US EditionTrump says a former president had an Iran confession. Aides to his predecessors deny recent contact
Trump claimed a former president privately regretted not attacking Iran, but aides for all four living ex-presidents denied recent contact, casting doubt on his statement.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump said twice at a Kennedy Center board meeting and later in the Oval Office that an unnamed former president told him 'I wish I did it' about bombing Iran.
- Trump said he invoked the conversation to justify the strikes and declined to name the unnamed former president, saying he didn’t want to embarrass him when reporters pressed for a name on Monday.
- CNN reporters Jeff Zeleny and Samantha Waldenberg reached out to aides for the four living former presidents who said they had not spoken with Trump recently about Iran.
- Reporters said the denials raised questions about the claim, while a Quinnipiac University poll found 53% of the American public oppose the Iran war.
- The broader conflict began with Feb. 28 attacks, when the U.S. and Israel degraded Iran’s military, raising oil prices to approximately $100 per barrel and displacing some 3.2 million people.
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Trump Just Tried To Claim He Spoke To A 'Former President' About Iran—But There's One Big Problem
MAGA Republican President Donald Trump isn't helping his handlers refute observations of his signs of dementia or overall cognitive decline.According to the United Kingdom's The Independent, the POTUS told the press at least three times on Monday that one of his predecessors told him they wished they had launched an unprovoked attack on Iran just like Trump did.At one point during a meeting of the Kennedy Center’s board, Trump stated:"Look, for …
US President Donald Trump said he spoke to a former US president about the situation in Iran. The former president reportedly told him he regretted not taking the same action during his term. But representatives of four living former presidents said none of them had been in recent contact with Trump.
‘He Has Lost His Mind!’: Trump Walks Right Into a Reporter’s Trap, Never Realizes His Desperation Is Being Used Against Him — and What Comes Out Next Turns the Room Against Him
At this point in President Donald Trump’s second term, most critics aren’t willing to believe a word that comes out of his mouth. But his latest claim on Monday about the Iran war stirred even more skepticism — the kind that makes people wonder if he’s simply spinning tall tales to give himself more credibility. But his latest fable only grew more obvious the longer he kept talking. As Trump tried to hold together a consistent narrative around …
Trump Said An Ex-President Regrets Not Attacking Iran. His Predecessors Deny
Twice on Monday, President Donald Trump said he'd wrangled a confession of sorts from an Oval Office predecessor who he said had expressed regret in a private conversation about not attacking Iran the way Trump has been doing for more than two weeks.
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