While Fox host Jeanine Pirro pretended that Donald Trump has not sucked up to dictators such as Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin, guest Morgan Ortagus suggested that our real enemy in Asia is our long-time ally, South Korea.
While Fox host Jeanine Pirro pretended that Donald Trump has not sucked up to dictators such as Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin, guest Morgan Ortagus suggested that our real enemy in Asia is our long-time ally, South Korea.
Pirro, subbing for Sean Hannity, opened the discussion with the jaw-dropping falsehood, “The left has a track record of bowing to dictators but President Trump maintains a ‘peace through strength’ policy.”
It’s hard to know whether, just as when she co-signed the fraudulent tax returns that sent her allegedly mob-tied then-husband (who was also kept on retainer by Donald Trump) to jail, Pirro was shockingly ignorant or duplicitous. But in this case, it doesn’t matter. Some producer clearly approved of, if not scripted, this opening lie.
The supposed proof of Trump’s strength was a series of tweets indicating that he had canceled Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s trip to North Korea because “I feel we are not making sufficient progress with respect to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.” Another tweet blamed China: “… Additionally, because of our much tougher Trading [sic] stance with China, I do not believe they are helping with the process of denuclearization as they once were (despite the UN Sanctions which are in place)…”
In other words, Trump’s tweets tacitly acknowledged his charm offensive to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un failed. Think Progress explains what Pirro either would not or could not: After a high-profile meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in Singapore earlier this summer, Kim and Trump signed a denuclearization agreement and Trump declared victory — claiming North Korea no longer posed a nuclear threat thanks to his skilled deal-making. However, the agreement was far more flash than substance. As ThinkProgress’ D. Parvaz wrote at the time, “There was no mention of sanctions, long-range missiles, a peace treaty, or a time frame in what the president called a ‘pretty comprehensive’ agreement that is less than one and a half pages long.
