UN Human Rights Chief: Trump Would Be ‘Dangerous’ If Elected

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2016, file photo, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein speaks in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The U.N. human rights chief said on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016 that U.S. ... FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2016, file photo, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein speaks in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The U.N. human rights chief said on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016 that U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump would be "dangerous from an international point of view" if he is elected. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File) MORE LESS
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GENEVA (AP) — U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump would be “dangerous from an international point of view” if he is elected, the U.N. human rights chief said Wednesday.

Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein says some comments by the Republican nominee are “deeply unsettling and disturbing to me,” particularly on torture and about “vulnerable communities.”

Zeid, a Jordanian prince, also told reporters he doesn’t plan to tone down his recent remarks decrying dangers posed by “populists and demagogues.”

Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations has said Zeid shouldn’t criticize foreign heads of state and government.

On the U.S. election, Zeid said: “If Donald Trump is elected, on the basis of what he has said already and unless that changes, I think it’s without any doubt that he would be dangerous from an international point of view.”

“Clearly I am not keen or intent on interfering in any political campaign within any particular country, but where the comments point to a potential — depending on the results of the election — for an increase in, for instance, the use of torture, which is prohibited under the Convention against Torture, or the focus on vulnerable communities in a way that suggests that they may well be deprived of their rights, their human rights, then I think it is incumbent to say so,” Zeid said.

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  1. Avatar for zd123 zd123 says:

    Oh Great! This is just going to feed in to the Trump supporters’ paranoid delusions about the UN—

    …and he is a Jordanian.

  2. Trump has no paranoid delusions about the UN. His delusions are instead appropriate to the uselessness and danger of the UN’s existence. This spokesman has no credibility for that reason.

  3. True that. If this guy, who has served and is from a country that is, even if benevolently, a totalitarian regime, wants to keep Trump out of office, he would keep his mouth shut. No free country’s voters give a fig over what people for other countries think, and in the case of this election, this guy, if he had any brains, would realize that nothing he says would change the mind of a single Trump voter, and might instead drive a few to the polls to show him that what he says does not matter.

  4. The man is not wrong, in my opinion. Oh, look, our resident troll is back! He/she is the one with “no credibility.”

  5. Let’s stop worrying about someone from another country talking smack about Dump, instead let us worry why a Russian UN official finds it offensive to the point of lodging a complaint on Dump’s behalf.

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