Trump Covers for Kim Jong Un on Otto Warmbier's Death: 'I Really Don't Believe He Knew About It'
Source: Mediaite
by Colby Hall | Feb 28th, 2019, 6:35 am
President Donald Trump says he doesnt believe North Koreas leader Kim Jong Un knew about what happened to American student Otto Warmbier during a press conference that occurred in Hanoi very early Thursday morning EST.
Those prisons are rough, and bad things happen, but I really dont believe [Kim Jong Un] knew about it.
Warmbier is an American student who was imprisoned in North Korea after he was charged with stealing one of the communist regimes propaganda posters and was released after being detained in North Korea for approximately 17 months. Almost immediately after arriving back in the United States, Warmbier passed away as it was announced he had been in a coma for almost a year.
Trump clarified on Kims role, saying I dont believe he would have allowed that, and he felt very badly about it. Echoing words he said of Russian President Vladimir Putin about Russias role in interfering in the 2016 election, Trump added: he tells me that he didnt know about it and I will take him at his word.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-covers-for-kim-jong-un-on-otto-warmbiers-death-i-really-dont-believe-he-knew-about-it/
Zoonart
(11,868 posts)Does MF5 get to keep the ring? Inquiring minds and all.....
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)EleanorR
(2,391 posts)Though trump seems to kneel before all murderous dictators, so it's hard to say their exclusive.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)As I earlier said Kim will come well prepared after his consultation with his Chinese allies. He provided Kim with international recognition and nothing more. Kim was after two thinks. The end of the War Declaration and the removal of U.S. troops from the peninsula. He never intended to give Trump anything in return except a worthless assurance that he would consider denuclearize and missile development. Our nation was represented by a ridiculous charlatan and a pompous slob Secretary of State. The same racist bastard who said that Obama was a Moslem and communist.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Trump is a goon.
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)I know they gave him (Trump) cover previously, but I can't imagine them doing so now.
MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)the parents are relieved and comforted by the reassuring words of IQ45.
Yavin4
(35,440 posts)obamanut2012
(26,079 posts)Who wrongly blamed Obama for what happened to their son.
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)One can somewhat understand their appreciation for their son being brought home during Trump's time, but THEN he was rightfully blaming NK's little dictator.
Now?
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)They're giving their boy cover IF what I read was true, saying that they have NO comment on Fatso's comments of declaring his love for No Ko Fatboy..
I won't go as far as my friend did in calling Warmbier's parents hypocrites, but let's just say that I don't have a ANY sympathy for them, I'm just & , especially given how they went in on Pres. Obama and his administration saying that they didn't do much for thier son. Yet, they allowed themselves to be used as props during one of fatso's SOTU rambles.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)An orange balloon has more sense than this thing.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)How pathetic.
Bromwell
(123 posts)Morning Joe just did a segment showing Warmbier pleading and crying in some "courtroom" in NK a few years back before they destroyed him.....saying please think of my family etc...it was hard to watch. Then they show the orange buffoon saying he believes Un didn't know anything about it and prisons are rough. Made me sick.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Firestorm49
(4,035 posts)ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY?????????????????????
area51
(11,909 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Murders of Americans by brutal corrupt lying dictators now. The opposite of the truth again by protecting these corrupt people ahead of Americans. Just another trump lie exposed.
Basement Beat
(659 posts)The installed "president" of the USA attacks Americans and the free press on the DAILY. But he ALWAYS believes and takes these murderous dictators for their "Word"??!
Like how long is this list now?
Republicans are all traitorous bastards to keep defending this.
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)I would think that letting experienced diplomats do some groundwork early on would make more sense, but I can understand that Trump and Bernie favor a direct mountain top to mountain top diplomatic style.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)Did you by some quirk of the imagination running through your fucking psychopathic malignant narcissistic head ask.............................asshole..........................I don't think so, you so fucking worried about getting the Nobel Peace Prize, so that you can have it sitting in Mar a Lago mantle of insect infested buildings, just like the picture painted of you that was bought by using funds illegally to purchase it from your charitable funds, that your only worried about your ego.................
And how would you know asshole, what it is like in a fucking communist prison being run by a psychopath just like guy that ordered and had killed his own family members, one at a foreign airport, and another one because he didn't trust his uncle ...........................are you that fucking nuts........................yes you are fucking nuts......................come back stateside, we had a hearing yesterday and a witness tell the country that you and your family should basically be charged under the RICO ACT, and then treason, for starters, because your fucking kids and your other cronies are coming and going to be in front of government hearings really, really soon.....................
And as for the enabling traitors republicans in that hearing, they really should be impeached, what a fucking disgrace to democracy, but they sure were holding up the ideas of traitor and fascism really well....................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough..........................
erpowers
(9,350 posts)Donald Trump is not trying to cover for Kim Jong Un. He likely really believes what Kim is saying because Kim seems to say nice thing about him. This is just more evidence that people who claim Trump is easily fooled on both the national and international level. All one has to do is flatter him and he believes what they are saying.
Eugene
(61,899 posts)Source: CNN
By Devan Cole
Updated 1518 GMT (2318 HKT) February 28, 2019
Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump's decision not to hold North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un responsible for Otto Warmbier's death was "reprehensible," former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum said Thursday.
"This is the conundrum of Donald Trump for many of us who like his policies and don't like a lot of the things he does and says," Santorum said of the decision to CNN's John Berman on "New Day."
"But, this is reprehensible, what he just did. He gave cover, as you said, to a leader who knew very well what was going on with Otto Warmbier," Santorum, who is a CNN political commentator, said. "And again, I don't understand why the President does this. I am disappointed, to say the least, that he did it."
Earlier Thursday, Trump, who was in Hanoi for a summit with Kim, said the North Korean leader "felt badly about it. He felt very badly," telling reporters the two discussed the matter privately. "He tells me that he didn't know about it and I will take him at his word."
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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/28/politics/rick-santorum-otto-warmbier-trump/index.html
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)ashling
(25,771 posts)Turbineguy
(37,332 posts)he'd like to kill with an anti-aircraft gun.
Trumps nieces and nephews certainly do.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Yo Spanky McMushroomdick -- is there ANY dictator/tyrant/thug you WON'T embrace or defend against this country ?
I know you know fuck all about history, but there was a time when North Korea seized an American NAVY ship in international waters, held the crew for 11 months - during which time the men were beaten, drugged, starved or fed maggot-infested and rotted food and denied even basic POW fundamental medical care. The ship was the USS Pueblo. The year was 1968. Back about the time you and your bone spurs were dodging the draft.
They still refer to the UN action there in the 1950s as "The Fatherland Liberation War." Days before the Pueblo was seized, 20 of Kim Il-Sung's elite forces set about to kill the South Korean president, Park Chung Hee, in what is known as the Blue House Raid. It was their plan to murder the family and staff in front of him, then decapitate the man and take his head back to NK. They had also planned to then go to the US Ambassador's home and kill everyone there. Fortunately, the men were captured, they confessed and were put to death.
Kim Il Sung declared that the US was their eternal enemy and should be destroyed at all costs. The North Koreans have never softened their stance toward the US.
You are not just a disgrace to this country, you are a back-stabbing betrayer of everything this country stands for.