Hanoi and Cohen hearings; Trump had a bad week
What an amazing week, the one when Trumps bone spurs didnt keep him from Vietnam and Michael Cohen spurred the bones of Trumpworld. Our reprise begins with Trumps behavior around dictators:
What world leader takes a high-profile trip across the seas, after his or her people had been working on an important international agreement, without having it nailed down? Or, putting it another way, who but a delusional narcissist would believe his deal-making skills were so phenomenal that he could single-handedly hammer one out, in a day or two, with a murderous dictator known for his creative methods of offing relatives?
Well, he tried. Called Kim a great leader, a great guy, said they like each other. (Last time, it was fell in love.) Took his word, that of a malevolent tyrant who surely knows what goes on in his torture chambers, that he, Kim, knew nothing about the merciless, slow assassination of American Otto Warmbier.
Buttering up the person across the table can be a useful tactic, but this? A despotic starver and punisher of his own people, who demands absolute fealty, on pain of death? Trump also takes Putins word over our intelligence agencies, even as Russia openly called for Kim not to give up his nukes. And Putins emissary was in Hanoi.
Fudging the fiasco, Trump said walking away was smart. After such embarrassing failure, it surely was, but it didnt erase the travesty by which Kim made Trump look weak and ineffectual, lost nothing, and won another cancelation of U.S.-South Korea war games. Last year Trump announced the nuclear threat from NoKo was NoMo: Sleep better at night, he beamed. This failure was over denuclearization. Fake news back then, from its primary purveyor.
After Trumps decampment, North Korea called him a liar. And weve just learned Kim is buffing the missile site hed promised to dismantle. Played like a janggu.
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