Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward has revealed that former President Trump openly discussed nuclear weapons with him during a recorded interview.
“I have built a weapon system that nobody’s ever had in this country before. We have stuff that you haven’t even seen or heard about. We have stuff that Putin and Xi have never heard about before,” Trump told the veteran journalist in a tape aired on CNN’s “Tonight.”
Speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Woodward expressed surprise that the former president had shared details about the weapons with him.
“It’s true. Xi and Putin would not know about it. But why is Trump bragging about it?” Woodward told Tapper.
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Trump also told Woodward that “Getting along with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing, all right? Especially because they have a total of 1,332 f—ng nuclear warheads,” according to the audio.
“I once said to Trump, because he was kind of asking, ‘what do you think the president’s job is?’ And I said, it is to ascertain the next stage of good for a majority of people in the country, not one party or a bunch of interest groups, and then develop a comprehensive plan and execute it. And he said: ‘Oh, that’s good. That’s great.’ Never did he do this,” Woodward said.
“He doesn’t understand democracy,” Woodward said of Trump in the CNN interview. “The United States was one of the rare countries formed on an idea. And that idea is democracy. He doesn’t understand that the Jan. 6 committee has proven that. He does not understand that he’s got to take care of the people. He’s got to give them advice, warning. And he didn’t do this.”
Woodward is promoting his new audiobook, “The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump.”
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