He just cares about corruption, that’s all
Donald Trump, the scourge of international corruption, seems to have a double standard. I know you are shocked:
The United States recalled its ambassador to Zambia on Monday after he criticized the government for sending a gay couple to prison and accused officials of stealing millions of dollars of public funds.
The ambassador, Daniel L. Foote had, described the treatment of the gay couple as “horrifying” — setting off outrage in Zambia, a conservative Christian country. But analysts said that the main reason for his departure was that he had repeatedly declared that ministry officials had misappropriated millions.
In an unusually combative public statement for a member of the diplomatic corps, Mr. Foote had said that the Zambian government “wants foreign diplomats to be compliant, with open pocketbooks and closed mouths.”
Mr. Foote’s comments set off recriminations in Zambia, a copper-producing, landlocked country in southern Africa. Zambia’s president, Edgar Lungu, said he did not want Mr. Foote in the country, even if Zambia risked losing its annual $500 million in American aid.
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Despite all of the aid Zambia receives, the ambassador wrote, he had found it very difficult to get an audience with the president.“Both the American taxpayers, and Zambian citizens, deserve a privileged, two-way partnership, not a one-way donation that works out to $200 million per meeting with the head of state,” Mr. Foote wrote.
I’m sure Trump has been working night and day on this and will be . He is obsessed with ending corruption around the world as you know.
Lol.
And by the way, the Trump administration has announced that it plans to withdraw US military presence from Africa. He probably will end up withholding money for Zambia as well, not because of corruption, of course, but because he wants to stop all aid to shithole countries and spend it on walls and a gigantic military. I’m not sure where this military is going to be stationed but if I had to guess it will be in states that vote for Donald Trump.
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