Senior Fellow Ted Piccone analyzes Trump’s speech to the United Nations and discusses how his emphasis on sovereignty could be used by some governments as a shield to avoid being prosecuted for human rights abuses internationally.
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PodcastIn UN speech, Trump’s ‘America First’ hurts global human rights
September 26, 2018
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