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During the election campaign, Trump described climate change as a “hoax” perpetrated by the Chinese to destroy American industry.
Facebook has admitted that 126 million Americans might have seen fake news during the campaign.
More recently, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is conducting an investigation into whether US President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, charged one-time campaign chairman Paul Manafort with 12 counts – including “conspiracy against the United States” – for his actions prior to the campaign.
A foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, George Papadopoulos, was also indicted for lying to the FBI about meetings with individuals closely associated with the Russian government during the campaign, though he has already pleaded guilty and has been cooperating with investigators since the summer.
Just hours before Thaksin returned to Bangkok, Thailand’s Election Commission convicted the speaker of the parliament’s lower house of fraud after he paid civil servants to campaign on behalf of the party.
So, too, did the “No” campaign in Italy’s upcoming constitutional referendum – upon which Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has bet his political future.
This same tendency is apparent in the anti-elite, anti-system rage that has erupted across Europe, reflected in the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum; the right-wing Alternative for Germany Party’s continued rise; far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen’s strong showing in the French presidential campaign; and the Austrian elections this year, where for the first time since World War II no “establishment” candidates made it to the final ballot.
In the US, as the 2016 presidential campaign got underway, many voters clearly believed – not without reason – that the system was “rigged.”
Profound economic and technological changes in recent decades – together with privatization, deregulation, digitization, and financialization – have further empowered elites and enabled them to hone their use of political influencing via think tanks and philanthropies; shadow lobbying, workarounds that subvert standard processes; the media; campaign finance; and stints in “public service” to advance their interests.
The preceding election campaign had foreshadowed that outcome.
He finally succeeded in doing so when he chose to campaign on an anti-American platform, declaring that under his Chancellorship Germany would not support any use of force against Iraq even if a military campaign were authorised by the UN.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened that discussion in a Munich beer hall during her election campaign last year.
Last week, two ministers resigned, but a parliamentary and media-sustained storm continues, fueled by conflict-of-interest charges against a minister suspected of corruption when raising money for Sarkozy’s presidential campaign.
The act precipitating the current crisis is France's decision to go ahead with the cut in the personal income tax Chirac promised during his election campaign of last year.
Elections had become a hollow ritual, matters of public policy were not important campaign issues, and the opposition was divided, poorly funded, and unable to devise a strategy to cut the PDP juggernaut to size.
CAMBRIDGE – The rise of anti-trade populism in the 2016 US election campaign portends a dangerous retreat from the United States’ role in world affairs.
As far as trade is concerned, the current US presidential campaign is an embarrassment of substance, not just of personality.
But it is certain that arguments used in the primaries against Holland, the ultimate winner, will be re-used the moment the presidential election campaign begins.
In the recent election campaign, the LDP continued to criticize the previous DPJ government’s immaturity, but avoided attacks on other parties.
Just as Bush openly denounced the “thousand lobbyists” working the halls of the US Congress against a vital national interest, Obama said in a conference call that his critics “would be opposed to any deal with Iran,” and called out AIPAC’s $20 million advertising campaign against the agreement.
While Duterte’s campaign has drawn international condemnation, Hasina’s purge has been subject to less scrutiny.
The ferocity of the authorities’ anti-drug campaign, together with the extremely low threshold for yaba possession, means that even people who use drugs and low-level dealers could face execution.
And it is very likely that Trump, who attacked the US Federal Reserve’s easy monetary policy during his campaign, will quickly reverse that position and press the Fed not to raise interest rates.
We should be thankful, however, that at least Trump’s more outrageous campaign proposals will likely never be enacted.
Though Trump seemed to suggest during the campaign that he would do all of these things, he will inevitably be confronted with the far-reaching consequences of decisions that would destroy the global order.
Trotted out by China’s rulers many years ago, the “harmonious society” campaign has yielded, at best, modest changes in policy.
This campaign appears to be bearing fruit with a gradual lifting of EU sanctions against Russia, starting this summer.
The victory of the campaign in the United Kingdom to leave the European Union should have jolted all of us from the illusion that we are somehow protected from the risks we see around us.
That the Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating his campaign and that close associates (his son-in-law and close White House adviser Jared Kushner) will soon be testifying under oath before the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about their ties to, and conversations with, Russian officials is something not even John le Carré could have imagined.
During the campaign, he showed that he still viewed women as disgusting creatures, with – as he said of Fox News journalist Megyn Kelly – “blood coming out of [their] wherever.”
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