First presidency of Donald Trump: Difference between revisions

On October 27, 2019, ISIS leader [[Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi]] killed himself and three children by detonating a [[suicide vest]] during the [[Barisha raid]] conducted by the U.S. [[Delta Force]] in Syria's northwestern [[Idlib Governorate|Idlib Province]].<ref>{{#invoke:Cite news||url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/world/middleeast/al-baghdadi-dead.html|title=Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS Leader Known for His Brutality, Is Dead at 48|last1=Callimachi|first1=Rukmini|last2=Hassan|first2=Falih|date=October 27, 2019|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=October 27, 2019|location=New York City|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

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=== China ===

{{Main|United States foreign policy toward the People's Republic of China}}

=== North Korea ===

[[File:President Donald Trump & Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, March 14, 2017 cropped.jpg|thumb|Trump with Prince [[Mohammad bin Salman]], Washington, D.C., March 14, 2017]]

In October 2018, amid widespread condemnation of Saudi Arabia for the murder of prominent Saudi journalist and dissident [[Jamal Khashoggi]], the Trump administration pushed back on the condemnation.<ref>{{#invoke:Cite news||url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/world/middleeast/pompeo-saudi-arabia-turkey.html |date=October 16, 2018 |first1=Ben |last1=Hubbard |first2=Rick |last2=Gladstone |first3=Mark |last3=Landler |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|title=Trump Jumps to the Defense of Saudi Arabia in Khashoggi Case|access-date=October 17, 2018}}</ref> After the CIA assessed that Saudi crown prince Mohammad bin Salman ordered the [[Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi|murder of Khashoggi]], Trump rejected the assessment and said the CIA only had "feelings" on the matter.<ref>{{#invoke:Cite news||url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-brushes-aside-cia-assertion-that-crown-prince-ordered-killing-defends-him-and-saudi-arabia/2018/11/22/d3bdf23c-ee70-11e8-96d4-0d23f2aaad09_story.html |first=Josh |last=Dawsey |date=November 22, 2018 |title=Trump brushes aside CIA assertion that crown prince ordered killing, defends him and Saudi Arabia|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=November 23, 2018}}</ref>

[[File:Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election.pdf|thumb|The [[Sanitization (classified information)|redacted]] version of the Mueller report was released to the public by the [[United States Department of Justice|Department of Justice]] on April 18, 2019.]]

[[Mueller Report#Volume I|Volume I]] discusses about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, concluding that interference occurred "in sweeping and systematic fashion" and "violated U.S. criminal law".<ref>{{#invoke:Cite news||last1=Inskeep|first1=Steve|last2=Detrow|first2=Scott|last3=Johnson|first3=Carrie|last4=Davis|first4=Susan|last5=Greene|first5=David|title=Redacted Mueller Report Released; Congress, Trump React |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/04/18/714667960/redacted-mueller-report-is-released |date=April 18, 2019 |work=[[NPR]]|access-date=April 22, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:Cite web||title=The Mueller Report|url=https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/mueller-report |work=YaleGlobal Online |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422030201/https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/mueller-report |archive-date=April 22, 2019 |date=May 19, 2021 |publisher=[[MacMillan Center]] |access-date=November 11, 2021}}</ref> The report detailed activities by the [[Internet Research Agency]], a Kremlin-linked Russian troll farm, to create a "social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton",<ref name="AFPpoints">{{#invoke:Cite news||title=Main points of Mueller report|url=https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/main-points-mueller-report-doc-1fr5vv1|agency=[[Agence France-Presse]]|access-date=April 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420143436/https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/main-points-mueller-report-doc-1fr5vv1|archive-date=April 20, 2019}}</ref> and to "provoke and amplify political and social discord in the United States".<ref>{{#invoke:Cite news||last1=Harris |first1=Shane |last2=Nakashima |first2=Ellen |last3=Timberg |first3=Craig |title=Through email leaks and propaganda, Russians sought to elect Trump, Mueller finds |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/through-email-leaks-and-propaganda-russians-sought-to-elect-trump-mueller-finds/2019/04/18/109ddf74-571b-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_storyy.html|date=April 18, 2019|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=April 23, 2019|archive-date=May 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506074701/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/through-email-leaks-and-propaganda-russians-sought-to-elect-trump-mueller-finds/2019/04/18/109ddf74-571b-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_storyy.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> The report also described how the Russian intelligence service, the [[GRU (G.U.)|GRU]], performed [[computer hacking]] and strategic releasing of damaging material from the Clinton campaign and [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] organizations.<ref>{{#invoke:Cite web||last1=Mackey|first1=Robert|last2=Risen|first2=James|last3=Aaronson|first3=Trevor|title=Annotating special counsel Robert Mueller's redacted report|url=https://theintercept.com/2019/04/18/annotating-special-counsel-robert-muellers-redacted-report/|work=[[The Intercept]]|date=April 18, 2019|access-date=April 23, 2019}}</ref><ref>''[https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf Mueller Report]'', vol. I, p. 4: At the same time the IRA operation began to focus on supporting candidate Trump in early 2016, the Russian government employed a second form of interference: cyber intrusions (hacking) and releases of hacked materials damaging to the Clinton Campaign. The Russian intelligence service known as the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Army (GRU) carried out these operations. In March 2016, the GRU began hacking the email accounts of Clinton Campaign volunteers and employees, including campaign chairman John Podesta. In April 2016, the GRU hacked into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The GRU stole hundreds of thousands of documents from the compromised email accounts and networks. Around the time the DNC announced in mid-June 2016 the Russian government's role in hacking its network, the GRU began disseminating stolen materials through the fictitious online personas "DCLeaks" and "Guccifer 2.0". The GRU later released additional materials through the organization WikiLeaks.</ref> To establish whether a crime was committed by members of the Trump campaign with regard to Russian interference, investigators used the legal standard for criminal [[Conspiracy (criminal)|conspiracy]] rather than the popular concept of "collusion", because a crime of "collusion" is not found in criminal law or the [[United States Code]].<ref>{{#invoke:Cite web||last=Morais|first=Betsy|title=Collusion by any other name|url=https://www.cjr.org/first_person/trump-mueller-collusion.php|date=April 18, 2019|work=[[Columbia Journalism Review]]|access-date=April 23, 2019}}</ref><ref>''[https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf Mueller Report]'', vol. I, p. 2: In evaluating whether evidence about collective action of multiple individuals constituted a crime, we applied the framework of conspiracy law, not the concept of "collusion". In so doing, the Office recognized that the word "collud[e]" was used in communications with the Acting Attorney General confirming certain aspects of the investigation's scope and that the term has frequently been invoked in public reporting about the investigation. But collusion is not a specific offense or theory of liability found in the United States Code, nor is it a term of art in federal criminal law. For those reasons, the Office's focus in analyzing questions of joint criminal liability was on conspiracy as defined in federal law.</ref>