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American Mystery Man Paying Greenlanders Big Money to Join US

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President Donald Trump raised a lot of eyebrows by suggesting that Greenland should join the United States — by force if necessary. But while that story has faded from the headlines, reports of a mysterious, 86-year-old American man traveling around the island offering residents huge sums of money in exchange for their allegiance to the U.S. have prompted an investigation by local police. The experience of one Greenlander taxi driver highlights …

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▶️ Before getting bogged down in the war in Iran, Donald Trump was eyeing Greenland. The tenant of the White House has declared several times that he wants to annex Danish autonomous territory. In recent days, a mysterious American citizen would have tried to bribe Greenlanders. - A mysterious American offers 170,000 euros to Greenlanders to sign a petition on their attachment to the United States (International).

A ninety-year-old American pensioner has been walking around Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, in recent days, offering passersby 25 million krónur to vote by entering the United States if such a vote were to take place. He is running this business himself and the American embassy does not know anything about him.

It has stirred up controversy that an American man has offered Greenlanders $200,000 to support American ownership. Cliff Stanley claims to have acted on his own initiative

Mysterious man offers 2 million to Greenland residents It was Wednesday that taxi driver Danny Brandt (34) picked up an older, friendly man with a stack of papers under his arm in Greenland's capital, Nuuk. The man introduced himself with an American accent as Cliff, before making a mildly startling proposal in the back seat. - Do you want to earn 200,000 dollars? the man asked. This is reported by Danmarks Radio and the New York Times, among o…

Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen criticized on Thursday the efforts of an unidentified American who allegedly offered $200,000 to Greenlanders to sign a petition in favour of joining this Danish autonomous territory with the United States.

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