{"id":25919,"date":"2025-08-01T18:35:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25919"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:35:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:35:35","slug":"we-had-to-do-that-trump-defends-decision-to-move-nuclear-subs-after-russian-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/we-had-to-do-that-trump-defends-decision-to-move-nuclear-subs-after-russian-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Had To Do That\u2019: Trump Defends Decision To Move Nuclear Subs After Russian Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump defended his decision to move two nuclear submarines on Friday \u2014 in response to \u201chighly provocative\u201d comments made by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev \u2014 telling reporters, \u201cWe had to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to members of the press on the White House lawn, the president explained that Medvedev\u2019s statements had raised enough concern that he felt the move necessary in order to preserve the \u201csafety for our people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/we-had-to-do-that-trump-defends-decision-to-move-nuclear-subs-after-russian-comments?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=%E2%80%98We+Had+To+Do+That%E2%80%99%3A+Trump+Defends+Decision+To+Move+Nuclear+Subs+After+Russian+Comments\">dailywire.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump defended his decision to move two nuclear submarines on Friday \u2014 in response to \u201chighly provocative\u201d comments made by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev \u2014 telling reporters, \u201cWe had to do that.\u201d Speaking to members of the press on the White House lawn, the president explained that Medvedev\u2019s statements had raised enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/we-had-to-do-that-trump-defends-decision-to-move-nuclear-subs-after-russian-comments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018We Had To Do That\u2019: Trump Defends Decision To Move Nuclear Subs After Russian Comments<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/red_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6K3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25920,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919\/revisions\/25920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}