FACT CHECK: Reports about Secret Service agents tackling a host nation official during the President’s trip to China in Nov 2017 are false— U.S. Secret Service (@SecretService) February 19, 2018
The Warzone/The Drive: Confusion Surrounds Confrontation With Nuclear Football During Trump's Beijing Visit
The US Secret Service says no one got "tackled," but has not denied that an incident occurred while Trump was in China in November 2017.
A new report has surfaced suggesting that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and an unnamed member of the U.S. Secret Service got into a physical altercation with Chinese security personnel over the so-called “nuclear football," a secure communications device inside an aluminum Zero Halliburton briefcase that enables the president of the United States to order a nuclear strike from virtually any location in a time of crisis. The Secret Service has denied that anyone got "tackled" during the alleged dispute, which may have occurred during President Donald Trump's visit to China in 2017, but has not said outright that the incident did not happen at all.
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WNU Editor: So no one got tackled .... but you still have to wonder if the Chinese did this on purpose.
