"Trump’s consistent, unnecessary, escalating praise
for Kim merits the word “sickening.” Diplomacy may entail saying nice
things to bad people for good ends, but Trump’s language about Kim
represents a nauseating betrayal of American values — and a telling
exposure of Trump’s own.
“Hey, he’s a tough guy,” Trump told
Fox News’s Bret Baier. “When you take over a country — a tough country,
tough people — and you take it over from your father, I don’t care who
you are, what you are, how much of an advantage you have. If you can do
that at 27 years old, I mean, that’s 1 in 10,000 that could do that. So
he’s a very smart guy. He’s a great negotiator.”
Baier persisted: “But he’s still done some really bad things.”
Trump:
“Yeah, but so have a lot of other people have done some really bad
things. I mean, I could go through a lot of nations where a lot of bad
things were done.”
Shades of Trump’s moral
equivocating on Russian President Vladimir Putin (“There are a lot of
killers. We got a lot of killers,” Trump told Fox’s Bill O’Reilly last year. “What, you think our country is so innocent?”), but so much worse. Consider Trump’s own words
less than five months ago: “No regime has oppressed its own citizens
more totally or brutally than the cruel dictatorship in North Korea.”"
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