Trump mulled nuking North Korea in 2017,
deflecting blame: book
New York Post,
by
Mark Moore
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
1/13/2023 7:42:48 AM
Then-President Donald Trump discussed dropping a nuclear bomb on North Korea and pinning the blame on another country during closed-door meetings in 2017, according to a new edition of a book about the 45th president’s administration.
Trump’s scheme — amid his tense standoff with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un over Pyongyang’s missile tests and aggressive threats to target the US mainland — alarmed then-White House chief of staff John Kelly, according to an added afterword to “Donald Trump v. the United States,” written by New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt.
The tome, initially published in September 2020,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Knotwyrkin 1/13/2023 7:47:19 AM (No. 1377680)
A lot of choices get discussed daily in government (and in every company and household ever day). One needs to consider all
options, it is the prudent thing to do.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rich323 1/13/2023 7:47:51 AM (No. 1377681)
Written by a New York Times reporter don’t need to read any further. Bull She it!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 1/13/2023 7:55:48 AM (No. 1377685)
Does anyone take this seriously? Another hit piece lie on its face. More psyop warfare on Trump.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
czechlist 1/13/2023 7:57:37 AM (No. 1377689)
Maybe true,. The whole point of "brain storming" sessions is to consider all possibilities, even crazy ones, triggering other options which might not otherwise have arisen. Like the old "there are no stupid questions" when we all have heard them.
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Orange man bad.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
smokincol 1/13/2023 8:02:28 AM (No. 1377694)
this is not only outrageous it is extremely outrageous!!
first of all our President would not consider using such devices (period) and
secondly, if he did, his plan would have been so extremely sophisticated nary a person nor a demcommie would have been able to comprehend the complexity and
thirdly, shut up your Trump haters!!! and go back to your cave(s) where you belong
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 1/13/2023 8:03:00 AM (No. 1377695)
Was this when he planted top secret documents in Brandon's corvette?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
spacer 1/13/2023 8:15:40 AM (No. 1377702)
IF President Trump made the remark it was probably along the lines of President Reagan quipping about ending Russia with "the bombing starts in 5 minutes" . But I doubt he said it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 1/13/2023 8:30:39 AM (No. 1377713)
Was this before or after Putin told him to do it?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
seamusm 1/13/2023 8:43:06 AM (No. 1377730)
#6. Yes they would. It's called planning. Examining and rejecting options is called strategic thinking. It is a serious course of study for all our military academy students from day 1.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 1/13/2023 8:51:26 AM (No. 1377740)
Is Bob Woodward on the prowl again?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Right Time 1/13/2023 8:52:22 AM (No. 1377741)
True or entirely Bee Ess, it only demonstrates how much a traitor to his President and the MAGA movement that Gen. Kelly was. When Trump regains his office in 2024, a total cleanout of the flag officers in the military is overdue
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Quigley 1/13/2023 8:59:55 AM (No. 1377749)
He also plotted a military coup with the same military that tried to impeach him a few months earlier by sending over a little plump Ukrainian born doughboy to complain about a couple of sentences in a phone call.
That Trump! Always up to shenanigans!!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 1/13/2023 9:03:49 AM (No. 1377755)
More fake news from the NY Bird Cage Liner, aka the NYT.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Hugh Akston 1/13/2023 9:08:04 AM (No. 1377760)
Probably every president starting with Truman and Eisenhower had this possibility floated for discussion with their National Security Council at one time or another.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
felixcat 1/13/2023 9:26:50 AM (No. 1377781)
John Kelly, Gen, USMC-Retired). Thank you for your service and your son's sacrifice. Now never ever accept again another position in the federal government in any capacity.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
red1066 1/13/2023 9:34:49 AM (No. 1377787)
I can see Trump making such a comment, but in an off the cuff way that no one with any intelligence would actually believe him. After discussing options and ideas in these meetings, throwing out idea or a wish that nobody realistically would actually do just to blow off some frustration.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
EQKimball 1/13/2023 9:50:56 AM (No. 1377803)
Harry Truman reportedly sometimes got so angry during the Korean War that he privately fumed about nuking China. Ditto for Richard Nixon and what he’d like to do to North Vietnam. There is a huge difference between private venting and actual conduct. Presidents are people.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DHorne123 1/13/2023 10:03:37 AM (No. 1377813)
Dim-o-kRats…
delenda est
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/13/2023 10:10:30 AM (No. 1377815)
Another hit piece on Trump to keep all the haters motivated for 2024. That's all this is. When one is a stupid liar, they have to make up for it by being vicious and hateful. We're going to have to put up with this for nearly two more years.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/13/2023 10:33:57 AM (No. 1377828)
BS
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Talk2 1/13/2023 11:07:49 AM (No. 1377856)
OMG, it must have horrendous working with that WH group with no apparent sense of humor.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 1/13/2023 11:50:14 AM (No. 1377897)
More Deep State extreme leftist lies. I don't believe a word of it. Trump went to N. Korea with open hands and did the most to slow down the lunatic NorK leader.
Lies, lies and more lies.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
ScooterTrash 1/13/2023 12:21:23 PM (No. 1377921)
I'm sure that the author also wants Trump to carpet bomb with nukes all of North Korea and then kill all your babies with second hand smoke.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 1/13/2023 12:40:20 PM (No. 1377933)
Garbage article!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/13/2023 1:26:30 PM (No. 1377954)
So what? What is important is that Trump followed the correct course and did not “nuke” North Korea.
When you are talking with retired Generals, you usually quickly find out that they are of the belief that no civilian, either elected or not, knows as much about strategic thinking as they do. Clearly as President, Trump was an “outsider” and “one man show” abrasive character who should have stayed away from the retired high ranking high mucky muck Generals who never won a war, who the wimpy establishment Republicans and RINOS were recommending that he appoint to high level positions in his administration.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Laotzu 1/13/2023 3:01:19 PM (No. 1377975)
Wow, that would almost be as bad as destroying a gas pipeline and blaming it on the Russians.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Laotzu 1/13/2023 3:07:41 PM (No. 1377978)
Sorry for the second post, but. . . .
Do you think the Americans WWII POWs in Japan were upset that we nuked Japan? Ninety-nine percent of North Koreans are slaves to a brutal dictator. I don't think they'd miss Pyongyang.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 1/13/2023 3:15:43 PM (No. 1377981)
That's a mighty big lie! Which orifice did ya pull that one out of Mark? Say, are you related to that brainless tub o lard Michael Moore? In that case the question is what r fat crease did ya pull that lie out of?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Muguy 1/14/2023 11:29:53 AM (No. 1378507)
BS
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