The White House rejected an unverified report that President Donald Trump asked Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for nuclear codes during a recent meeting about the Iran War.
“This is totally false andTrends Journalshould know better than to amplify random comedians spouting nonsense about topics they are clueless about,” Anna Kelly, the White House principal deputy press secretary, said in an email.
Lead Storieswrotean article on Monday that said the unverified report appeared in an X post by the account “JaokooMoses” and was seen 2.7 million times.
CONFIRMED: The US joint Chiefs of staff Air Force Gen. Dan Cainestormed out of an emergency meeting with Trump. Insiders indicate that Trump wanted to invoke the nuclear codes as a deterrence against Iran but Caine refused and invoked the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice.
U.S. Central Command did not immediately respond to an email from The Trends Journal.
The claim seemed to hold some water because Trump posted earlier this month that if Iran did not agree to a deal,“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
The New York Times also reported earlier this month that Caine seemed to be one of the only members of Trump’s inner circle to warn him about getting ensnared in a war with Iran after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s sales pitch in the White House Situation Room.
The paper wrotethat Trump asked Caine what he thought about Netanyahu’s claims about Iran, and the top general responded, “Sir, this is, in my experience, standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell, and their plans are not always well-developed. They know they need us, and that’s why they’re hard-selling.”
Agnès Callamard, secretary general of Amnesty International, said in a statement earlier this month that Trump’s “very act of making such apocalyptic threats, including his warning of ending ‘a whole civilization’, reveals a staggering level of cruelty and disregard for human life. It becomes all the more terrifying when coupled with his explicit threats to directly attack civilian infrastructure by bringing about the ‘complete demolition’ of Iran’s power plants and bridges.”
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)saidin March that Trump’s “new nuclear architecture appears to be based on the joint pillars of a more flexible deterrent and more comprehensive arms control.”
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