Analysis: John Bolton tried to explain away Trump’s Otto Warmbier comments. It went poorly.
By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow March 4 at 2:25 PM Serving President Trump often means trying to square a rhetorical circle. Sometimes it requires pretending he didn’t say what he said. Other times you’ll distance yourself from something you clearly regard as ridiculous.On two Sunday shows, Trump’s national security adviser was asked to account for Trump’s controversial comments about Otto Warmbier.
Except Trump rather clearly accepted Kim’s word as reality. In his exit news conference in Hanoi, Trump repeatedly made the case for how Kim wouldn’t have known about it and said explicitly that he believed that explanation.
“That’s his view." Bolton, a notorious hawk on North Korea and many other issues, might as well have said out-loud that he didn’t agree with Trump. If he did, there’s no reason to decline to subscribe himself to Trump’s view and say his own opinion doesn’t matter.
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