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Trump: Kim Jong Un deserves 'credit' for taking out rivals
The Hill ^ | January 9, 2016 | Bradford Richardson

Posted on 01/09/2016 10:09:03 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Republican primary front-runner Donald Trump says North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong-un deserves "credit" for the cutthroat efficiency with which he disposes of his political foes.

"If you look at North Korea, this guy, he's like a maniac, OK?" Trump said at a rally in Ottumwa, Iowa, on Saturday.

"And you've got to give him credit: How many young guys - he was like 26 or 25 when his father died - take over these tough generals and all of a sudden, you know, it's pretty amazing when you think of it. How does he do that?" he added.

“Even though it is a culture, and it’s a culture thing, he goes in, he takes over, he's the boss. It's incredible."

After North Korea's government said it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb earlier this week, Trump called the authoritarian leader a "madman playing around with nukes" and a "total nut job."

But he also insinuated that Kim had some admirable qualities.

"I mean, it's amazing that a young guy would go over and take over," Trump said Thursday on Fox News' "On the Record." "You know, you would have thought that these tough generals would have said no way this is gonna happen when the father died.

"So he's gotta have something going for him, because he kept control, which is amazing for a young person to do," he added.

Trump has previously praised other world leaders with less-than-stellar human rights records.

He called Russian President Vladimir Putin a "highly respected" man in global affairs, after the Russian strongman called Trump "bright and talented."


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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Trump must be rone-ry. Actually the way his mouth is in this photo - he kind of looks like Kim Jung Trump. (I am for Trump/Cruz by the way, but I still like to make fun of him.)
61 posted on 01/09/2016 11:13:12 PM PST by tinyowl (A equals A, And C Edmund Wright thinks I am an idiot and a Trump Sycophant)
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To: LMAO

C. All of the above.

: )


62 posted on 01/09/2016 11:14:06 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: MarchonDC09122009
This Reality show Art of the Deal showman is an expert at pandering to whoever he needs to achieve his goals.

If he were really praising Kim Jong Un, who exactly is it you think he would be endearing himself to, for benefit?

Honestly, it's just downright scary to follow the logic trail with some of you anti-Trump folks.

63 posted on 01/09/2016 11:15:04 PM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

John Effing Kerry - the guy who gave Iran nukes ... And 150 BILLION DOLLARS to buy the Russian missiles upon which to mount them.

Next?


64 posted on 01/09/2016 11:15:04 PM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Trump finally found someone besides himself whom he can admire.


65 posted on 01/09/2016 11:15:29 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution. Go Cruz.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

One fool says it, and you swear to it.

General Francisco Franco is still dead, and so is Scott Walker’s AND Rick Perry’s campaign.

Go to bed.


66 posted on 01/09/2016 11:15:42 PM PST by mkjessup (JimRob: "It's Trump or Cruz, all the others are amnesty pimps" And the man is RIGHT!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

In context also means taking all of his previous remarks about NK into the conversation - but then I suppose that does not fit the narrative you hope to spin.


67 posted on 01/09/2016 11:17:42 PM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This guy is getting really out there


68 posted on 01/09/2016 11:18:32 PM PST by woofie
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To: mkjessup

Can you find a place for elhombrelibre and woofie on your chart?


69 posted on 01/09/2016 11:20:32 PM PST by mbrfl
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To: mbrfl

DONE! for a future edition! :)


70 posted on 01/09/2016 11:21:43 PM PST by mkjessup (JimRob: "It's Trump or Cruz, all the others are amnesty pimps" And the man is RIGHT!)
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To: mkjessup

Nice!


71 posted on 01/09/2016 11:22:36 PM PST by mbrfl
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Yes, it’s a 24/7 job to explain Trump ... Because those effected with TDS are as dense as a critical mass of uranium - and just about as unstable too.


72 posted on 01/09/2016 11:24:31 PM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: mbrfl
You said...
“Can you find a place for elhombrelibre and woofie on your chart?”

So those quotes from Trump are false? Is that your position? Trump never said any of the above? Or do you just make the people quoting Trump's own words the issue when you're losing the argument?

If BHO said word for word what Trump said in that article, you'd be demanding his impeachment

73 posted on 01/09/2016 11:24:40 PM PST by LMAO (#BlackLivesMatterWhenItsForPoliticalPoints)
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To: mkjessup

” You have to admit genghis khan was nice to his mother” Donald Trump


74 posted on 01/09/2016 11:25:49 PM PST by woofie
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
In highschool I once made the very un-pc comment that Hitler was a 'great leader' ... the point was that, he was a great leader. What he used it for was terrible. But in and of itself, his leadership ability, ability to get people to follow, must be considered 'great', especially given the delusion he was selling.

Does little Kim have admirable qualities? Sure. Satan is super intelligent. Stalin was driven. Liberal voters are often childlike and cute like (and dumber than ) a stuffed animal.

Trump thinks and says stuff that is dumb for a politician to say. When and if president, he is sure to embarrass the US a lot of times. I can stomach being a little embarrassed by a president whose actions and policies are in the right direction and who actually moves the country in those directions.

The question is: Where will the country be in 4 or 8 years after then next president does whatever he does. That question, to me, does not require me to like the guy. I like Cruz way way better. But the answer to the question is in Trump's favor, not Cruz - this time around.

75 posted on 01/09/2016 11:27:05 PM PST by tinyowl (A equals A, And C Edmund Wright thinks I am an idiot and a Trump Sycophant)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“But he also insinuated that Kim had some admirable qualities.”

I don’t get that for one moment. I’ve asked the same thing, how did this young do that? Once again, naïve ignorant Americans who can think they now found some character flaw in Trump.

This man understands people. I don’t get for one second that he find the NK leader admirable. I say formidable is a better word. He refers to Putin as having the admiration of HIS PEOPLE, not of us, although he seems like the one guy who is protecting Christians, whether he or isn’t, and Israel too.


76 posted on 01/09/2016 11:28:35 PM PST by nikos1121 ("Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us."-- Golda Meir)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

I have to wonder. Is/are/were Kim/Kim JR really the people they appear or simply the face of the generals who are the actual power?

KJI is in the seat because of dad and dad because of granddad. They are a symbol. But... is that all they are? or are they really the actual power ‘because’ of being the symbol since it’s koolaid city over there.

Something to ponder.


77 posted on 01/09/2016 11:30:22 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
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To: DoughtyOne; Cincinatus' Wife

“Why is it you folks are incapable of showing any evidence of common sense?”

The answer is simple: TDS


78 posted on 01/09/2016 11:31:51 PM PST by map
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To: FreeReign

Excellent analogy, buy your wasting your breath her. The poster is a nice person but clearly suffers from Trump derangement syndrome. It always hits her after two AM, and the postings start. There are couple others too, that will follow suit her soon.

Somebody posted an interesting stat today. It said that virtually every single person who was leading Nationally and 1 or 2 in Iowa and 1 in NH won the nomination. Trump fits easily into this, and barring something he will get it.

Which means that we’ll have a lot of our people sitting this one....again.

Cruz can follow Trump, just like we need a Faith based candidate after REagan. Trump picks up on the trajectory Reagan started, and in a backhand way, we’ve slipped so far we need someone to take command fast, and I mean fast.


79 posted on 01/09/2016 11:33:45 PM PST by nikos1121 ("Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us."-- Golda Meir)
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To: nikos1121
.... It always hits her after two AM, and the postings start.

Which is the beginning of my day.

80 posted on 01/09/2016 11:35:17 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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