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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN: Two Fox News hosts question Trump's comments about Iran: 'This just doesn't add up'
New York (CNN)Fox News hosts Chris Wallace and Shep Smith challenged President Donald Trump's comments about when and why he decided to call off a strike against Iran.
Trump said Friday that the military was "cocked and loaded" to fire on Iran in retaliation for shooting down a US drone earlier this week. But he reversed course "10 minutes before the strike" when he learned 150 people could die in the attack, the president said in a series of tweets.
Smith said Fox News' reporting found that Trump would have been given a casualty estimate at a briefing hours before that.
"Something's wrong there," Smith said about the president's comments.
Trump said Friday that the military was "cocked and loaded" to fire on Iran in retaliation for shooting down a US drone earlier this week. But he reversed course "10 minutes before the strike" when he learned 150 people could die in the attack, the president said in a series of tweets.
Smith said Fox News' reporting found that Trump would have been given a casualty estimate at a briefing hours before that.
"Something's wrong there," Smith said about the president's comments.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/22/media/fox-iran-chris-wallace-shep-smith/index.html
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CNN: Two Fox News hosts question Trump's comments about Iran: 'This just doesn't add up' (Original Post)
spanone
Jun 2019
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malaise
(269,157 posts)1. Didn't even need to guess which two
spanone
(135,873 posts)2. Wait till 'he who must be praised' hears about this....
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)3. Putin told him he cant bomb Iran, that is THE REASON
What is it about him being completely OWNED do people not get?
shanti
(21,675 posts)4. Yeah, something's wrong
He's fucking lying...AGAIN!
spanone
(135,873 posts)5. Yep, he put the reality show spin on it
Lies. About. Everything.
DFW
(54,436 posts)6. He probably kills more than 150 people a month at the Texas border
Detainees probably die of CPB-induced "natural causes" every month. I can't imagine THAT would stop him. On the other hand, a discreetly delivered threat of a world-wide boycott of Trump businesses might have had the desired effect.