York Times reporter, Michael Schmidt, as I've mentioned several times, has his book being
re-released in paperback, but he's added a lot to it, and some of the information that
he has added to it is actually quite shocking.
One of the things that we have now learned is that in conversations with former Trump
chief of staff, John Kelly, John Kelly recanted a story about how Donald Trump suggested nuking
North Korea and then blaming somebody else for doing it.
Here's what Schmidt wrote in the book.
What scared Kelly even more than the tweets was the fact that behind closed doors in the
Oval Office, Trump continued to talk as if he wanted to go to war.
He cavalierly, seg, uh, discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea,
saying that if he took such an action, the administration could blame someone else, could
blame someone else for it, and absolve itself of responsibility, because nobody would know
where the missile came from, right?
Like they would say, oh my God.
It's just, it's who knows where the missile came from, except for literally anybody with
any kind of sophisticated military equipment, we, they, they, uh, like most big countries,
you know, including Russia, see, and North Korea, by the way, they have technology, and
we have it here too in the United States, that when a missile is fired, we get an alert
like immediately.
That's how we know when North Korea's over there testing nuclear or testing missiles,
whatever it is, because our, our radars, our satellites pick up that a missile was fired.
So if the United States were to launch a nuclear warhead over at North Korea, other countries
who have that same technology, which is a lot of them, would see that, oh my God, America
just fired a, a nuclear weapon.
I wonder where that's going.
Oh, it hit North Korea.
Like, what was Trump gonna do?
Call up all these other countries and be like, Hey, Vlad, uh, listen man, you're gonna see
a nuke.
Don't worry.
It's not coming near you.
Could you just not tell anybody he came from us?
That'd be awesome.
You call up Japan like, Hey guys, um, don't freak out .
All right?
Just don't freak out.
Um, don't tell anybody that was us though, okay?
You gonna, you're gonna beg China to not tell the rest of the world that the US did it.
This is the dumbest thing that I have heard come out of the former Trump administration
ever, because it's not just dumb, it's dangerous.
Luckily, the book says that John Kelly was able to convince Donald Trump, Hey, instead
of nuking him, why don't you go over there and try to be friends with him?
And Trump did do that.
And
Honestly, looking back on it now, it's like, yeah, that was a much better option going
over there and legitimizing the dictator that really was a better option than nuking them
off the face of the earth.
And Trump wanted to do it.
And if John Kelly hadn't been there to tell him not to do it, God only knows what would've
happened.
And that's what's so scary about the thought of Trump going back into the White House,
because he's not gonna bring in another John Kelly.
He's not gonna bring in a single person that would ever tell him no.
He's only gonna bring in people that will blindly loyally tell him, yes, sir, that is
the best idea ever.
I shall prepare the nuclear missile.
We'll blame, uh, Iran for it.
How does that sound?
And it'll do it.
That's what's terrifying about this, because if Trump comes back, the adults are not coming
with him, and we're gonna be left with a home alone style situation.
And Donald Trump is the one with his finger
on the button.