ATTEMPT TO PRESENT FORMER CHIEF'S REPORT AS IF WRITTEN BY TRUMP

BANJA LUKA, August 13 /SRNA/ – Sarajevo and pro-Sarajevo media from Bijeljina are trying to present a report for 2024, written by their former retired chief Michael Murphy, as if it had been personally authored by Donald Trump, said Radovan Kovačević, Serb delegate in the BiH House of Peoples.

Kovačević said that this report vilified the President of Srpska Milorad Dodik in exactly the same way Murphy had always tried to create a false narrative portraying Republika Srpska as the world's problem number one. "Even children know that Trump was sworn in this January, just as they know that he himself said the former US administration, which included Murphy and which cooperated perfectly with Sarajevo and the opposition from Srpska, was the worst administration in US history," Kovačević told RTRS. He emphasized that it is clear those in Sarajevo, as well as certain pro-Sarajevo structures from Srpska, have had the ground pulled out from under them and no longer know how to act. "That is why they constantly try to find such nonsense to attribute to Trump, claiming that he is allegedly against Republika Srpska. We heard from Elmedin Konaković that a State Department spokesperson condemned Dodik's policy, when in fact, it was the account of a spokesperson from Joseph Biden's administration. The supposed shameful or shocking reaction was that she, after 20 years, changed her account and opened a new one. We also saw absurdities like the claim that Trump signed a decree to keep sanctions in place, which is not true," Kovačević recalled. He pointed out that the problem for political Sarajevo, as well as for certain individuals in Srpska, is that the position of Trump's administration is that BiH has a future only through respect for the Dayton Peace Agreement, and through dialogue and consensus among the three constituent peoples and two entities.