04 Jun
News and Analyses, A Foreign Perspective
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World Politics
Canada
Trudeau reiterated his appeal to Trump to remember ‘there are no two countries that are as interconnected and interdependent’
The prime minister, Justin Trudeau, and foreign affairs minister, Chrystia Freeland, speaking at a press conference in Ottawa on 31 May. Photograph: Canadian Press/Rex/Shutterstock
Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, on Sunday described US tariffs as “insulting” to the shared history of the US and Canada as the fallout over Donald Trump’s tariff moves continued.
Speaking on NBC’s Meet the Press, Trudeau reiterated his appeal to President Trump to remember “there are no two countries that are as interconnected, interdependent … You sell more things to us every year than to UK, Japan, and China combined.”
Later this week, Trump is due to visit Canada for the Trudeau-hosted G7 summit, which will take place at a remote luxury resort in La Malbaie, Quebec, and where he will meet with leaders of Germany, Italy, France, UK and Japan.
Trudeau said on Sunday that he is having “a lot of trouble getting around” that Canada has abruptly become “a national security threat to the United States”. The Canadian prime minister went further, saying US and Canadian soldiers “who had fought and died together on the beaches of World War II, on the mountains of Afghanistan and have stood shoulder-to-shoulder in some of the most difficult places in the world, that are always there for each other, this is insulting to that.”
Trudeau said the US has a $2bn surplus on steel with Canada, and the two countries are “very much aligned” on the issue of China.
Speaking on CNN, the foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, said Canada was “sad and insulted” to be labelled a national security threat. “I would say to our closest ally, please think hard about the message you are sending,” Freeland said.
Freeland said Canada’s reciprocal tariffs, outlined last week, were “the strongest trade action Canada has taken since the second world war”. The tariffs would, she said, be a “dollar-for-dollar retaliation … this is going to hurt America and the American consumer first and foremost.”
The White House economics adviser, Larry Kudlow, described the administration’s confrontation with Canada as a “family quarrel”. He told Fox News Sunday the situation could still be resolved through negotiations.
United States
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Trump: ‘why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong?’
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President renews attack on special counsel Russia investigation
Donald Trump said his right to pardon had been ‘stated by numerous legal scholars’. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Donald Trump on Monday said that he has an “absolute right to pardon myself”, adding “but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong?” in his latest broadside against the Russia investigation.
The US president’s remarks came in tweets in which he said his right to pardon had been “stated by numerous legal scholars”.
Last year Trump had said that he has the “complete power to pardon”.
On Monday Trump was renewing his attacks on the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and allegations of collusion with the Trump campaign.
Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in television interviews on Sunday, suggested Trump might have that authority to pardon himself but would be unwise to use it.
Giuliani told NBC’s Meet the Press: “Pardoning himself would be unthinkable and probably lead to immediate impeachment.”
He added: “He has no need to do it, he’s done nothing wrong.”
Giuliani said he would be “willing to sit down with Mueller and argue it out if he has an open mind to it”.
The former New York Mayor and mob prosecutor has taken a leading role in defending Trump, sometimes with conflicting statements that get information out there but also making it appear accidental or disinformation.
On Thursday, Trump said that he is considering pardoning Martha Stewart, the home decorating mogul who served five months in prison for obstructing justice and similar charges as part of a 2004 insider trading investigation, and the former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.
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