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- ABC News
- Donald Trump
- May 2, 2018
Indiana Rep. nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
Six of the members that signed the letter are running for higher office in 2018.
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\"President Trump’s peace through strength policies are working and bringing peace to the Korean Peninsula,” Messer wrote in his letter, \"We can think of no one more deserving of the Committee’s recognition in 2019 than President Trump for his tireless work to bring peace to our world.\"
Messer, Rep. Jim Renacci of Ohio, Rep. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Rep. Evan Jenkins of West Virginia are all Republicans running for U.S. Senate seats this cycle in primaries that have often revolved around proving which candidate is the most loyal supporter of the president. Rep. Diane Black is running for the GOP nomination to be the next governor of Tennessee.
According to the guidelines from the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Members of Congress qualify as nominators for Nobel Peace Prizes.
The GOP primary in Indiana, the home state of Vice President Mike Pence, has been particularly divisive over the issue of support for President Trump.
Messer's campaign has referred one of his opponents, Rep. Todd Rokita, as \"Lying Todd Rokita,\" while businessman Mike Braun is running an ad featuring cardboard cutouts of his two opponents asking people on the street to try and tell Messer and Rokita apart.
Rokita is not one of the House members who signed onto Messer's letter nominating Trump for a Nobel Prize.
President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Tuesday that the exact date and location of his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be announced in the next \"couple of days.\"
\"We're setting up meetings right now and I think it's probably going to be announced over the next couple of days – location and date,\" Trump said.
The potential meeting comes as the leaders of North and South Korea agreed to work toward the removal of all nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula and pursue talks to officially end the Korean War.
North Korea has agreed to suspend all Nuclear Tests and close up a major test site. This is very good news for North Korea and the World - big progress! Look forward to our Summit.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 20, 2018
A message from Kim Jong Un: “North Korea will stop nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2018
Also will “Shut down a nuclear test site in the country’s Northern Side to prove the vow to suspend nuclear tests.” Progress being made for all!
Denuclearization of North Korea has been a key issue going into the talks between the U.S. and North Korea. The North is suspending, not freezing, its nuclear tests for now, but both Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have expressed hopes that the North is ready to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for economic assistance.
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The Nobel Prizes are presented in Stockholm, Sweden every year on December 10th, the anniversary of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's death.
Four U.S. presidents have received the Nobel Peace Prize: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama.
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