August 9, 2019
OF COURSE THEY DESPISE HIM, THEY'RE AN ALLY:
South Korea picks new envoy to US who called Trump 'treacherous' (Al Jazeera, 8/09/19)
[O]nly last year the South's Chosun Ilbo newspaper cited him as criticising Trump.Lee had been asked about an incident at the White House when the US president declined to have Moon's answer to a reporter's question translated, saying "I'm sure I've heard it before.""That's Trump's style. I don't think he's only done that to Moon. He's treacherous," Lee told the paper, adding that as a former businessman, the US leader had a tendency to say insincere things.
Posted by Orrin Judd at August 9, 2019 6:43 AM