Trump's Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize Was Apparently Forged. Twice.

[mercuryblues]

Source: NYT

OSLO — The protocol for nominating and choosing recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize is one of the world’s most scrutinized and secretive.

A total of 329 candidates — 217 individuals and 112 organizations — are being considered for this year’s prize, which will be announced in October.

The identities of the candidates are kept secret, and indeed, the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the prizes, is forbidden from divulging any information about its deliberations for 50 years, and even then, only for scholarship purposes and at its discretion.

But a wrinkle in this time-honored process — the peace prize was first awarded in 1901 — emerged on Tuesday, when the committee announced that it had uncovered what appeared to be a forged nomination of President Trump for the prize. The matter has been referred to the Oslo police for investigation.

Moreover, the forgery appears to have occurred twice: Olav Njolstad, the secretary of the five-member committee, said it appeared that a forged nomination of Mr. Trump for the prize was also submitted last year — and was also referred to the police. (The earlier forgery was not disclosed to the public at the time.)

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/world/europe/nobel-peace-prize-trump-fake-nomination.html

My good Lord, is there nothing they won't stoop to?

[Solly Mack]

1. lolololol

Of course it was.

[JDC]

2. Everything Trump is straw. Art buys, business, and now of course Nobel nominations.

He is the biggest fraud of all time. Period.

[Achilleaze]

3. The "values" that republicans follow are filthy corrupt

They continue to fall to their knees for this cheating, lying, draft-dodging, casino-hustler and flag humper. Tragic.

[democratisphere]

4. drumpf even cheats attempting to obtain

a Nobel Peace Prize.

[True Blue American]

15. He is so jealous

Of Obama. I guess he really pitched a tirade at The Republican hate fest today!

[SallyHemmings]

5. International arrest warrant for Miller?

[NCjack]

6. I know it's bad of me, but think of the expression on Forger-45's face if he was given

the Nobel Peace Prize and, subsequently, the Norwegian Nobel Committee discovered that the nominating letter was forged. That would fit in perfectly with his impeachment and conviction to remove him from the office of the presidency.

Not to be. But, maybe he will be linked to the forgery.

[fierywoman]

8. Did "Pickle" write the letter?

[wryter2000]

7. I'm being dumb today

Is the forgery of the signatures of the people who nominated him? My understanding was people in the Japanese government were convinced to nominate him somehow. Does this mean one of Trump's operatives forged the signatures of Japanese officials?

Holy crap!

[mercuryblues]

10. I think these 2 are separate

The committee called the person whose signature was on the form. He said, nope, not me. I am assuming after a great fit of laughter.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

26. It's so interesting. The article doesn't go into

Enough detail for me. Of all the nominators who is from US? If any. It's not only forgery but theft of someone's entry form too. How in the world did they do that. Wouldn't the real person say, oh hell, where's my damn Nobel form? Unless it was stolen after they filled it out.

Love the sound of the police there. Sounds like a Scandinavian crime novel. Bet they are wondering why our FBI hasn't found culprit in a year

[jberryhill]

28. Given that the person making the nomination would no doubt be informed

Then one can probably conclude that this was the work of a prankster instead of someone seriously thinking it would result in an actual award of the prize.

[erronis]

9. Along the lines of the Ignobel prizes, we should create one for the Biggest, Bestest Con Artist

Dump would gladly take that one, as long as it said Biggest, Bestest. (He doesn't read small print - or any.)

[mercuryblues]

11. Did Melanie do this?

dump is known to have women write glowing reviews of him in the press.

Merideth McIver? Forgery isn't that far from plagiarism.

[Brother Buzz]

17. Dump is known to impersonate women who write glowing reviews of him in the press.

Carolin Gallego Wrote a 1992 Letter Saying Women Love Donald Trump. We’re Having Trouble Finding Her

WRITTEN BY ABBEY GINGRAS | PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 26, 2017

Before Tweets and Facebook comments, there was the good-old-fashioned letter to the editor, which let people air their grievances with a publication. One such letter from 1992 resurfaced in New York magazine’s 50th anniversary edition, out now, and to some people its writing style sounds familiar.

The letter in question, which can also be read on New York magazine’s website, says

“Based on the fact that I work for Donald Trump as his secretary—and therefore know him well—I think he treats women with great respect, contrary to what Julie Baumgold implied in her article … I do not believe any man in America gets more calls from women wanting to see him, meet him, or go out with him. The most beautiful women, the most successful women—all women love Donald Trump.”

