Erick Erickson: Obama would have been impeached for Kim summit

[DonViejo]

BY MAX GREENWOOD - 06/12/18 10:20 AM EDT

Conservative writer Erick Erickson on Tuesday blasted President Trump for his friendly exchange with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, declaring that Republicans would have likely called for impeachment if former President Obama had done the same.

In an op-ed on his website The Resurgent, Erickson noted that Obama similarly engaged with oppressive and abusive foreign governments, like those of Cuba and Iran.

Erickson slammed Trump's actions in recent days — sparring with U.S. allies at the Group of Seven summit in Canada before praising Kim in Singapore — as “offensive” and “unacceptable.”

"If Obama had done what Trump just did, Republicans would be demanding his impeachment,” Erickson wrote.

In the piece titled “If Obama Had Done This,” Erickson notes that Trump's meeting elevates North Korea's status in the world while Trump comes “home with just a participation trophy.”

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http://thehill.com/homenews/media/391801-erick-erickson-obama-would-have-been-impeached-for-kim-summit

[Gothmog]

1. There is indeed a double standard

[Renew Deal]

2. This is true, though the summit was Obama's idea

He supported talking to these maniacs. People should tweet at Trump that the summit was Obama's idea.

[Hoyt]

3. They would have been wrong to bash Obama or any other Prez for the NK "summit." Erickson is wrong

about trump meeting with NK too. It sure beats where we were a few months ago with trump beating his chest and threatening to nuke NK. I'd have much preferred a saner Prez been involved yesterday, but trump is who we have right now, unfortunately.

[cynatnite]

6. Yeah, tRump who cozies up to dictators and colluded with Putin...

all the while disrespecting our allies and threatening trade wars.

There's no parsing here that makes it a good thing. tRump rolled over like a dog and Kim scratched his belly on national TV.

[Hoyt]

9. I think going against white wing warmongers, Bolton, etc., is a small step in the right direction.

Don't trust trump, and this doesn't make up for all the deplorable junk he's done and will continue to do. But, it's better than thumping his chest and threatening to launch a nuclear war.

[Cosmocat]

10. No he isn't

and this is literally the only thing I have, and likely every will, agree with him on.

The POS ceded the penninsula, and American strategic influence for a photo op to try to stem the damage in November and being able to go to them to bulld his GD hotels if he escapes justice - he should be fricken put into Supermax in Colorado for the of his life for this alone, and I would say the same if it had been BHO, but it wasn't of course.

It isn't an either or, that is the same kind of jackassery that led half the country to not choose the sane, competent woman and instead the meglomaniac November of 2016,

[Hoyt]

11. Fine, let's just erase the last month, and go back to trump threatening to nuke NK if that makes you

happy and Kim firing off missiles that gets the whole world anxious.

[cynatnite]

12. tRump is an arsonist who expects to get rewarded for putting out the fire he started.

He lost the chance to be center stage when NK thumbed their nose at home and they made friends with SK.

tRump is so desperate for a win that he'll do anything it takes whether it's threatening to nuke a country or rolling over so that NK will scratch his belly.


He'll piss on our allies and he cozies up to dictators who run concentration camps, gulags, and murders on a whim.


That's what makes this man so damn dangerous.

[Blue_Adept]

4. And again, against better judgment, I read the comments on The Hill

What a fecking cesspool of humanity we are.

[CincyDem]

5. Chit - If BHO did this, he would have been impeached DURING the summit. n/t

[Johnny2X2X]

7. Neville Chamberlain

If Obama had done this all we'd be hearing about is Neville Chamberlain and appeasement.

[Demsrule86]

8. Eric Erickson wrote this? Pigs are flying around now.

[oberliner]

13. This article is awful

He spends the first 5 paragraphs bashing Obama.