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Trump Asked Why We Don’t Use Nuclear Weapons

August 3, 2016 at 8:18 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Joe Scarborough said on Morning Joe that Donald Trump asked three times about nuclear weapons during a foreign policy briefing with an expert.

Said Scarborough: “Trump asked three times in an hour briefing, ‘Why can’t we use nuclear weapons?… If we have them, why can’t we use them?'”

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