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Debunked: Trump reasons for cancelling London visit
Source: The Guardian
Debunked: Trump reasons for cancelling London visit
The US president’s claims that he will not visit UK to open new embassy because of ‘bad Obama deal’ fail to add up
Jamie Grierson
Fri 12 Jan ‘18 10.36 GMT
Donald Trump’s “reason” for cancelling his trip to London to cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony of the new US embassy has been torn apart.
While few people believe that Trump’s decision to stay away has nothing to do with the prospect of having to face some of the UK’s biggest street protests, many have also debunked other claims in his tweet.
The Obama administration sold the embassy
Not quite. On the embassy’s UK website, a press release dated October 2008 – one month before Barack Obama was elected president and three months before his inauguration – details plans to move the embassy south of the river Thames, from Mayfair to Nine Elms, in Wandsworth. The decision to relocate the building was made by the Bush administration.
However, the final sale – to the Qatari royal family’s property company – was agreed and signed off by the US state department in 2009 when Obama was president.
The embassy was sold for peanuts
The Chancery building’s sale price was never disclosed, although in July 2000 it was estimated at £500m.
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The US president’s claims that he will not visit UK to open new embassy because of ‘bad Obama deal’ fail to add up
Jamie Grierson
Fri 12 Jan ‘18 10.36 GMT
Donald Trump’s “reason” for cancelling his trip to London to cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony of the new US embassy has been torn apart.
While few people believe that Trump’s decision to stay away has nothing to do with the prospect of having to face some of the UK’s biggest street protests, many have also debunked other claims in his tweet.
Link to tweet
The Obama administration sold the embassy
Not quite. On the embassy’s UK website, a press release dated October 2008 – one month before Barack Obama was elected president and three months before his inauguration – details plans to move the embassy south of the river Thames, from Mayfair to Nine Elms, in Wandsworth. The decision to relocate the building was made by the Bush administration.
However, the final sale – to the Qatari royal family’s property company – was agreed and signed off by the US state department in 2009 when Obama was president.
The embassy was sold for peanuts
The Chancery building’s sale price was never disclosed, although in July 2000 it was estimated at £500m.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/12/debunked-trump-reasons-for-cancelling-london-visit
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