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MTAtech said:That's nonsense. Please cite major stories that were "made up." The criticism of trump found on the news is not only fair and deserved but accurate and largely self-inflicted.They just made up the story of Trump wanting to increase our nukes tenfold.
First, the story about Trump wanting to increase our nukes tenfold had absolutely nothing to do with Tillerson. Second, do you have any proof that Tillerson said that? If you are going to publish either story then you should have proof that both happened. There is no proof of either. If there is no proof then it was made up fake news. It is up to the media to prove that it is not fake news. And don't give me any crap that Tillerson didn't deny it. That is not proof.
Oh really. Tillerson was in the room. This is the article.
Events aren't "fake" because your don't want them to be true.WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he wanted what amounted to a nearly tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during a gathering this past summer of the nation’s highest-ranking national security leaders, according to three officials who were in the room.
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Trump indicated he wanted a bigger stockpile, not the bottom position on that downward-sloping curve.
According to the officials present, Trump’s advisers, among them the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, were surprised. Officials briefly explained the legal and practical impediments to a nuclear buildup and how the current military posture is stronger than it was at the height of the buildup.
Today's journalists are using standards that have existed for many decades. It's telling that you demand that journalists now need essentially affidavits of those who they are quoting but you accept the bald lies Trump tells daily (now 1,318 and counting) as absolute fact.
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