Posted on 08/03/2016 7:57:25 AM PDT by DCBryan1
Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can't use nuclear weapons, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee.
"Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can't we use them," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" program.
Scarborough made the Trump comments 52 seconds into an interview with former Director of Central Intelligence and ex-National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden.
Scarborough then asked a hypothetical question to Hayden about how quickly nuclear weapons could be deployed if a president were to give approval.
"It's scenario dependent, but the system is designed for speed and decisiveness. It's not designed to debate the decision," Hayden said.
Hayden was CIA director from 2006 to 2009 during the George W. Bush presidency. He was the National Security Agency director from 1999 to 2005, spanning the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
CNBC reached out to the Trump campaign via email and was awaiting a response.
“For years, doctrine called for nukes to be used in Poland and East Germany when the Russians broke through in Germany.”
Back during Reagan’s time midgetman mobile launchers were planned but never deployed. We always relied on land-based (silos) ICBMs and our huge numbers of airborne delivered nukes.
“Why not use them against the passes on the Afghan/Pak border?”
That would be the current India nuke plan.
Japan had already reached out to kill. The US and Allies now were interested in putting a cork in that evil genie’s bottle.
True. . .and the fact we retained the right of first use of nukes. . .they would not risk it.
Silly cartoonist
Scarborough is simply trying to bait Trump into talking about nukes. Next, reporters are going to ask Trump about it, and hope that he steps in it, which based on history, he probably will.
Who’s the simian moron who drew that ‘cartoon’? Why (other than being a simian moron) didn’t he put Hildebeeste in it as unstable one?
Ha! President Reagan went out of his way to jerk the Soviet
strings. :o)
Mot even a firecracker when compared to a small nuke.
Reasonable question a possible CIC would want to know answers to if the phone were to ring at 3 am. The MSM is desperate.
Hayden is an NSA pos. Director of America’s stasi.
Indeed.
‘Unnamed source...’
That said, I wonder if anyone in the shrieking media could actually answer that question, or even has considered it?
Got the same impression of Hayden this morning also.
More proof that there is a cabal that wants Trump gone.
It is that easy, there’s nothing special about Islam and they are no more fanatical than Japan was. But thanks for playing.
” citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee.”
LYING BASTARDS!
The press runs the risk of being mussolini’d if they insist on continuing this subversive behavior that results in a stolen election.
To defeat any people, including 10 foot tall Muslims, you simply have to break their hearts and destroy what they care about. Nukes help do that.
They can’t sell Hillary. She’s stuck at 40-42% because people know and hate her.
They want to drive up Trump’s negatives. Make people stay home.
Then use street money to get out the Dem paid voter base to swipe the election.
Trumps Goldwater moment?
They went after Goldwater becuase he said we should “lob one into the mens room at the Krimlin”
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