Did Trump Secretly Agree to Pay North Korea a $2 Million Ransom for Otto Warmbier?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Trump’s vaunted negotiating prowess hasn’t been able to yield much from North Korea. Not only has the dictatorship failed to denuclearize, it reportedly wouldn’t agree to give up Otto Warmbier without the promise of a ransom.

On Thursday, the Washington Post revealed that North Korea billed the United States $2 million for the care of Otto Warmbier, the hostage who died shortly after he was returned in June 2017. North Korea — which detained Warmbier, then a 21-year-old University of Virginia student, in January 2016 — demanded the U.S. sign a pledge to pay the invoice before they would agree to release him. According to the Post, Trump instructed a State Department official to sign the bill.

On Friday morning, Trump denied any ransom was paid. “No money was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, not two Million Dollars, not anything else,” he wrote. “This is not the Obama Administration that paid 1.8 Billion Dollars for four hostages, or gave five terroist hostages plus, who soon went back to battle, for traitor Sgt. Bergdahl!”

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He added an alleged quote from “Cheif Hostage Negotiator, USA!” that Trump is “the greatest hostage negotiator that I know of in the history of the United States.”

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-pay-north-korea-otto-warmbier-ransom-827654/

[GemDigger]

1. What national security secret did you use in place of $2,000,000? nt

[NewJeffCT]

2. If he says "no money was paid"

it's likely that money was paid. Almost 100% chance of it

[Turbineguy]

3. Did his not paying the money

affect the outcome of his second summit with NK?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. So he DID pay the money.... . Guess I should say we. nt

[Hassler]

5. If Tronald Dump is denying, he's lying.

[11 Bravo]

6. Yup, and then he stiffed them.

Fuck off, Kim, but welcome to the long list of painters, plumbers, electricians, and other subcontractors who made the mistake of trying to business with Trump.