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Tapper on North Korea summit: 'It's not as if other presidents couldn't have done this'
The Hill ^ | 06/12/2018 | Joe Concha

Posted on 06/12/2018 8:35:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday weighed in on the Trump-Kim summit arguing that other presidents did not meet with North Korean leaders to avoid giving their dictatorships “prestige.”

“It's not as if other presidents couldn't have done this,” Tapper said of Trump's historic meeting with the North Korean leader. “It's that they didn't want to.”

Tapper, the host of CNN shows “The Lead” and “State of the Union,” prefaced his comments that past presidents decided not to meet for direct talks with North Korea because “the concern was, you don't want to give North Korea that kind of prestige.”

“You don't want to elevate them without having something guaranteed in terms of what they are actually willing to do, in terms of denuclearization, in terms of what Secretary of State Pompeo constantly refers to as ‘irreversible and verifiable denuclearization.’ ”

CNN's @jaketapper on the Trump-Kim summit: "It's not as if other presidents couldn't have done this, it's that they didn't want to” so as not to give North Korea a level of prestige without having something guaranteed in terms of denuclearization https://t.co/iWJES9DAKp pic.twitter.com/456gcJr1YJ

— CNN (@CNN) June 12, 2018

Tapper's comments come after President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday announced an agreement committing the U.S. to undesignated “security guarantees” in exchange for North Korea denuclearization.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cluelessidiot; crapnewsnetwork; gettrump; jaketapper; northkorea; singaporesummit; smearcampaign; snivelingprick; summit; tds; trumpasia
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To: SeekAndFind

41 posted on 06/12/2018 8:45:40 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: SeekAndFind
“It's not as if other presidents couldn't have done this,” Tapper said of Trump's historic meeting with the North Korean leader. “It's that they didn't want to.”

And, by implication, they were so much wiser than DJT.

They had much better insight into world affairs, and the advice of such luminaries as Maddie Albright.

42 posted on 06/12/2018 8:46:03 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: SeekAndFind

What a donk. We were on course for nuclear blackmail because every admin kicked the can down the road. We all know if Obama would have done the meeting, Tapper would have worshiped him.


43 posted on 06/12/2018 8:46:06 AM PDT by Rodm
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To: SeekAndFind
“the concern was, you don't want to give North Korea that kind of prestige.”

No, the concern from liberals today is that they don't want North Korea to give Donald Trump that kind of prestige.

-PJ

44 posted on 06/12/2018 8:46:53 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Hey Jake. But the didn't!

Hey Jake.....DACA.....but the Democrats blew the deal.

Hey Jake...Tax cuts....but the Democrats blew the deal.

Trump if he continues is going to win reelection and his coat tails will sweep Democrats out of office.

45 posted on 06/12/2018 8:47:03 AM PDT by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: KyCats

RE: Obama, Clinton, Bush...they could NOT have done this.

Didn’t Clinton give the Norks a reactor to play with?


46 posted on 06/12/2018 8:47:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Yep. Other Presidents just gave them the prestige of being able to build nuclear warheads and missiles.


47 posted on 06/12/2018 8:47:39 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: SeekAndFind
“It's not as if other presidents couldn't have done this,”

Well, they didn't did they?

48 posted on 06/12/2018 8:48:37 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: SeekAndFind

... but they didn’t.


49 posted on 06/12/2018 8:48:54 AM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: SeekAndFind

Please shut the hell up ,you POS.


50 posted on 06/12/2018 8:48:56 AM PDT by spincaster ( AM A)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hussein certainly could have done it. If, that is, he had the intelligence and savvy, the intuition and the experience that Donald Trump has. And one more thing that is important- the inclination. Any president since 1953 could have done it if he were Donald Trump.


51 posted on 06/12/2018 8:48:59 AM PDT by arthurus (f)
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To: SeekAndFind

“”It’s not as if other presidents couldn’t have done this”

Maybe. Maybe not. It is irrelevant. The point is they had their chance and they did not seriously deal with NK as Trump has.


52 posted on 06/12/2018 8:49:03 AM PDT by plain talk
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Here's Gen Barry McCaffrey's take on how he sees the NK summit. "Barry R McCaffrey‏ @mccaffreyr3 44 minutes ago North Korea a monster State. Their people literally live in a slave regime. Malnutrition. Tens of thousands die in concentration camps. Elites doled out rewards by JKU. Total control by a single family. Zero chance denuke. Summit empty promises. Disaster for Trump to propose unilateral dismantle US mil deterrent measures leaving S Korea and Japan facing massive conventional and nuke threat. China will see this as start of US withdrawal from Pacific Rim. US mil presence purpose to PREVENT WAR."
53 posted on 06/12/2018 8:50:17 AM PDT by damper99
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To: SeekAndFind

I remember when Tapper was the 2nd coming of Tim Russert. What happened to him?


54 posted on 06/12/2018 8:50:27 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: spincaster

How can Tapper even have a job in journalism?


55 posted on 06/12/2018 8:51:00 AM PDT by spincaster ( AM A)
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To: SeekAndFind

One more reason why the Establishment Media is flailing and collapsing.


56 posted on 06/12/2018 8:51:49 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, Jakie, I suppose your right. I guess Millard Fillmore COULD have put a man on the moon by the end of his decade.


57 posted on 06/12/2018 8:52:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

The approach that Tapper is defending led to nuclear testing, missiles fired over Japan and other allies, and a threat to the west coast of the United States.

I think it’s worth trying an alternative approach now.


58 posted on 06/12/2018 8:52:41 AM PDT by AC86UT89
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To: Digger

Sure, other Presidents COULD have taken this stance with the Kingdom of North Korea. But they didn’t. So Jake’s point is entirely moot.

The tide not taken at its flood leaves the hesitant floundering in the shoals and shallows.


59 posted on 06/12/2018 8:53:25 AM PDT by alloysteel ("No" is a complete sentence. On so many levels.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, they didn’t. They were lazy cowards.


60 posted on 06/12/2018 8:54:40 AM PDT by CodeToad
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