Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended Trump’s recent support of Kim Jong Un, saying they agree on Biden

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• In an interview with NBC News, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended President Trump for agreeing with Kim Jong Un’s comments about Joe Biden. 
• Trump said on Twitter that he "smiled" when he learned Jong Un had insulted former Vice President Joe Biden, saying he had a "low IQ."
• According to North Korean news agency KCNA, Kim Jong Un called Biden "an imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being" and a "fool of low IQ."
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In an interview on NBC’s "Meet the Press" on Sunday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended Trump for supporting Kim Jong Un over his recent criticisms of former vice president Joe Biden. 

Chuck Todd asked Sanders, "Can you explain why Americans should not be concerned that the president of United States is essentially siding with a murderous authoritarian dictator over a former vice president in the United States?"

"I think they agree in their assessment of former Vice President Joe Biden," Sanders said. 

Trump tweeted on Monday that he "smiled" when Kim Jong-un called Biden "a low IQ individual & worse. Perhaps that’s sending me a signal?" he wrote. 

 

Read more: Trump says he ‘smiled’ when Kim Jong Un insulted Joe Biden, wasn’t ‘disturbed’ by North Korean missile tests even though his advisers were

According to North Korean news agency KCNA, Jong Un called Biden "an imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being" and a "fool of low IQ."

Sanders went on to say that Trump had "watched [Biden] and his administration with President Obama fail for eight years. He’s come in in two and a half, he’s cleaned up a lot of the messes that were left behind. We shouldn’t even be in the position that we’re in to have to deal with North Korea at the level we are if they had done their job in the first place," she said. 

In the same tweet, Trump said that has "confidence" in the North Korean leader and was not "disturbed" by the country’s missile tests earlier this month despite these being condemned by his top administration officials.

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See Also:

• Trump says he ‘smiled’ when Kim Jong Un insulted Joe Biden, wasn’t ‘disturbed’ by North Korean missile tests even though his advisers were
• North Korea called Joe Biden a ‘fool of low IQ’ who is ‘seized by ambition for power’ after he labeled Kim Jong Un a ‘tyrant’
• Trump leveled a stark warning against Iran as tensions in the region escalate: ‘If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran’

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Source: Business Insider – feedback@businessinsider.com (Mary Hanbury)