{UAH} Lol: Trump tells reporters he would win the Nobel Peace prize 'if they gave it out fairly

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Trump tells reporters he would win the Nobel Peace prize 'if they gave it out fairly'

In an erratic exchange with reporters from Pakistan on Monday, Donald Trump said he would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "if they gave it out fairly."

He spoke with the press outside the United Nations General Assembly ahead of a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. Members of the Pakistani press praised him , saying he would "definitely" be deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize if he could solve tensions in the Kashmir region.

"I think I'm gonna get a Nobel Prize for a lot of things, if they gave it out fairly, which they don't," Trump said.

He went on to complain about former president Barack Obama receiving the prize in 200. The committee awarded Obama the prize for his "efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

"They gave one to Obama immediately upon his ascent to the presidency, and he had no idea why he got it," Trump said. "And you know what? That was the only thing I agreed with him on."

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reportedly nominated President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize at the request of the U.S. government in February 2019.

1h ago 23:43

Manhattan's district attorney urged a judge on Monday to reject Donald Trump's efforts to block prosecutors from obtaining his tax returns, saying the president wants "sweeping immunity."

From the Associated Press:

District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. filed papers in federal court after Trump's attorneys sued last week to stop Vance from forcing the president's accounting firm to release eight years of his state and federal returns in a criminal probe.

Vance urged a judge to reject Trump's request for a temporary order blocking Vance's subpoena for the records in a probe of payments made to two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump. He also asked U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero to dismiss the lawsuit.

Vance said Trump was asserting the "remarkable proposition" that a sitting president not only enjoys blanket immunity from criminal prosecution, but also isn't required to submit to any routine grand jury request for information about what he, his businesses or employees did before he took office.

"The law provides no such sweeping immunity," the court papers said.

"Here, the question is not whether a state prosecutor can indict a sitting President," the papers said. "Instead, the issue is whether a third party, having been duly served with a state grand jury subpoena seeking the books and records of a number of individuals and corporate entities, including those of the President, must comply with the subpoena."

Trump's lawyers have called the subpoena requests by Vance, a Democrat, a "bad faith effort to harass" Trump.

Trump's lawyers say records shouldn't be released until Trump leaves office.

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