Bill Kristol seems on the verge of making that inevitable jump from Republican who never found a war he didn’t like to full bore Democrat. Last week we learned that he’s participating in a joint fund raising effort with Democrat donors to try to hand the House and/or Senate over to the Democrats in order to spite Trump.

On Friday, the personal emissary of North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un, Kim Yong Chol (trivia, nearly 1/4 of all Koreans have the surname Kim), visited the White House to lock down the feasibility of a meeting between Kim Jong Un and President Trump. Part of the visit was to deliver a personal letter from Kim to Trump. No one knows how this meeting will turn out…North Korea is so short on foreign exchange that it literally cannot afford the hotel bill for Kim in Singapore and there is an international hat-passing going on now. But what we do know is that talking beats the hell out of shooting, particularly when the shooting is done with nukes.

This is how Bill Kristol reacts.

They told me if I didn't vote for Trump that by 2018 we'd have an American president posing for photos outside the Oval Office with the murderous intelligence chief of a the world's most totalitarian regime. pic.twitter.com/lhu8W2rLBO

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 1, 2018

Trump looks like the proud recipient of a degree from…Trump University.
Kim Yong Chol looks as if he can barely suppress a grin at the credulity of his host. pic.twitter.com/2SdZ1RcwAo

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 2, 2018

These are just juvenile. But then Kristol goes straight on to the patently dishonest and duplicitous.

It can't be the case–can it?–that neither Pompeo nor Bolton nor anyone else from the USG was in the room for the meeting? Or that there was only one interpreter, a North Korean one?
One hopes this was a brief photo op, and the real meeting was conducted professionally. Was it? https://t.co/6Rq6crp7Uv

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 2, 2018

In literally 10 seconds he could have found the actual photo of the scene via the White House social media team

.@POTUS @realDonaldTrump is presented with a letter from North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, Friday, June 1, 2018, by North Korean envoy Kim Yong Chol in the Oval Office at the @WhiteHouse in Washington, D.C., followed by a meeting. (Official @WhiteHouse Photos by Shealah Craighead) pic.twitter.com/6a1PgFXS3v

— Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸 (@Scavino45) June 1, 2018

But that would have been no fun.

It is really hard to understand what Kristol’s objections are here beyond grief over the failure of Hillary Clinton to be president or grief over a real sh**-kicker of a war that might be avoided. Right now, whether you like Trump or despise him, you should be rooting for his success in Singapore. If you can’t do that, then you probably have a few marbles that have popped loose rolling around in your skull.

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