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Chuck Schumer: Trump has given a ‘brutal and repressive dictatorship’ legitimacy
The Hill ^ | 06/13/2018 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 06/13/2018 7:38:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday criticized a joint diplomatic statement released a few hours before from President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un as lacking detail and giving Kim too much room to back out.

Schumer said by meeting with Kim, Trump has given “a brutal and repressive dictatorship the international legitimacy it has long craved.”

“It is best not to dive in head first and hope for the best but rather to work slowly, transparently and verifiably to build trust and lock in concessions,” Schumer warned.

Schumer argued the agreement lacks detail on achieving a pathway to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, on how the United States may verify that North Korea has disarmed and on how to ensure that North Korea stops enriching plutonium and uranium.

“The document is short on details,” Schumer said. “As we have learned in the wake of the collapse of the 1994 and 2005 agreements, North Korea is liable to backtrack on vague commitments as soon as it's in their interest.”

Schumer argued that Kim has “a history” of backing out of agreements and raised concern that the North Korean leader may not make any further concession now that he scored the public relations coup of meeting with a U.S. president as an equal on the international stage.

“It is worrisome, very worrisome, that this joint statement is so imprecise,” he added.

Schumer said he was also very troubled by Trump agreeing to suspend joint military exercises with South Korea, the United States's longtime ally.

Schumer defended those exercises as legal and said they were given up for the “mere hope” that North Korea will freeze its “illegal nuclear testing regime.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Japan; News/Current Events; Russia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bigmouthschmuck; charlesschumer; china; chuckschumer; donaldtrump; japan; kimjongun; korea; maga; newyork; northkorea; pyongyang; republicofkorea; russia; schumer; trump; upchuckschumer
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To: Red Badger

Bravo! Well done.


21 posted on 06/13/2018 7:49:19 AM PDT by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: SeekAndFind

What did Chucky have to say about Obama’s deal with Iran?

Moron.

How does he feel about Obama secretly going around banking laws to help Iran?

If only we had an honest media. These bums would be long gone.


22 posted on 06/13/2018 7:49:34 AM PDT by No Socialist
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To: rktman

You said it.


23 posted on 06/13/2018 7:49:55 AM PDT by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Schmuck Schumer would be fine with a deal where president Trump gave Kim billions of dollars in cash for a deal nobody could read. He loved the iran deal where obama shipped pallets of cash to the mullahs in unmarked planes. Chuck wasn't worried about that.
24 posted on 06/13/2018 7:50:42 AM PDT by Peeps47 (Democrats are as corrupt as they are incompetent)
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To: SeekAndFind
Ignoring North Korea out of existence didn't work. It was time for plan B.

25 posted on 06/13/2018 7:51:19 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: ripnbang

Had it not been for Clinton and Obama he might still be years away from having the bomb.


26 posted on 06/13/2018 7:51:21 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Red Badger

Hey - isn’t that the cleaning lady?

Ha! Although I CAN understand the mistake...


27 posted on 06/13/2018 7:52:04 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: jeffc

The problem is that Obama would not have done what Trump has done. He would have given them concessions, which Schumer and his ilk would have been fine with.

Our side would have been complaining about any deal with NK that Obama would have fronted...and rightly so!


28 posted on 06/13/2018 7:52:11 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: SeekAndFind

You can always expect the author, Alexander Bolton, to parrot democrap party lines.


29 posted on 06/13/2018 7:52:20 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Or in Obama’s treatment of Castro and his thugs?


30 posted on 06/13/2018 7:52:20 AM PDT by GOPJ ("NORMS HAVE CHANGED ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN DO TO SOMEONE AGAINST THEIR WILL." - predator Bill Clinton)
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To: SeekAndFind

If we can’t talk to “brutal” leaders, we can’t talk to dozens of world leaders from China to Russia to Mexico to African leaders to S. American Leaders to middle east leaders ……...


31 posted on 06/13/2018 7:52:22 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind

When bammy s***ed the iran mullahs’ d***s, that was what? Bam gave them a deal that was all benefit to them, and no benefit to us, as befits a man who hid his membership in the religion of peace and who used his presidency to benefit and promote the religion of peace.


32 posted on 06/13/2018 7:52:27 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism, like insanity, is the denial of reality.)
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To: SeekAndFind
POTUS did all the right moves in this first meeting....President Trump stopped the military games to show good faith; Schumer knows this but can't help but find fault. POTUS recognizes Kim Jong Un's culture is different and will take time to change if at all. In short President Trump saved face for the little dictator...which will do much towards all talks.

Schumer is such a SCHUMK!

33 posted on 06/13/2018 7:52:46 AM PDT by yoe
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To: SeekAndFind

Chucky is upset that Trump suspended war games that weren’t scheduled to start until next year. By then, we’ll know if NK is serious and can restart them.

Don’t let facts get in the way of your political posturing.

Jack***


34 posted on 06/13/2018 7:52:56 AM PDT by No Socialist
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To: gov_bean_ counter

What total unbelievable hypocrisy! The Iran deal is not transparent, even today, years after it was signed. We are discovering new hidden things in it, all of them detrimental to the USA, including bribes and non-incentives for Iran to comply to anything.

North Korea, on the other hand, has been technically at war with us and S Korea for 65-70 years. Trump has begun a break-through that may lead to a peace in the peninsula. The end of a 65 year war does not happen in one step or treaty. Both sides have to see what each does as time passes before another step is taken.

Clearly, for dems, there is NOTHING Trump can do that is acceptable, no matter how much it helps the US or the world. Just as there was nothing, no matter how egregious, that Obama could do, that was not totally wonderful, full of hopey change.


35 posted on 06/13/2018 7:54:32 AM PDT by JohnEBoy
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To: rjsimmon

UpChuckie never met a brutal and repressive dictator he didn’t like.


36 posted on 06/13/2018 7:55:34 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Dumbass schumer says “move slowly”, then criticizes for not seeing “more detail” in the agreement (which is a result of moving a little at a time, i.e., “slowly”). What a dipstick.


37 posted on 06/13/2018 7:55:40 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: SeekAndFind

Schmuckie Schumer need not worry about losing more hair; his head will never sunburn...


38 posted on 06/13/2018 7:57:04 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias; "0bama": Allah's stooge; "Moderate Muslims": Allah's useful idiots.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What did Ocommie do for your Muslim buds in Iran, you unAmerican SOB?


39 posted on 06/13/2018 7:57:18 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Samantha BeeITCH . . . BOYCOTT CANADIAN Travel & Products BUY AMERICAN)
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To: SeekAndFind

” “a brutal and repressive dictatorship the international legitimacy it has long craved.””
I guess he is talking about the current Democrat party.


40 posted on 06/13/2018 7:58:25 AM PDT by Eternally-Optimistic (anything is possible)
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