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The President has announced that the United States will not be ratifying the UN Arms Trade Treaty. "We will be taking pur signature back."

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"The UN will soon receive a notice that the US is rejecting this treaty."

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President Trump displays his decision to withdraw from the UN Arms Trade Treaty and ask the Senate to end its ratification process. Says his Administration will never surrender American sovereignty "and trample on your Second Amendment rights."

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https://twitter.com/45_Schedule/status/1121826533029625856

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Vice President Mike Pence demands further investigation into the possibility of attempted infiltration into the Trump administration and its 2016 transition team.

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Statement from @VP:

“I was deeply offended to learn that two disgraced FBI agents considered infiltrating our transition team by sending a counter intelligence agent to one of my very first intelligence briefings only 9 days after the election,"

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"This is an outrage and only underscores why we need to get to the bottom of how this investigation started in the first place."

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"The American people have a right to what happened and if these two agents broke the law and ignored long-standing DOJ policies, they must be held accountable.”

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Long time VP Pence aide Josh Pitcock and his wife have also a statement:

https://publicpool.kinja.com/subject-president-donald-j-trump-is-defending-our-sov-1834334480

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 26, 2019

** PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP IS DEFENDING OUR SOVEREIGNTY AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FROM THE UNITED NATIONS ARMS TRADE TREATY

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** “We will never surrender America’s sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable, global bureaucracy.” – President Donald J. Trump

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PROTECTING AMERICA’S INTERESTS: President Donald J. Trump is putting America first and ensuring we are not bound by the United Nations (UN) misguided Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).

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• Today, President Trump announced that he will never ratify the ATT and will ask the Senate to return it.

• The ATT purports to set international standards for trade in conventional arms, including everything from firearms to military aircraft.

• The previous Administration signed-on to the treaty in 2013, but it waited three years to ask the United States Senate to ratify it in the 11th hour of that Administration.

• The ATT is being opened up for amendment in 2020 and there are potential proposals that the United States cannot support.

• The ATT fails to truly address the problem of irresponsible arms transfers, while providing a platform for those who would seek to constrain our ability to sell arms to our allies and partners.

• The President has made clear that he will never surrender American sovereignty and rights.

DEFENDING OUR SOVEREIGN RIGHTS: President Trump is protecting our country’s sovereignty and standing up for our constitutional rights.

• President Trump has pledged to defend America’s sovereignty and always put America first and this decision follows through on that pledge.

• The President has repeatedly acted to protect and preserve our sovereignty, including by taking strong action to head off possible investigation of United States military and intelligence personnel by the International Criminal Court.

• There is a track record of the ATT being used by groups to try and overturn sovereign national decisions on arms exports.

• For example, organizations sued the United Kingdom under the treaty to try and prevent a legal transfer of arms to Saudi Arabia.

• By announcing the United States will not join the ATT, President Trump is ensuring this agreement will not become a platform to threaten Americans’ Second Amendment rights.

• The United States export controls have long been considered the gold standard for engaging in responsible arms trading and we will continue to use them under our own laws.

• The ATT is simply not needed for the United States to engage in responsible arms trade.

• America will continue to abide by United States laws that ensure our arms sales are implemented after careful legal and policy reviews.

** A MISGUIDED AGREEMENT: The ATT fails to actually address the problem of irresponsible arms transfers.

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• The ATT will only constrain responsible countries while allowing the irresponsible arms trade to continue.

• Currently, 63 countries are completely out of the agreement, including major arms exporters like Russia and China.

• The ATT cannot achieve its chief objective of addressing irresponsible arms transfers if these major arms exporters are not subject to it at all.

Rosenstein explains his deadpan expression behind Barr at last week's press conference

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/440848-rosenstein-explains-his-deadpan-expression-behind-barr-at-last-weeks

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein explained Friday why he appeared behind Attorney General William Barr with a deadpan expression during last week's press conference following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report.

During his remarks Friday to the Armenian Bar Association, Rosenstein joked that members of the media would question his behavior regardless of how he appeared to act during the news conference.

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“Last week, the big topic of discussion was: ‘What were you thinking when you stood behind Bill Barr at that press conference with a deadpan expression?’ The answer is: I was thinking, 'My job is to stand here with a deadpan expression,'" Rosenstein said Friday, to applause.

“Can you imagine if I did anything other than stand there at the press conference? Imagine the reaction and the commentary if I had smiled or grimaced,” the deputy attorney general continued.

“But you cannot avoid criticism," he said. "The only way you can avoid criticism in public service is if you stay home. But somebody actually has to do the work, and therefore you have to accept the criticism that comes with the job.”

A former federal prosecutor remarked on Hill.TV last week that Rosenstein looked like a "hostage" during the news conference, at which Barr defended his characterization of Mueller's report amid criticism from Democrats that his summary of the investigation released last month was misleading.

"First off, [Deputy Attorney General] Rod Rosenstein looked like he was a hostage for God's sakes. Did you see his eyes?" Gene Rossi told Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on Hill.TV's "Rising."

"I saw those two people behind Barr, I'm thinking to myself, where's Robert Mueller?" he added.

Rosenstein has defended Barr amid the criticism and knocked Democrats earlier this month who accused the attorney general of misleading the public.

“He’s being as forthcoming as he can, and so this notion that he’s trying to mislead people, I think, is just completely bizarre,” he told The Wall Street Journal.