NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “During a free-wheeling solo press conference that lasted more than an hour Wednesday [9-26-18], President Donald Trump again claimed that former President Barack Obama was close to starting a catastrophic conflict with North Korea, telling reporters that if he ‘wasn’t elected, there would have been a war’ as his predecessor was close to ‘pressing the trigger.’ But those who worked in the previous administration say Trump’s assertion is simply untrue…It is not the first time that Trump has portrayed Obama’s dealings with North Korea as a failure or implied the previous administration was on the precipice of war in an attempt to boost public perceptions about his own quest for a diplomatic resolution with Pyongyang. In June, a week after his summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Trump suggested that the media would have named Obama a ‘national hero’ if he too had ‘gotten along’ with the totalitarian regime…Obama, came to power vowing to talk directly to America’s enemies. Eventually he traveled to meet Cuba’s President Raul Castro and spoke to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani by phone.”
-Zachary Cohen, “Trump claims (without evidence) Obama nearly launched war with North Korea,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, September 26, 2018 9:50 pm