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Trump publicly opposes using CIA informants against North Korea's Kim

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 Trump hailed what he called a "beautiful" letter he received from Kim.

A beautiful letter. The best letter ever. A beautiful, beautiful, bestest letter in the history of the universe.

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U.S. President Donald Trump took a public stance against the use of CIA informants to spy on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday, saying it would not happen on his watch and possibly taking away a valuable tool of the U.S. intelligence community.

Pure Trump - coddle dictators and tyrants, and degrade and insult our own intelligence organizations and those of our allies. Imagine what Tillertson, Mattis and Kelly would be saying if they were still around. But the adults have all left. It's all kindergartners advising the Great Orange Fifth Grader now.

Quoting those same gentlemen, with every action or statement, he shows he is without a doubt "a danger to the republic"...

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What an absolute idiot, but as usual he is likely lying LOL!!

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Considering how deceptive the intelligence community has been, don’t blame him for not trusting them or wanting them to muck up things.

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Such a nice man.

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bass4funk: it is literally their job...

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the CIA is a rogue anti-Trump agency that probably wants to turn Kim against Trump in exchange for broader access to the international black-market drug racket.

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Every time I see a news like this, I ask myself "What if Obama did that ?".

Here, he would be called a traitor and Repubicans would impeach him in the hour.

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it is literally their job...

Which they seem to not have done so well over the past few years.

Every time I see a news like this, I ask myself "What if Obama did that ?".

The Media loved Obama so much, they probably would have done everything to bury it if that had happened.

North Korea keeps trying, but it’s not looking that great for them overall.

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A beautiful letter. The best letter ever. A beautiful, beautiful, bestest letter in the history of the universe.

Weak impersonation.

Here's what Trump would have said:

"It stands as one of the all-time great letters, Perhaps the greatest ever, but we'll see what happens in the near future. As you know, Leader Kim and I have a good relationship, I like him, he likes me, or at least I hope he likes me, but, we get along. Wouldn't it be great if we got along with countries like North Korea, and Russia? You used to have missiles flying over Japan; now? No missiles. No tests. No nothing. I consider that a win, the fake news media might not, but I do."

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Al lot of people who say they don't trust the intelligence agencies didn't have a problem with them until Trump arrived. Perhaps the proven scammer and known liar changed their minds with his unproven allegations.

Probably wasn't hard to do, either.

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Given what Trump has done to have an upper hand against his opponents whether it was Hillary Clinton in the last election and recently, China in the trade war, what Trump said about his ethics in dealing with North Korea must be laughable.

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"He kept his word. There's no nuclear testing. There's no large, there's no long-range missiles going up. The only things he's set up were very short term, short range. That was just a test of short range. It's a whole different deal, but he's kept his word to me. That's very important," the President said.

Meanwhile...

Earlier Tuesday, [John] Bolton had told the Wall Street Journal at a speaking event in Washington that North Korea is not complying with the terms agreed upon during Trump's first summit with Kim, in Singapore last year.

"What they've said was that they're not going to test ballistic missiles, intercontinental range ballistic missiles, or have nuclear tests. That's continued. They're doing a lot of other things that still indicate that they have not made a strategic decision to give up the pursuit of deliverable weapons, which is why we continue the maximum pressure campaign," Bolton said.

So which one shouldn't be believed, Trump or Bolton?

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The first Russian elected President of America will favour foreign interests, so nothing surprising.

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the CIA is a rogue anti-Trump agency that probably wants to turn Kim against Trump in exchange for broader access to the international black-market drug racket.

wow the Trump conspiracy contagion is getting to almost plague type proportions recently

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All this is just fine and dandy, but CIA contact or not, Kim Jong Un just plain murdered his half-brother in front of the whole civilized world.

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The CIA is secret and classified so you wouldn't know anything about their success rate

We have a lot of Wikileaks cables that says otherwise. Besides, now liberals are praising the CIA when during the Bush years they excoriated them! Lol, give me a break.

Yeah sure Fox and Friends would have been all over that and you know that stop spinning dude...

Apparently, you missed later during the Iraq war Bush was getting criticized a lot by....wait for it. FNC. Nice try as always....

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Apparently, you missed later during the Iraq war Bush was getting criticized a lot by....wait for it. FNC.

Say what?! It was during the Bush administration when I first realized that Fox "News" was in fact simply a Republican propaganda machine. The idea that they gave a proper balanced reporting of either Bush or the Iraq war is simply an attempt to rewrite history. Fortunately there are some of us here who remember reality.

Nice try as always....

Indeed, nice try as always.

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Say what?! It was during the Bush administration when I first realized that Fox "News" was in fact simply a Republican propaganda machine.

Ok if you think so, you’re entitled to your opinion and that’s one, so what about the 35 liberal propaganda machines spreading their junk?

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So now like Trump you too are a supporter of Wikileaks

I wouldn’t get the truth from the liberals, without them, we would have never known about Hillary and her hiding her servers and what she wrote in those emails, you bet I’m a supporter!

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I wouldn’t get the truth from the liberals, without them, we would have never known about Hillary and her hiding her servers and what she wrote in those emails, you bet I’m a supporter!

