We shouldn't let this little tidbit from the president*'s manic episode on the White House grounds. From Reuters:

“I did receive a beautiful letter from Kim Jong Un ... I appreciated the letter,” Trump said. “I saw the information about the CIA with respect to his brother, or half-brother. And I would tell him that would not happen under my auspices.”

Lock this guy up before he hurts someone. Kim Jong Un subcontracted the murder of his half-brother, Kim Jong Nam, to a couple of saps in Malaysia who killed him by spraying VX nerve agent in a crowded airport. The murder resulted in the Obama administration's re-listing North Korea as a state-sponsor of terrorism. Over the past weekend, it was reported that Nam had been a CIA asset. So, if you're keeping score at home, the president* just sent a valentine to a guy who arranged that one of the deadliest nerve agents ever devised be released in a public place in order to kill a U.S. intelligence asset, and he promised that the CIA would never give the guy trouble again.

What if Obam...nah, there's no point in that one any more.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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