Trump responds to ‘fake news’ article claiming he would soften on nuclear weapons stance

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President Donald Trump voiced his rebuttal of a recent “fake news” article accusing him of softening his views regarding nuclear weapons in North Korea.

The article, published by Alexander Ward of Politico on Wednesday, claimed that the 45th president was “considering” a plan to let North Korea “keep its nuclear weapons” if reelected in 2024.

Politico wrote that they received this information from “three people briefed on [Trump’s] thinking,” and criticized Trump for “accommodating” leader Kim Jong Un. They also chastised Trump for his “unusually friendly relationship” with Kim.

Trump pushed back against Politico, calling the story “DISINFORMATION” published by “Democrat Operatives in order to mislead and confuse.”

He also slammed the group for their use of random “anonymous sources” to seemingly substantiate false information, of which the network “granted anonymity” to three unidentified individuals “to speak freely about the president’s thinking.”

“A Fake News article in Politico, through anonymous sources (as usual!), states that my views on Nuclear Weapons in North Korea have softened,” Trump wrote to his Truth Social on Wednesday shortly after the article published.

He continued, “This is a made up story, DISINFORMATION, put out by Democrat Operatives in order to mislead and confuse. The only thing accurate in the story is that I do get along well with Kim Jong Un!”

Politico updated their article shortly after Trump voiced his reaction, and criticized him for not “specifically” denying that he “was mulling the freeze-for-relief idea.”

During his presidency, Trump worked to develop a peaceful relationship between both the United States and North Korea—which had been marred by turmoil since before the Korean War.

Trump first met in-person with Kim Jong Un during the 2018 Singapore Summit, the first meeting between a leader of the U.S. and North Korea, to discuss denuclearization and peace talks.

The two leaders then met two more times after the summit, and Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to step into North Korea to meet with the nation’s leader.