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Leftist “journalists” constantly try to trip up President Donald Trump, and it seems as if no matter how many times he puts them in their place and smacks them down with facts and straight talk about the issue at hand, there are always more propagandists eager to line up for a chance to make their bones by cornering the hated Orange Man with a question that he can’t answer, or that at least makes him squirm. Another one tried on Friday, and went down, like all the rest, in the entirely predictable flames.
The latest victim asked Trump: “Twenty years ago, you were skeptical of a Republican administration that attacked a Middle East country on the idea of questionable intelligence, of weapons of mass destruction. How is this moment different with Iran?” The “woke right” has been claiming that Trump has morphed into a Wilsonian nation-builder making the world safe for democracy, and that he has reneged on his promise of no new wars; the reporter was trying to entangle the president in some alleged contradiction between his Bush-era statements and what he is saying now.
Trump, however, responded: “Well, there were no weapons of mass destruction. I never thought there were. And that was, uh, somewhat pre-nuclear, you know, it was, it was the nuclear age, but nothing like it is today.” Turning to Iran’s situation now, he added: “And it looked like I’m right about, uh, the material that they’ve gathered already. It’s a tremendous amount of material, and I think within a matter of weeks, or certainly within a matter of months, they were going to be able to have a nuclear weapon. We can’t let that happen.” Clearly, Trump has seen the evidence of Iran’s nuclear weapons program and finds it convincing.
The president then reminded the reporter, “I was very much opposed to Iraq. I was — I said it loud and clear, but I was a civilian, but I guess I got a lot of publicity. But I was very much opposed to the Iraq war. And I actually did say, ‘Don’t go in, don’t go in, don’t go in, but,’ I said, ‘if you’re going to go in, keep the oil.’ But they didn’t do that.”
Undaunted, the journo came back with this: “What intelligence do you have that Iran is building a nuclear weapon? Your intelligence community has said they have no evidence that they are at this point.” Trump’s response was blunt, unequivocal, and honest — just the sort of thing we ought always to have from presidents as well as other politicians, but so seldom get. “Well, then,” the president said, “my intelligence community is wrong. Who in the intelligence community said that?”
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Bexarkat says
In July 2015, there were four homicide bombings in London which was called “Britain’s 9/11.” More than 50 people were killed and many more injured. James Clapper, Obama’s DNI, was asked on a television interview what he thought about the bombings, he replied that “he was unaware” of it.
gravenimage says
Good grief–hiw could he not know that our ally was attacked?
gravenimage says
Trump Smacks Down ‘Journalist,’ and It’s As Beautiful As Ever
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It’s no secret that Iran keeps threatening to “wipe Israel off the map” once it gts nukes.
Peter Williamson says
Now is the time to kill the Ayatollah
Bret says
So a journalist tells Trump, his intelligence community says there are no nukes yet at this point. First, the idea is to stop them from obtaining nuclear weapons, and second, the intelligence community reports and answers to Trump. So who exactly is this so called journalists source?? Could it be that anonymous guy? The same guy they used throughout Trumps first 4 years.