Analysis: Trump's habit of taking foreign autocrats at their word
President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet at the Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel on Feb. 28, 2019 in Hanoi during their second summit. By Siobhán O'Grady Siobhán O'Grady WorldViews reporter Email Bio Follow February 28 at 12:52 PM In June 2017, American college student Otto Warmbier died shortly after being released from North Korean captivity. He had arrived home in Ohio in a coma, and his family believes he was “brutally tortured” during his time in prison.
“I have great confidence in my intelligence people,” he said at the time. “But I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today.” “He tells me he didn’t know about it, and I take him at his word,” Trump said, choosing to believe Kim even as he walked away from a nuclear deal at their summit in Vietnam.
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