Do you remember how President Trump had a thing about strong men and dictators, he could

not get enough of them?

I mean, most famously, there was the very questionable and very public friendship

between Trump and Putin, but there were other examples, too.

There were his love letters to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

There was his reported willingness to protect Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman,

a.k.a. MBS, even after MBS ordered the killing of an American journalist.

And then there was the former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte.

During the Trump administration, President Duterte went on a brutal, extradudicial killing

spree.

He ordered the murder of thousands of people he claimed were suspected drug dealers, without

any trial, without any due process.

Duterte was right in the middle of that campaign of bloodshed, when President Trump

praised Duterte for what Trump said was an unbelievable job on the drug problem.

So yeah.

But Trump gave Duterte more than just praise.

He also gave him highly sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines off the coast

of the Korean peninsula.

According to a transcript of a call between Trump and Duterte in April of 2017, the two

leaders were discussing the North Korean nuclear threat when Trump told the Filipino

strongman about two active nuclear subs stationed near North Korea.

We have two submarines, the best in the world.

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