More Trump lies today…. seeing what a mess his Stephen Miller initiated policy of separating kids from families has made, and not unlike the badly-run Muslim ban, he’s grasping for scapegoats …. Because there’s always that GOP chestnut — crime, and maybe making it Germany’s fault diverts attention, because isn’t MS-13 always tattooed in Gothic
But according to official figures released last month, Germany last year recorded its lowest number of criminal offenses since 1992, with figures showing the crime rate is falling more quickly among non-German suspects.
On its website, German mass-circulation Bild newspaper ran the headline, "Trump meddles in asylum dispute” and wrote, "That a U.S. president so massively weighs in on the domestic debate of a western ally is highly unusual.”
Why Trump is wrong (again) on migrants and crime in Germany
Donald Trump took to Twitter on Monday to fire off two tweets about the “tenuous” state of politics in Germany. Not for the first time, he showed his ignorance of developments in German society.
Trump also asserts that refugees have “strongly and violently” changed German culture. What exactly he means by this is not clear. German beer consumption has dropped in recent years but we haven’t seen any refugees ripping Maßes from their hands at Oktoberfest. Last time we checked they were also still fans of Bratwurst and bad pop music.
In 2016 he said that “you know what a disaster this massive immigration has been to Germany and the people of Germany. Crime has risen to levels that no one thought they would ever, ever see. It is a catastrophe.”
He made that statement when the latest crimes figures (those for 2015) showed that recorded crime per head in Germany had dropped from 7,337 crimes per 100,000 resident to 7,301 per 100,000 residents.
As images of children being held in cages at detention centers near the border flash across television screens, Republicans are being pressured to take a stand on Trump's controversial policy, as the President and the administration continue to place blame on Congress for inaction on immigration legislation.
One of the strongest statements criticizing the administration came late Monday from Rep. Steve Stivers, who chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee, the House GOP's campaign arm. In a sign of just how damaging Republicans believe this issue can be in the fall, Stivers said he was writing a letter "to understand the current policies and to ask the Administration to stop needlessly separating children from their parents."
"If the policy is not changed, I will support other means to stop unnecessary separation of children from their parents," he added.
The statement is a clear signal to vulnerable Republicans worried about keeping their seats in November that they can break with Trump on this issue.
Vyacheslav Molotov was the principal Soviet signatory of the Nazi–Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 (also known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact), whose most important provisions were added in the form of a secret protocol that stipulated an invasion of Poland and partition of its territory between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. He was aware of the Katyn massacre committed by the Soviet authorities during this period.
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At the end of 1989, two years before the final collapse of the Soviet Union, the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union and Mikhail Gorbachev's government formally denounced the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, acknowledging that the annexation of the Baltic States and the partition of Poland had been illegal.[97]
In January 2010 a Ukrainian court accused Molotov and other Soviet officials of organizing a man-made famine in Ukraine in 1932–33. The same Court then ended criminal proceedings against them, as the trial would be posthumous.[98]