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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu May 24, 2018, 11:52 AM May 2018

'A classic example of his incompetence': Korea expert explains how Trump botched Kim nuke talks

Frank Jannuzi, a former Democratic staffer on the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, is not surprised that President Donald Trump cancelled his planned summit with North Korea — and he calls it a “classic example” of the president’s “incompetence.”

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/classic-example-incompetence-expert-korea-explains-trump-botched-kim-nuke-talks/
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'A classic example of his incompetence': Korea expert explains how Trump botched Kim nuke talks (Original Post) DonViejo May 2018 OP
Not so much incompetence, I suspect, as bad faith. sandensea May 2018 #1
Very good. Thank you for posting this. sunRISEnow May 2018 #2
Read later Fullduplexxx May 2018 #3

sandensea

(23,186 posts)
1. Not so much incompetence, I suspect, as bad faith.
Thu May 24, 2018, 11:59 AM
May 2018

Cheeto wants to be a war president, and has repeatedly said as much (even musing that "something like 9/11" would be to his benefit, as it was for Bush).

I suspect that what he told his toadies was: "sabotage the talks - but make it look like Rocket Man did it."

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