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| President Donald Trump attends a multilateral meeting with Western Hemisphere leaders about Venezuela during the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 25, 2019. (File photo by=Jonathan Ernst via Reuters) |
[아시아뉴스통신=레악카나 기자] Donald Trump claimed that “nobody ever heard” Abraham Lincoln was a Republican until he became US president, during a roundtable discussion on Venezuela. Speaking at his Doral golf resort in Florida, the president mostly ignored the issue of Venezuela and instead praised his administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has seen a death toll of over 135,000 in the US alone. He said: “The Republican Party has grown incredibly from when it was and we have a whole different group of people in the Republican Party.
“Like people don’t remember, nobody ever heard of it until I came along, nobody remembered it for a long time, or they didn’t use it at least, I use it all the time: Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. “You know you say that and people say, ‘I didn’t know that’, but he was a Republican, so we’re doing a great job.”
