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Ben Taub

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Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

Yeah.

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

In fact, I went to Copenhagen in the course of my reporting to – once I'd learned details from the Greenland Policy Coordination Committee because –

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

Their work was retroactively classified.

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

And so once I sort of knew how it worked and who was on it and what it was aiming to do, I went to Copenhagen to essentially ask the Danes how they navigated that entire period while, you know, overtly dealing with the diplomatic situation with the United States and everyone's an ally and everything's good.

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

But knowing that Americans were covertly running operations against them.

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

And to my surprise, the Danish government was unaware of this and was learning it from me because the United States had taken such measures to essentially, I mean, it's really sad and difficult for me to be using these words, but because they were being duplicitous towards an ally, like that is what was happening.

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

They were working to subvert the kingdom of Denmark while pretending to be a strong ally.

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

In terms of what they promised to Greenlanders, it's pretty much uniformly one thing, and it's just money.

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

There's not really any other case that they're making that sticks.

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

You know, when Charlie Kirk was making the case himself after Greenlandic elections last year, he was saying that joining the United States would be nothing but upside for the great people of Greenland, he said.

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

But like Trump, he just focused on money.

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

And these four lines are just verbatim what the case was.

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

And it's saying the same thing over and over again.

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

He said, you will be wealthier.

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

You will be richer.

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

You will have the U.S.

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

dollar.

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

You will have more purchasing power.

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

And it's framed as if, you know, these are four different things because he's coming up with four different reasons.

Fresh Air
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

But it's all the same thing.