Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Report: Trump administration considering withdrawing US from UN Human Rights Council


I have a better idea. Let's completely withdraw the United States from the United Nations and tell this completely outdated and useless organization to set up shop elsewhere.

The United Nations is now nothing more than a progressive leftist wealth redistribution scam promoted by climate change misinformation.

From Politico:

The Trump administration is considering pulling the United States out of the United Nations Human Rights Council, a body that has been accused of being biased against Israel and criticized for including abusive governments, according to two sources in regular contact with former and current U.S. officials.

No immediate withdrawal is expected ahead of the council’s next session, which starts Monday, but discussion of abandoning the council is likely to alarm international activists already worried that the United States will take a lower profile on global human rights issues under President Donald Trump.

A final decision on membership in the council would likely involve Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, as well as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, and of course the president himself.

A former State Department official briefed on the discussions said while the council’s targeting of Israel is likely part of the debate, there also are questions about its roster of members and doubts about its usefulness overall.

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