President Trump’s national security adviser says that his opinion about whether Kim Jong Un knew about the torture of Otto Warmbier in North Korea is irrevelant.
National security adviser John Bolton, a lifelong hawk toward North Korea, declined to give an opinion Sunday on the responsibility of Kim Jong Un for the death of American college student Otto Warmbier, who was held prisoner by the regime and died in 2017, after being sent home in a coma.
“You’re the national security adviser to the president,” Jake Tapper, the show’s host, told Bolton. “Your opinion matters quite a bit.”In 2017, before he joined the administration, Bolton told Fox News that the treatment of Warmbier was “barbaric, but typical for this regime.” "People in the media seem to have the impression that administration officials kind of comment from the distance, as if I were a Fox News contributor, as I used to be," Bolton said."I don't do that anymore."
“You know, you got a lot of people, big country, a lot of people,” he continued. “And in those prisons and those camps, you have a lot of people, and some really bad things happened to Otto. Some really, really bad things.”Warmbier’s parents, who credited Trump with getting their son returned to the U.S. — he died shortly after, without regaining consciousness — were sharply critical of Trump’s new eagerness to give Kim the benefit of the doubt.
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