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In a taped speech with Bob Woodward, Donald Trump boasted astir US atomic weapons development.
“I person built a limb strategy that nobody’s ever had successful this state before,” the past president told the seasoned Washington Post reporter. “We person worldly that you haven’t adjacent seen oregon heard about. We person worldly that Putin and Xi person ne'er heard astir before.”
The signaling aired connected CNN connected Tuesday, the time Woodward published The Trump Tapes, an audio publication of 20 interviews carried retired arsenic Woodward wrote 3 bestsellers connected the Trump presidency, Fear, Rage and Peril (the past co-written with Robert Costa).
Woodward said helium looked into Trump’s assertion and was told by an authoritative it was true.
“Xi [Jinping] and [Vladimir] Putin would not cognize about” the weapons system, Woodward said. “But wherefore is Trump bragging astir it?”
Trump’s cavalier cognition to atomic issues has landed him successful blistery h2o elsewhere. Documents dealing with atomic weapons argumentation were reportedly among classified worldly recovered from Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida home, by the FBI successful August.
That is conscionable 1 beforehand connected which Trump remains successful ineligible jeopardy, others including his incitement of the January 6 insurrection, his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, his concern affairs and a defamation suit from a writer who says Trump raped her.
Trump denies wrongdoing and maintains a pb successful polls concerning the Republican statesmanlike nomination. He is reportedly trying to name elder run aides, including, according to the Post, the Republican operative down the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attacks connected John Kerry 20 years ago.
Woodward, 79, made his sanction fractional a period ago, during the Watergate ungraded which forced Richard Nixon from office. Nixon resigned erstwhile threatened with impeachment. Trump was impeached doubly but acquitted by Senate Republicans.
On CNN, Woodward said: “I erstwhile said to Trump, due to the fact that helium was benignant of asking, ‘What bash you deliberation the president’s occupation is?’ And I said, it is to ascertain the adjacent signifier of bully for a bulk of radical successful the country, not 1 enactment oregon a clump of involvement groups, and past make a broad program and execute it.
“And helium said: ‘Oh, that’s good. That’s great.’ Never did helium bash this.”
Trump “doesn’t recognize democracy”, Woodward said, adding: “The United States was 1 of the uncommon countries formed connected an idea. And that thought is democracy.
“Trump doesn’t recognize that the January 6 committee has proven that. He does not recognize that he’s got to instrumentality attraction of the people. He’s got to springiness them advice, warning. And helium didn’t bash this.”
CNN besides played a clip of Woodward asking Trump, successful summertime 2020, if the Covid pandemic had made him accidental to himself, “Ah, this is the enactment trial of a lifetime?”
Trump answered emphatically: “No.”
Woodward said: “He’s dismissing immoderate work helium has. And that nary is similar a thunderclap: ‘I’m walking distant from this.’”
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