we shouldn’t plead with them to do something we aren’t willing to do ourselves.
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Who said anything about “pleading” with other countries to do something we aren’t willing to do? Isn’t this what is usually called “spin”?
When POTUS says "I have no ntention of pursuing another American who may have comitted a crime" but through back channels asks other countries to do so, well yeah, it's pleading.