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Otto Warmbier's parents push back on Trump over their son's death
Axios ^ | 3/1/19 | Orion Rummler

Posted on 03/01/2019 12:54:34 PM PST by DoodleDawg

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To: ConservativeMind

There were hard core left wing (Stalinist oriented! - Yes! they exist!) US groups who sponsored “highly controlled” tours into North Korea. I don’t know if it’s still going on.


121 posted on 03/01/2019 3:34:58 PM PST by Reily
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To: Reddy

His parents asked that his feeding tube be removed.

I read that before his parents saw him, they heard an inhuman like scream. Not sure if it came from the plane or hospital.


122 posted on 03/01/2019 3:35:02 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: BlueHorseShoe

Thanks. FR is really changing. I’ve been here for twenty years. No more reasoned conversation. No more intellecual debates. Just gutterlike Twitter idiocy. Sad.


123 posted on 03/01/2019 3:37:33 PM PST by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: gcparent

Midnight Express,
Yup.

Watched last month,True Story.

Other Countries ain’t America.


124 posted on 03/01/2019 3:38:18 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Soul of the South

I believe there was some speculation that Otto may have tried to commit suicide and caused his own injuries. I read a in depth article on this, he actually got good treatment in NK for his injuries and at least Trump got him out, Obama left him hanging like he did others that were in foreign jails.


125 posted on 03/01/2019 3:39:52 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: newfreep

I don’t think this guy had any political agenda. He just went!


126 posted on 03/01/2019 3:41:37 PM PST by Reily
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To: miserare

Ever seen “Midnight Express?”

Countries of This type are
Vicious and deadly.

When I see a Rattlesnake,
I respect it,
Till I am Safely able to
Cut his damn Head off!


127 posted on 03/01/2019 3:44:26 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: ronniesgal
actually i agree. he may have shown his ass to a guard, and the guard shut him up.

That used to be called tuning him up or adjusting his attitude. Not sure what they call it now.

128 posted on 03/01/2019 3:46:18 PM PST by Boomer (We are one dem President away from America being destroyed into communism)
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To: gcparent

“It’s not a cheap junk poster when it’s in NK.”

The student could have gone to the NK Ministry of Tourism and offered to pay for a poster. The Ministry probably would have loaded him up with a truckload if he paid in American dollars.

He erred in stealing a poster from a brutal communist dictatorship.

Further, his parents should have bought him ransom and kidnapping travel insurance. These private companies staff experts who are skilled in negotiating the release of waylaid travelers.


129 posted on 03/01/2019 3:46:34 PM PST by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Whatever was done to Otto Warmbier was done because the regime had no respect for and no fear of American reaction under the former limp noodle POTUS

I appreciate that the Warmbiers are grieving but fact....
Trump got their son back to them

and fact...they are bring used by the media to attack the POTUS in the midst of negotiating with possibly the world’s most dangerously unstable political leader who still possesses nuclear weapons

Otto is beyond help. They need to step out of this controversy right now, in the best interest of helping Trump and America and millions of others in the region. That would be the best legacy they could give their son. Not demanding that Trump insult Kim, cause him to lose face, and both men lose this historic opportunity, Which is what the democrat state media want.

130 posted on 03/01/2019 3:55:55 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: miserare

“Thanks. FR is really changing. I’ve been here for twenty years. No more reasoned conversation. No more intellecual debates. Just gutterlike Twitter idiocy. Sad.”

You’re the one bashing Trump. Why are you surprised that it’s raining on you?


131 posted on 03/01/2019 3:56:26 PM PST by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: miserare

Why? Because the majority of responses here see things differently than you?

There are more than a few “reasoned conversation” responses.

The parents should be saying nothing PUBLICLY so close to the negotiations. They strike me as ungrateful. Trump did something for them that no one else did. And it’s possible that Kim did not know about Ottos treatment. I don’t know if Hirohito knew that the Bird was torturing Louis Zamperini.

TRUMP is focused on the good of America, not meeting two peoples emotional needs.


132 posted on 03/01/2019 3:58:37 PM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: DoodleDawg
play stooopid games win stooopid prizes
133 posted on 03/01/2019 4:06:17 PM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: miserare
I agree with Otto’s parents on this. It was a cruel and horrible gaffe on Trump’s part.

What exactly did Trump say?

134 posted on 03/01/2019 4:13:30 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (ui)
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To: DoodleDawg

Their little darling shouldn’t have been there. He knew the rules but chose to break them.


135 posted on 03/01/2019 4:20:13 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.)
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To: Boomer

He did not steal anything The story was ludicrous. The North Koreans said some church person offered him something like $10,000 to steal it? Bizarre lie. Why anyone would believe the North is beyond me. The kid was naive and stupid to go there, but he was framed. I have no doubt.


136 posted on 03/01/2019 4:21:19 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
If Trump had a reason for saying what he did, he should have kept it between him and Kim.

Perhaps, but we don't know what the whole of the US got in return. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

137 posted on 03/01/2019 4:23:03 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.)
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To: bgill

Otto was not a bad person. And he was very bright from what I’ve read. Back in the day an 18 year old was like a 30 year old today. Otto was adventurous. But a 21 year old these days is immature imo. He had no idea what he was getting into. Naive about the real world and the risks.


138 posted on 03/01/2019 4:27:25 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Boomer

His parents should have had an autopsy performed. I would want to know. All the Obama admin told them was to keep a low profile and not to say Otto was Jewish. That was their mistake as the autopsy might have revealed something.


139 posted on 03/01/2019 4:31:37 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: DoodleDawg

I never like being misinterpreted, but especially when it comes to Otto Warmbier and his great family. Remember, I got Otto out along with three others. The previous Administration did nothing, and he was taken on their watch. Of course I hold North Korea responsible....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 1, 2019


140 posted on 03/01/2019 4:31:56 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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