Trump Suggests Cohen Testimony May Have Added To Failed Talks With North Korea

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - MARCH 02: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during CPAC 2019 on March 02, 2019 in National Harbor, Maryland. The American Conservative Union hosts the annual Conservative Political Ac... NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - MARCH 02: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during CPAC 2019 on March 02, 2019 in National Harbor, Maryland. The American Conservative Union hosts the annual Conservative Political Action Conference to discuss conservative agenda. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Trump suggested in a tweet on Sunday that the timing of his former attorney Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee “may have contributed” to failed denuclearization talks between the U.S. and North Korea.

White House officials have previously complained about the timing of Cohen’s testimony, during which the President’s former fixer claimed that Trump had previous knowledge of hush payments and the 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer, among other things.

After talks between Trump and Kim Jong-un failed last week, the White House said Trump had to “walk” away from from negotiations because Kim wouldn’t budge on his request for the U.S. to drop all sanctions against North Korea.

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  1. Well, that doesn’t reflect well on you, Donald…

  2. Always have to find someone to blame. Why don’t you stop sucking up to dictators?

  3. I think the Dotard’s “logic” must have been something like this: “Cohen’s spilling the beans about me makes it unlikely I will be relected and more likely that I’ll be run out of office. That would explain why Kim fell out of love with me and refused to give me what I need to get a Nobel prize.”

  4. Ya know what else never happens when a President is overseas? The President never flagrantly condemns his own intelligence community, criticizes other American leadership, or praises brutal dictators who have killed Americans. And while we’re at it, a President when on American soil never yells “John McCain is dead” to elicit cheers and jerking off by his cult.

  5. The whining never ends…

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