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Analyst: Trump Tried To Nuke Iran On Saturday
X ^ | 04/20/26

Posted on 04/20/2026 11:22:26 AM PDT by BusterDog

According to retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson: During an emergency meeting On Saturday Trump tried to “use the nuclear codes” on Iran and he was stopped by General Dan Caine.

According to Johnson “there is seriously something wrong with Trump.”

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To: BusterDog

I can understand if the President is jumpy

Assassin bullet grazed his ear.

The Iranians twice (??) tried to assassinate President Trump
I also understood various Arabs took shots at prior Presidents.

All in all, Iranians cannot have Nukes


101 posted on 04/20/2026 12:04:55 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: pierrem15
The implication of what you are saying is that the President cannot order offensive action with nukes on his own authority.

Not without an objectively rational and legal justification, no.

Why? Is there some law that prohibits that? He just ordered an offensive attack on Iran and the military obeyed.

For starters, it would be a violation of the law of war that officers are required to follow. There is also the question of the Constitutional power of Congress to declare war. Exigent circumstances/excuses may justify bypassing that, but if there are no exigent circumstances, the order would be illegal. I would say the same thing about an unprovoked invasion of Canada or Greenland because they are legally allies.

You also seem to forget he can simply fire people until someone says, "Yes, sir!".

Sure, he can. And in the meantime, the general officer who refused would be on the phone immediately to the VP, members of the Cabinet, and congressional leadership. The President would be out of power in 15 minutes.

The only exception I can think of is the initiation of a nuclear exchange without cause that would annihilate the US.

Any unjustifiable nuclear attack initiated by the U.S. would have horrible consequences for the country, and the response, potentially included nuclear attack by other countries nervous about what we are doing, would be possible as well.

102 posted on 04/20/2026 12:04:59 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: NorthMountain
Is he releasing "sensitive" information, or is he just pulling stuff out of his thermal exhaust port?

He's venting to atmosphere.

103 posted on 04/20/2026 12:05:16 PM PDT by paulcissa (The left hates you and wants you dead.)
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To: Red Badger

Word——
TRUE.
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BRUDDER!


104 posted on 04/20/2026 12:07:21 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Resist Satan's Tyranny )
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To: NorthMountain
Is he releasing "sensitive" information, or is he just pulling stuff out of his thermal exhaust port?

No, the goings-on in the bowels of the White House, and the activation of nuclear codes are routinely released to the press in real-time.

This news report is, like, totally believable!

Regards,

105 posted on 04/20/2026 12:09:04 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

SEEMS HE INFORMED ON HIMSELF-——


106 posted on 04/20/2026 12:10:07 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: NavyShoe
Exactly where I’m at with Larry Johnson, too.

Thanks. He gives me the creeps. Seems normal at first and then the crazy comes out.

107 posted on 04/20/2026 12:11:11 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Lazamataz
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

See my tagline!

Regards,

108 posted on 04/20/2026 12:11:19 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: BusterDog

Why can’t you use Judge Napolitano name when that is who you mean?


109 posted on 04/20/2026 12:12:17 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: BusterDog

“And then he leaned over and grabbed the steering wheel...”


110 posted on 04/20/2026 12:12:58 PM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

111 posted on 04/20/2026 12:13:10 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: PghBaldy

Same one that pushed the Plame hoax:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1448731/posts

Same one that said two months before 9/11 there was no terrorist threat:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1447248/posts

Same one that said we should fear tobacco more than terrorism:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1448666/posts

“Ukraine’s Army has been Defeated; all that is left is Mop-Up” - Larry C. Johnson, 4/8/2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4053514/posts

This kind of same nonsense for literally decades.

But yet, look at the geniuses above that say you are in a “Trump cult” if you look to this report with any skepticism.


112 posted on 04/20/2026 12:13:40 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: calljack

In other words, someone on the inside who hates Trump knows that Johnson is a dupe who will spread the word to the outside world and used him as a conduit for a fake news story.


113 posted on 04/20/2026 12:13:58 PM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: BusterDog

No, there’s NOTHING wrong with President Trump.....just the idiots that think they know better.....grrr


114 posted on 04/20/2026 12:15:13 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: BusterDog

“It’s confusing.”

Only if you buy this complete BS article from a guy supposedly quoting a supposed or real former CIA agent


115 posted on 04/20/2026 12:15:50 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Republican Wildcat

Exactly — I’m not MAGA but this reeks of a publicity-seeking smear.


116 posted on 04/20/2026 12:16:36 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: BusterDog

Fake. Fake. Fake.


117 posted on 04/20/2026 12:16:39 PM PDT by marktwain (----------------------)
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To: BusterDog

Did his limo driver have the codes and he tried to pull the steering wheel from the back?


118 posted on 04/20/2026 12:17:26 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

“I’ll take “things that never happened for 1000, Alex””

OMG. Still laughing about that comment.


119 posted on 04/20/2026 12:19:30 PM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: BusterDog

I wonder what else didn’t happen


120 posted on 04/20/2026 12:19:51 PM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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