Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Thu 05/29/2025 View Wed 05/28/2025 View Tue 05/27/2025 View Mon 05/26/2025 View Sun 05/25/2025 View Sat 05/24/2025 View Fri 05/23/2025
2019-08-03 Europe
What Is The WH Special Envoy On Hostage Affairs Doing At The A$AP Rocky Trial In Sweden?
[Hot Air] So embarrassing. And doubly embarrassing is the fact that every righty in the country would have taken a rhetorical flamethrower to Obama if he had pulled this swampy garbage.

Skipping down a few paras to the potential connection:

Robert O’Brien gamely tried to defend his presence at the trial to reporters who asked why a hostage negotiator was involved in a non-hostage non-negotiation situation: "I also help free people that are held by governments, so unjustly detained Americans." But that’s just it. There’s no evidence that Rocky has been unjustly detained, whatever Kanye might think about the situation. And there’s no reason to believe that he will, or should, go free if he’s convicted.
Update from the Jerusalem Post at noon EDT:
Rapper A$AP Rocky is on his way back to the United States after being released from jail in Sweden, US President Donald Trump said on Friday.
.
A Swedish judge ordered the performer, producer and model, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, to be released from custody until a verdict in his assault trial is announced on Aug. 14.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-03 01:39|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 This is a pander and a stupid one at that. OTOH, it's a harmless annoyance to the Swedish government, not a huge bigfoot job.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-08-03 07:58||   2019-08-03 07:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Exit quotation from Drezner: “President Trump has always prioritized celebrity over the national interest. This episode merely gilds the lily.”

Maybe he prioritized the activity over a golf game, or watching the (D) debates.

But Mrs. Bobby would agree with Drezner.
Posted by Bobby 2019-08-03 08:06||   2019-08-03 08:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Of course that Eeyore Squish Pu$$y Allahpundit wrote this. If Trump had done nothing, he's criticize that too. F him
Posted by Frank G 2019-08-03 08:13||   2019-08-03 08:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Watch the video of the entire incident. A US citizen was relentlessly harassed by Muslims, until he reacted, and was jailed by the Islamofascist Swedes.

He was jailed for a month with no bail.

Trump was right and Sweden is a no-go state.
Posted by Regular joe 2019-08-03 10:03||   2019-08-03 10:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Might also be a harmless play for some of the inner-city vote. Counting on people like Allahpundit to blow this out of proportion.
Posted by Charles 2019-08-03 10:07||   2019-08-03 10:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Regular Joe has it right -- this is precisely the kind of situation the US government should be interested in. I may not be a fan of hip hop culture, but I saw the video, and it was clearly self defense AFTER a hard try to just walk away.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-08-03 10:10||   2019-08-03 10:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Agree that this was right and proper.
Don't f--- with our citizens.
Not only but especially when they've done nothing wrong.
Posted by Lex 2019-08-03 12:16||   2019-08-03 12:16|| Front Page Top

#8 This "entertainer" has called for the assassination of Trump in his "music".

Did Flynn ever get pardoned?

Have the MAGA people getting attacked received any backup beyond "monitoring"?

This looks suspiciously like the standard issue basic bitch Republican "ignore the base to expand the base" strategy that we could have gotten from ¡Yeb!.

Which has been a blazing success for the all the decades in which it has been used.
Posted by charger 2019-08-03 13:10||   2019-08-03 13:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Hear, hear, Charger...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-08-03 13:13||   2019-08-03 13:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Eurines don't like Americans, though they do have vast expectations of what we can do for them. Whether this individual was in the right or not, like a hockey fight, it's usually the response, not the provocation, that draws the penalty. Not saying it's fair, but in a lot of places anyone at the US embassy would have advised avoiding such a situation.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-08-03 13:18||   2019-08-03 13:18|| Front Page Top

#11 This wasn't hockey; it was Americans being harassed by Muslims in the streets of Sweden.

If the State Department's position is that Americans can't defend themselves when assualted, then what the fook are they doing there?
Posted by Regular joe 2019-08-03 14:59||   2019-08-03 14:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Too bad Trump isn't doing anything for supporters being harassed in the streets right here in America.

But then, those Americans aren't celebrity pals of celebrity pals(Kanye) of Trump's.
Posted by charger 2019-08-03 15:28||   2019-08-03 15:28|| Front Page Top

#13 What Regular Joe said.

Swedes don't have to worry about American rappers rioting in their country but their "immigrant population" is another matter.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-08-03 15:54||   2019-08-03 15:54|| Front Page Top

#14 Maybe now A$AP Rocky and some of his cohorts will reconsider whether or not the Orange Man really is all that racist. Worth a try if for no other reason than to deliver a wake up call to the Swedes.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-08-03 16:00||   2019-08-03 16:00|| Front Page Top

#15 most of us can take care of ourself charger. Exactly like this guy did.
Posted by chris 2019-08-03 16:18||   2019-08-03 16:18|| Front Page Top

#16 Also,isn't trump trying too declare Antifa a domestic terrorist organization? I think that would qualify as taking care of citizens here.


Posted by chris 2019-08-03 16:21||   2019-08-03 16:21|| Front Page Top

#17 #14 Maybe now A$AP Rocky and some of his cohorts will reconsider whether or not the Orange Man really is all that racist. Worth a try if for no other reason than to deliver a wake up call to the Swedes.

What are the odds, though?

#15 most of us can take care of ourself charger. Exactly like this guy did.

Yes, and then get arrested and thrown in jail for self-defense.

Posted by charger 2019-08-03 16:21||   2019-08-03 16:21|| Front Page Top

04:50 NN2N1
04:24 Grom the Affective
04:14 Grom the Affective
04:09 Grom the Affective
03:49 Grom the Affective
03:40 Grom the Affective
02:50 Pancho Poodle8452
02:30 Grom the Affective
01:28 Grom the Affective
01:28 Grom the Affective
01:23 Grom the Affective
01:22 Grom the Affective
01:05 Frank G
00:57 Frank G
00:25 DooDahMan
00:18 Bobby
00:16 Skidmark
00:13 Bobby
00:12 Skidmark
00:05 Frank G









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com