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Posted on 06/08/2018 4:40:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Americans should “be rooting” for President Donald Trump at next week’s U.S.-North Korea summit on denuclearization, former President Bill Clinton said Thursday.
“I think we should be rooting for [Trump] to succeed with the North Korea negotiations,” Clinton said in an interview with PBS NewsHour managing editor and anchor Judy Woodruff.
Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are meeting June 12 in Singapore to discuss ending the regime’s nuclear weapons program — a goal that has eluded previous U.S. presidents, including Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Clinton.
The summit could be successful even if it doesn’t produce a full denuclearization deal, Clinton said, so long as North Korea makes other commitments such as allowing inspectors to monitor its nuclear weapons program.
Next week’s talks, at a resort on Sentosa Island, will be the first ever meeting between a North Korean leader and sitting U.S. president. Clinton called South Korean President Moon Jae-in a “genius” for helping broker the talks.
Trump has expressed optimism ahead of the summit, while cautioning that talks might not result in a final deal and could take longer than one day. CNN reported Thursday that Trump and Kim could meet for a second day if the first day of negotiations goes well.
“Anything we can do to reduce that threat [of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program] is a positive thing,” Clinton said.
Clinton spoke to the NewsHour alongside best-selling author James Patterson, with whom he co-wrote “The President is Missing,” a thriller about a fictional president’s response to a cyber attack. The book was released this month, putting Clinton back in the spotlight two years after his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was defeated by Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
Other highlights from the interview:
• Defending NAFTA: Clinton defended the North American Free Trade Agreement, his signature trade deal with Canada and Mexico. “On balance we’re a lot better off” because of NAFTA, Clinton said. But said the agreement — which he signed in 1993 — “needs to be upgraded.”
• Have Democrats moved in the direction of protectionism on trade? When asked by Woodruff, Clinton said yes. “But we pretty well know who is going to be hurt in a trade agreement — who will be helped, will be hurt. We should get our money on the front end from now on, but otherwise, I still believe in trade.”
• Is a cyber attack the most serious threat the U.S. faces? Clinton, whose new book is about a fictional cyber attack, said while a chemical, biological or nuclear attack could kill more people more quickly, “it is more likely that a serious cyber attack could do a massive amount of damage and be successful.” The comments come weeks after the White House eliminated its top cyber security adviser position. The annual report from the director of national intelligence identifies cyber security as the No. 1 threat to the U.S.
CF have made their $$$ from that deal and the check is cashed, no doubt.
Say what you want about Bill Clinton but he’s a gifted politican (corrupt to the core but still, good at politics). He reads the tea leaves WAY better than his stupid whiny entitled wife does. I have zero belief that he really is rooting for Trump. So why say it? His instincts tell him that a success by Trump here would be considered huge by the voters and he doesn’t want to be on record as opposing it. He’s sending a message to other dems to do the same but they are demented and won’t take his advice.
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If Hillary is smart, she won’t say anything.
The reason that Clinton (Bill, that is) was successful was that he was pragmatic. When things were against him, he tacked his sails to the wind. Hence the approval of various GOP programs under his watch.
I didn’t like him at all, and he went out of his way to be insulting to social conservatives. But basically he was all about Bill, so even when he was theoretically opposed to something, if he thought it might work to his advantage, he did it. Not saying this was good, but it was sure a lot better and more American than Obama, who ignored all input from any source and just went ahead with his ideological program.
I am shocked he said this!!
Bill Clinton must be interested in North Korean women.
His Slickness speaks...
Kim Cheat
Bill Clinton actually said something reasonable?
Has that ever happened before?
Exactly. Bill wants to get on Trump’s good side when the $hit hits the fan/Hillary.
It’s been in question as to whether Bill gave them outright weapons. But he did give them the supercomputers to raise the level of the cake they have in Korea from industrial grade to weapons grade, (reason for Ron Brown’s death), and, through China, gave them the MRV tracking program so they can sight their missiles. So, he didn’t have his finger on their weapons launching, but he sold them the button and how to use it to hit something manual.
rwood
Loral missile guidance technology and cray supercomputers after they gave al gore envelopes with 5,000 each at the dem fund raiser at the biuddhist temple in Rowland Heights CA
Gore said he didn’t know what was in the envelopes. I guess she routinely puts things in his suit pocket and doesn’t know what they are.
The Clinton Global Crime Initiative Foundation must be profiting somehow for Slick Willy to say that!
Democrat platitudes meant for the gullible
Yeah? So what’s up with that?
I don’t trust the man as far as I can throw him.
Did we ever think we would see the day when Bill Clinton was the most rational and honest man in the Democrat Party? THAT'S how far the DNC has dragged them into the depths.
#26 I hope so. They got worms!
Sometimes i wonder if Hillary was president when he was in office. He acts like a kid in a candy story. Says and does whatever comes to mind while people around him are murdered.
"The summit could be successful even if it doesn’t produce a full denuclearization deal, Clinton said, so long as North Korea makes other commitments such as allowing inspectors to monitor its nuclear weapons program."
Just what this whole process needs, a Hans Blix type from the UN.
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