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Vic's Viewpoint
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My .02 on what just happened to the USA in Hanoi..
It's my personal belief that President Trump was unable to achieve his diplomatic goals with North Korea because the North Koreans were closely watching the Michael Cohen congressional testimony publicly unfolding in Washington, and perceived that the President's political power was dissolving almost on an hourly basis. Plainly the North Koreans don't want to de-nuclearize in the first place, but were willing to at least listen to US negotiators in the hopes of getting sanctions lifted and maybe getting some economic aid in the process; however, with the President now being publicly eviscerated by Cohen and his gleeful Democrat congressional cohorts, it's my belief that the North Koreans quite soberly realized that congress would be unwilling to ratify any treaty signed between themselves and President Trump and simply refused to play ball and tip their hand, politically. One has to wonder why the President's people didn't see all this coming, and prevail upon the President to postpone his meeting with Kim Jung Un until after the dust settles on the Cohen hearings. Your thoughts?
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I don't know the outcome of Trump's negotiations, but your points seem reasonable. I think that Lanny Davis and the democratic controlled house purposely held the widely publicized Cohen hearing with the intent to discredit President Trump and make it very difficult for him to negotiate with North Korea.
I did see some of the hearing, and some of the questions posed to Cohen were nothing more than character assassination of our president. About the only positive that I saw from the hearing was that Cohen did not claim any knowledge of Russian collusion.
Regardless, it was shameful what the dems did, and, in my opinion, borders on treason.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
― Douglas Adams
Having said that. I can't recall a more diametrically conflicted POTUS in history. All of his closest associates are indicted or convicted like a 1980's moffia scandal. The country has had its small 'd' democratic process manipulated by a hostile foreign power. Our global stature is degenerated to that of financial and military standing exclusive of the attempted justice of the rule of law equally applied at home and abroad. No congressional Republicans attempted to defend the Presidents actual conduct yesterday.
North Korea is among a growing list of fine achievements. Achievements almost sure to be historically obscured by the contentious scandal of a ruthless autocratic kingpin of illicit personal empire.
Mike
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― Douglas Adams
Ironically, this may have backfired on the dems. First, Cohen testified that he was not aware of any Russian collusion occurring, that Trump did NOT tell him to lie to congress and that he had never been to Prague, which is the supposed start of the whole Russian collusion issue. That probably won't matter, but Cohen did not provide the smoking gun they wanted.
Also, I heard both Nancy Pelosi and former Obama U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice state publicly that Trump did the right thing by walking away from a deal with NK. I almost fainted when I heard that.
And, lastly, I read an article on the Fox News web site (yeah, I know) that by walking away from making a deal with NK, China might be more willing to negotiate favorable terms with the US in trade talks. Trump showed that he would not make a bad deal, and was not afraid to walk away from one.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
There's an old saying that was supposed to be a sarcastic joke, yet its being applied to this President by his supporters with actual serious intent. You're alright, the worlds wrong!
The rabid extremist Democrats have no shame. Fortunately I have a few old school Democrat friends and relatives that I can reasonably discuss politics with.