NEW YORK (Nettavisen): In a new book, penned by New York Times journalist Michael Schmidt, shocking new information emerges about what should have been Donald Trumps eagerness to use nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear attack on North Korea
In a closed meeting in 2017, Donald Trump is said to have discussed the idea of attacking North Korea using nuclear weapons and blaming the attack on another country.
In the book “Donald Trump v. The United States”, the journalist deals with the period of then Chief of Staff John Kelly in the White House from July 2017 to January 2019.
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The author writes that Donald Trump just seven days after Kelly was hired on the job, North Korea warned that it would be met with “fire and fury the likes of which the world has never seen” if it continued to threaten the United States.
In September of the same year, during a speech to the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump threatened that he would “completely destroy North Korea” if Kim Jong-un, whom he referred to only as “Rocket Man”, continued to make threats.
In the coming days, Trump also made further attacks against North Korea on Twitter.
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– Trump wanted to blame others
– What scared Kelly more than these Twitter messages was the fact that behind closed doors in the Oval Office, Trump continued to talk as if he wanted to go to war. In a condescending tone, he discussed the idea of using nuclear weapons against North Korea, saying that if he chose to take that step, the administration could blame someone else to absolve itself of responsibility, excerpts from the book state. as NBC News have gained access to.
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According to the author, Kelly then tried to explain to Donald Trump why this would not work.
– It will be very difficult not to point the finger at us, Kelly is said to have told Trump.
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– No impact on Trump
According to NBC News Kelly will also call in top military leaders to the White House to brief Trump on how easily a war between the US and North Korea could have broken out, and what enormous consequences they could have.
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But the argument about how many people could have been killed had, according to the book, “no impact on Trump”. Trump also failed to engage in the fact that such an attack could also have enormous economic repercussions.
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Trump is said to have then aired the possibility of a so-called preventive military attack on North Korea. Then, on the other hand, Kelly should have warned that Trump would have to get such an attack approved by Congress in that case, a piece of information that should have “surprised and irritated” Trump, the book says.
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– Trump’s narcissism
In the book, the authors also highlight the following Twitter message that Trump posted in 2018:
– North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has just said that his nuclear button is on his desk all the time. Will someone from his depleted and starving regime please inform him that I too have a nuclear button, but that mine is much larger and more powerful than his. My button works! Trump wrote on January 3, 2018.
Later that year, Kelly claims, according to the book, that he came up with a plan that ultimately ended with Trump changing his rhetoric towards North Korea, knowing that he is appealing directly to “Trump’s narcissism”.
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– Trump, “the world’s best salesman”
According to the author, Kelly is said to have convinced Trump that he was “the world’s best salesman” by trying to establish a diplomatic relationship with Kim Jong-un and North Korea. In this way, according to the author, it was possible to prevent a conflict with nuclear weapons, which both Kelly and several military advisers perceived as a more immediate threat than most others perceived it at this time, writes NBC News.
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On June 12, 2018, Kim and Trump met for a summit on the island of Sentosa in Singapore. This was the first meeting between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader.
In February 2019, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un met again, this time at a summit in Hanoi, and on June 30 of the same year, Donald Trump became the first US president to visit North Korea when he met Kim in the border village of Panmunjom.
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