Before absolving Kim Jong Un of Warmbier’s torture and death, Trump remarked, “Otto came back in a shape that was not even to be talked about.”
Let’s talk about it, because to gloss over unpleasant details is to whitewash.
"The first time Otto Warmbier’s family saw him after he returned to the United States following 18 months as a North Korean hostage, he was strapped to a gurney on a plane, thrashing and making a 'guttural howling' sound."
Here's what the court heard before that ruling. courthousenews.com/court-hears-ta…
* DPRK torturers likely forced Warmbier's confession during an “old-fashioned, Stalinist show trial.”
* DPRK likely used pliers to rearrange Warmbier's once-straight teeth.
* A scar on Warmbier's foot "consistent" with torture by electrodes