CNN: Trump advisers hesitated to give military options and warned adversaries over fears he might start a war
Washington (CNN)Amid escalating tensions with both North Korea and Iran, President Donald Trump's advisers hesitated to give him military options fearing the President might accidentally take the US to war and deliberately informed their counterparts in both countries that they did not know what the President would do next, multiple former administration officials tell me.
These accounts are contained in my upcoming book, "The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World," which will be published August 11 by Harper Collins.
Trump's relationship with Kim Jong Un has blown hot and cold throughout his presidency but in 2017 as the President dubbed Kim "little rocket man" and the North Korean dictator responded by calling Trump a "dotard," there was a very real fear amongst senior members of the administration that the war of words might culminate in the President launching military action against Pyongyang.
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Update: Trump advisers were wary of talking military options over fears he'd accidentally start war: report (The Hill)
WNU Editor:Withholding information/intelligence/options/etc. from the President or his staff is a dangerous course of action.
10 comments:
Trump had opportunities for retaliation and never take it. He even fired John Bolton because he was a warmonger.... what to expect from CNN?
Exactly, Jac. Trump is the only president in the last 32 years NOT to have started a war.
/maybe that's their main problem with him.
This story is baloney. They didn't withhold Intel from Obama for fear he'd start a war & he bombed loads of people by gazing at his Nobel bombing... er, Erm.. Peace Prize. They didn't withhold Intel from Pres Bush the 2nd & he started 2 really big ones. They're still going on today! In fact the concocted Intel with Britain. To tell your enemies that "the President is mad, unpredictable, we can't control him, best give some concessions" is a pretty good idea. Kissenger did that for Nixon. If Biden becomes President & the deep state tells him to bomb Iran, North Korea & China & Biden gets his words mixed up, watch out Idaho, North Carolina & Cincinatti!!! Discuss... Keep ducking 😳
What's Ironic is Trump hasn't started a war with anyone that I am aware of
This concept of a wildman in the White House was used against Russia when Reagan was in.
2:00 AM re-run.
Trump started a war with the Democrats, CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, Washington Post etc merely by winning the Presidential election. Keep ducking 😎👌
1:03, seriously, you deserve to live in some variation of Twatt.
wow, 1:03 how fucking clever
It is as clever as "Meet the Fockers", no more and no less.
Except the Twat you'll live in will be the type that demands tampons in the men's bathroom. But you like it like that.
Twatt is a real place.
The rest is how liberals actually operate. Liberals want tampons in the men's room.
ACLU calls for tampons in men's rooms in order to achieve 'menstrual equity'
Now, I know why you are so moody.
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