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Are Trump's "nominations" for the Nobel Peace Prize disqualified or withdrawn (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Sep 2020 OP
The forged nominations were from previous years ramblin_dave Sep 2020 #1
According to the latest ads ... NanceGreggs Sep 2020 #2
Wasn't Khoushoggi a nominee for a Nobel Peace prize once? duforsure Sep 2020 #3
According to the Nobel Committee, over 300 hundred nominations were received for the 2020 prize.. Princess Turandot Sep 2020 #4
Id give it to MFM008 Sep 2020 #5

NanceGreggs

(27,820 posts)
2. According to the latest ads ...
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 06:24 AM
Sep 2020

... he's been nominated for the Noble Peace Prize - whole different ballgame.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
3. Wasn't Khoushoggi a nominee for a Nobel Peace prize once?
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 06:41 AM
Sep 2020

And Woodward has trump on tape claiming he saved his murderer the Prince , who had him cut up and tortured, from having consequences here, with republicans help, and protected the murderer instead? Waiting for a reporter to ask trump if he knew about the murder plot before it happened because I suspect he and Jared did know. And he wants a Nobel Peace prize?

Princess Turandot

(4,787 posts)
4. According to the Nobel Committee, over 300 hundred nominations were received for the 2020 prize..
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 07:28 AM
Sep 2020

So, Trump being 'nominated' isn't very significant in and of itself.

The deadline for the nominations for any one year is the end of the previous February. So the events he's touting (i.e. Israel-Bahrain-UAE agreements) wouldn't count for this year's prize.

But even if he wasn't an all-around a-hole, and was actually involved in the outcome, it would still be a stretch. When they give out the award in recognition of the end of a major geo-political conflict, historically, they've award the representatives of the belligerents (so-to-speak). They usually don't give the award to the person who brokered/facilitated the agreement. They didn't give Carter the prize for the Camp David Accords, and they didn't give Clinton or George Mitchell the prize for Good Friday agreement, even though it's acknowledged that they were instrumental to the outcome.

So FA45 is SOL on this.

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