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Thank you President Trump! No matter what side of the political spectrum you're on, you have to admire President Trump's ability to negotiate the release of so many...without giving away anything in return.
 
Trump is a terrible president and a terrible human being.
 
Trump is amazing.Hillary would have left them there."What difference does it make?"
 
itsforthekids said:
Thank you President Trump! No matter what side of the political spectrum you're on, you have to admire President Trump's ability to negotiate the release of so many...without giving away anything in return.
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Link?
 
late said:
Trump is being played.
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Yeah, releasing all those prisoners is a ruse. :lamo

Maybe President Trump should have paid a ransom for them all, instead...like another president did?
 
Winston said:
Trump is a terrible president and a terrible human being.
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If Trump keeps doing terrible things like this he will be the greatest Presidenst we have ever had
 
apdst said:
Yeah, releasing all those prisoners is a ruse.

Maybe President Trump should have paid a ransom for them all, instead...like another president did?
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The first thing you need to keep in mind with NK, is that it's a devious PIA.

Hostages are SOP for NK, they still have more from other countries. And when they need a few more, they will grab them.

Trump will get peanuts, Kim will get the elephant. Foreign affairs has been an interest of mine since the Sixties, when I was in high school.

Trump has already been played, that will not change. But it could get worse.

I will offer a caveat. The best we can do is kick the can down the road, to temporise.

So if we do get a deal, and it kicks the can down the road (extends the nuclear hiatus a while), that would be a success. But there are a ton of problems getting to that point, and most of the Trumpettes are clowns.

Even then, deal in hand, we will have payed far too much to get it.
 
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itsforthekids said:
Thank you President Trump! No matter what side of the political spectrum you're on, you have to admire President Trump's ability to negotiate the release of so many...without giving away anything in return.
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How many prisoners were released during prior administrations?

Regardless of the administration, the State Department does its best to get American prisoners abroad released. It's silly to think there is some Trump magic ability to get prisoners released. The only difference is Trump uses prisoner releases as part of his self-promotion far more than any president has ever done.
 
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Winston said:
Trump is a terrible president and a terrible human being.
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Perhaps, but on the plus side, he also possesses zero redeeming qualities.
 
Trump is succeeding where Obama completely failed or didn't even try. That just further enrages the left. How pathetic that they can't even give credit here. Trump hate is a really powerful syndrome.
 
veritas1 said:
Trump is succeeding where Obama completely failed or didn't even try. That just further enrages the left. How pathetic that they can't even give credit here. Trump hate is a really powerful syndrome.
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So zero prisoners were released under Obama?
 
SonOfDaedalus said:
How many prisoners were released during prior administrations?

Regardless of the administration, the State Department does its best to get American prisoners abroad released. It's silly to think there is some Trump magic ability to get prisoners released. The only difference is Trump uses prisoner releases as part of his self-promotion far more than any president has ever done.
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Trump is a slimy opportunist and his supporters desperately need a W in a sea of L's.


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veritas1 said:
I'm not sure of the number. I don't count trading 5 terrorists for the deserter Bergdahl among them.
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"I'm not sure of the number."

Are you already shifting the goal post from "trump is succeeding where Obama completely failed or didn't even try" to "Obama didn't get as many prisoners released, and if he did they were for bad reasons"?
 
Cardinal said:
"I'm not sure of the number."

Are you already shifting the goal post from "trump is succeeding where Obama completely failed or didn't even try" to "Obama didn't get as many prisoners released, and if he did they were for bad reasons"?
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Nope. I'm saying that Trump has gotten 17 people but liberals aren't happy about it and use it as a means to somehow attack Trump. I'm happy for anyone Obama retrieved without paying for it or exchanging terrorists.
 
veritas1 said:
Nope. I'm saying that Trump has gotten 17 people but liberals aren't happy about it and use it as a means to somehow attack Trump. I'm happy for anyone Obama retrieved without paying for it or exchanging terrorists.
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veritas1 said:
Nope. I'm saying that Trump has gotten 17 people but liberals aren't happy about it and use it as a means to somehow attack Trump. I'm happy for anyone Obama retrieved without paying for it or exchanging terrorists.
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Okay, you're a massive goal post mover, so I'm going to have to keep a running tally of your claims as they continue to shift.

Goal post 1:Trump is succeeding where Obama completely failed or didn't even try. That just further enrages the left. How pathetic that they can't even give credit here. Trump hate is a really powerful syndrome.

Goal post 2: I'm not sure of the number. I don't count trading 5 terrorists for the deserter Bergdahl among them.

Goal post 3: Nope. I'm saying that Trump has gotten 17 people but liberals aren't happy about it and use it as a means to somehow attack Trump. I'm happy for anyone Obama retrieved without paying for it or exchanging terrorists.

So you accept now that Obama did in fact succeed in getting prisoners back, and of course can be said to have tried?
 
Cardinal said:
Okay, you're a massive goal post mover, so I'm going to have to keep a running tally of your claims as they continue to shift.

Goal post 1:Trump is succeeding where Obama completely failed or didn't even try. That just further enrages the left. How pathetic that they can't even give credit here. Trump hate is a really powerful syndrome.

Goal post 2: I'm not sure of the number. I don't count trading 5 terrorists for the deserter Bergdahl among them.

Goal post 3: Nope. I'm saying that Trump has gotten 17 people but liberals aren't happy about it and use it as a means to somehow attack Trump. I'm happy for anyone Obama retrieved without paying for it or exchanging terrorists.

So you accept now that Obama did in fact succeed in getting prisoners back, and of course can be said to have tried?
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Like I said, I'm happy for anyone Obama got free as long as we didn't pay blackmail. That would include a number of people from NK. So, saying he massively failed was inaccurate. I'm just wondering why the left doesn't acknowledge Trump's success here and instead use it as a means to further attack him.
 
veritas1 said:
Like I said, I'm happy for anyone Obama got free as long as we didn't pay blackmail. That would include a number of people from NK. So, saying he massively failed was inaccurate. I'm just wondering why the left doesn't acknowledge Trump's success here and instead use it as a means to further attack him.
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Why did you instantaneously slip into the "Trump is succeeding where Obama completely failed or didn't even try" narrative? You complain that trump isn't kidding the kudos he deserves, yet with zero basis in fact you immediately went to the narrative that Obama did nothing, didn't even try, and you're already poisoning the well by insinuating that any successes he did have must have been the result of trading terrorists.
 
itsforthekids said:
Thank you President Trump! No matter what side of the political spectrum you're on, you have to admire President Trump's ability to negotiate the release of so many...without giving away anything in return.
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Excellent post !!!
Lets not forget the lovable liberal/Demos who will always find fault. Our President works so hard not only for us but the world as well.
We had no leadership before Mr. Trump became President,none whatsoever. I totally agreed with gulfman about queen wannabe Hillary,she would of told them to go pleasure themselves.
 
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