Here is the rub: they are not false statements. They are carefully worded statements that are accurate, but do not answer the intent of the question.
I did not tolerate such BS from my kids when they were seven (thinking they were oh so clever) and I don’t like it from a leader.
In the end she will be asked if America was nuked by ICBMs. She will be standing on a smoking heap of rubble and, knowing they were sub launched nukes, answer in the negative.
Her campaign slogan should be, “The difference, without a distinction.”
I imagine her saying after DC gets nukes, “What difference does it make?”