{"id":28967,"date":"2025-08-02T10:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=28967"},"modified":"2025-08-02T10:18:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:18:02","slug":"talk-about-the-ultimate-distraction-from-trumps-huge-epsteingate-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=28967","title":{"rendered":"<h1><b><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Talk about the ultimate distraction from Trump&#8217;s HUGE Epsteingate scandal!!!<\/span><\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28968\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-02-at-10.14.56-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-02-at-10.14.56-AM.png 552w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-02-at-10.14.56-AM-196x300.png 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has said he cannot treat any talk of nuclear weapons lightly and that the US must always be\u00a0<em>\u201dtotally prepared\u201d<\/em>\u00a0for any potential confrontation, responding to what he described as an inappropriate\u00a0<em>\u201dthreat\u201d<\/em>\u00a0issued by former Russian head of state\u00a0Dmitry Medvedev.<\/p>\n<p>At a White House press conference, Trump explained his order to deploy two nuclear submarines earlier on Friday. He had vowed to send them to what he called\u00a0<em>\u201dthe appropriate regions\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in a post on Truth Social in reaction to remarks made by Medvedev on social media.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWell, we had to do that. We just have to be careful. A threat was made, and we didn\u2019t think it was appropriate,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Trump said.\u00a0<em>\u201dSo I do that on the basis of safety for our people. A threat was made by a former president of Russia, and we\u2019re going to protect our people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/622391-trump-medvedev-nuclear-subs\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/622391-trump-medvedev-nuclear-subs\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}