{"id":35771,"date":"2019-03-03T00:05:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T00:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35771"},"modified":"2019-03-03T00:05:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T00:05:13","slug":"how-in-the-world-can-potus-like-a-murderous-tyrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35771","title":{"rendered":"How in the world can POTUS &#8216;like&#8217; a murderous tyrant?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/trump-meets-with-kim-jong-un.png.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35773\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/trump-meets-with-kim-jong-un.png-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/trump-meets-with-kim-jong-un.png-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/trump-meets-with-kim-jong-un.png-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/trump-meets-with-kim-jong-un.png.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s best friends among the ranks of world leaders seem to have something in common. They&#8217;re tyrants, strongmen, autocrats, dictators . . . any and\/or all of the above.<\/p>\n<p>His latest demonstration of such were his statements about how much he <em>likes<\/em> North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Un. It begs the critical question: How is it that the president of the United States of America <em>&#8220;like&#8221;<\/em> someone such as Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, Kim Jong Un is starving his people while he lives in relative opulence; Kim has murdered members of his own family because they disagree with his policies; he terrorizes his subjects mercilessly; he threatens South Korea with nuclear annihilation.<\/p>\n<p>Then he lied about not knowing about the imprisonment of an American college student, Otto Warmbier, who then was relegated to a vegetative state and released; Warmbier died as a result of his captivity.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he believes Kim&#8217;s denial that he was aware of Warmbier&#8217;s mistreatment.<\/p>\n<p>He groveled at Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, who denied attacking our electoral system in 2016. Trump swallowed Putin&#8217;s denial over the assessment of the nation&#8217;s intelligence community that determined the Russians did attack us in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>When a U.S. resident journalist was killed in Turkey by Saudi agents, Trump accepted the denial that Saudi prince Mohammad bin Salman ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s latest display of infatuation with a tyrant &#8212; Kim Jong Un &#8212; reveals a dangerous trend. The president of the United States &#8212; who occupies the most powerful office on Earth &#8212; acts with astonishing <em>weakness<\/em> when he takes the word of a killer.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s best friends among the ranks of world leaders seem to have something in common. They&#8217;re tyrants, strongmen, autocrats, dictators . . . any and\/or all of the above. His latest demonstration of such were his statements about how much he likes North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Un. It begs the critical question: How &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35771\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How in the world can POTUS &#8216;like&#8217; a murderous tyrant?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7932,5],"tags":[8049,2681,8135,3335,5125],"class_list":["post-35771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-international-news","tag-jamal-khashoggi","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-mohammad-bin-salman","tag-north-korea","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35774,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35771\/revisions\/35774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}