Pelosi On Trump’s Warmbier Remark: ‘It’s Strange’ Trump Chooses To Believe ‘Thugs’

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 28: U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) answers questions during her weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol February 28, 2019 in Washington, DC. Pelosi answered a range of que... WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 28: U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) answers questions during her weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol February 28, 2019 in Washington, DC. Pelosi answered a range of questions during her press conference related primarily to the testimony of Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for U.S. President Donald Trump. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi reacted to President Trump’s defense of Kim Jong-un in the death of Otto Warmbier by drawing a parallel to Trump’s affinity for believing other “thugs” like Russian President Vladimir Putin over his own officials.

“I don’t think Kim Jong-un is on the level and the President has believed Putin as opposed to believing his own intelligence leadership on subjects, so, again, I didn’t know the President had said that, but it’s strange,” she said during her weekly press conference. “I don’t know, it’s something wrong with Putin, Kim-Jong-un, in my view thugs, that the President chooses to believe.”

Critics drew the same conclusion after Trump told reporters that he took Kim at his word when he denied knowing what happened to Warmbier while he was imprisoned in North Korea for a year and a half and returned to the U.S. in a coma. He died six days later. Doctors say he was in a coma for more than a year.

Similar to Kim, Trump has said he believed Putin when he denied Russian interference in the 2016 election. He’s also sided with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman after Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered and dismembered by Saudi officials, despite intelligence that concluded bin Salman was aware of the murder plot.

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  1. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    It’s really not strange at all, but we do have to speak in the appropriate code. And we can emphasize that it should be strange when the President of the United States speaks in this way.

  2. Thugs of a feather gotta stick together, amirite Donnie 2 Scoops?

  3. That Trump put so much blame on Obama when the North Koreans sent Warmbier back in essentially a body bag helps illustrate why his love affair with and absolution of Kim is so ridiculous and unpatriotic.

    I wonder if the Warmbiers are still as high in Trump as they were then

  4. The only outlier here is Maduro. I was thinking Trump’s motive in keeping his distance from him was to “bash the socialists,” but again, Kim. So I can’t really say why Maduro hasn’t been able to join the Putin-Kim-Duterte-etc. Club

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