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Donald Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize - Washington Times
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1) Anyone can be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and indeed, the Nobel Committee receives thousands of nominations each year. This list is usually only valuable for a good laugh - this nomination included.
2) The names of the nominees are usually kept secret by the Committee itself; however, the person or group that submitted the nomination can publicize that fact. And thus, this bit of information is coming from the nominators - not the committee.
Mr. Trump, who has attracted international backlash over his controversial rhetoric and call to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., has reportedly earned a nod for the award thanks to his tough talk on terrorism and other security threats from around the world, according to Nobel watcher Kristian Berg Harpviken, the director of the Peace Research Institute of Oslo.
In the nomination letter Mr. Harpviken said he had received, supporters said Mr. Trump deserved the prize for “his vigorous peace through strength ideology, used as a threat weapon of deterrence against radical Islam, ISIS, nuclear Iran and Communist China,” Agence France-Presse reported.
Two points to keep in mind:
1) Anyone can be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and indeed, the Nobel Committee receives thousands of nominations each year. This list is usually only valuable for a good laugh - this nomination included.
2) The names of the nominees are usually kept secret by the Committee itself; however, the person or group that submitted the nomination can publicize that fact. And thus, this bit of information is coming from the nominators - not the committee.