Posted on 03/01/2019 10:45:55 AM PST by murron
Did yesterday's Cohen Hearing cause Kim to see Trump as a weak President and didn't want to make a legitimate offer?
In other words, did the Democrats successfully sabotage the talks?
NO!
No.
Any adviser worth his salt would have told Kim “this is the 400th effort to get at Trump. He’s not going anywhere. Deal with him”
They are isolated but the advisers I’m sure have access to what is going on and would know it was laughable.
Just my humble opinion.
Gorbachev walked too. But he came back.
Democrats are now saying that it’s Trump’s fault we don’t have a deal with NK, and if it was up to them, they would have taken Rocketman’s deal. Trump thwarted peace!
No it was Reagan that walked and Gorby came begging for a deal.
And a couple of days ago, they were saying that Trump would "give away the store for a photo op."
Even better!! :)
Certainly could have, they might have thought Trump was desperate for a deal. Also if the NKs are listening to our media thy could have thought he was vulnerable.
Some people this whole thing was planned on both sides to deliberately put pressure on Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China. Xi is not exactly well-loved by some circles in the Communist hierarchy in China.
Michael Savage, yesterday on his show said exactly that. He said that the Norks/Chinese believe that, because of the hearings and the efforts of the Dims to go after Trump and remove him from office, Trump is a weakend president and the Chinese (who control N. Korea) told Kim to squash the deal.
OTOH, Ben Shapiro stated, essentially, that the deal fell through because Trump is a “sucker” (my words) for flattery and thinks that if he, in turn, flatters and praises dictators like Kim, they will be more cooperative, and that Trump is naive in thinking this.
Shapiro noted that in Trump’s 2017 SOTU address, he lambasted the N. Koreans regarding their treatment of Otto Warmbler, which resulted in Wambler’s death. Subsequently, Trump did a flip-flop claiming that Kim stated he was unaware of this, and Trump said that he “takes his (Kim’s) word for it”. IOW, he believes that Kim had no knowledge of Warmbler’s situation as it was happening.
just made them think Trump was weakened and would take any deal.
they were wrong
three times
That’s exactly what Mrs. Montag PREDICTED during the first hour of the Cohen hearing. “This makes Trump look weak and besieged...Kim will try and taker advantage.” She was 100% right.
I think El Rushbo was right on top of it when he said, when Trump gave Xi a breather until March 1 before tightening sanctions, Xi took it as a sign of weakness on Trump’s part. And Xi advised Kimmie to play Trump; believing he’d take ANY deal, just to GET a deal. These commies didn’t realize that Trump has the upper hand, and WILL ultimately prevail. Unlike Slick Willy Clinton or Bathouse Barry, Trump does have the backbone to hang tough.
I think Kim came away with the wrong idea from the last meeting and thought he could handle Trump this time around. Turns out he war wrong. I doubt the Cohen hearings entered into it.
I think Kim had to try to get sanctions lifted in exchange for nothing and Trump had to say no. As usual, the Dems were irrelevant to matters serious adults have to deal with.
Yes, yes they did sabotage the talks !
JUST what I was saying the other day. Kim is probably thinking Trump was about to be impeached. Reminds me of when talks were going on with Saddam Hussein to step down, they were even compiling countries that might take him...This was I believe in Feb. of 2003, and a week later Europe had that massive protest against the Iraq invasion and immediately after Saddam told Bush to go to hell.
In the eyes of a tyrant, allowing the press or the legislature to disrespect you without being executed is a sign of weakness. Undoubtedly Kim looked at these hearings as a sign of weakness on Trumps part. Kim would have lined everyone of those critics up against a wall and shot them himself.
The democrats would rather start a nuclear war than to allow Trump to finish his term.
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