Posted on 02/28/2019 7:43:16 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
The opening of today's Morning Joe served up a double-barreled surprise. First, rather than beginning with Michael Cohen's congressional testimony yesterday, the show began with a discussion of President Trump's Hanoi summit with Kim Jong Un, in which the President walked away without signing an agreement.
The second surprise: rather than trashing Trump for a failed summit, etc., Joe Scarborough and David Ignatius of The Washington Post actually praised the President. Scarborough said that Trump achieved "the best of all circumstances." Ignatius agreed, adding, "as President Trump said, 'sometimes you have to walk.'"
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Did someone slip something into Scarborough’s latte? He praised President Trump for handling of Hanoi summit.
Also, check the video for stumbling Donny Deutsch describing himself as a “stench” defender of Michael Cohen!
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This is just too much.
First Myka and Joe say they’ve never heard Trump utter a racist remark and now this?
Disbelief
Now I know hell froze over 3 days ago...
This completely insane Trump basher actually agrees he did the right thing?
Somebody check his coffee cup, it must have some LSD in it...
The strongest negotiating tool anyone will ever have is the willingness and ability to walk away.
When people who are bad actors straighten up and fly right, it means what is coming is going to be big.
One of Reagan’s great moments was when he left Reykjavik without an arms deal after Gorbachev insisted at the last minute we eliminate all missile defense research (SDI). Right now we can seriously talk about shooting down North Korean or Iranian missiles because of that event.
True.
Some thought the Iceland summit was a failure at that moment. But as events developed down the road, opinions changed...
The same may well happen with the Hanoi summit. Future events may well confirm that Trump was right to leave with no deal.
Maybe all Mika's and Joe's hyperventilating about 'lying' has make them realize that standard also applies to them... Then again, I could be wishing for a miracle...
I agree ... bigly ...
I agree ... bigly ...
Actually, I think there is a different dynamic going on here, and it appears to be a Leftist talking point, since I am hearing it come from several Leftist sources.
I believe they want to try to set the expectation that Trump went to Vietnam to meet with Kim Jong Un as simply a way to try to distract the "serious and damaging" coverage back home.
Normally, they would bash him for a futile negotiation failure (which under normal circumstances they would do) but it serves them better to make it appear that he did something "right" by implying he DID go over there for a distraction photo-op agreement but didn't sign anything.
The two are mutually exclusive. They cannot bash him for poor negotiations, because that would imply he actually went over there to negotiate, not posture. But if they damn him with faint praise by saying he didn't succumb to his intent to simply distract from his "problems", that props up their kabuki stage that he DID go over there to distract.
They are trying to separate themselves from the far left.
GMTA. From the article:
Perhaps Scarborough and Ignatius had in mind the Reykjavík Summit and its aftermath. When President Reagan walked away without an agreement, he was widely blasted on the left. Take, for example, Rolling Stone, which mocked Reagan thusly:
“When he emerged from his bargaining sessions with Mikhail Gorbachev, the president looked stung, like a small boy who had burned his fingers playing with a light socket. Reagan came home empty-handed from Iceland, and for once he was wearing the black hat — the man who said no to a historic opportunity.”
In fact, it was Reagan’s steadfastness in refusing to sign onto a bad agreement that subsequently led to the successful IMF Treaty. We’ll see how things play out with the NORKS, but kudos to Scarborough and Ignatius for acknowledging Trump’s guts and good sense in walking away from a bad deal.
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