State Dept. Spokesperson: Trump’s Approach at the U.N. Will Be Principled Realism

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NAUERT: "I think the approach the President is going to take will be a principled realism where we take a clear-eyed look at the world but still promote American values, including democracy, human rights, all of those things that we as Americans embody and show the world every single day. So that’s part of it. Another piece of this will be sovereignty, promoting strong countries. We want strong countries, strong allies, so that we can fight the battles for the future. And when I say fight, I don’t mean militarily, I mean diplomatically. So we can have strong countries. Ainsley, you brought up the issue of Venezuela. We have seen a tremendous erosion of democracy in Venezuela as the president of that country and his cronies have tried to usurp so much power from democratically elected, they now have this constituent assembly, we call it an illegitimate constituent assembly because it’s something that President Maduro just came in and clawed away and gave it to his political cronies. We want to see that change and the Vice President has been great at that too."