President Donald Trump told reporters in Vietnam he didn’t think North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was involved in the death of American college student Otto Warmbier. TRUMP WASN'T PREPARED TO LIFT US SANCTIONS ON NORTH KOREA LEADING TO SUMMIT'S ABRUPT END“I believe something very bad happened to him,” Trump said. Trump asserted in September 2017 that Warmbier was “tortured beyond belief by North Korea.”Trump's comments Thursday drew criticism back home. Terry McAuliffe, who is weighing a presidential run, tweeted, "Otto Warmbier was brutally murdered by Kim Jung Un. Trump's former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley tweeted: "Americans know the cruelty that was placed on Otto Warmbier by the North Korean regime."

Source: Fox News February 28, 2019 09:04 UTC