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Rodman Friendliness With Kim Jung Un Like Taking ‘Hitler to Lunch’

By Meredith Dake
Posted June 30, 2015 at 12:30pm

By Meredith Dake and JM Rieger

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Turns out members of Congress are just as irked by Dennis Rodman’s “basketball diplomacy” as everyone else. Rep. Eliot L. Engel criticized the former NBA star Tuesday on the House floor, likening Rodman’s trip to “taking Adolph Hitler to lunch.”

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