John Bolton said his opinion 'doesn’t matter' on the involvement of Kim Jong Un in the death of Otto Warmbier
Bolton on Sunday defended the president, telling Tapper, Trump "made it very clear" he considers what happened to Warmbier "an act of brutality that's completely unacceptable to the American side."
"The fact is, the best thing North Korea could do right now would be to give us a full accounting of what happened and who was responsible for it," he added. The parents of Warmbier issued a statement on Friday, where they said "Kim and his evil regime are responsible for the death of our son Otto. … No excuses or lavish praise can change that." Trump seeminglyWarmbier was arrested in January 2016 after North Korean officials accused him of trying to steal a propaganda poster. He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor, but released 17 months later on June 13, 2017, after sustaining significant brain damage. Warmbier died days later.
"When he says, 'I'm going to take him at his word,' it doesn't mean that he accepts it as reality. It means that he accepts that was what Kim Jong Un said," Bolton said on "Fox News Sunday."
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