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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 05:15 AM Jun 2018

Now he lies about NK returning bodies of fallen US soldiers from Korean War.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-korean-war-vets_us_5b352c42e4b007aa2f7e5080

“It was the last thing I asked,” he told a gathering of Nevada Republicans on Saturday. “I said, ‘Do you mind, would I be able to get the remains back of all those great heroes from so many years ago?’ And he said, ‘I will do that.’ And you probably read, they have already done 200 people. Which is so great.”

On Monday, Trump told a rally audience in South Carolina: “We’re getting the remains of our great heroes back.”

The only problem: No remains have yet been returned, and it is unclear when that might happen. “We have not yet physically received them,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday, but said that he is “optimistic” it would take place “in the not-too-distant future.”




Let's summarize Trump's summit with NK:

- NK got diplomatic legitimatization.

- NK promised to eventually denuclearize at some point in the future, except there are no goalposts and no timeline that would tie NK to their promise. This is the fifth time that NK has signed a declaration for denuclearization. Last week NK expanded their nuclear facilities.

- Trump agreed to reduce military involvement with respect to all of Korea, not just North Korea. In the negotiations, Trump gave away the US-SK war-games, even though he didn't have to. (What a negotiator.)

- Trump got the promise that NK would return the bodies of fallen soldiers. Then he bragged that NK had already done so, except they didn't.



In summary: Trump got precisely nothing and then lied about it.
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Now he lies about NK returning bodies of fallen US soldiers from Korean War. (Original Post) DetlefK Jun 2018 OP
There are so many lies... FarPoint Jun 2018 #1
One of the things that particularly annoys me is the stupidity of Trump's lies. Fortinbras Armstrong Jun 2018 #11
It really is amazing! Just the dumbest shit rolls out of his mouth. nt 7962 Jun 2018 #12
When are people going to get straight on Trump? gordianot Jun 2018 #2
When are people going to get straight on Trump? LenaBaby61 Jun 2018 #3
I like cannabis_flower Jun 2018 #13
When i hear about NK supposedly returning these remains, rownesheck Jun 2018 #4
Probably in a mass-grave somewhere. DetlefK Jun 2018 #5
I knew it, when I first read it 2 weeks ago vlyons Jun 2018 #6
It may be not be a lie. They may really have promised it. But... The King of Prussia Jun 2018 #9
The conversations he invents in his sick mind become real to him once SammyWinstonJack Jun 2018 #7
Pathological liar and malignant narcissist gademocrat7 Jun 2018 #8
I heard a General on TV talking about remains that were returned by N.K.in the past. PearliePoo2 Jun 2018 #10

FarPoint

(12,409 posts)
1. There are so many lies...
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 05:19 AM
Jun 2018

Ongoing and ongoing...So many lies in rapid fire...Main Stream Media can't decide what to air and note the falsehood...Then, another bullshitter lie comes out and the report that!

Fortinbras Armstrong

(4,473 posts)
11. One of the things that particularly annoys me is the stupidity of Trump's lies.
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 07:38 AM
Jun 2018

The the "exceptionally smart" Trump, he regularly says stupid, untrue things.

LenaBaby61

(6,974 posts)
3. When are people going to get straight on Trump?
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 06:15 AM
Jun 2018

Most in the corporate media STILL can't bring themselves to say that he's a liar. More in the print/digital media will though.

A friend got into it on his FB page yesterday. A tRumpanzee said he was lying when he said that tRump got nothing from the summit with Kim, because Kim Jun Un is STILL Upgrading his Nuclear research center despite the summit vow he LOOSELY made with US Fatso. He gave the tRumpanzee right-leaning link sites stating this. The tRumpanzee said that even though these sites may lean to the right, they're still "filthy" anti-tRump Deep Staters The friend ask him where he got his information from that said otherwise, and he said Brietbart, Fox and America One

At that point, my friend said he blocked him and left.

rownesheck

(2,343 posts)
4. When i hear about NK supposedly returning these remains,
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 06:19 AM
Jun 2018

I immediately think "What the hell?! Are these remains of these soldiers warehoused somewhere?! They kept them on file?!" Didn't we leave like in the 1950s? Am i missing something? That seems odd that a foreign country would hold on to this stuff for that long.

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
5. Probably in a mass-grave somewhere.
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 06:30 AM
Jun 2018

And it's not like NK has to give back those remains: They could just dig up any old skeleton.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
6. I knew it, when I first read it 2 weeks ago
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 06:32 AM
Jun 2018

A lie, and not just a damned lie, but a vulgar vile despicable lie. I knew when I read a while back that Trump claimed to have recovered the bodies of Korean war dead, that no such event ever occurred. And I doubt that he ever even made such a request. Probably a lie that he just thought up in the spur of the moment at a rally.

9. It may be not be a lie. They may really have promised it. But...
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 07:01 AM
Jun 2018

UK deaths in World War 1 = 1.9% of population
US deaths in World War 2 = 0.32% of population
North Korea deaths in Korean War = 10.6% of population.

I'm English, and here people still "remember" the casualties of WW1 and the loss of a generation, even though, at best, only a handful of people can actually remember it. The Korean War was much worse - the population literally decimated. They won't forget that. They hate the US. They're terrified of what the US will do them if it thinks it can get away with it. Trump is too stupid, ignorant and arrogant to understand that - but really that statement should have been debunked on the terms outlined above straightaway.

SammyWinstonJack

(44,130 posts)
7. The conversations he invents in his sick mind become real to him once
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 06:36 AM
Jun 2018

he has audience in which to vomit them out. He's sick.

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
10. I heard a General on TV talking about remains that were returned by N.K.in the past.
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 07:37 AM
Jun 2018

There was a BIG problem.

Upon examination, many of the remains were actually animal bones or other unidentifiable objects.

BLOTUS is an insane liar and a fucking fool.

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