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Trump’s submarine comments would be stupid but do not appear classified

By Tom Rogan

Published October 6, 2023 6:22pm ET

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Trump’s submarine comments would be stupid but do not appear classified — In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut and the Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Hartford break through the ice in the Beaufort Sea in support of Ice Exercise 2018, a five-week exercise that allows the Navy to assess its operational readiness in the Arctic. | (MC 2nd Class Micheal H. Lee/U.S. Navy via AP)

ABC News reports that former President Donald Trump told Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt “the supposed exact number of nuclear warheads [U.S. ballistic missile submarines] routinely carry, and exactly how close they supposedly can get to a Russian submarine without being detected.”

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