Was Korean Summit Truely Miraculous?

Once again the great white knight has swooped in and saved his people.  Before June 11^th North Korea was characterized by the Trump administration as a “nuclear threat” not only to South Korea but also the United States.  On June 11^th after a four hour meeting with one of the most notorious dictators in the world who had opponents and family members assassinated, jailed, poisoned, and whose people endure immense humanitarian suffering, President Trump declared that, “North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat.” 

Wow, and after only 4 hours we have wiped out centuries of proven lies, corruption, and deception.

Not only did President Trump claim to remove our nation from a “nuclear threat,” additionally in classic reality TV style he showered Kim Jong-Un with praises calling him “very smart,” with “a great personality,” “loved by his people.”  Hours later, in an interview with Voice of America’s Greta van Susteren, Trump went even further, declaring that Kim “loves his people,” brushing off concerns about the well-documented history of North Korea’s human-rights abuses.

I challenge all readers to actually read the document signed at this historic summit and tell me how one could conclude that the North Korea “nuclear threat” is eliminated by its signing.

But then again President Trump has a propensity for always interpreting things differently from the real world to garnish favor from his supporters.

His latest legal troubles with the state of New York over his interpretation of a non-profit charitable organization verses how it is legally defined and structured is a perfect example of Trumpism. New York’s attorney general filed suit against President Trump and his three eldest children Thursday, alleging “persistently illegal conduct” at the president’s personal charity.

According to President Trump one can establish a non-profit charitable organization to pay businesses’ creditors, to decorate golf clubs and to stage a multimillion-dollar giveaway at 2016 campaign events.  Marc S. Owens, a former head of the IRS’s nonprofit division acknowledges that President Trump’s handling of the New York Trump Foundation is a perfect example of how NOT to run a private non-profit foundation.  In fact he states, “There is little else [Trump] could have done that could have made it worse.”

So now we have a meeting of two world leaders, one whose past actions are totally illegal by U.S. standards, and the other who continually skirts the fringes of what is legal/illegal and spends a great of time in the U.S. court system because of it.

Was President Trump’s North Korea meeting historic?  Yes.  But the validity of the document is only as good as the integrity of the signatures on it.