by digby
I doubt Trump cares. But this is a bit unusual. Apparently even some Republicans were unnerved by Trump trashing an American politician on an overseas trip, especially by being in agreement with a murderous dictator.
Fox News panel berates Trump for bashing Biden while abroad pic.twitter.com/5CBhwKlNky— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) May 28, 2019
“You don’t attack political opponents from foreign soil, you’re supposed to be out there as America’s chief diplomat,” said the American Enterprise Institute’s Marc Thiessen. “And two, you don’t cite the murderous dictator of North Korea as evidence of why Biden is a bad candidate.”
“Coming back to his comments in Japan, I do agree with Mark that it was shameful,” agreed the Washington Post’s Charles Lane.
“It is a sign of the enormous place that Joe Biden is occupying in the President’s worldview at the moment,” added the Washington Examiner’s Byron York.
I doubt it will make much of a difference in the long run. They didn’t care when he sucked up to Vladimir Putin so openly that the whole world looked away in embarrassment. But they did have a few qualms, at least for a moment over his outrageously inappropriate behavior in Japan. It’s a moment.
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