{"id":29833,"date":"2017-10-11T09:49:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=29833"},"modified":"2017-10-11T09:49:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:49:50","slug":"did-trump-call-for-ten-times-more-nukes-asks-ron-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/11\/did-trump-call-for-ten-times-more-nukes-asks-ron-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Trump Call for Ten Times More Nukes?, asks Ron Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The media is having a field day with a supposedly leaked report that President Trump called for a ten-fold increase in US nuclear weapons in July. That is the occasion of Secretary of State Tillerson calling the president a &#8220;moron,&#8221; according to the media. It&#8217;s all supposed to point to how ridiculous President Trump is for wanting more nuclear weapons. But who&#8217;s idea was the current one trillion dollar nuclear weapons &#8220;modernization&#8221; plan? It was then-president Obama&#8217;s idea. And who appropriated the money to get started? Congress. More on the bipartisan support for military corporate welfare in today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HNBiE142xqg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media is having a field day with a supposedly leaked report that President Trump called for a ten-fold increase in US nuclear weapons in July. That is the occasion of Secretary of State Tillerson calling the president a &#8220;moron,&#8221; according to the media. It&#8217;s all supposed to point to how ridiculous President Trump is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-29833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29835,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29833\/revisions\/29835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29833"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=29833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}