The true nature of the controversial relationship between former President Donald Trump and a notorious dictator with whom he exchanged "beautiful letters" was revealed in an expletive-riddled exchange reported for the first time on Thursday.
Gordon Sondland, the former diplomat who served as Trump’s ambassador to the European Union, reportedly asked the then-president a blunt question about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to a new Foreign Policy report.
"“OK, Mr. President, cut the bulls---," Sondland said. "What do you think of Kim?"
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According to Sondland, Trump replied, "That f---er would knife me in the stomach if he had the chance."
The rich hotelier, who served as Trump's E.U. ambassador from 2018 to 2020, is perhaps best known for his congressional testimony in Trump's first impeachment inquiry linked to accusations that the former president tried to bully Ukraine into investigating the Bidens.
Sondland has since garnered a reputation for providing unfiltered opinions on Trump, whom he has described as "kind of a d---" and a man addicted to feeding his own ego, Foreign Policy reports.
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His new revelation of Trump's private thoughts on the North Korean dictator will likely surprise those who remember his public words describing correspondence with Kim.
"He wrote me beautiful letters," Trump said during a "meandering" speech in West Virginia in 2018. "We fell in love."
Foreign Policy would later describe the 27 letters as containing "tactical feints, unctuous flattery, and psychological ploys."
It's also worth noting Trump's professed, now challenged, love was directed at a man accused of 10 of the 11 crimes against humanity on a mass scale.
A 2022 International Bar Association’s War Crimes Committee report raised alarms over "murder, extermination, enslavement, forcible transfer, imprisonment, torture, sexual violence, persecution, enforced disappearances, apartheid and other inhumane acts."
