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Near the beginning of Donald Trumps time in office, the then-president had a pressing question for his national-security aides and administration officials: Does China have the secret technology a weapon, even to create large, man-made hurricanes and then launch them at the United States? And if so, would this constitute an act of war by a foreign power, and could the U.S. retaliate militarily? Then-President Trump repeatedly asked about this, according to two former senior administration officials and a third person briefed on the matter.
It was almost too stupid for words, said a former Trump official intimately familiar with the then-sitting presidents inquiry. I did not get the sense he was joking at all.
The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations, tell Rolling Stone that Trump began interrogating national-security officials and other staffers about the alleged weapon during the first year of his presidency, and his question would pop up sporadically until at least 2018. Two of the sources recalled that as Trump got deeper into the second year in his term, he started to drop the topic, and occasionally joked about it.
In certain circles within the upper ranks of Trumpland, the then-leader of the free worlds query became such a mockable occurrence that it became known among some as the Hurricane Gun thing.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-kept-asking-china-shooting-195723086.html
DBoon
(22,366 posts)iemanja
(53,032 posts)It's top secret info.
marmar
(77,080 posts)rurallib
(62,415 posts)I had never heard this one before. Sounds like the very height of stupidity
underpants
(182,803 posts)Holy smokes what a read. Id have to guess he got this idea for the same place the Q people did.
Probatim
(2,529 posts)Apologies to the Honorable Leghorn.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)An amphetamine-addled clown.
And as we've seen, 99% of the GQP will be fine with it. Power is its own reward.