Castellanos: We Can’t Take Trump Literally But We Have To Take Him Seriously on North Korea

‘This is Donald Trump, an embrace and a threat at the same time’

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CASTELLANOS: "Looks like on a Friday afternoon you have nothing else. Oh, we’ve got 10 minutes, let’s declare war on Venezuela. I think General Kelly you saw — well, they made the explanation, yes, this was a coordinated message from the White House, and immediately thereafter Sarah Huckabee Sanders had to explain, no, but this is the boss. This is his voice. So, I think the boss is the one who gets the credit for everything in this White House. But in a strange way, though, this is Donald Trump. We can’t, again, take him literally but take him seriously. This is Donald Trump, an embrace and a threat at the same time. The truth is somewhere in the middle. It’s never in the extreme. In many ways, I think situation is ready to deescalate at this point because Trump — because, because — Kim Jong-Un has gotten what he wanted. He’s got America validating the threat that keeps Kim Jong-Un in power, so maybe now I think that this..."

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