New York: Former President Donald Trump has claimed that nuclear proliferation poses an impending threat to World War III and worldwide conflagration, which he alone can avoid.
“We’re heading into World War III territory,” he said on Wednesday.
This was “because of the power of weapons, nuclear weapons in particular, but other weapons also”, he said, adding that he hated to update the US atomic arsenal.
“You need a president that’s not going to be taking you into war,” he said.
“We won’t have World War III when I’m elected,” he said. “But with these clowns that you have in there now, you’re going to end up having World War III, and it’s going to be a war like no other,” he said.
Trump made the foreboding remark at a town hall gathering in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, moderated by Sean Hannity, a conservative Fox News anchor.
The first of two event segments aired on the channel Wednesday night.
To support the claim, Trump quoted Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban: “He said, ‘Everybody was afraid of Trump, you bring him back, you’re not going to have any problems. It’s all going to go away.’ The world is blowing up.”
On what he thinks about the leader liberals characterise as authoritarian, Trump said of Orban, “Sometimes you need a strongman [and] he’s a strongman.”
Trump said he emphasised the dangers of nuclear weapons because “I know the weapons better than anyone because I bought them.”
“We rebuilt our entire military. We upgraded our entire programme. And, you know, the one programme I hated to upgrade, hated it, was the nuclear programme,” he said.
“The Ukraine War, the Gaza conflict and the deadly October 7 terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas that sparked, it would have never happened if I had been the president,” Trump claimed.
Trump, who had scrapped the agreement with Iran to stop its quest for nuclear weapons, said that he would have made a “fair deal’ with Iran, which was “broke”.
According to the most recent RealClear Politics poll aggregate, Trump and Democratic Party rival Vice President Kamala Harris are tied in Pennsylvania, with each averaging 47.2%.
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In 2020, he lost the state by slightly more than one per cent, which could be vital in choosing the winner this year.
Because it is one of seven swing states where neither party has a clear majority, both parties are vigorously campaigning there.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the Democrats’ vice presidential contender, campaigned in Lancaster, 60 miles from Harrisburg, on Wednesday.
Harris campaigned alongside President Joe Biden in Pennsylvania on Monday and will return there on Thursday.
Although the presidential election is 61 days away on November 5, people living in some parts of Pennsylvania can begin voting on September 16 as part of early voting initiatives.
Trump and Harris have only five days until their debate, which will most likely be their only one because both parties have abandoned the traditional framework of several encounters.
He dubbed the debate host ABC the “worst network” and questioned their impartiality.
“Her best friend is the head of the network,” he said in an apparent reference to Harris and Dana Walden, the co-chair of Disney Entertainment, which owns ABC.
Walden is a longtime friend of Harris and a Democratic Party donor.
The majority of the town hall was a rehash of Trump’s accusations against Harris, as well as her policy reversals on drilling for gas using a technology known as fracking, which is critical to the state’s economy, lowering police spending, and illegal immigration.
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