BOOK: Trump Floated Nuclear Strike On North Korea

NBC News reports:

Behind closed doors in 2017, President Donald Trump discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea and suggested he could blame a U.S. strike against the communist regime on another country, according to a new section of a book that details key events of his administration.

Trump’s alleged comments, reported for the first time in a new afterword to a book by New York Times Washington correspondent Michael Schmidt, came as tensions between the U.S. and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un escalated, alarming then-White House chief of staff John Kelly.

Kelly tried to use reason to explain to Trump why that would not work, Schmidt continues. “It’d be tough to not have the finger pointed at us,” Kelly told the president. Kelly then tried to point out that there would be economic repercussions, but the argument held Trump’s attention for only so long.

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