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kpete

(71,957 posts)
Sun Jul 22, 2018, 02:30 PM Jul 2018

SECRETARY JOHN KERRY: I found it shocking. I found it to be one of the most disgraceful, remarkable

Transcript: John Kerry on "Face the Nation," July 22, 2018

MARGARET BRENNAN: We traveled to Martha's Vineyard this week to talk with former Secretary of State John Kerry about his new book, "Every Day is Extra." We also took the opportunity to get his thoughts on President Trump's performance in Helsinki.

SECRETARY JOHN KERRY: I found it shocking. I found it to be one of the most disgraceful, remarkable moments of kowtowing to a foreign leader by an American president that anyone has ever witnessed. And it wasn't just that it was a kind of surrender. It's that it is dangerous. The president stood there and did not defend our country. He stood there and did not defend the truth, he did not defend the facts… and the danger, it's dangerous -- because it sends a message to President Putin and to the rest of the world that the President of the United States, the leader of the free world, really doesn't have a handle on what he's doing, and that he doesn't, you know, know either what the facts are or he won't accept the facts.


MARGARET BRENNAN: So you don't buy his walk back?

SECRETARY KERRY: I don't buy his walk back one second. And by the way, how can anyone buy walk back after walk back when you take positions here, and then you take positions over here and- and you're repetitively walking back and changing. We are at a point where after the documented untruths of this president- documented by many, many different media sources - that there is no credibility. You don't know whether to believe or not to believe, that's the worst situation you could have for a president of the United States in a dangerous world.




https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-john-kerry-on-face-the-nation-july-22-2018/
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SECRETARY JOHN KERRY: I found it shocking. I found it to be one of the most disgraceful, remarkable (Original Post) kpete Jul 2018 OP
Oh boy,Donnie ain't going to like this. Wellstone ruled Jul 2018 #1
It was abject surrender dalton99a Jul 2018 #2
He should have been President. Rorey Jul 2018 #3
He would have made a good president. nt leftyladyfrommo Jul 2018 #6
Came across my Kerry-Edwards yard sign madamesilverspurs Jul 2018 #4
SURRENDER, exactly what I called the GOP congress trip to Russia blm Jul 2018 #5

madamesilverspurs

(15,797 posts)
4. Came across my Kerry-Edwards yard sign
Sun Jul 22, 2018, 02:50 PM
Jul 2018

in the course of my recent move. Still have to wonder how differently our history would have been written.


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blm

(113,003 posts)
5. SURRENDER, exactly what I called the GOP congress trip to Russia
Sun Jul 22, 2018, 02:55 PM
Jul 2018

And why no media has picked up on that truth is disappointing. More of us need to use that word.

Thank you to a REAL American Patriot for calling it exactly what it is.

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