Just a reminder, because apparently I have to be a better journalist than everyone who actually gets paid for it, while doing my own job too.
"I looked the man in the eye. I found him very straightforward and trustworthy”
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Bush's top security aide Condoleezza Rice later wrote that Bush's phrasing had been a serious mistake. "We were never able to escape the perception that the president had naïvely trusted Putin and then been betrayed."
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And the rest is history that apparently nobody remembers and therefore we’ve got another dotard in the WH making the same mistakes:
"He trusts me, I believe, I really do," Trump said of Kim. "I think he trusts me, and I trust him."
Uh, no. Kim isn’t that stupid. Your own Chief of Staff doesn’t trust you. Your wife and daughter don’t trust you. Our allies don’t trust you. And after your comments on ending drills in SK, neither our military or South Korea trust you either… not that they did before of course.
"The North Koreans have given nothing so far, while the Americans on the other hand have given Kim Jong Un a summit with the US president,"
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It’s important to put dupes like W and Trump in historical perspective. Republicans are dangerously naive, but that doesn’t mean our press corps needs to be.