DISPATCHES FROM THE PAS-DE-CALAIS: Trump Drops an All-Time Troll on Iran, As What Happened Behind the Scenes Comes Into View.
In the aftermath of the first wave of strikes, speculation ensued about what President Donald Trump thought about the attacks. Early on, some on the right (with ulterior motives, in my opinion) claimed that Israel had gone rogue and defied the White House to undermine negotiations with the Mullahs. We are now finding out that wasn’t the case. I wrote in my initial piece on the attacks that there was no chance Trump didn’t bless these attacks, and it is now being reported that not only did he know, but he also participated in the subterfuge to throw Iran off the scent.
That seemed to be confirmed when the president put out the following post, which mirrored a longer post that slammed Iran for not taking the deal he put on the table.
Note: This is not the troll I’m talking about in the headline. That’s coming next.
Exit quote: “I know there’s a segment on the right (or who are ostensibly on the right) who are deeply anti-Israel (or worse) and desperately want to pretend the president was conned by the Israelis. He wasn’t. They are going to have to cope with that as they see fit.”
Read the whole thing.
Heh, indeed. Buried lede in the above tweet: apparently, prominent journalists can now actually pick up a telephone and call the president of the United States for a quote? This seems like a pretty bigly story in and of itself!
