Lindsey Graham Says Kim Jong Un Should Meet With Trump If He Wants to 'Survive

Town Hall ^ | 5/17/2018 | Lauretta Brown

[Signalman]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) had a message for North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un Wednesday during an interview with Fox’s Martha McCallum.

“Here’s what’s crazy,” Graham said, “to keep building ICBMs that can deliver a nuclear weapon to America and believe that Donald Trump won’t do anything about it, that probably worked with Obama but I’m here to tell North Korea that our president has drawn a red line.”

“If you keep threatening the American homeland with a nuclear weapon we’re going to destroy your regime,” he warned. “It's that simple.”

“So if you want to survive, Kim Jong Un, you need to sit down with the president and do a deal giving up your nukes,” Graham concluded. “If you keep doing what you're doing, you are miscalculating Donald Trump. He's not Obama. You do this at your own peril."

North Korea threatened Wednesday to pull out of the planned summit with President Trump if the U.S. demands that it unilaterally abandons its nuclear program in exchange for economic aid.

President Trump said that the U.S. had not heard any official word from North Korea regarding the summit and "we'll see what happens."

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, told reporters that North Korea's statement was "something that we fully expected."

"If they want to meet we'll be ready, and if they don't, that's OK too," she said.

[Ancesthntr]

Linda is playing Bad Cop. Does a good job of it, given his record of never opposing any conflict we’ve ever been in, and wanting to be in a whole lot more that we weren’t.

Though he isn’t wrong - pointing nuke-armed rockets at the US, and actively threatening us with them, is not a good long-term survival strategy. All the President needs to do is unhook the chain keeping “Mad Dog” in check, and a whole world of whupp ass will be landing on NK within hours, if not minutes.

Personally, I think that Kim is just bargaining, similar to how Trump bargains: aggressively. He’ll be at that meeting, and agree to pretty much anything. Why? Because DJT let the Chinese know that he isn’t Obama, and that if they don’t put a muzzle on their attack dog very quickly and effectively, that we’ll shoot the dog and put their economy in the crapper with tariffs. China is making him more pliable.