Posted on 06/12/2018 8:35:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday weighed in on the Trump-Kim summit arguing that other presidents did not meet with North Korean leaders to avoid giving their dictatorships “prestige.”
“It's not as if other presidents couldn't have done this,” Tapper said of Trump's historic meeting with the North Korean leader. “It's that they didn't want to.”
Tapper, the host of CNN shows “The Lead” and “State of the Union,” prefaced his comments that past presidents decided not to meet for direct talks with North Korea because “the concern was, you don't want to give North Korea that kind of prestige.”
“You don't want to elevate them without having something guaranteed in terms of what they are actually willing to do, in terms of denuclearization, in terms of what Secretary of State Pompeo constantly refers to as ‘irreversible and verifiable denuclearization.’ ”
CNN's @jaketapper on the Trump-Kim summit: "It's not as if other presidents couldn't have done this, it's that they didn't want to” so as not to give North Korea a level of prestige without having something guaranteed in terms of denuclearization https://t.co/iWJES9DAKp pic.twitter.com/456gcJr1YJ
— CNN (@CNN) June 12, 2018
Tapper's comments come after President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday announced an agreement committing the U.S. to undesignated “security guarantees” in exchange for North Korea denuclearization.
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I *LOVE* that Tapper et. al. are doing stuff like this.
It undermines their credibility more and more.
Obama could have done it, but not for the same reasons.
Hey Jake...this is low and petty even for someone of your ilk. Remember Jake its better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
“It’s not as if other presidents couldn’t have done this,”
“And, and...my daddy can beat your daddy up!”
Are they still Funding MS-13
And gee, I can remember the media’s fawning over Gorbachev when Reagan had summits with him. Does anyone here remember how Walter Cronkite and others portrayed Brezhnev during the meetings with Richard Nixon (likely not too different from what took place in the 1980s)?
Throughout all of May last year, CNN’s Jake Tapper averaged 1.091 million total viewers and 304,000 viewers in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 age demo. So far, this year, through the 16th of May those numbers have cratered by nearly a third. Tapper’s demo viewers have sunk to an average of just 206,000, a -32 percent decline. His total viewers collapsed to just 785,000, a -28 percent fall.
I hope not.
Tapper is the gift that keeps on giving———a laugh a day.
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It’s not as if other presidents couldn’t have done this’
Other presidents couldn’t have done any of what Trump is doing.
Thinking the unthinkable out loud... how many lives of Americans and Iraqi Christians would have been saved if Bush/Clinton/Bush had sat down with and cut deals with Saddam Hussein? We live in a crappy world ruled by crappy people. Good for Trump dealing with the world as it is rather than as Jake Tapper would like it to be.
I knew the mediapukes were going to be jealously bad this morning but for effin sake!... I didn’t think they would be this EVIL!!! My loving God please vindicate!!!
But that’s “different” of course. They must get tired every day with the mental gymnastics they have to play 24/7.
Past presidents did not do it. The reason is not material.
Trump got it done. Give him the credit.
I disagree. Obama, Clinton, Bush...they could NOT have done this. They didn’t have the drive, talent, skill or gravity to pull it off.
The fact that they didn’t do it is absolute proof that they couldn’t.
A la Pee Wee Herman.
Obama is clearing shelf space for his second Nobel Peace Prize, the one President Trump is actually doing the work for ...
Could be...lol.
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