O'Brien: The UN's 'Human Rights' Panel Is a 'Total Joke' and Trump Was Right to Pull America Out of It

EXCLUSIVE -- Just prior to landing in the United States after a short official visit to France, the Trump administration's National Security Advisor, Robert O'Brien, reflected on the trip in another exclusive interview with Townhall. He touched on the major news surrounding Huawei, China and the UK, explained where US policy stands vis-a-vis North Korea and Venezuela, and reflected on his moving visit to an American military cemetery outside of Paris on Wednesday (see below). He also slammed the United Nations' council on so-called "human rights," which recently voted to endorse Communist China's illegal power grab in Hong Kong. Here is the full interview, with the excerpted piece starting around the (5:15) mark:

"This takes farce to a new level. And the United States -- as I wrote recently in an op/ed just recently in the New York Post -- if we can't reform some of these international organizations, if we can't end the corruption, if we can't end the bullying of democratic countries, we just can't support them with our funds or with our participation because by participating, we endorse their conduct. The Human Rights Council in Geneva has become a total joke.  It's beyond irony that the Human Rights Council would endorse the Chinese taking liberty away from almost 10 million people in Hong Kong.  That body exists now basically as a forum to condemn our ally Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, and to condemn America and its allies.  As you mentioned, Guy, your description of it being a farce is right on point, and I think President Trump made the absolute right decision to disassociate ourselves with that sort of a body."