{"id":2018324,"date":"2023-08-31T16:05:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-in-sworn-testimony-i-averted-nuclear-holocaust-while-in-white-house-saving-millions-of-lives\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T16:06:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:06:29","slug":"trump-in-sworn-testimony-i-averted-nuclear-holocaust-while-in-white-house-saving-millions-of-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-in-sworn-testimony-i-averted-nuclear-holocaust-while-in-white-house-saving-millions-of-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims he prevented a &#8216;nuclear holocaust&#8217; and saved millions of lives during his time in the White House."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-in-sworn-testimony-i-averted-nuclear-holocaust-while-in-white-house-saving-millions-of-lives%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2018324&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Transcript of\u2063 Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s\u2064 Sworn Testimony: Averting &#8216;Nuclear Holocaust&#8217; and Saving Lives<\/h2>\n<p>A transcript of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s sworn testimony from an April deposition held in \u200cregards to a civil case \u200dagainst him and his company by\u2063 the state of New York for fraud was released Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In it, Trump said under oath that he was too busy &#8220;saving millions of lives&#8221; by preventing &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-governor-denies-special-session-to-remove-fulton-da-fani-willis-over-election-interference\/\" title=\"Georgia Governor refuses to hold special session to remove Fulton DA Fani Willis for election interference.\">nuclear\u200d holocaust<\/a>&#8221; \u2064to pay \u2064very much attention to what was happening at his company.<\/p>\n<p>The deposition was held on April 13 of this year at \u2062the office\u2064 of\u200c the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-student-loan-forgiveness-education-department-reveals-which-states-have-the-most-borrowers\/\" title=\"Education Department reveals states with highest number of student loan borrowers for Biden's loan forgiveness plan.\">state\u200d attorney\u200c general<\/a>, according to the transcript.<\/p>\n<p>The transcript records several\u2064 pages of preliminaries before prosecuting attorney \u200dKevin Wallace asked\u2063 the former president\u2062 about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-trump-organization-sentenced-tax-fraud-faces-fine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump Organization<\/a> as an &#8220;an \u200bumbrella organization for all of [Trump&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-in-sworn-testimony-i-averted-nuclear-holocaust-while-in-white-house-saving-millions-of-lives\/\" title=\"Trump claims he prevented a 'nuclear holocaust' and saved millions of lives during his time in the White House.\">] real estate development<\/a> and corporate affiliates&#8221; and\u200c who was making the decisions \u200cfor \u2063it, especially his children Erik, Don and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/life-changing-event-may-influenced-ivanka-trumps-exit-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ivanka<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once he \u2063began campaigning in earnest in 2015, he\u2064 said, &#8220;my \u2064role was \u200cgone&#8221; as a leader\u2062 in the Trump\u2064 Organization. Trump&#8217;s reasoning for that was essentially\u2064 that he &#8220;really wasn&#8217;t interested, believe it or not&#8221; \u2064in what the company \u200bwas doing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I \u200cwas interested in solving the problem with North Korea, which was ready to blow up, and solving the problems we had with China, who was just ripping us off left\u2063 and\u2064 right, and \u2064making sure that Russia never went into \u2064Ukraine, which they didn&#8217;t, under our auspices and, you know, a lot of other things,&#8221; Trump explained. &#8220;There\u200c were a lot of things that were happening in the \u2064world, as \u2064you probably know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he handled \u200ball those issues well, but they re-emerged under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/alert-n-korea-makes-massive-nuclear-move-weak-biden-returns-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President \u200bJoe Biden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For clarification, Trump was \u2063asked if he\u2064 was &#8220;too busy&#8221;\u2062 for\u2062 the company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, \u200dI think you can say it. It&#8217;s another way of \u200dsaying \u200bit,&#8221; Trump responded. &#8220;I was very busy. I was \u200b\u2014 \u200bI considered this the most important job\u2064 in the world, saving millions of lives. I\u2064 think you would have nuclear holocaust, \u200dif I didn&#8217;t deal with North Korea. I think you would have a nuclear war, if I weren&#8217;t elected. And I think you might have a \u2064nuclear war now, if you want to know\u200b the truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The attorney for the prosecution \u2062didn&#8217;t sound impressed by the aversion of a \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-n-korea-confirms-nuke-missiles-tests-wipe-enemies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nuclear holocaust<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m\u200d not going to use my \u200cseven hours on nuclear war,&#8221; he said, referring to the amount of \u200ctime slated for the deposition.<\/p>\n<p>Most \u2064of the deposition reads like\u200c similar documents from countless cases around \u200cthe country, but there were \u2064occasional moments that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/30\/nyregion\/trump-deposition-excerpts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> \u200d described as &#8220;contentious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At one point, for example, Trump attorney Christopher Kise interrupted Wallace, saying, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to be\u2063 here until \u2063midnight if you keep asking questions that are all over the map.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chris, we&#8217;re going to be here until midnight if your client answers every question with an eight-minute speech,&#8221; Wallace responded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So let&#8217;s get down to business,&#8221; \u2064he \u200csuggested.<\/p>\n<p>You can read\u200c the entire transcript <a href=\"https:\/\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\/fbem\/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=BGC7xGvQKGX8cR9zgAO8cA==&#038;system=prod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> or immediately below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal;display: block\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View 452564 2022 People of the State of v People of the State of Exhibit s 859 on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/668355385\/452564-2022-People-of-the-State-of-v-People-of-the-State-of-Exhibit-s-859#from_embed\">452564\u2063 2022 People of the\u2062 State of \u200dv People of the State of Exhibit\u2064 s 859<\/a> by <a style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View The Western Journal's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/480928840\/The-Western-Journal#from_embed\">The Western Journal<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h3>Trump&#8217;s Legal Battle<\/h3>\n<p>Trump has moved to have the\u2064 case thrown out\u200c of court, according to The Times, with\u200c a ruling on that motion expected in \u200cSeptember. If that doesn&#8217;t happen, the trial \u2062is expected to begin in October.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-sworn-testimony-averted-nuclear-holocaust-white-house-saving-millions-lives\/\">Trump in Sworn Testimony: I Averted &#8216;Nuclear Holocaust&#8217; While in White House, &#8216;Saving Millions of\u200d Lives&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s sworn testimony, released Wednesday, revealed that he claimed to be occupied with &#8220;saving millions of lives&#8221; and averting a &#8220;nuclear holocaust.&#8221; This testimony was given during an April deposition related to a civil case filed against him and his company by the state of New York for fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2010,"featured_media":2018325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}