Utah Rep. Blake Moore, member of GOP leadership, breaks with Trump on seizing Greenland

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Republican resistance mounted against President Donald Trump’s talk of seizing Greenland, with Utah Rep. Blake Moore and Democrat Steny Hoyer issuing a bipartisan statement calling the idea unnecessary and harmful to cooperation with Denmark. Senate Majority Leader John Thune rejected military action, and retiring Rep. Don Bacon called the notion really dumb, citing allied opposition. Senators including Rand Paul and John Kennedy questioned whether Trump was serious. Trump revived the proposal after U.S. strikes on Venezuela and the capture of its president, while Denmark’s prime minister warned that an attack on Greenland would end NATO.