Trump’s flip-flop on Warmbier’s murder is a ‘slap in the face’ to his grieving parent

[floridafan]

CNN panel on Thursday highlighted the hypocrisy of President Donald Trump’s claim that Kim Jong-un knew nothing about the murder of American college student Otto Warmbier while he was in custody in North Korea’s notoriously brutal prisons, leading host John King to accuse the president of slapping Warmbier’s grieving parents in the face.

Senior political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson was surprised by the president’s change of heart.

“Donald Trump himself said at the State of the Union last year or the year before, the Warmbier family was there, he basically said ‘our thoughts and prayers are with you,'” Henderson said, adding that Trump had called out Kim for incarcerating Warmbier. She surmised that the president was trying to flatter the North Korean dictator, in the hopes that letting Kim off the hook would give the U.S. a win on denuclearization.

“That’s the pattern you’ve seen from this president several times,” agreed the Washington Post’s Seung Min Kim highlighting Trump’s worrisome habit of cuddling up to dictators.

“I was looking back at what the president had said about Otto Warmbier,” she continued. “Back in 2017, he also called this ‘the responsibility of a brutal regime.'”

She said it was unclear why Trump was giving the dictator a pass, but King cut to the chase.
“It’s a slap in the face to an American family who lost their son,” he said. “That’s what it is from the president of the United States.”

 

[Sirthinksalot]

Which is the more important objective? Justice for Otto Warmbier or denuclearization of North Korea? Is it even close?

 

[floridafan]

Which is the more important objective? Justice for Otto Warmbier or denuclearization of North Korea? Is it even close?

Neither one happened, and trump should have kept his big mouth shut

 

[Nordberg]

Which is the more important objective? Justice for Otto Warmbier or denuclearization of North Korea? Is it even close?

Not related subjects. I suppose if Kim said, "send us some more Americans to torture an we will allow you to inspect our nuclear operations", you would be for it?

 

[Sirthinksalot]

Not related subjects. I suppose if Kim said, "send us some moer Americans to torture an we will allow you to inspect our nuclear operations", you would be for it?

You are a silly, silly man.

 

[Nordberg]

You are a silly, silly man.

Well you make no sense and offer no arguments. You suggested that it was OK that Otto got tortured if there was a chance to get NK to denuke. But there was never an iota of a chance that Kim was denuking. He made that even clearer to Daffy yesterday. Kim spent his countries wealth on building a nuclear system that he has convinced his people saves them from an American attack. It will stay.

 

[Sirthinksalot]

Well you make no sense and offer no arguments. You suggested that it was OK that Otto got tortured if there was a chance to get NK to denuke. But there was never an iota of a chance that Kim was denuking. He made that even clearer to Daffy yesterday. Kim spent his countries wealth on building a nuclear system that he has convinced his people saves them from an American attack. It will stay.

Not what I suggested at all. What happened to Otto, however terrible, is over and done with. Did you want Trump to wag his finger in lil Kim's face and scold him about it? Would that have helped to achieve the objective? For fucks sake, your side was whining that Trump was going to start WWIII by talking tough to KJU. Now you're criticizing him for being conciliatory. Liberalism really is a mental disorder.

 

[Nordberg]

Not what I suggested at all. What happened to Otto, however terrible, is over and done with. Did you want Trump to wag his finger in lil Kim's face and scold him about it? Would that have helped to achieve the objective? For fucks sake, your side was whining that Trump was going to start WWIII by talking tough to KJU. Now you're criticizing him for being conciliatory. Liberalism really is a mental disorder.

No I want him to accept what our intelligence and allies say happened. Not to accept what Kim says. . Trumpy loves him some dictators. Trump would have been better off making no statement at all. Yep it was a typical Trump error . You rightys just believe that corrupt thief is unable to make an mistake or be wrong in policy. Ruight wing capitiulation is dangrous to the American experiment. Trump is not a honest or a trustworthy man. You have to translate Trump statements into honest . It is a tough job.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

What a degraded and disgusting excuse for a leader America has. Just imagine if Saddam's army had captured and tortured an American, then returned him near death -- and W had told the nation "Saddam said he doesn't know anything about that, and I believe him." Or if ISIS had captured and tortured an American, and then returned him on his death bed -- and Obama told the nation "They said they don't know anything about that, and I believe them."

 

[Sirthinksalot]

No I want him to accept what our intelligence and allies say happened. Not to accept what Kim says. . Trumpy loves him some dictators. Trump would have been better off making no statement at all. Yep it was a typical Trump error . You rightys just believe that corrupt thief is unable to make an mistake or be wrong in policy. Ruight wing capitiulation is dangrous to the American experiment. Trump is not a honest or a trustworthy man. You have to translate Trump statements into honest . It is a tough job.

If you mean no statement about Otto Warmbier, I agree. What happened to Mr. Warmbier had no relevance to the matter at hand and would have served no purpose in achieving denuclearization of NK.