Opinion: The North Korea fiasco
President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi last month. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 25 at 11:15 AM President Trump’s inexplicable moves in contravention of advice and of the United States’ national security interests usually involve Russia.
You wonder at some point whether Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton will finally decide to quit, or whether their willingness to be humiliated is limitless. Even Trump’s usual allies aren’t trying to explain the inexplicable. CHUCK TODD: The president putting out this tweet, “It was announced today by the U.S. Treasury that additional large-scale sanctions would be added to those already existing sanctions on North Korea.
SEN. MARCO RUBIO: Yeah, it’s a little different obviously. I mean, the president is, has been involved in now two one-on-one negotiations with North Korea. … So, I’m not skeptical [about negotiations] because I want it to fail; I’m skeptical because I believe it will fail. Now why — how this happened, look, you have to ask the White House. I don’t know how they issued this and then suddenly he changed his mind. I don’t know the rationale behind it. Maybe it was a good reason.
The House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees need to call for hearings immediately and figure out what is going on.
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