Bipartisan fury emerges over Trump’s quest for Greenland

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Two Republican senators, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, traveled with Democratic colleagues to Copenhagen over the weekend to meet with Danish and Greenlandic officials in hope of conveying reassurance and turning down temperatures. Senator Peter Welch, a Vermont Democrat who joined the delegation, told the Globe he has never seen Republican colleagues as alarmed over any Trump action in the last year as they are now. “I think this one has crossed the line,” Welch said. Indeed, in Washington, Republicans reacted with vocal alarm — especially to the notion of annexing Greenland by sending the…