Bill (05-02-2017)
OH. MY. GOD.
‘That’s not an American value’: CNN’s Jake Tapper issues brutal takedown of Trump’s dictator praise
CNN’s Jake Tapper on Monday issued a scathing takedown of Donald Trump’s attacks on “the Constitutional systems we have in place to protect the nation any theoretical, would-be dictator,” noting they come at a time “when President Trump has shown unusual actual outreach to a number of actual dictators.”
“Journalists are the enemies of the people, but [Trump] would be honored to meet Kim Jung-Un,” Tapper noted a the onset of “The Lead.”
“President Trump today saying he would be ‘honored’ to meet with North Korea’s despotic dictator under the right circumstances, and that is not even the first maniacal and murderous strongman he has opened up to in the past day,” Tapper added.
The CNN host pointed to Trump’s desire to change the Senate filibuster, before turning to Chief of Staff Reince Priebus’ assertion on Sunday that the Trump administration is “looking” at ways to change libel laws to make it easier to target journalistic institutions.
“The White House is now acknowledging that it has spent time and your tax dollars trying to figure out a way to change the modern legal interpretation of the First Amendment to the Constitution’s guarantee of freedom of the press,” Tapper said.
“James Madison be damned,” he added.
Tapper pointed out that Trump’s desire to change the Senate filibuster and libel laws, which “protect the nation from any theoretical, would-be dictator,” comes as the president continues his outreach to despotic dictators with little regard for the rights and freedoms afforded by the U.S. Constitution.
Referring to the president’s claim that Kim Jung-Un is a “pretty smart cookie,” Tapper explained, “Kim Jung-Un had his uncle murdered, that does not make Kim Jung-Un a ‘smart cookie,’ that makes him a murderer.”
“The Lead” host then turned to Trump’s praise of Rodrigo Duterte, stating the Philippines president okayed the “extra-judicial killings of at least 7,000 Filipino citizens by the police” and has in the past said “some journalists should be assassinated.”
“This is all of a piece,” Tapper said, adding Trump has previously heaped praise on Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Russian president Vladimir Putin, former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and former Libyan Prime Ministrer Muammar Gaddafi.
“Equating brutality and despotism with leaders—that’s not an American value,” Tapper said.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/that...ctator-praise/
What kind of country have we become?
One in which federal prosecutors can take “evidence” before a “grand jury,”
and that grand jury can “vote to indict” a former president for 91 alleged “crimes”?
Bill (05-02-2017)
Jake Tapper has been on a continual meltdown since the election. To the point he has a continual scorned look on his face. The man has lost it. Seriously.
The Sage of Main Street (05-05-2017)
Micawber (05-05-2017)
Granule (05-02-2017), leaningright (05-02-2017), MAGA MAN (05-02-2017)
This is nothing but political speak. Honored in Asia word has a slightly different impression than it does here. He is basically trying to give him a carrot before the stick.
anatta (05-02-2017), Cancel 2018.1 (05-02-2017), MAGA MAN (05-02-2017)
i hope someone meets with kim. Its not your OP i know but i dont know how else your going to prevent full scale war.
we ignored him for eight years and that didn't work........maybe its time to do something different......
It is amazing to see all the armchair generals on JPP who want to ramp up the rhetoric.
If Trump were to say Kim Jung Un is an asshole they would bitch about that
Of course while everyone's hair is on fire, they leave out that Trump qualified his statement by saying "if it were appropriate"
Liberals embarrass themselves. Maybe if they weren't bitching about everything everyday I could take them more seriously
I have yet to see all this harm they say Trump is bringing on America
Last edited by canceled.2021.1; 05-02-2017 at 07:09 AM.
nothing we did the last eight years worked. That is precisely the point.
Trump is a doer, and his critics can't stand him.
Two very positive traits in this case, being his critics are liberals.
Taking America back, one Senator, one house member, one Supreme Court Justice at a time
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Trump Is Coming back to a White House Near you
The Sage of Main Street (05-05-2017)
AND, Kim Jung bunghole is about to meet his maker
Trump doesn't draw red lines, his element of unpredictability had better be respected
This just In::: Trump indicted for living in liberals heads and not paying RENT
C̶N̶N̶ SNN.... Shithole News Network
Trump Is Coming back to a White House Near you
Trump is a player lol.
He can say something like that but nobody knows what's coming next. Especially, Bowl Cut.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
Kissinger: “demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one.”
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Cold War 2.0 Russia hysteria is turning people’s brains into guacamole.
We’ve got to find a way to snap out of the propaganda trance
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Buddha: "trust the person who seeks truth and mistrust the person who claims he has found it "
1.2.3.4.5.6.7. All Good Children Go to Heaven
Starting in 2003 I criticized bush for his phony war when there was a bigger threat from NK. And that was when Kim Jong Il was still the leader. But bush and his minions preferred to tell a gullible public that we were under imminent threat from Iraq.
Don't even think that ignoring N. Korea started with Obama.
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