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Condoleezza Rice to Donald Trump: Let Experts Handle North Korea Details
Breitbart ^ | 05/01/18 | Joel Pollak

Posted on 05/02/2018 6:35:17 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday morning that President Donald Trump should not engage directly in the details of negotiation with North Korea.

“First of all, don’t try to negotiate the details with Kim Jong-un,” Rice told Fox & Friends. “Leave that for people who understand all the nuances of the situation.”

Rice noted that she was the last American to negotiate with the North Korean regime, when she was dealing with Kim Jong-un’s father, Kim Jong-il.

“You have to give the [Trump] administration a lot of credit,” she said, for pressuring China to rein in the Kim regime and for using the threat of military force to isolate North Korea.

However, she said, the president should leave the nuts-and-bolts of diplomacy to others, even though he would be meeting directly with Kim Jong-un at a summit in the coming weeks. And she warned that the Kim regime was still a murderous one with a track record of breaking its promises.

Rice said she supported the Trump administration’s move toward pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal.

“I actually think if we pull out now, it is not going to be the disaster everybody is talking about,” she said. “I would not have signed this deal. I don’t think it was a very good deal. I think we were in a hurry to get a deal and we left a lot on the table. … If we get out of this deal, it is going to be just fine.”

Asked whether she wanted to leave the Iran deal, Rice said: “I would probably have stayed in for alliance management purposes but … if the president decides to pull out of the deal I have no argument with that.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: condoleezzarice; experts; nknukes; northkorea; trump; trumpasia; trumpforeignpolicy
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To: Enlightened1

For diplomats, the diplomacy is the thing. Setting up and having talks is success. Results? Not so much.

So, someone like Condi actually looks back on her talks with North Korea as successfull.

I’m guessing Trump gave Tillerson orders to deal with Kim, got tired of his prattling and just fired him and did it himself. That’s what real leaders have to do sometimes.

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41 posted on 05/02/2018 7:00:08 AM PDT by keat
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To: marron

> “She isn’t criticizing him”

Her sound bites say otherwise, whether intended or not.

She may be well-intended but media-wise, she’s stupid.


42 posted on 05/02/2018 7:00:17 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Enlightened1

A few days ago Trump said, in a comment to the press, that he gets a big kick out of the failed experts giving him advice on how to handle NK.


43 posted on 05/02/2018 7:02:00 AM PDT by Rebelbase (YETI deathwatch, tick, tick, tick......)
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To: Enlightened1

You mean the folks who have effed up everything the US Armed Forces have achieved in Iraq and Afghanistan?


44 posted on 05/02/2018 7:03:13 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Enlightened1
How does the backstabbing NeverTrump snake think her opinion means anything to Trump, his administration or supporters? Here's how she helped Trump and America with her opinion 1-month before the 2016 election.

Condi Rice: 'Enough' With Trump - USA Today

Excerpt: "Oct 8, 2016 - Add Condoleezza Rice to the list of Republicans now opposed to Donald Trump. "Enough! Donald Trump should not be President," the former secretary of State said in a Facebook posting late Saturday, "He should withdraw.""
"ENOUGH! CONDOLEEZZA RICE should disappear."
45 posted on 05/02/2018 7:03:40 AM PDT by drpix
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To: Enlightened1

Can someone list the top five achievements of the Bush administration ?


46 posted on 05/02/2018 7:04:10 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: Enlightened1

Stay in academia, Rice.


47 posted on 05/02/2018 7:05:18 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Enlightened1

Totally on target. Bush certainly didn’t do diddly squat. Both of them for that matter.


48 posted on 05/02/2018 7:05:32 AM PDT by Howie66 ("Tone down the tagline please." - Admin Moderator)
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To: Enlightened1

Good advice, with a caveat: How many of these so-called experts are Obammunist holdovers, with an agenda that does NOT allow for successes by President Trump?


49 posted on 05/02/2018 7:06:41 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Enlightened1

I like Condi but she’s full of it on this one....the experts got us 50 years of north Korea and that fabulouse Iran deal. The only expert right now is Donald J. Trump!!!


50 posted on 05/02/2018 7:08:13 AM PDT by ontap
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To: libh8er

I can think of only one: Justice Alito.


51 posted on 05/02/2018 7:10:47 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Enlightened1
Let Experts Handle North Korea Details

God save us all from "experts"!

52 posted on 05/02/2018 7:11:08 AM PDT by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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To: Enlightened1

I don’t really have an issue with what Condi said, but I do with the assumption that Trump is a novice at negotiation. I seriously doubt he talks much about faucet washers and carpet tacks when he’s building a hotel. This ain’t his first rodeo.


53 posted on 05/02/2018 7:11:12 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Enlightened1

Seems to me I remember when Reagan had the big summit with Gorbachev at Reykjavik and the big issue was The Star Wars Defense System. Reagan told Gorbachev that Star Wars would not be taken off the table and if the Russians pushed him on it he was leaving, deal or no deal. Gorbachev thought it was a bluff and called Reagan on it and Reagan pulled out ASAP and left Gorbachev with no new deal on Nukes. Same thing here, Trump has called it pretty well without the stripped pants boys and girls. Why wasn’t Condi able to get anything done? Honey stay in retirement.


54 posted on 05/02/2018 7:11:35 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Enlightened1

I like to judge by results, therefore I’ve concluded that we have no experts at international negotiation.


55 posted on 05/02/2018 7:19:34 AM PDT by nobamanomore
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To: Enlightened1

Condi, your input is not required.


56 posted on 05/02/2018 7:20:28 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Enlightened1

Condi is an admitted Obama girl. She no longer has any credibility and fortunately, she no longer has any power.

Condi can stay at the bench, she doesn’t belong in this game.


57 posted on 05/02/2018 7:20:34 AM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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To: Enlightened1
"Asked whether she wanted to leave the Iran deal, Rice said: “I would probably have stayed in for alliance management purposes.”"

The tail-between-your-legs" alliance management of the Bush administration that let Europe pay almost nothing into NATO. That's until Trump - against the "advice" and in spite of the outraged opposition of Rice's Washington Swamp crowd - called them out and threaten them into pay their way.

58 posted on 05/02/2018 7:25:32 AM PDT by drpix
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To: Enlightened1

You mean the same experts who have screwed this country for 70 years?? STFU.


59 posted on 05/02/2018 7:25:40 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Enlightened1

When it comes to expert negotiators, Condi, PDJT is the sine qua non of the Art of the Deal.


60 posted on 05/02/2018 7:28:58 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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