.MaddowBlog: Pres. Trump tries to blame Democrats for his failed North Korea talks.
When Donald Trump canceled military training exercises with our South Korean allies last year, it was a tough decision to defend. It appeared that the American president had just handed a generous gift to North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in exchange for nothing, which Trump made worse by echoing the dictatorship’s rhetoric.It was not, however, a one-time change. NBC News reported the other day that the annual large-scale joint exercises conducted with South Korea every spring “will no longer be held.
In other words, U.S. national security policy is being shaped by the president’s desire to make North Korea happy – making this another victory for the rogue dictatorship, which the White House appears to have offered in exchange for nothing.
“For the Democrats to interview in open hearings a convicted liar & fraudster, at the same time as the very important Nuclear Summit with North Korea, is perhaps a new low in American politics and may have contributed to the ‘walk,’ ” he tweeted. “Never done when a president is overseas. Shame!”To hear the American president tell it, congressional oversight may have “contributed” to Trump’s inability to negotiate a deal with his pal in Pyongyang. In reality, Trump’s failures are his own.
As for his belief that last week’s hearing was somehow unprecedented, plenty of modern presidents have traveled abroad during congressional oversight hearings – it’s not like Republicans stopped pursuing Benghazi conspiracy theories when Barack Obama boarded Air Force One – but we haven’t heard Trump’s predecessors blame lawmakers when they failed to reach international agreements.
So what are we left with? A scandal-plagued American president, looking for someone to blame for his latest diplomatic failure, making new concessions to a rogue dictator who’s getting a lot more than he’s giving.
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