'Trump did the right thing by walking away and not cutting a poor deal for the sake of a photo op,' Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, said after Trump left talks with North Korea's Kim Jong Un.
Congressional leaders – including Democrats – broadly praised President Donald Trump for walking away from his second summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on Thursday.
Congressional leaders largely cheered Trump for backing out of talks instead of agreeing to unfavorable terms. Democrats in particular said they had worried about the president striking an inadequate deal — in part to alleviate pressure created by his former lawyer Michael Cohen's explosive Capitol Hill testimony on Wednesday.
Trump has pushed North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, touting the economic benefits the repressive country could see if the U.S. and international community ease sanctions. Kim is reluctant to give up nuclear weapons and the leverage they give him. "Basically, they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn't do that," Trump said."They were willing to denuke a large portion of the areas that we wanted, but we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for that. So we continue to work and we'll see, but we had to walk away from that particular suggestion. We had to walk away from that."
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