Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Friday that President Trump should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize if North and South Korea formally agree to denuclearize and bring peace to the Korean Peninsula.
“It wouldn’t have happened without Trump,” Graham said on Fox News.
“What happened? Donald Trump convinced North Korea and China he was serious about bringing about change,” he said. “We’re not there yet, but if this happens, President Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.”
Graham said Trump was a critical factor in the equation, since he was able to convince North Korea that “we will take you down if you keep trying to build missiles to hit the American homeland.”
“And I think they convinced North Korea and China that Trump is serious,” he said.
Graham also warned that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would be making a grave error if he decides to pull back from the peace plan.
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Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for North Korea, Lindsey Graham says https://t.co/QlpXp8anjd pic.twitter.com/JDphDMqjpN
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 27, 2018
Lindsay Graham knows what a load of baloney this is. In the first place, any fool knows that NK is not going to give up its nuke program. Secondly, months ago when Trump was having his tweet wars with NK over their nuke tests it was reported that a major seismic event was recorded in NK. Low and behold it wasn’t an earthquake. It was one of their test sites. There was speculation in the news that there was an unfortunate incident of major proportions at that site. Sure enough I read somewhere last night that the mountain collapsed where they had been testing nukes underneath it probably releasing dangerous levels of radiation.
Our intelligence obviously has been aware of this and if I knew about it shouldn’t both Trump and Graham? Instead they treat us like we are stupid idiots with Trump taking credit for brokering peace and Graham’s inane statement about giving him a Peace Prize.
did actually make a concession: POTUS agreed to meet the world’s worst human rights abuser in exchange for nothing, which experts in this area counseled against fir decades. Let’s all cringe at the coming photos of the leader of the free world yukking it up w/ an orwelian /2
— Robert E Kelly (@Robert_E_Kelly) April 28, 2018
overrate how much others’ choices are driven by what we do. Our hegemony goes to our head. NK has a long record of doing whatever the hell it wants regardless of global opinion, so our default position should be that NK does what it does for internal reasons firstly. Not that /4
— Robert E Kelly (@Robert_E_Kelly) April 28, 2018
strength. Now that nuclear deterrence with the US is assured – ie, now that the US will never launch an Iraq-style regime change war against NK, bc we don’t want them to nuke the US homeland in retaliation – they are safe to come and look for a deal. Basically, they’re going /6
— Robert E Kelly (@Robert_E_Kelly) April 28, 2018
is forthcoming, then they just return to their defensive crouch and wait for the storm to blow over and everyone adjusts to a NK with nuclear weapons. We adjusted to Cultural Revolution China with nukes. We adjusted to Pakistan with nukes. Remember how everyone freaked out /8
— Robert E Kelly (@Robert_E_Kelly) April 28, 2018
of us tire, get bored, get distractedt e, get bewitchedi by the latest Trump scandal, and gradually gets accepted as a de facto nuclear state. Yes, it will take longer, bc it’s NK, which is uniquely scary, but I’d guess we’ll adapt. END
— Robert E Kelly (@Robert_E_Kelly) April 28, 2018
ADDENDUM: Some readers have brought up that SoKo's ForMin credited Trump for bring NoKo to the table: https://t.co/RrRfL9CkSf. Ok. Perhaps. It's possible. But she doesn't really know either. A far more obvious explanation is that she is flattering Trump. Diplomats and leaders /a
— Robert E Kelly (@Robert_E_Kelly) April 28, 2018
flattering this affirmation-craving president is a way to avoid a national catastrophe that is good politics. END
— Robert E Kelly (@Robert_E_Kelly) April 28, 2018
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