9, September 2015 Trump’s strange
bed-fellows
The actions of Donald Trump become curiousor
and curiouser much like Alice in Wonderland. In an act of desperation to shore
up his lack of foreign policy experience Trump invited a motley crew of human rights
violators to Trump Tower for a photo-op.
He held a press conference and waxed lyrical about
his important guests unaware of their sordid pasts. His star guests were
Indonesian government officials headed by Deputy Speaker of the House Fadli
Zon. Zon was the right-hand man of the U.S.-trained Prabowo Subianto. Gen.
Prabowo has been under investigation for extensive human rights abuses that
took place in the 1990s when he was head of the country’s Special Forces. He
was fired from the army in 1998 following revelations that he was responsible
for the abduction and torture of activists which eventually led to the
dismissal of US backed dictator, Suharto. Suharto was responsible for the death of as many as a million
civilians. Prabowo was the son-in-law of Suharto.
Another of the invitees from
Indonesia was Setya Novanto, who has been mired in corruption for decades.
The Grand Imam of the Indonesian mosque in New York City accused
Trump of hypocrisy, racism and Islamophobia. I wonder what next the pope of
pomposity has in store for his adoring public. I can hardly wait.
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