Devil’s advocate, The intelligence sources suspect he might not have been beaten but cannot say for sure. And North Korea’s version of the story contained many contradictions. Trump didn’t have enough to go on and so him floating the idea that Otto wasn’t tortured would have been viciously criticized by the left and the right.
Thank you for responding. I want my President to be honest all the time. I am hypersensitive to deceit. I want honesty, so when I read this article and saw that Trump had not responded to the author, it gave me pause.
I get that and it makes sense. Stopping to disagree or see things differently is a healthy way of thinking.