Carolin Gallego December 7, 1992

There’s no shortage of articles about the unique way the President speaks and writes, which is what makes Gallego’s letter so intriguing—particularly the final sentence. Also of note is the fact that Trump’s longtime assistant was named Norma Foerderer. She retired in 2005 and was replaced by Rhona Graff.

In a phone call, Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen told Washingtonian he did not recognize the name Carolin Gallego.

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https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/10/26/trump-carolin-gallego-letter/

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If I was a betting man, I'd wager the two Nobel nomination letters were penned by ?John Barron and John Miller, two known Pseudonyms of the orange anus.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

29. Ya...remember when Melania forged Michelle's speech?

The blame went to a Meredith McIver . She had zero history and people thought that she might not really exist? I thought about him making this name up and looked at his family tree. His great great grandmother was a McIver. Btw, that website is gone. It was called trump ancestry or something.

[Brother Buzz]

34. She says she wrote it with just a little help, so that's good enough for me

The big mystery to me was who the clever individual that worked in the rickroll at the end of the speech, and who was being punked.

[mercuryblues]

32. I wouldn't take that bet.

Here are 2 more for the pot of possibilities

Rep. Luke Messer (R-Ind.) is launching an effort to nominate President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
“We are seeing unprecedented progress toward peace, and it’s a direct result of President Trump’s strong leadership,” Messer said in a statement Friday.


Rep. Mike Bishop (R-Mich.) also suggested the Nobel Prize for Trump, writing, “Other than the Reagan’s triumph in tearing down the Berlin Wall, this is the most impactful moment for world peace in my lifetime. If the actions made by these leaders result in a peace treaty and the de-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Moon Jae-in and President Trump must be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-nobel-peace-prize_us_5ae3386fe4b04aa23f22b37f

I remembered this because the idiots didn't know they missed the cut off date for the nominations.

[PeeJ52]

12. We would have been better off electing Larry Flynt for President...

[akraven]

13. No, there isn't. nt

[Guilded Lilly]

14. The ONLY reason this wretched Cretin wants the Nobel Prize...

Is because Obama got one.

Period.

[DoctorJoJo]

19. Plus the Money--Maybe MOSTLY the Money.

[TomVilmer]

16. It would have been so easy to do it right...

... since all members of national assemblies and national governments (cabinet members/ministers) can nominate - plus at lot of other people, so to be nominates is in no way a really big honor. It is a bit trickier to actually receive it - but not that hard when they hand it out to groups. Since I live in the EU, I got a Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, given to all of the European Union for some silly reason.

I got two more, which was a bit more deserved. In 2016 as Danish part of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, an then in 1996 as part of International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Well, in the first example I had to share with half a billion others, and for the last ones we were happily thousands - but hey, I claim it anyway.

There has been many very valid complaints, that winners were far away from Nobel's idea - like the EU.

[Evolve Dammit]

18. Who forged the nomination? We need names

[exboyfil]

20. And indictments

Potential US crimes committed as well? Mail fraud?

[jberryhill]

27. My bet is someone with a wicked sense of humor

[Leith]

21. How pathetic

agent orange wants something that he doesn't deserve and can't have - and he tries everything to get it anyway.

It appears that Prime Minister Abe had nothing to do with it.

[Initech]

22. I am shocked. Shocked!!!!!

[warmfeet]

23. Everything about the orange drumpf is fake,

made up bullshit.

He, and his entourage of traitorous criminals and supporters, need to spend several decades in Leavenworth prison.

Short of that, we can kiss any pretense of democracy goodbye.

If this shit walks, we are done.

[EveHammond13]

24. my God these people are drunk with impunity. so team trump forged it?

[Control-Z]

36. Of course. Did you think it was someone else?

I thought of nobody else. Not even for a moment.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

25. What does anyone think he has done to deserve the nomination ?

I'm serious here.

What has he supposedly done ?

[The Genealogist]

30. Well, if it was written in crayon, we know it was Donnie himself

I'd not be surprised if Lord High Imperial Chief Sycophant Lapdog Lindsey Graham did it.

[ToxMarz]

31. Are these separate from the nomination they claim from Japan Prime Minister a couple weeks ago

Did they first forge a couple nominations and then when busted, coerce a "legitimate" nomination before the story came out to cover their asses?

Japan has not denied the report.

[Peace06]

33. Forged Nomination

trumps whole life is a LIE! He has taught his children that LIES, CORRUPTION and CRIME are good things. He will pay an extremely high price for all of his heinous actions. I have to wonder if their Mother knew that he was corrupting her children. Surely not, unless she is of the same caliber.

[uppityperson]

35. Article is over a year old. I remember this from last yr.

It's bad, but old story.