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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Mar 9, 2019, 03:15 PM Mar 2019

Hanoi and Cohen hearings; Trump had a bad week

What an amazing week, the one when Trump’s bone spurs didn’t keep him from Vietnam and Michael Cohen spurred the bones of Trumpworld. Our reprise begins with Trump’s behavior around dictators:

What world leader takes a high-profile trip across the seas, after his or her people had been working on an important international agreement, without having it nailed down? Or, putting it another way, who but a delusional narcissist would believe his deal-making skills were so phenomenal that he could single-handedly hammer one out, in a day or two, with a murderous dictator known for his creative methods of offing relatives?

Well, he tried. Called Kim a great leader, a great guy, said they “like each other.” (Last time, it was “fell in love.”) Took his word, that of a malevolent tyrant who surely knows what goes on in his torture chambers, that he, Kim, knew nothing about the merciless, slow assassination of American Otto Warmbier.

Buttering up the person across the table can be a useful tactic, but this? A despotic starver and punisher of his own people, who demands absolute fealty, on pain of death? Trump also takes Putin’s word over our intelligence agencies’, even as Russia openly called for Kim not to give up his nukes. And Putin’s emissary was in Hanoi.

Fudging the fiasco, Trump said “walking away” was smart. After such embarrassing failure, it surely was, but it didn’t erase the travesty by which Kim made Trump look weak and ineffectual, lost nothing, and won another cancelation of U.S.-South Korea war games. Last year Trump announced the nuclear threat from NoKo was NoMo: “Sleep better at night,” he beamed. This failure was over denuclearization. Fake news back then, from its primary purveyor.

After Trump’s decampment, North Korea called him a liar. And we’ve just learned Kim is buffing the missile site he’d promised to dismantle. Played like a janggu.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/schwab-hanoi-and-cohen-hearings-trump-had-a-bad-week/?utm_source=DAILY+HERALD&utm_campaign=baf50efcd2-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d81d073bb4-baf50efcd2-228635337

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Hanoi and Cohen hearings; Trump had a bad week (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2019 OP
Loser-45 is world's worst negotiator. nt NCjack Mar 2019 #1
Hanoi was a Political Campaign Stunt. Wellstone ruled Mar 2019 #2
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