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Joe Scarborough: Donald Trump Repeatedly Asked Why We Couldn't Use Nukes
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Joe Scarborough: Donald Trump Repeatedly Asked Why We Couldn’t Use Nukes
If this is true, it’s truly shocking.
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Donald Trump
repeatedly asked an unnamed foreign policy expert why the U.S. couldn’t
use its nuclear weapons stockpile during a national security briefing
earlier this year, MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough said Wednesday.
Scarborough told the anecdote amid an interview with former CIA director Michael Hayden, who said he could not see himself voting for the “inconsistent” and “dangerous” GOP nominee. Asked if he was aware of anyone among his peers who was advising Trump, Hayden said “no one.”
“I’ll have to be very careful here,” Scarborough said. “Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on international level went to advise Donald Trump, and three times he asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked, at one point, if we have them, why can’t we use them? That’s one of the reasons he just doesn’t have foreign policy experts around him. Three times, in an hour briefing, why can’t we use nuclear weapons.”
Watch the exchange above, starting at the 5:40 mark.
Scarborough told the anecdote amid an interview with former CIA director Michael Hayden, who said he could not see himself voting for the “inconsistent” and “dangerous” GOP nominee. Asked if he was aware of anyone among his peers who was advising Trump, Hayden said “no one.”
“I’ll have to be very careful here,” Scarborough said. “Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on international level went to advise Donald Trump, and three times he asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked, at one point, if we have them, why can’t we use them? That’s one of the reasons he just doesn’t have foreign policy experts around him. Three times, in an hour briefing, why can’t we use nuclear weapons.”
Watch the exchange above, starting at the 5:40 mark.
Scarborough learned of the exchange “in the last few days,” according to an MSNBC executive.
In March, Trump refused to rule out using tactical nuclear weapons in the war against the so-called Islamic State.
“I’m never going to rule anything out — I wouldn’t want to say. Even if I wasn’t, I wouldn’t want to tell you that because at a minimum, I want them to think maybe we would use them,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg Politics.
In a followup interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Trump sounded unconcerned by the prospect of mutual assured destruction, going so far as to ask why the U.S. constructed nuclear weapons if it couldn’t use them.
“Then why are we making them? Why do we make them?” he asked.
“I was against Iraq. I’d be the last one to use them,” he added. (Trump initially supported the Iraq invasion.)
In March, Trump refused to rule out using tactical nuclear weapons in the war against the so-called Islamic State.
“I’m never going to rule anything out — I wouldn’t want to say. Even if I wasn’t, I wouldn’t want to tell you that because at a minimum, I want them to think maybe we would use them,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg Politics.
In a followup interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Trump sounded unconcerned by the prospect of mutual assured destruction, going so far as to ask why the U.S. constructed nuclear weapons if it couldn’t use them.
“Then why are we making them? Why do we make them?” he asked.
“I was against Iraq. I’d be the last one to use them,” he added. (Trump initially supported the Iraq invasion.)
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