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Trump demands an investigation for “triple sabotage” in the event of a UN appearance
Around Trump’s speech at the UN, a escalator was initially stopped, then a teleprompter and a sound system failed. The US President calls for an “immediate investigation”.
After several breakdowns at his appearance before the United Nations, US President Donald Trump asked for an investigation into “triple sabotage”. “It was no coincidence, that was triple sabotage at the UN. You should be ashamed,” Trump explained on Wednesday on his online platform Truth Social, after a escalator and then a teleprompter and a sound system had failed in the UN headquarters.
He will send a copy of this declaration to UN Secretary-General António Guterres and demand “an immediate examination”, he added.
Trump gave his speech at the UN General Batte on Tuesday. Recordings showed how he and First Lady Melania Trump went to the escalator in the UN headquarters before they suddenly came to a standstill shortly afterwards. At Trump’s speech before the UN General Assembly, his teleprompter did not work later.
The UN blamed the White House employees for the breakdown during the speech. UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said that the teleprompter would be operated by the White House for the US President. With regard to the escalated escalator, he said that the security mechanism had been “accidentally triggered by someone”, “who stood on the escalator in front of the president”.
The 79-year-old criticized the incidents on Tuesday that a “bad escalator and a bad teleprompter” were the only things he got in New York.
Trump: Stop the escalator could have led to “real catastrophe”
In the course of the escalator affair, he divided the UN again a day later. “No wonder that the United Nations were unable to fulfill the task for which they were founded,” he said. Already in his aggressive speech before the UN General Assembly, Trump had headed the United Nations head-on and denied their international importance.
The stop of the escalator could have led to a “real catastrophe”, he said. “It is astonishing that Melania and I have not fell on the sharp edges of these steel levels with my face,” he wrote. He called for the safety records of the escalator to save and added: “The Secret Service is switched on.”
The new US ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz, said on Wednesday that he officially called for the “complete results” of the UN examination for the escalator incident-as well as a “detailed explanation of the cause of the failure of the teleprompter and immediate plans for the implementation of effective preventive measures”.
The United States would “not tolerate a threat to our security or would tolerate in international forums,” wrote Waltz in the online service X. Washington “A quick cooperation and determined action”.
AFP
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