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    Trump’s Hollow Keystone Threat

    by Eugene Kiely Mar 22, 2017 3 minutes

    President Donald Trump boasted that TransCanada Corp. “dropped” a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against the U.S. after he threatened to “terminate” the company’s Keystone XL pipeline. That’s false.

    TransCanada merely suspended its lawsuit in order to give the Trump administration time to approve the project. The new administration is expected to approve it, but if not then TransCanada can resume its legal case against the U.S.

    Trump at a fundraiser for the National Republican Congressional Committee. As he has done in other speeches, Trump talked about — a 1,179-mile oil pipeline from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Nebraska. But Trump added a new twist to his Keystone story. He said he ordered Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, to threaten TransCanada to drop its lawsuit.

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