Haley Tweets Lukewarm Pushback After Trump Defense Of Kim Over Warmbier Death

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Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley posted a carefully worded tweet on Thursday after President Trump defended Kim Jong-un’s denials of knowledge of what happened to Otto Warmbier, the American student who was imprisoned in North Korea and died shortly after his return to the U.S.

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  1. That didn’t sound lukewarm. Not a fan at all, but that was pretty direct.

  2. Let’s see what nasty nickname does trump comes up for backstabbing, disloyal, ungrateful Nimrata …

  3. If it was direct it would call out Trump. This is standard boilerplate diplo pablum that doesn’t lay it at his feet.

  4. Avatar for schmed schmed says:

    No, direct would have been namechecking Trump and denouncing his support of a tyrannical regime forthrightly.

  5. Yep, at least for Diplospeak.

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