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EL AVIVPresident Donald Trumps lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un got on his hands and knees and begged for their summit to be held after Mr. Trump canceled it last month.
Mr. Giuliani counseled a similar approach to Trump administration negotiations with Palestinian officials in a future Middle East peace process.
Speaking at an investment conference in Israel hosted by the Globes newspaper, Mr. Giuliani said Mr. Trump canceled the summit last month because senior North Korean officials insulted top Trump administration officials.
They also said they were going to go to nuclear war with us, they were going to defeat us in a nuclear war, Mr. Giuliani said. We said were not going to have a summit under those circumstances.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/kim-jong-un-begged-for-summit-on-his-hands-and-knees-giuliani-says-1528293476
I for one am relieved the "adults" are in charge.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)to state in public the hands and knees thing right before the summit.
Hugin
(33,379 posts)Extremely doubtful.
Incredulous even.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)If he hears this, he'll probably back down again. Not that I'm rooting for Cheeto, but if negotiations stand a chance at all, we don't facilitate it by insulting the opponent before the fact.
maxsolomon
(33,582 posts)Same with Kim.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Trump pleaded with Kim and his minion he wanted the meeting. He needs it badly to falsely promote himself with more lies and wild claims, and to use as another PR event, and to distract attention away from his conspiring with Putin to win the election , and become an illegitimate President installed by putin.
C_U_L8R
(45,079 posts)What the heck is wrong with Joolianee?? Does he have dementia?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,487 posts)and Fluffer-In-Chief Rudy is just saying that to keep Spanky erect for the occasion. However, he fails Diplomacy 101 to say something that demeaning in public, since Kim is another thin-skinned asshole who needs constant adoration and might not appreciate being depicted, falsely or otherwise, as begging.
I just don't think this whole thing will go very well.
Hugin
(33,379 posts)They're lowering expectations to the point that unless the two of them pull guns on each other or soil themselves, it'll be called a YUGE success and accolades will be passed around.
The word "Presidential" will be uttered all across the RW Wurlitzer. Plans for more meetings to schedule meetings will be made (at choice Trump Properties all across the Globe at full per diem. NO DISCOUNTS!)... Nothing will change.
Trump will still not get a Nobel Prize... Ever. For anything.
JHB
(37,181 posts)...if by "summit" he means "get laid", well then sure, it probably happened.
Brother Buzz
(36,551 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)MineralMan
(146,400 posts)And STFU on your way out the door, please. It's not that I think anything good will come from this Singapore "deal." It's just that you're a complete moron and have no idea how diplomacy is conducted. Begone, sirrah!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,234 posts)worldly and experienced and mature etc than Rump
Yet he still picks a lousy time to make something up and lie about a foreign leader, wow.
Takket
(21,874 posts)Chickensoup
(650 posts)What a nightmare .
C_U_L8R
(45,079 posts)It's an orange hairball vomited on the carpet of our country
demmiblue
(37,054 posts)global1
(25,377 posts)How stupid is Ghouliani to make a statement like that just days before this meeting. Wait till Kim Jong Un gets a whiff of that. It almost looks like this statement was meant to crash this meeting.
CrispyQ
(36,746 posts)Can I get off the island, please?
uppityperson
(115,685 posts)What a stupid thing to say, either way.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Lord save us
uppityperson
(115,685 posts)Atman
(31,464 posts)These people are absolute joke.
Nitram
(23,319 posts)nolabear
(42,047 posts)The fact this fool is talking to anybody about anything is stunning.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,531 posts)are trying to get around The Toddler.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)nolabear
(42,047 posts)Jesus, he's like a senile old bull in a china shop.
BootinUp
(47,333 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)that has done it not the other person or party.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Giuliani is a real gift to the Dump administration, huh?
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)sdfernando
(5,001 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,531 posts)make it all alright again (not like it was to begin with but....).
PoorMonger
(844 posts)Just as soon as this is read by Kim. These people are all so damn stupid.