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MaddowBlog-As Israel launches a major attack on Iran, Trump's pre-election rhetoric runs into reality
The president spent four years saying "This would never have happened if I was president" in response to foreign violence. Now he's haunted by the claims.
It’ll never happen, but as Israel ignores Trump and attacks Iran, and Iran ignores Trump and launches drones toward Israel, Joe Biden should tweet:
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-06-13T13:03:38.912Z
“They have no respect for the Trump administration. This would have never happened if I was president.†www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/israel-launches-major-attack-iran-trumps-pre-election-rhetoric-runs-re-rcna212811
As the president really ought to know, his rhetoric often has unfortunate confrontations with reality. NBC News reported that the Israeli military launched a massive attack on Iran on Friday, increasing the risk of another war in the Middle East.
The Trump administration, which has spent recent months negotiating with Iran over the future of its nuclear program, made no secret of the fact that it wanted Israel to hold off on launching such a military offensive as the diplomatic talks continued. Netanyahu appears to have ignored those calls.
With this in mind, the State Department made clear after Israel’s attack that the United States was not involved in this offensive and was not providing assistance.
The next morning, the American president seemed to undermine his own administration’s line with a statement published to his social media platform.
“I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to ‘just do it,’ but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done,” Trump wrote online, putting a spin on his own inability to successfully negotiate a deal. “I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come — And they know how to use it. Certain Iranian hardliner’s spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!”.....
As of this writing, it's unclear whether Joe Biden will tweet, “They have no respect for the Trump administration. This would have never happened if I was president.”
The strikes, which killed senior Iranian scientists and top military officials, involved more than 200 fighter jets. They were aimed at Iran’s main enrichment facility and targets associated with the country’s ballistic missile program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei swiftly vowed retaliation. Soon after the strikes, Iran launched more than 100 drones towards Israel, Israeli Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said.
The Trump administration, which has spent recent months negotiating with Iran over the future of its nuclear program, made no secret of the fact that it wanted Israel to hold off on launching such a military offensive as the diplomatic talks continued. Netanyahu appears to have ignored those calls.
With this in mind, the State Department made clear after Israel’s attack that the United States was not involved in this offensive and was not providing assistance.
The next morning, the American president seemed to undermine his own administration’s line with a statement published to his social media platform.
“I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to ‘just do it,’ but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done,” Trump wrote online, putting a spin on his own inability to successfully negotiate a deal. “I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come — And they know how to use it. Certain Iranian hardliner’s spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!”.....
As of this writing, it's unclear whether Joe Biden will tweet, “They have no respect for the Trump administration. This would have never happened if I was president.”
trump approved and consented to this attack. Now trump will own any fallout due to this attack
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