{"id":86414,"date":"2017-10-13T14:21:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T18:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=86414"},"modified":"2017-10-13T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T18:22:27","slug":"mattis-nbc-report-is-false-erroneous-irresponsible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=86414","title":{"rendered":"Mattis: NBC Report Is False, Erroneous, Irresponsible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_86415\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/GetFile-3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86415\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86415\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/GetFile-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/GetFile-3-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/GetFile-3-1-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-86415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US defence minister James Mattis delivers a speech during a press conference at the Nato Defense Council meeting at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels on June 29, 2017. \/ AFP PHOTO \/ JOHN THYS (Photo credit should read JOHN THYS\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>By Cathy Burke   |   NEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary James Mattis rebuked an NBC News report that President Donald Trump wanted to increase the U.S. nuclear arsenal &#8220;tenfold&#8221; after a meeting with defense officials in July.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recent reports that the president called for an increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal are absolutely false,\u201d Mattis said in a statement,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2017\/10\/11\/mattis-rebukes-reports-trump-wanted-tenfold-nuclear-increase.html\"><strong>\u00a0Military.com reported.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8220;This kind of erroneous reporting is irresponsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/donald-trump-nuclear-arsenal-security-leaders\/2017\/10\/11\/id\/818996\/\"><strong>The NBC News report<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on the July 20 meeting rekindled a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/trump-nbc-nuclear-broadcast\/2017\/10\/11\/id\/819021\/\"><strong>feud between the outlet and Trump.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"resize-sensor\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fake <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NBCNews<\/a> made up a story that I wanted a &quot;tenfold&quot; increase in our U.S. nuclear arsenal. Pure fiction, made up to demean. NBC = CNN!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/918110279367643137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/918112884630093825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Military.com, Mattis does not often comment on the president&#8217;s statements, but found it necessary to put out his own statement on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/mattis-nbc-report-tenfold-increase-in-nukes\/2017\/10\/11\/id\/819138\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/mattis-nbc-report-tenfold-increase-in-nukes\/2017\/10\/11\/id\/819138\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}