People Trump reflexively takes at their word:
Kim Jong Un
Vladimir Putin
Roy Moore
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman
Rodrigo Duerte
Abdel Fatah al-Sissi
Recep Erdogen
Jim Jordan
Sean Hannity
Rob Porter
Brett Kavanauagh
People Trump reflexively dismisses as untrustworthy
The current and former leadership at the FBI
The staff of the New York Times and Washington Post
The civil service staff at the United States Department of State
The Directors of National Intelligence
Federal judges
I could go on, but u think you get the point?
Context:
During President Donald Trump’s summit-ending news conference in Vietnam on Thursday, a reporter asked him if he’d confronted North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un about the treatment of Otto Warmbier, an American student who was imprisoned in North Korea for 15 months, only to return to the US in a comatose state in June 2017 and never recover.
The reporter noted that despite Warmbier’s brutal death, Trump has called Kim “my friend” and repeatedly boasted about their “great relationship.” The journalist then asked him, “Have you in Singapore [during the first Trump-Kim summit] or here confronted Kim Jong Un about Otto Warmbier’s death, asked him to take responsibility, and what did he say to you?”
Trump confirmed that he had — but went on to say he takes Kim’s word for it that he had nothing to do with it.
“I really believe something very bad happened to [Warmbier], and I don’t think that the top leadership knew about it,” Trump said. “I don’t believe that [Kim] would’ve allowed that to happen. It just wasn’t in his advantage to allow that to happen.”
www.vox.com/2019/2/28/18244659/trump-kim-jong-otto-warmbier-death
“Something bad happened.” The man DIED after coming home in a conspiracy. He was in their custody for more than a year and he DIED. And the President’s take is that we can’t hold North Korean leadership responsible for this because Kim Jong Un says they weren’t responsible.