Wikileaks got the e-mails from Russia - by saying the above, there is no more clear statement you support Russian interference in our democracy.

They are now admitting it - no more spin or deception, Trumpers want Russia to openly interfere in our election to help elect their candidates.

Remember that next time you are thinking of voting for a Republican - they are aligned with Russia in a attempt to subvert our democracy. A vote for a Republican is a vote for Putin.

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StrangerlandToday  12:51 pm JST

If you don't mind, I'll ignore your attempt to redirect as a means of not addressing the original topic you brought up.

Just as well ignoring certain people altogether, it's like trying to talk back to someone on TV and it always seems to get comment threads disabled.

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So like Trump you think Assange is a great guy and don't support his extradition from Britain to face US courts?

Now I never said that.

It's not opinion

It’s an opinion 120 million would disagree with you, which ain’t no chump change.

we pointed out examples of it clearly while it was happening.

Same numbers don’t lie.

Even if such a thing exists,

They exist for a very, very long time.

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nah dont need to try you seem to spin in 360s

Read the cables, less emotion and watch the amazement flow.

I think most of us realize what your about bud

No, you don’t, you really don’t.

...keep up the good work.

Ditto

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It almost makes you feel bad for the hackers. They have to sit around glumly studying Hillary Clinton emails, listening to 18 hours of Radiohead studio outtakes without collecting ransom, and for exercise break skateboarding the musty hallways of Ecuadorian embassies. Not the healthiest lifestyle

Now multiple that tenfold of what the Democrats and the FBI and all those angry Democrat lawyers had to do to try and get to Trump and still failed, going on their second attempt and will fail at that, all that wasted time and effort....if you want to call it that.

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So also like Trump you only supported Assange enough when it was helping your cause but you don't give him a pass.

Oh, please! If the roles were switched the Democrats would have jumped on the opportunity, thinking or saying they wouldn’t is just dishonest, Dems use whatever leverage they have to gain a political advantage and the GOP will do the same. Dems have open borders and we have the NRA.

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So I guess no exploding cigar or poisoned cognac?

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No you can't just support Julian Assange/Wikileaks on the part you like,

I can do whatever I want.

You seem to have this problem with confusing whether or not one can do something with whether or not one should.

For example, when people say “Trump threatening to fire the Attorney General if they don’t interfere with the Special Counsel is obstruction of justice”, you respond “he can fire who he likes”. This is true, he can threaten to fire the Attorney General – but he shouldn’t.

This is like if your family confronted you for being an alcoholic, and said “your drinking is negatively affecting your work, your health, your relationships and your mind”, and you responded “it is legal for me to drink a bottle of whiskey every day”. That is also true, but it totally misses the point - you should not drink a bottle of whiskey every day, even if you legally can.

So it is here. You can openly be a hypocrite, supporting Wikileaks when it benefits you and slamming it as illegitimate when it doesn’t, but no-one will take you seriously. But then I think it’s too late on that front.

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You seem to have this problem with confusing whether or not one can do something with whether or not one should. 

I’m not in the slightest confused on the contrary...

For example, when people say “Trump threatening to fire the Attorney General if they don’t interfere with the Special Counsel is obstruction of justice”, you respond “he can fire who he likes”. This is true, he can threaten to fire the Attorney General – but he shouldn’t. 

And he didn’t.

So it is here. You can openly be a hypocrite,

We all have different definition of what a hypocrite is.

supporting Wikileaks when it benefits you and slamming it as illegitimate when it doesn’t, but no-one will take you seriously. But then I think it’s too late on that front.

As I have said, the Democrats do the same, whatever they can use to help their side they use. Even now the Dems are dragging out disgraced John Dean a disbarred has been lawyer who was literally was hated by every Democrat back in the day, but now they seek his council, the man who excoriated Reagan, Bush and now Trump. Give me a break.

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Donald Trump hates bloody war(Iran an exception)! He is a liberal especially when things matter with North Korea!  He believes the supreme dear leader "Kim Jon Un" aka K.J. will submit his dignity over a gold platter, lean forward and present to him humblely! This is his strategy!

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As I have said, the Democrats do the same, whatever they can use to help their side they use. Even now the Dems are dragging out disgraced John Dean a disbarred has been lawyer who was literally was hated by every Democrat back in the day, but now they seek his council, the man who excoriated Reagan, Bush and now Trump.

Take it from someone who was old enough to watch the Watergate hearings on TV - Dean was not despised by Democrats - he was lauded, by both parties, for not supporting the President's cover-up, but for speaking the truth about the corrupt Nixon administration. He's still viewed as a patriot.

But for sake of argument, you seem to be saying that Dems think one way, then another. OK, who said this?

“Hillary Clinton I think is a terrific woman,” he told Greta Van Susteren. “I am biased because I have known her for years. I live in New York. She lives in New York. I really like her and her husband both a lot. I think she really works hard. And I think, again, she’s given an agenda, it is not all of her, but I think she really works hard and I think she does a good job. I like her.

Give me a break.

Exactly...

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Trusting North Korea blindly - remember, North Korea already reneged on the 1990s deal by secretly continuing their nuclear program even though there was a deal

Don't go in blind, or you'll be played

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