Trump says his remarks on Warmbier were 'misinterpreted'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Trump on Friday sought to clean up his widely criticized claim that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did not know about the treatment of U.S. college student Otto Warmbier, saying “I hold North Korea responsible” for Warmbier’s “mistreatment and death.”

In a pair of tweets, Trump claimed that his initial comments at a Thursday news conference following his failed nuclear summit with Kim were “misinterpreted.”

Link to tweet

Trump’s new comments, however, do not directly address whether he believes Kim bears responsibility for the death of Warmbier, who died in 2017 shortly after being released from a 17-month stint in a North Korean prison. He had been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor after allegedly stealing a propaganda poster while on a tour of Pyongyang in January 2016.

Asked about Warmbier during his post-summit news conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, Trump said he took Kim at his word that the North Korean leader was unaware of Warmbier’s treatment in prison.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/432255-trump-says-his-remarks-on-warmbier-were-misinterpreted?userid=229233

[FreepFryer]

1. Mealy-mouthed coward is mealy-mouthed (n/t)

[tonedevil]

9. And, cowardly. /nt

[FreepFryer]

10. Very well taken - very well taken indeed! Cheers. (n/t)

[bluestarone]

2. Feeling the pressure there RUMP?

He wouldn't be trying clarify this if he wasn't getting some heat! What a fuck head!

[Miguel M]

3. Weasel words from a weasel.

[HipChick]

4. Just..

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

5. Hold the country responsible but not the leader???

Sounds like how tRump wants folks to view the USA. The leader is never responsible.

[RockRaven]

6. People are criticizing his exact words, quoted in full.

How dare we misinterpret him by quoting him exactly?

[SummerSnow]

7. Trumpspeak 101...Truth is not truth

[Corgigal]

8. Lying sack

of shit. He answered it exactly as he did to protect prince bonesaw. It was sitting there in his brain , and it worked before then the same answer.