General Kelly Stopped Trump From Nuking North Korea
NBC News got a look at the new forward of New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt's book Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President, and how General Mark Kelly was key in stopping Trump from attacking our foreign adversaries.
Schmidt describes General Kelly's plight at being Trump's Chief of Staff and what he had to do to try and manage his insufferable and murderous behavior.
What was truly scary was Trump's desire to use a nuclear bomb against North Korea.
"What scared Kelly even more than the tweets was that behind closed doors in the Oval Office, Trump continued to talk as if he wanted to go to war. He cavalierly discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea, saying that if he took such an action, the administration could blame someone else for it to absolve itself of responsibility," according to the new section of the book.
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, according to the afterword.
Egads.
Trump was mute about how many people would be killed.
Later Trump brought up the idea of a preemptive attack against North Korea, and Kelly told him he needed congressional approval, which frustrated Trump.