GOP Rep. McClintock: What We Are Seeing in North Korea ‘Vintage Trumpian Negotiation’

Breitbart ^ | 7/1/2019 | Trent Baker

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Sunday, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) commented on President Donald Trump’s visit to North Korea, calling it “vintage” Trump.

McClintock said on Fox News Channel what Trump is doing with dictator Kim Jong-un is something seen from his book, “The Art of the Deal,” to obtain peace with North Korea and help the country have the chance to “enter the international community and open up [Kim Jong-un’s] country to enormous investment and prosperity.”

“If you want to understand Donald Trump, read ‘The Art of the Deal,'” McClintock stated. “What we’re seeing, I think, is vintage Trumpian negotiation. You take a very, very hard line at first, get into the other guy’s head, figure out what he needs and wants, and then offer an alternative that gives him that while getting what you want. And I think that’s what’s playing out right now.”

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[thinden]

what a surprise!

I didn’t know any repub congress critters still existed.

(except nunes)

[polymuser]

“...we’ll be coming up in mass this next election.”

We’d better. If we do not, the America we’ve known dies.

[untenured]

1) North Korea basically solved

Can you at least commit now to what that will look like? DPRK gives up nuclear weapons? Allows international inspections to monitor whether their program has been for now shut down? Having a few more summits where the two leaders say nice things about one another? What exactly does this mean?

2) Immigration crisis managed, solid way forward to cut this off.

Again, how are we recognize this? Illegal immigration from the south way down? If all we will have is a “solid way forward to cut this off,“ how will we know it’s “a solid way forward?”

3) Deep State indictments actually out in the open, with juicy tidbits from on-going trials available for public consumption.

This at least is easy to test. Which indictments, assuming they happen, would qualify as being of members of the Deep State? Does anyone have specific people in mind, so that the absence of their indictments would qualify as falsifying this prediction?

4) Economy solid as China trade war is resolved

Well there might be some disagreement about the definition of “economy solid“ (manufacturing jobs way up versus merely higher Dow Jones and good GDP numbers), I think there is general agreement about this part. But the second part maybe not so much. Again, are you willing to commit in advance to what “resolved“ looks like? The Chinese government committing to buy a bunch of grain, getting the trade surplus down for a year or so, without changing their basic economic model? Violations of the intellectual-property rights of American companies verifiably going way down? For we can decide whether we have succeeded, it’s important to commit to what success looks like.