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-- 2016 --
August 15: AP fact check: Donald Trump
on U.S. intervention in the Middle East
Donald Trump on Monday painted the Middle East as an oasis of stability before
Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, arguing that she and President
Barack Obama “launched” the Islamic State group onto the world.
In trying to outline how he would defeat the threat, Trump himself launched
several other false claims.
He said Clinton and Obama sought to install a democracy in Libya and pushed for
immediate change in leadership in Syria, accusing the pair of embarking on a
“nation-building” strategy that few Republicans would ascribe to Obama’s
intervention-averse administration.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ap-fact-check-donald-trump-mideast-history
December 27: Trump's first African meeting
is over Libya with Congo's Sassou Nguesso
http://www.africanews.com/2016/12/27/trump-s-first-african-meeting-is-over-libya-with-congo-s-sassou-nguesso//
-- 2017 --
February 22:
Libya After ISIS
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/libya/2017-02-22/libya-after-isis
November 28:
Donald Trump’s Attacks on the Media Are Having
Global Consequences
Powerful people responsible for terrible things can hide behind the president's
tweets.
https://www.gq.com/story/trump-tweets-global-consequences
November 28: Former ambassador to NATO slams
Trump’s ‘un-American’ attacks on the press: ‘There are lives at stake’
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/there-are-lives-at-stake-ex-nato-official-blasts-trumps-cnn-attack-as-libyan-paper-doubts-their-modern-slavery-story/
November 29: Trump inspired Libyans to call
slavery reports 'fake news'
People around the world were shocked and angered by a disturbing
report from CNN revealing the horrific reality of human slave markets
operating in Libya.
The report,
released earlier this month, drew international attention and condemnation
of the slave markets. The slave trade has cropped-up throughout Libya in the
wake of the North African country's ongoing civil war, with African migrants
being sold for as little as $400.
Now, however, thanks to the influence of U.S. President Donald Trump and his war
on the media, and in particular his attacks on CNN, some Libyans have begun
questioning whether the report is true.
https://stepfeed.com/trump-inspired-libyans-to-call-slavery-reports-fake-news-3979
December 29: Libya appeals to US for removal
from Trump travel ban list
http://www.africanews.com/2017/12/09/libya-appeals-to-us-for-removal-from-trump-travel-ban-list//
-- 2018 --
February 7:
As Trump Wavers on Libya, an ISIS Haven, Russia Presses On
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/world/africa/trump-libya-policy-russia.html
March 8:
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/under-trump-u-s-launched-8-airstrikes-against-isis-in-libya/
March 29: John Bolton to Kim Jong Un: Give
Up Your Nukes Like Gaddafi Did—Before We Killed Him
Trump’s incoming national security adviser is sending the exact wrong message to
Pyongyang. Maybe because deep down he really wants to bomb it.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-bolton-to-kim-jong-un-give-up-your-nukes-like-gaddafi-didbefore-we-killed-him
April 29: John Bolton: U.S. Using ‘Libya
Model’ for North Korea Negotiations
Despite North Korea citing Libya’s nuclear dismantlement and the 2011 civil war
as a reason to keep its nukes, Trump's national security adviser sees it as a
model.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-bolton-us-using-libya-model-for-north-korea-negotiations
May 15: North Korea and the US
backslid from previously rosy relations on Tuesday when media from
Pyongyang attacked President Donald Trump's national security adviser John
Bolton for his comments about North Korean denuclearization.
Bolton, who has
extensively
advocated for the US using military options against North Korea,
recently said that the US should treat North Korea's disarmament like
Libya's, something which preceded the death of Libya's former leader, Muammar
Gaddafi.
North Korean media shot back on Tuesday, calling the comparison "absolutely
absurd" and expressing a "feeling of repugnance towards" Bolton.
http://www.businessinsider.com/john-bolton-may-sabotage-north-korea-talks-libya-2018-5
May 16: North Korea threatens to cancel
Trump summit, reminds world it really loves its nukes ... Oh, and it insulted
John Bolton.
In a statement carried by the state-run
Korean Central
News Agency on Tuesday night, a top Pyongyang official criticized America’s
insistence that North Korea completely dismantle its nuclear program and even
warned that the regime might scuttle the upcoming summit between President
Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
“If the US is trying to drive us into a corner to force our unilateral nuclear
abandonment, we will no longer be interested in such dialogue and cannot but
reconsider our proceeding to the DPRK-US summit,” said Kim Kye Gwan, a vice
foreign minister, using the official acronym for North Korea.
Experts believe Kim thinks nuclear weapons keep his regime
safe. Part of that is because of what happened to
Muammar Qaddafi, Libya’s former dictator. Qaddafi had a nuclear weapons
program but in 2003 he made a deal to remove those weapons from his country in
exchange for economic benefits.
Then in 2011, anti-Qaddafi rebels captured and killed him — with
American help.
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/5/16/17360280/north-korea-trump-summit-bolton-statement
May 17: Trump Tries to Clarify Bolton’s
“Libya Model” Comments, Clearly Doesn’t Understand Them
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/trump-tries-to-clarify-boltons-libya-model-comments-clearly-doesnt-understand-them.html
May 18: Trump: Libya Is Not US Model for
North Korea
https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-says-libya-not-us-model-for-north-korea/4399454.html
May 29: Trump officials keep talking about
the ‘Libya model.’ Here’s what Libya is like today.
What's going on with Libya right now should clarify why the Trump administration
shouldn't mention the "Libya model" in potential talks with Pyongyang.
https://thinkprogress.org/north-korea-libya-model-15-years-later-9fd6a7d2268b/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-called-libya-a-sht-show-and-media-was-silent/
June 10: Trump content to leave Libya policy
to France
Macron, despite his so-called bromance with Trump, believes he needs to step
into the void created by erratic and misguided US leadership
https://thearabweekly.com/trump-content-leave-libya-policy-france
July 11:
The President of the United States Donald Trump has allegedly sent a letter on
Tuesday to the Speaker of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) Aqilah
Saleh and the Head of the Tripoli-based Presidential Council, Fayez Al-Sirraj,
scolding them for badly tackling the oil crescent region conflict.
According to the letter, which Libyan local TV channel Libya 218
reported, Trump threatened Saleh and Al-Sirraj of international prosecution and
sanctions if the oil terminals are not open and oil experts are not resumed
immediately without any preconditions, adding if they did not cooperate, the US
will use force to enforce stability in the oil region.
Trump said clearly in the letter, according to Libya 218 TV, that he was relying
on Libya to boost production as part of his plans to sanction Iran through oil
production and exports, and what happened in the oil crescent in Libya was not
good for his plans.
https://www.libyanexpress.com/trumps-letter-to-rivals-allegedly-results-in-resumption-of-oil-exports-in-libya/
July 26: Trump administration sets sights on
Libya's oil reserves in behind-the-scenes power play
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/26/libya-oil-reserves-eyed-trump-administration-power/
September 6: Donald Trump Lashed Out at
Military for Not Making Money on Libya's Oil
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-lashed-out-military-not-making-money-libyas-oil-1109684
December 11: When Will Trump Bring Home U.S.
Forces from Syria?
President Trump should live up to his promise of “America First.”
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/when-will-trump-bring-home-us-forces-syria-38457
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