President Trump bragged about a supposedly secret nuclear weapons system in an interview with Bob Woodward, according to excerpts from the veteran journalist's new book.
Trump discussed the weapons system while reflecting on how close the United States and North Korea came to nuclear war in 2017, according to excerpts from “Rage” published Wednesday by The Washington Post, where Woodward is an associate editor.
“I have built a nuclear — a weapons system that nobody’s ever had in this country before. We have stuff that you haven’t even seen or heard about,” Trump told Woodward, according to the Post.
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Update: Trump Claims To Have Built A New, Secret Nuclear Weapons System (Forbes)
WNU Editor: I follow these things closely, and what President Trump said could be referring to anything, including this .... Trump reportedly claimed that the US built a secret nuke. Here's what he's probably talking about (Task & Purpose). So is President Trump talking about low-yield nuclear weapons? I do not know. But I do know that developing low-yield nuclear weapons is actually an old idea. The problem is that President Trump likes to always brag about American products .... including nuclear weapons. And that is how the Chinese and Russians (and everyone else outside the main stream media) are going to view this.
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Daniel Coats, a former head of the intelligence community, warned Wednesday that the Trump administration’s move to roll back in-person briefings to Congress on foreign threats to the 2020 election undermines the agencies’ mission and efforts to safeguard the vote.
“It’s imperative that the intelligence community keep Congress fully informed about the threats to our elections and share as much information as possible while protecting sources and methods,” the former director of national intelligence said in an interview.
Coats’s stern warning came in response to Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe’s notifying Congress a week and a half ago that he was suspending in-person briefings to lawmakers, though the Senate Intelligence Committee’s acting chairman said his panel will continue to receive such updates.
ODNI will switch to written briefings of Congress on foreign threats to the election
Whatever the case, Coats said, “these briefings in person should be delivered to both the Senate and the House oversight committees and also should be delivered to the duly elected members of the House and Senate at the appropriate classification level when directed by the bipartisan leadership of both the House and the Senate.” He added: “We must stand united in defending the election security process from being corrupted and ensure that a vote cast is a vote counted.”
Coats, who was forced out by President Trump last summer, has for months mostly kept silent. But as the official who in 2019 established the intelligence community’s program to coordinate briefings on foreign election threats, he said he felt obliged to speak publicly.
“We’ve got to get this process back in place,” he said. “Designating it to one committee and not the other and shutting down all members briefings is the wrong thing to do.”
THIS SAYS IT ALL
Trump keeps bragging about imaginary auto plants in swing states
Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post
5-7 minutes
Published 10:12 am CDT, Thursday, September 10, 2020
"Many plants are being built right now - auto plants - in Michigan, just like I said. They're being built in Ohio, they're being built in South Carolina, North Carolina, they're being built all over and expanded at a level that we've never seen before. Cause I said to Japan, Germany and others, 'Sorry, you've got to come here and build plants, otherwise we're going to have to make it very tough on you with tariffs.' " - President Donald Trump, remarks on Labor Day, Sept. 7, 2020
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We have documented before the president's "swing-state spin," in which he claims he has achieved great economic success for states that, coincidentally, are necessary for him to achieve an electoral college victory.
According to our database of Trump's false and misleading claims, the president has mentioned Michigan in 120 false claims, Ohio in 94 claims and North Carolina in 68 claims. South Carolina is not a swing state, but it may have a competitive Senate race, so that may be why it slipped into his spiel on Labor Day
It's been a while since we have reviewed these claims in a full fact check. So has anything happened to make Trump's falsehoods any more true?
Essentially, Trump says that under his watch, auto assembly plants have been added at an unprecedented rate in Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina and possibly other states - "they're being built all over and expanded at a level that we've never seen before." He attributes this to his jawboning of countries such as Japan and Germany - and his threat of higher tariffs.
So we checked in with the experts at the Center for Automotive Research, a group that assiduously tracks this information.
No surprise. Trump is making stuff up.
Clerky still won't answer the question.
The "Washington Post"?!?! Hahahahaha!
I don’t see a question.
5:38 oh it's been asked many times, but Clerky can't answer anything.
What is a clerky? Is the question relevant to a nuke story?
You know exactly what a Clerky is, and the question is how many generals is the correct number.
6:38 You fool no one. Of course the question is relevant.
PS. To Clerky you'd better get your crowd up to speed.
BLM and ANTIFAa need to set up on residential gold courses. Erect tent cities on the greens.
Prior to Trump the US had neglected its nuclear deterrent for several decades. Candidate Trump recognized this and rightly asked whether our nuclear arsenal would even work if we needed it. After he was elected he later stated that the first thubgvhe did upon assuming office was to fix this problem stating that the problem has been fixed.
If candidate Trump figured out the reliability of our nuclear arsenal was questionable, it can be absolutely certain that Russia, China, and pretty much every other country and it's leadership knew this as well. What Trump iscessentially doing here is putting others on notice leadership that under his leadership the US now has a reliable nuclear deterrent. I think this is especially being sent to countries like Russia, China, and their allies.
It also should be understood that leadership among the powerful involves a certain degree of boasting and big talk. Putin and Xi have been known to do this. Powerful leaders also respect power and strength. Prior to Trump becoming POTUS Russia and China had surpassed the US in terms of global influence and military power. He's trying to close this gap with the idea of the US becoming the world's dominant power. Hence we some forceful talk on the part of POTUS.
Prior to the government response to COVID-19 under Trump's leadership the US had made significant strides towards closing the military and global influence gap between us and Russia and China. The response to COVID-19 took away this momentum. I think we can regain our proverbial footing.
US adversaries and potential adversaries have now been placed on notice that the US now has a reliable nuclear deterent. That's what this is about. It's amazing how little understanding our "experts" have with regards to basic international diplomacy. Perhaps it's not so surprising. After all the record of the "experts" over the last several decades is quite bad!!
Clerky = Fred r. Lapides
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