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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSantorum Calls Trump Defense Of Kim Over Warmbier's Death 'Reprehensible'
By Nicole Lafond
February 28, 2019 9:53 am
President Trump taking North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un at his word over the death of American student Otto Warmbier is reprehensible, according to Rick Santorum, former Pennsylvania senator and a staunch supporter of Trumps policies.
This is reprehensible what he just did, he told CNN Thursday. He gave cover, as you said, to a leader who knew very well what was going on with Otto Warmbier and I again, I dont understand why the President did this. I am disappointed, to say the least, that he did it.
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During a press conference on Thursday when Trump announced he was walking away from a possible denuclearization compromise with North Korea Trump told reporters that he believed Kim when he told him that he didnt know about the torture of Warmbier, an American student who was arrested and held in North Korea for a year and a half for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster. Warmbier was finally returned to the U.S. in 2017, but he died upon arrival. Doctors say he was in a coma for more than a year.
Trumps defense of Kims knowledge of Warmbiers treatment is befuddling given the public nature of Warmbiers case. The college student was even forced to hold a press conference to beg for his freedom after he was arrested.
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Santorum Calls Trump Defense Of Kim Over Warmbier's Death 'Reprehensible' (Original Post)
DonViejo
Feb 2019
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mitch96
(13,942 posts)1. All of a sudden these idiots are having their coming to Jesus moment
Rats scurrying off a sinking ship??
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EarlG
(21,990 posts)2. "I don't understand why the President did this"
CDerekGo
(507 posts)3. Really?
Folks are NOW just realizing that tRump admires and buttlicks ALL dicktators?
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)4. Mild criticism of an obviously dumb move is not abandoning Trump.
Call me when Santorum says Trump is a criminal or unfit to be President.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)5. Piss off, Frothy
We don't need your crocodile tears.
Danmel
(4,940 posts)6. To paraphrase Lyndon Johnson
When you've lost Santorum, you've lost America.
(Please!)
edhopper
(33,658 posts)7. broken clock
still supports children dying in cages.