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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEx-CIA official: Seeing the U.S. flag used as backdrop for Kim is 'disgusting'
Former CIA chief of staff Jeremy Bash slammed the summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday, saying it was disgusting to see the U.S. flag alongside that from the "despotic regime" of Pyongyang.
"A summit is not an accomplishment for the American president," Bash told MSNBC's Brian Williams.
"It is a major accomplishment for Kim Jong Un. In fact, the spectacle of seeing the American flags along with the [North Korean] flags as the backdrop for that handshake is really jarring actually to see, to witness. In fact, I would say it's somewhat disgusting. It is actually a debasement of the American flag," he continued.
"This is a despotic regime that murders its own citizens. And so we're putting him on the same stage as the American president. Now, hopefully, it will serve a larger purpose. Which is to ensure security for American interests and our allies on the peninsula," he said.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/391750-ex-cia-official-seeing-the-us-flag-alongside-the-north-korean
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Ex-CIA official: Seeing the U.S. flag used as backdrop for Kim is 'disgusting' (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Jun 2018
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roamer65
(36,747 posts)1. Dump is a treason weasel.
sheshe2
(83,846 posts)2. Not so strange really.
"This is a despotic regime that murders its own citizens. And so we're putting him on the same stage as the American president.
The American pResident is running a despotic regime and he too is murdering his own citizens as. They are really one and the same.
UTUSN
(70,725 posts)3. Not much more disgusting than the U.S. flag as a backdrop for *this* "president"!1
SunSeeker
(51,634 posts)4. Exactly. nt
calimary
(81,417 posts)5. And now let's welcome this week's SPECIAL GUEST on "The NEW Apprentice!"
Please clap.
CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)6. "Hopefully"
despite all indications that the U.S. is being dragged into a dictatorship, people make these observations yet still try to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Not gonna work. He's a reality show con man and the biggest, neediest snowflake of all, allowing despots to drag him around by his ego and spitting in the faces of allies who make him feel inferior.
We simply need to get him out of office.
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