Alarming gullibility
By Jennifer Rubin
February 25 at 1:30 PM
If you don’t recall a slew of senators and the intelligence community expressing panic about a president’s meeting with a third-world dictator whose radical ideology and intention were well known, it’s not just you. What we are hearing now in anticipation of President Trump’s second North Korea summit is unprecedented ...
... Trump not only seems willing to ignore some of the world’s worst human rights abuses but also affirmatively touts the abuser’s credentials and skills ...
One would like to believe Trump is attempting to snow Kim Jong Un ... However, it is much worse: As we saw at the Singapore summit, Trump is fooling himself, imagining his personal charm bears concrete results.
Trump’s delusional mind-set makes him a sitting duck for Kim to trade flattery (of Trump) for concessions (from Trump). Kim already achieved a level of respectability no other North Korean leader has attained — without a single meaningful and irreversible concession — simply by virtue of a summit that turned into a PR coup ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/25/trumps-biggest-problem-isnt-corruption/?utm_term=.bf16cb6cf98b
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