Trump's Otto Warmbier comments mark a shameful day for America
t almost sounded like compassion -- compassion for the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un -- when President Donald Trump explained that Kim "felt very badly" about what had happened to Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old American student taken prisoner by Kim's henchmen for 17 months. Gone were Trump's charges that Kim runs a "brutal regime," which he stated when Warmbier was returned to the Unites States in 2017-- in a coma. He died less than a week later.
At a press conference in Hanoi on Thursday, Trump said of Kim, "I will take him at his word."
It was another demeaning moment not only for Trump, who has gushed about the tyrant on several occasions, but also for America. And it was made even more humiliating for the United States when the President heaped additional praise on Kim's "great leadership," which he said will bring much success to his country.
To be clear, he was referring to a regime that a United Nations investigation concluded commits crimes against humanity that "entail extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds" -- violations of a gravity and scale "that (do) not have any parallel in the contemporary world."
That's whose word Trump accepts. That's the leadership Trump calls great.
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How much lower must we go? Yesterday we saw that the Repugs would rather call Cohen names and discredit his testimony, no matter how shaming it was to IQ45. They will not stop defending him - riding along with him straight down the drain.
Every day it is a NEW low. How many more do we need? Why do they keep moving the line in the sand?
It is time - he has to go - we need courage in our government to make it happen - now.
Tragic for our country.
