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Monday, June 11, 2018

"Stabbed in the Back"

Looks like they've all got their scripts in front of them. Two of Trump's economic advisers, Larry Kudlow and Peter Navarro, have come out with the same line.

Navarro's version:

“There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad-faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door,” Navarro told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” “And that’s what bad faith Justin Trudeau did with that stunt press conference.” When asked if the president shares his views, Navarro said that the sentiment came from “Air Force One.“

Well, we know who wrote the script.

Kudlow:

“He was polarizing. He really kind of stabbed us in the back,” Kudlow said in strikingly critical remarks during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “He did a great disservice to the whole G7,” he added. Kudlow called Trudeau’s press conference a “sophomoric, political stunt for domestic consumption.”

“President Trump played that process in good faith. So, I ask you: He gets up in the airplane and leaves, and then Trudeau starts blasting him at a domestic news conference? I am sorry, that’s a betrayal. That’s a double cross.”

"President Trump played that process in good faith." If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell. Trump was the only one there who was not working in good faith -- he meant to crap on our allies from the get-go. This is the culmination of weeks of attacks on Trudeau in the run-up to the North Korea summit -- Trump has to impress Kim with how butch he is.

Here's Trudeau stabbing Trump in the back:


His whole press conference is here. I suggest you use the "close caption" setting -- it's in English and French, and the translator and Trudeau are speaking at the same time.

Wonder who's next on the bandwagon? Hannity? Fox and Friends? Line forms to the right.

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