Posted on 06/12/2018 6:57:30 PM PDT by libh8er
The George W. Bush Presidential Center is tweeting out coverage and analysis of human rights abuses in North Korea, just one day after President Trump’s historic summit with the country’s leader on Tuesday.
The center has shared older posts on the human rights violations as well as pieces arguing for human rights to be included in future talks with North Korea.
Asked about the posts, a spokesperson for the Bush Center told The Hill that it was “simply sharing content that we work on every day within our Human Freedom Initiative.”
The spokesperson did not directly respond to an emailed question about whether the center was advocating for Trump to raise the human rights issues with North Korean leaders, or whether the former president or his office had any involvement in the decision to highlight the issue.
One of the pieces promoted on Tuesday is a Bush Center interview with North Korean dissident and author Kang Chol-Hwan, who escaped from the country after spending 10 years in a prison camp.
The center has also shared a video by the Bush Institute Deputy Director of Human Freedom Lindsay Lloyd advocating for the U.S. to raise the human rights abuses in future talks with North Korea.
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Thanks a bunch, you worthless Bushies!
“Politics ends at the water’s edge”. Yeah, right.
How appropriate for the Bushes to share what they were able to accomplish with North Korea.
FU GW, and your family, too!
NK's human rights abuses are only in the news because of Trump.
If a Democrat President talked to Kim, they would ignore it, just like the media and previous administrations ignored Iran's human rights abuses during the "deal."
If Trump met with Cuban officials tomorrow they would throw the Castros under the bus.
The media and Left are total, effing, hypocrites.
Remind me what George H.W. Bush did about China’s human rights violations after Tiananmen Square. . .
Well...the Bushs could *list* them, but they obviously couldn’t *fix* them.
Not the worst president, but GWB was certainly the most disappointing to me.
What we should do is just let it fester until NK unleashes a nuke on SK or Japan, and then we nuke NK out of existence. That’ll teach them to better serve human rights. /s
Guess who has a birthday today? No, not The Donald, he will be 71 y/o in two days on 6/14.
Today, George Herbert Walker Bush has turned 94 y/o.
I respect his service to the country and devotion to his wife (in spite of enduring rumors), but I think less of Mr Bush as a gentleman since the campaign of 2016. The Bushes showed us their real faces when it was clear Jeb! was not going to cinch the nomination. The passive-resistant backstabbing continues under the radar to this very day. Sad!
I guess Bush, obama, Schumer, CNN, MSNBC, etc., ad nauseam, would like to see a state of perpetual hostilities between the Norks and the rest of the world. Trump could cure cancer and heart disease and they would complain that he’s putting doctors out of work. Sheesh!
Hard to believe how many crappy, outright crappy horrible presidencies we have had to endure between Reagan and Trump! I feel bad for conservatives who never got to witness this amazing president!
Sneaky, bitter little neocon’s acting out.
George W. Bush was president for 8 years.
Exactly what did he do to address human rights abuses in NK during those 8 years?
Can “W” even read?
There’s nothing that a Bush, Clinton, or Obama can say that I would much believe.
Bush has truly turned out to be a real POS. Jealous that Trump accomplished easily what he and his worthless father couldn’t.
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