680128d39?kjnyuus0pf95uq5mi [with comments]


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Republicans are among a new list of foreign policy experts denouncing Trump


Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 21.
(Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)

By Anne Gearan
August 4, 2016

Several Republicans are among a group of former cabinet officers, senior officials and career military officers who denounced Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday, calling his recent remarks on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-says-us-wont-rush-to-defend-nato-countries-if-they-dont-spend-more-on-military/2016/07/21/76c48430-4f51-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html ] and Russia [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-invites-russia-to-meddle-in-the-us-presidential-race-with-clintons-emails/2016/07/27/a85d799e-5414-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html ] “disgraceful.”

The open letter [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/files/2016/08/NATO-statement-Final-080416.pdf ], released first to The Washington Post, takes issue with Trump statements that appear to question the alliance, encourage Russia to hack and release Hillary Clinton’s deleted State Department emails, and seem to recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea, which the United States considers illegitimate.

“These are disgraceful statements that betray our long-standing values and national interests embraced by presidents of both parties,” said the letter, signed by former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former CIA director and defense secretary Leon Panetta.

“We find Trump’s comments to be reckless, dangerous, and extremely unwise.  They contradict a core, bipartisan principle found in every U.S. administration — that our security in North America is indivisible with our democratic allies in Europe.”

Signatories include Ian Brzezinski, who was deputy assistant secretary of defense for Europe and NATO policy in George W. Bush’s first term; Damon Wilson, a top NATO and European affairs adviser to Bush; and Randy Scheunemann, a neoconservative foreign policy figure.

The letter does not endorse Clinton or mention her apart from the email issue. Many of the Democrats who signed on to the letter have separately endorsed Clinton, as has at least one of the Republican signatories, foreign policy expert Kori Schake.

Trump’s offhand call last week for Russia to find and release emails Clinton had deleted from her private server marked the start of a rocky period for Trump that has left some Republicans despondent. Clinton allies see Trump’s unorthodox foreign policy pronouncements as a prime opportunity to pick up Republicans unable to stomach Trump.

“A solemn obligation of the American president is to lead NATO, to remain resolute in defense of our allies and to convince potential adversaries that we will stand up for NATO without fear or reservation,” the letter said.

“Every president, without exception, has accepted the wisdom of this strategy. That is why we find Trump’s cavalier denigration of NATO so worrying and so objectionable. Strong alliances are essential to U.S. national security. America needs a president who will strengthen our alliances, not denigrate and destroy them.”

© 2016 The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/04/republicans-among-new-list-of-foreign-policy-experts-denouncing-trump/ [with comments]


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