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Text from Heather Cox Richardson's newsletter of April 5, 2026: "In 2023 a book by New York Times Washington correspondent Michael Schmidt alleged that in 2017, when Trump was warning North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on social media that North Korea would be "met with fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before,” behind closed doors he was talking about launching a preemptive strike against North Korea and of using a nuclear weapon against the country and blaming someone else for the strike."

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Text from Heather Cox Richardson's newsletter of April 5, 2026: "In 2023 a book by New York Times Washington correspondent Michael Schmidt alleged that in 2017, when Trump was warning North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on social media that North Korea would be "met with fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before,” behind closed doors he was talking about launching a preemptive strike against North Korea and of using a nuclear weapon against the country and blaming someone else for the strike."
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Bodhipaksa (bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 06-Apr-2026 23:32:30 JST Bodhipaksa

"Behind closed doors [Trump] was talking about launching a preemptive strike against North Korea and of using a nuclear weapon against the country and blaming someone else for the strike."
I don't remember hearing in 2017 that Trump had to be talked out of nuking North Korea and blaming it on someone else.
Is this another instance of an NYT journalist sitting on a story of massive public interest for years so that they can write a book?

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