I’ve been wondering the same thing as TPM Reader GG all day long. It’s a whole other issue that the President’s private criminal defense attorney shouldn’t be opining, seemingly on his behalf, about high-stakes national security issues. But this comment … Rudy told a conference in Tel Aviv that “Kim Jong Un got back on his hands and knees and begged for it, which is exactly the position you want to put him in.”
What is going on with Team Trump appearing to go for the most inflammatory possible language in relation to Kim? Between Bolton’s Libya nonsense and Rudy’s “begging on his knees” remark, surely we have to note a pattern of extreme provocation that seems laser-focused on upending the summit.
A Director at Cambridge Analytica funneled secret cryptocurrency payments to Wikileaks.
David Taintor and I look at the evidence that Donald Trump got his Trump Tower meeting cover story from none other than Vladimir Putin in the new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast. Listen here.
