Gary Johnson Won’t (Or Can’t) Name North Korea’s Leader

Republican presidential candidate, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson speaks during an interview Monday morning, Dec. 12, 2011 in the lobby of a Hampton Inn and Suites in Clearwater, Fla. Johnson was in Clearwater t... Republican presidential candidate, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson speaks during an interview Monday morning, Dec. 12, 2011 in the lobby of a Hampton Inn and Suites in Clearwater, Fla. Johnson was in Clearwater to speak at a public event organized by local Libertarian party members, the Save America Foundation, and the 1787 Network. (AP Photo/St. Petersburg Times, Jim Damaske) MORE LESS
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Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is tired of answering the media’s foreign policy questions.

Asked by The New York Times on Wednesday if he knew the name of North Korea’s leader, Johnson said, “I do.”

“You want me to name” the person, he added. “Really.”

Yet Johnson did not go on to name Kim Jong Un.

The brief exchange recalled the former New Mexico governor’s prior high-profile slip-ups and omissions on issues of foreign policy.

Johnson infamously asked “What is Aleppo?” when questioned about how he would help the besieged Syrian city as president, and he himself said he was having an “Aleppo moment” after failing to identify a single foreign leader he admired during a recent Libertarian town hall.

Johnson has argued that his lack of foreign policy knowledge would prevent him from recklessly putting “our military in harm’s way.”

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  1. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    I’m beginning to wonder if he’s just gaming the media, because if it weren’t for gaffes, he’d get no coverage.

    Getting tiresome, in any case, imo.

  2. Disqualified for stupidity. Yet he is polling at 7%. And Trump is at 43%.
    What the hell, America?! Snap out of it!

  3. Paging Bill Weld. Time to close down the clown show.

  4. Avatar for trnc trnc says:

    I would love to see the evidence to support the idea that not knowing things leads to good decision making.

  5. I can see why he would think that the media is out to get him with these questions. What I don’t see is how HE doesn’t see that if he answered just one of these questions right the media just may lay off for a while. He doesn’t want to answer the media’s questions on foreign policy, what the hell was he planning on doing in a debate had he made it in? Brain fart his way through? Do brain farts smell? He’d be convicted of war crimes for the use of chemical warfare by the end of the 90mins.

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