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Lauren Gambino

Escalatorgate: Trump alleges ‘triple sabotage’ after technical mishaps at UN

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Donald Trump during the first day of High-Level Week at the UN general assembly in New York on Tuesday. Photograph: Bianca Otero/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

Donald Trump alleged “triple sabotage” at the United Nations, after the US president was plagued by a series of unfortunate events surrounding his address to the global body.

“A REAL DISGRACE took place at the United Nations yesterday,” Trump wrote on Wednesday in a 357-word social media chronicle of “not one, not two, but three very sinister events!”

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