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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 2018
Trump claims Germany ‘controlled’ by Russia
Chancellor
Merkel differs
By JONATHAN LEMIRE
and JILL COLVIN
Associated Press
BRUSSELS — President
Donald Trump barreled into
a NATO summit today with
claims that a pipeline deal has
left Germany “totally con-
trolled” and “captive to Russia”
as he lobbed fresh complaints
about allies’ “delinquent”
defense spending at the open-
ing of what was expected to be
a fraught two-day meeting.
Trump, in a testy exchange
with NATO Secretary-Gen-
eral Jens Stoltenberg, took issue
with the U.S. protecting Ger-
many as it strikes deals with
Russia.
“I have to say, I think it’s
very sad when Germany makes
a massive oil and gas deal with
Russia where we’re supposed
to be guarding against Russia,”
Trump said at a breakfast with
Stoltenberg. “We’re supposed
to protect you against Rus-
AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky
A Russian construction worker speaks on a mobile phone during a 2010 ceremony mark-
ing the start of Nord Stream pipeline construction.
sia but they’re paying billions
of dollars to Russia and I think
that’s very inappropriate.”
Trump repeatedly described
Germany as “captive to Russia”
and urged NATO to look into
the issue.
Drawing on her own back-
ground, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel pushed back
sharply, insisting that Germany
makes its own decisions.
The president appeared to
be referring to the Nord Stream
2 pipeline that would bring
gas from Russia to Germa-
ny’s northeastern Baltic coast,
bypassing Eastern European
nations like Poland and Ukraine
and doubling the amount of gas
Russia can send directly to Ger-
many. The vast undersea pipe-
line is opposed by the U.S. and
some other EU members, who
warn it could give Moscow
greater leverage over Western
Europe.
In their back-and-forth, Stol-
tenberg stressed to Trump that
NATO members have been
able to work together despite
their differences. “I think that
two world wars and the Cold
War taught us that we are stron-
ger together than apart,” he told
the president, trying to calm
tensions.
Trump’s pipeline criticism
was an unusual line of attack for
a president who has appeared
eager to improve relations
with Putin and dismissed the
U.S. intelligence community’s
assessment that Russia tried to
undermine Western democracy
by meddling in the 2016 U.S.
presidential election to help
Trump win.
Back in the U.S., Demo-
cratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and
Chuck Schumer issued a joint
statement describing Trump’s
“brazen insults and denigration
of one of America’s most stead-
fast allies, Germany,” as “an
embarrassment.”
“His behavior this morning
is another profoundly disturbing
signal that the president is more
loyal to President Putin than to
our NATO allies,” they wrote.
Republican Sen. Orrin
Hatch also took issue with
Trump, saying “I don’t agree
with that. Germans wouldn’t
agree with that. They are a very
strong people.”
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine,
told CNN that Trump’s com-
plaining about NATO was
“like turning a family squab-
ble into divorce proceedings.”
He said the pipeline arrange-
ment goes back to 2002 “when
everybody viewed Russia in a
benign way.”
“Now is not the time” to be
alienating allies, he said.
But Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ar-
kansas, a strong supporter of the
president, said the pipeline issue
strikes at the “heart of NATO
unity.”
“The pipeline gets cheap
Russian gas to Germany while
bypassing smaller Eastern
European nations, allowing
Russia to pressure them while
Germany is held harmless,” he
tweeted, adding: “No amount
of preening in Berlin will cover
this nakedly selfish policy.”
Despite Trump’s claims
about Germany, Merkel served
as a forceful advocate for
imposing — and maintaining
— sanctions on Russia after it
annexed Crimea in 2014, argu-
ing that it violated the princi-
ples of the international order
established after World War II.
The president is also not the first
leader to point to the impact of
Nord Stream 2 on Europe,
echoing complaints from East-
ern European allies who note it
would cut out transit countries
such as Poland and Ukraine.
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Government falls
short of deadline to
reunite kids, parents
SAN DIEGO — Some immigrant toddlers
are back in the arms of their parents, but oth-
ers remained in government custody away from
relatives as federal officials fell short of meet-
ing a court-ordered deadline to reunite dozens
of youngsters forcibly separated from their fam-
ilies at the border.
Late last month, U.S. District Judge Dana
Sabraw in San Diego set a 14-day deadline to
reunite children under 5 with their parents and
a 30-day deadline for older children. It wasn’t
immediately clear how many children left deten-
tion facilities Tuesday or how many remain.
