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Originally posted by arlen:
Any decision to launch a nuclear attack will be made by Trump's commanders.

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Patterson elaborated, sharing the story of when Clinton lost the codes:

"In 1998, the day before the State of the Union address, I went to meet with President Clinton. Typically, I would ask him if he had any questions about the nuclear process, any questions about targeting, any questions about how to use the codes.

But that morning I asked if he had the codes, and he said he had misplaced them and that he will get back to me later. Later ended up being never. We ended up doing an exhaustive search of the White House, never did find them. When I asked the president how long it had been since he had seen them, he couldn't recall. It had been a matter of months, possibly.

I called the Pentagon. They were beside themselves. There was no process to recreate the codes. So they ended up working through the night and giving him new codes in the morning, but we are talking about the most important military document perhaps in this nation.

Without it, he cannot perform his function as commander in chief with our nuclear program. And that had never happened in our history."

Then, he dished out some advice to the members of the mainstream media who have made this issue bigger than it needs to be:

“I don't have a high opinion of the mainstream media especially as it applies to their handling of military and national security affairs. The military shouldn't be used for partisan political purposes, period.”