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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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.
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.
On Monday, President Donald Trump said on two occasions that he had drawn a kind of confession from a predecessor in the Oval Office, who, according to him, had expressed his regret in a private conversation for not attacking Iran the way Trump has been doing for more than two weeks. But there is a small problem: the representatives of the four living former presidents—three Democrats and one Republican—said that none of them have contacted Trum…
'The View' Host Sara Haines Shuts Down Joy Behar Saying Trump Hallucinated About Speaking to Past President: 'It's Called a Lie'
President Trump claimed twice this week that he spoke to a past president about his attacks in Iran, and said president said he regretted not doing the same. “The View” host Joy Behar thinks Trump is hallucinating, but co-host Sara Haines was quick to shut that down on Tuesday. To kick off the days Hot Topics, the ABC hosts scoffed at the idea of Trump getting that reaction from a past president, especially because aides to the four living forme…
WASHINGTON.- President Donald Trump was surprised on Monday to say that he got a sort of “confession” from an American ex-mandator during a meeting in the Oval Office. According to him, his predecessor was sorry that he had not attacked Iran the way the U.S. has been doing for more than two weeks. However, Trump refused to reveal his identity and argued that he did not want to “conceal him.” Despite Trump’s statements, representatives of the fou…
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