President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he thought there was a “good chance” three Americans held prisoner in North Korea would be released.
“We have been talking about them, we are negotiating now,” Trump told a reporter who asked if the President would insist on the prisoners’ release as a condition of his upcoming meeting with North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un. The comment came during a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe.
“We are doing our very best. As you know, they have been there a long time and it’s harsh treatment.”
“I think there’s a good chance of doing it,” he added. “We’re having very good dialogue. We will keep you informed. But we are in there and we are working very hard on that.”
In general, he said later, “this should have been taken care of by past administrations, when they were not nearly so far along.”
And just a touch of blaming his predecessor
Actually, Dotard, the last one the Norko’s released is pushing up the daisies as we speak…
Perhaps a prisoner exchange might work.
We’d take all three Americans for Trump, Pence, and an unindicted co-conspirator to be named later.
Two of those Americans were taken as prisoners during Trump’s presidency. It is unlikely that he knows the names of the three Americans nor when they were taken. I cannot stand his stupidity.
As I posted yesterday, I’m convinced, using Trump’s razor, that Trump thinks he’s in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize. He has to outdo Obama because he’s obsessed with Obama. It’s the stupidest possible motivation. And, not surprisingly, I noticed Trump trolls on Phillip Rucker’s twitter feed regarding the “secret” Pompeo trip, suggesting this very thing. This is all about Trump’s need for attention and adulation. I agree with Josh’s thread that if good comes out of this, we should take it. But I never stop to ask myself, “what’s in this for Trump? Who is he exploiting to self aggrandize?”