Trump Campaign: It’s Clinton’s Fault That North Korea Conducted Nuclear Test!

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Donald Trump’s campaign insisted on Friday that Hillary Clinton somehow bears responsibility for North Korea’s latest nuclear weapons test.

“Clinton promised to work to end North Korea’s nuclear program as Secretary of State, yet the program has only grown in strength and sophistication,” Trump's senior communications advisor, Jason Miller, wrote in a statement. “Hilary Clinton’s North Korean policy is just one more calamitous diplomatic failure from a failed Secretary of State.”

Sahil Kapur
?@sahilkapur

Trump campaign statement on North Korea’s nuclear test.

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North Korean officials confirmed that they conducted their fifth nuclear test explosion on Friday, in what South Korea’s president called an act of “fanatic recklessness.”

President Barack Obama released a statement strongly condemning the “provocation” and announcing that sanctions against the dictatorship would be intensified.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-campaign-blames-clinton-north-korea-nuclear-test

[landolfi]

1. This is another big lie

that stuns us all with astonishment and gets everyone on the Clinton side scrambling to debunk it. He's nonstop with this nonsense. Maybe the Rude Pundit is right, maybe she just needs to start saying even more outrageous shit.

[lapfog_1]

2. I am absolutely certain

that America's enemies are conducting operations to ensure that Donald Trump wins the election.

Russia hacking and leaking DNC emails

North Korea conducting more missile tests

North Korea conducting nuclear tests

ISIS attempting to sponsor more terrorist attacks (one just yesterday failed in France).

The October surprise may well be another large terrorist attack by ISIS within the US.

[SummerSnow]

4. Trump in cahoots with these guys to help him become dictator.

[lapfog_1]

5. No, but he is the "useful idiot" that the comintern

Likes to take advantage of.

And there could easily be coordination between Russia, China (to a much lesser degree), North Korea, Assad, Iran, and ISIS. But Donald wouldn't be involved... he is too stupid to keep quiet about it.

[SummerSnow]

3. WHY DOES KIM JONG UN WANT TRUMP TO BE PRESIDENT?

BY MARC THIESSEN ON 6/5/16

I have pointed out before how, despite his tough talk on trade, Donald Trump is actually the preferred candidate of the political elites in Communist China because he is viewed in Beijing as the candidate least interested in promoting human rights or countering China’s efforts to assert its hegemony across the Asia-Pacific region.

Well, there is another communist dictatorship that appears to be taking a liking to the presumptive GOP nominee. The Washington Post reports that the North Korean state media is heaping praise on “wise politician” Donald J. Trump:

[The North Korean] State outlet DPRK Today published an editorial Tuesday that called the business mogul a “wise politician” and said he could be good for North Korea. “There are many positive aspects to Trump’s ‘inflammatory policies,’” the author of the article wrote, according to a translation from NK News. “Trump said he will not get involved in the war between the South and the North, isn’t this fortunate from North Korea’s perspective?”

The author of the editorial also dismissed Hillary Clinton, Trump’s likely Democratic rival in the presidential race, calling her “dull” and saying that she hopes to use the “Iranian model to resolve nuclear issues on the Korean Peninsula.”

It’s an unusual change in tone for North Korean state media, which has largely avoided talking about the U.S. campaign directly. The article claims to have been written by a guest contributor—Han Yong Mook, who is introduced as a Chinese North Korea scholar—but the fact that it was published by a notoriously patriotic outlet may well suggest that the ideas contained within it are likely to hold serious sway in Pyongyang.

Why the praise from the North Korean state media?

For one thing, when Trump was asked by the Washington Post editorial board interview “Does the United States gain anything by having bases” in South Korea, he replied, “Personally I don’t think so,” adding, “You know, South Korea is very rich. Great industrial country. And yet we’re not reimbursed fairly for what we do. We’re constantly, you know, sending our ships, sending our planes, doing our war games, doing other. We’re reimbursed a fraction of what this is all costing.”

Then, asked by The New York Times whether he would withdraw U.S. forces from South Korea if it did not increase its payments to the U.S., he said, “Yes, I would. I would not do so happily, but I would be willing to do it… We cannot afford to be losing vast amounts of billions of dollars on all of this.”

And finally he told Reuters that he would be willing to sit down one on one with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, declaring, “I would speak to him, I would have no problem speaking to him.”

All that is music to the ears of the Pyongyang elites. Indeed, according to the Post, North Korean state media suggest that the regime might very well take Trump up on his offer for talks.

So add North Korea to China and Russia on the list of American adversaries warming to the idea of President Trump.

http://www.newsweek.com/why-does-kim-jong-un-want-trump-become-president-465891


*STFU Trump, you're what NK needs to set off WW3*

[Thinkingabout]

6. Must be Hillary's fault Kim Jong Un praised Trump.

[Sophiegirl]

7. Nothing shocks me anymore.

Coming from Camp Little Hands Trump.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. It is actually Trump's fault because North Korea senses weakness

and lunacy may be elected in November, and they know Trump
will treat them as he would treat Putin

[C_U_L8R]

9. That aren't very smart, are they.

I guess Donnie's got to wait 30 days to hear what 'his generals' tell him to do.

You know what they say... small hands, small generals

[lindysalsagal]

10. But, but, but,but,but,but, I thought everything bad was Obama's fault??????

[sarcasmo]

11. Saw the headline and thought Pat Robertson wrote the article