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Posted on Fri, Apr 26th, 2019 by Reuters
Trump heeds NRA, decides to pull U.S. out of Obama-era U.N. arms treaty
By Roberta Rampton
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) President Donald Trump on Friday announced at the National Rifle Associations annual meeting that the United States will drop out of an international arms treaty signed in 2013 by then-President Barack Obama but opposed by the NRA and other conservative groups.
Trump told members of the gun lobby that he intends to revoke the status of the United States as a signatory of the Arms Trade Treaty, which was never ratified by the U.S. Senate.
Were taking our signature back, Trump said to thousands of cheering attendees, many wearing red hats emblazoned with the Republican presidents Make America Great Again slogan.
The NRA has long opposed the treaty which regulates the $70 billion business in conventional arms and seeks to keep weapons out of the hands of human rights abusers. The lobbying group argues it would undermine domestic gun rights, a view the Obama administration rejected.
Trump added that the United Nations will soon receive formal notice of the withdrawal.
The 193-nation U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the treaty in April 2013 and the United States, the worlds No. 1 arms exporter, voted in favor of it despite fierce opposition from the NRA.
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nycbos
(6,038 posts)... if you keep it a secret.
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)President Trump is speaking at their annual convention for the third straight year on the same day as Maria Butina got sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for trying to infiltrate the NRA to influence the 2016 election.
https://www.msnbc.com/velshi-ruhle/watch/trump-speaks-to-nra-as-maria-butina-gets-sentenced-1508378179737
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)Rafi Schwartz
Today 3:05pm
... as Trump began to wind down his remarks, he appeared to veer off-script to deliver a wildly inappropriate reenactment of the 2015 Bataclan nightclub massacre in which ISIS-affiliated terrorists murdered nearly 100 people attending an Eagles of Death Metal concert in Paris ...
https://splinternews.com/trump-lovingly-reenacts-paris-massacre-at-nra-meeting-1834337429
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)zackymilly
(2,375 posts)struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)BY JESSICA KWONG ON 4/26/19 AT 3:02 PM EDT
... "We got the individual mandate, the absolute worst part of Obamacare eliminated, now we're going for the rest, Trump said, then referred to John McCain without naming the Arizona senator who passed in 2018.
And we had it done except for one vote, Trump said, pointing a finger up. You know what I'm talking about. One vote."
Though the senator died nearly eight months ago of brain cancer, Trump has not let go of McCain's deciding vote against the White House-backed plan to repeal the majority of the Affordable Care Act, known colloquially as Obamacare. Trump has reenacted John McCains thumbs-down gesture several times since that fateful vote in 2017 ...
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-makes-veiled-attack-john-mccain-nra-minutes-after-joe-biden-1407404