Trump administration rejects Senate resolution recognizing Armenian genocide

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Source: The Hill

The State Department on Tuesday rebuked the Senate’s latest move to recognize the mass killing and deportation of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during the first half of the 20th century as genocide, releasing a statement that the administration continues to view the events as “one of the worst mass atrocities.”

“The position of the Administration has not changed,” State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement. “Our views are reflected in the President’s definitive statement on this issue from last April.”

The global Armenian Remembrance Day is marked on April 24 each year and was commemorated by President Trump with a statement recognizing that beginning in 1915, more than 1.5 million Armenians were “deported, massacred or marched to their deaths” under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.

The president did not describe the events as a genocide.

Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/international/474869-trump-administration-rejects-senate-resolution-recognizing-armenian

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Well,the Hill News site

will keep pumping pro Trump crap,and this story is a given. Trump is going to stop anything that might effect his Cash Flow .

It's all about Trump Crime Syndicate staying solvent.

[SCVDem]

2. So much for a government

by, for and of the People!

He is on his knees to Putin and Turkey!

[Botany]

3. Erdogan owns Trump

Erdogan knows that Kushner helped to set up Khashoggi, that he used classified material
in doing so, and that Trump, Pompeo, and Khashoggi helped in covering up the Crown Prince's
murder of Khashoggi. So whenever Erdogan wants something from Trump he will get it and
if that means slaughtering our allies, the Kurds, or deigning Trurkey's history of killing the
Armenians Trump will do that too.

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4. Some authority over him must have told him to reject that genocide resolution. Hummm -

must have been Erdogan.

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5. SMDH. nt

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6. Pompeo is pro genocide. N/t

[rickyhall]

7. Then he helps them do it again with the Kurds.

Still waiting for Karma.

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8. It doesn't matter what trump or his coterie of ass-lickers think.

This matter was decided a long time ago by historians and survivors.

It's not like anyone is ever going to think "Well, trumpie said it wasn't genocide, so therefore, it isn't."