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Trump wanted to nuke North Korea in 2017 and blame someone else, book claims
- Trump at UN threatened to ‘totally destroy’ North Korea if it attacked an ally
- He also threatened to unleash ‘fire and fury’
- Forward to a new book says he talked about the use of nuclear weapons in the country
- According to ‘Donald Trump v. the United States’, Trump wanted to blame others
- Former Chief of Staff John Kelly reportedly told Trump it wouldn’t work
Former President Donald Trump was even more combative about North Korea in private meetings than in public, according to a new book, even speaking out about the country’s use of nuclear weapons and blaming someone else.
The United States and North Korea were in a tense and dangerous confrontation in 2017, when Trump spoke of unleashing “fire and fury” and threatened at the UN to “totally destroy” the country if forced to defend himself or his allies. . The comments came amid a series of escalating tweets about North Korea.
According to a new book, ‘Donald Trump v. the United States’, Trump made the nuclear threat in a meeting with top advisers, nbc informed.
That came just days after Trump’s bombastic speech at the UN. The then-president’s comments puzzled his new chief of staff, General John Kelly, who unloaded on Trump in his own memoir.
Former President Donald Trump spoke to advisers about North Korea’s use of nuclear weapons and tried to blame someone else, according to a new book.
“What scared Kelly even more than the tweets was the fact that, behind closed doors in the Oval Office, Trump kept talking like he wanted to go to war,” according to a foreword to the new New York edition of the book. . Times reporter Michael Schmidt.
“He chivalrously discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea, saying that if it took such action, the administration could blame someone else to absolve itself of responsibility,” the passage continued.
According to the account, Kelly, a retired Navy general, tried to back off and explain that the plan would not work.
“It would be difficult for them not to point the finger at us,” he told the president.
The reported clash came after North Korea’s repeated missile launches and repeated threats by Trump had policy experts worried about a possible military confrontation.
Former White House chief of staff John Kelly told Trump the idea probably wouldn’t work, according to the book.
The meeting came at a time of tensions over North Korea’s repeated missile launches and bellicose rhetoric.
Trump ended up meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un
Trump had publicly attacked North Korea
Trump nicknamed Kim ‘Rocket Man’
A long-distance battle turned personal, but ultimately resulted in what Trump called ‘love letters’ from Kim.
North Korea better not make any more threats to the United States,’ Trump said in August from his New Jersey golf club. ‘They will be met with fire and fury the likes of which the world has never seen…it has been threatening beyond the normal. They will be met with fire, fury and, frankly, power the likes of which this world has never seen before.’
Trump would ultimately visit North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on his own visit to the DMZ, repeatedly bragging about the ‘love letters’ the men exchanged. They were among the documents allegedly discovered at Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House.
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