In trying to meet the first deadline, the gov-
ernment began with a list of 102 children poten-
tially eligible to be reunited and whittled that to
75 through screening that included DNA testing
done by swabbing the inside of the cheek.
Of those 75, Justice Department attorneys
told the court the government would guarantee
38 would be back with their parents by the end
of Tuesday. They said an additional 17 could
also join their parents if DNA results arrived and
a criminal background check on a parent was
completed by day’s end.
Government attorneys, meanwhile, told
a federal judge that the Trump administra-
tion would not meet the deadline for 20 other
children under 5 because it needed more time
to track down parents who have already been
deported or released into the U.S.
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Sabraw showed little appetite for giving
more time to the government unless it could
show good reasons in specific cases.
“These are firm deadlines. They’re not aspi-
rational goals,” the judge said Tuesday.
The government defended its screening, say-
ing it discovered parents with serious criminal
histories, five adults whose DNA tests showed
they were not parents of the children they
claimed to have, and one case of credible child
abuse.
The administration faces a second, bigger
deadline — July 26 — to reunite perhaps 2,000
or so older children with their families. Many
are being held in facilities thousands of miles
apart.
China’s government
vows retaliation for $200
billion US tariff threat
BEIJING — China’s government vowed
today to take “firm and forceful measures” as
the U.S. threatened to expand tariffs to thou-
sands of Chinese imports like fish sticks, apples
and French doors, the latest salvo in an escalat-
ing trade dispute that threatens to chill global
economic growth.
China gave no details, but it has plenty of
options to retaliate that could extend beyond
additional tariffs on U.S. imports. There are
fears that Beijing could attempt to disrupt oper-
ations of American automakers, retailers and
others that see China as a key market.
The spiraling conflict stems from Washing-
ton’s complaint that Beijing steals or pressures
companies to hand over technology and con-
cerns that plans for state-led development of
Chinese champions in robots and other fields
might erode American industrial leadership.
A possible second round of tariff hikes
announced Tuesday by the U.S. Trade Repre-
sentative targets a $200 billion list of Chinese
goods. That came four days after Washington
added 25 percent duties on $34 billion worth
of Chinese goods and Beijing responded by
increasing taxes on the same amount of Amer-
ican imports.
The USTR, the federal agency that oversees
international trade policy and negotiations, said
it was responding to Beijing’s decision to retal-
iate instead of changing its policies. President
Donald Trump has threatened higher tariffs on
more than $500 billion of goods, or nearly all
of China’s annual exports to the United States.
The USTR will accept public comments on
the latest round of tariffs and hold hearings Aug.
20-23 before reaching a decision after Aug. 31,
according to a senior U.S. official who briefed
reporters on condition of anonymity.
Emotions high as
Kavanaugh begins
fight for confirmation
WASHINGTON — Conservative Supreme
Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh plunged into
his confirmation battle Tuesday, meeting face-
to-face with Senate leaders in what promises to
be an intense debate over abortion rights, presi-
dential power and other legal disputes that could
reshape the court and roil this fall’s elections.
Kavanaugh is a favorite of the GOP legal
establishment, and his arrival as President Don-
SCHEDULE
ald Trump’s nominee was greeted on Capitol
Hill with praise from Republicans and skepti-
cism from Democrats. There were also pledges
of open minds by key senators whose votes will
most likely determine the outcome.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ken-
tucky called Kavanagh “one of the most
thoughtful jurists” in the country but warned of
an onslaught of “fear mongering” from liberal
groups trying to derail the nomination. He said
it was clear that many Democrats “didn’t care
who the nominee was at all. Whoever President
Trump put up they were opposed to.”
Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s Democratic
leader, said his party’s lawmakers did indeed
care who the nominee was — and what his
views were on such thorny issues as abortion
and Trump himself.
Trump “did exactly what he said he would
do on the campaign trail — nominate some-
one who will overturn women’s reproductive
rights,” the New York senator said.
He also argued that the president chose the
man he thought would best protect him from the
investigation by special counsel Robert Muel-
ler into Russian interference in the 2016 elec-
tion. Kavanaugh has written about a need to
free the executive branch from intrusive crim-
inal investigations.
“Not only did Mr. Kavanaugh say that a pres-
ident should not be subpoenaed, he said a pres-
ident shouldn’t be investigated,” Schumer said.
The confirmation marathon is expected to
drag on for months, and no date has yet been set
for hearings. GOP leaders, with a slim majority
in the Senate, are anxious to have Kavanaugh in
place for the start of the court’s session in Octo-
ber — and before the November congressional
elections.
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