President Donald Trump addressed Operation Epic Fury in the Oval Office with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
The men had more on the menu other than Iran, but the media concentrated on the operation.
The media twisted Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s comments when asked why the U.S. chose to strike Iran at this time.
“We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action,” Rubio said last night. “We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that, if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed, and then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn’t act.”
EHRMEHGERD ISRAEL FORCED THE U.S. TO GET INVOLVED!
Yeah, no.
Trump not only backed up Rubio’s comments, but admitted he might have forced Israel to take action:
ABC’s @RachelVScott: “Did Israel force your hand to launch these strikes against Iran?”President Trump: “No.”Scott: “Did Netanyahu pull United States into this war?Trump: “No, I might have forced their hand. You see, we were having negotiations with these lunatics, and it was my opinion that they were going to attack first. They were going to attack. If we didn’t do it, they were going to attack first. I felt strongly about that, and we have great negotiators, great people, people that do this very successfully and have done it all their lives, very successful. And based on the way the negotiation was going, I think they were going to attack first, and I didn’t want that to happen. So, if anything, I might have forced Israel’s hand. But Israel was ready and we were ready, and we’ve had a very, very powerful impact because virtually everything they have has been knocked out now.
Trump also confirmed that Operation Epic Fury has destroyed all of Iran’s defenses:
They have no navy. It’s been knocked out.They have no air force. It’s been knocked out.They have no air detection that’s been knocked out.Their radar has been knocked out, and just about everything’s been knocked out.They’re going to be in for a lot of hurt. These are bad people. These are people that killed, I guess, it’s 35,000. It’s coming out. 35,000 over the last three weeks, protesters. 35,000 violently killed.So these are bad people, and the leader of the pack is gone. And as you know, 49 people were taken out in the first hit. And I guess there was another hit today on the new leadership. And it looks like that was pretty substantial.
Trump then lashed out at Spain, which denied the U.S. permission to use its military bases.
“Spanish military bases will not be used for anything that falls outside the agreement with the United States and the United Nations Charter,” said José Manuel Albares, Spain’s foreign minister.
Trump praised Germany, but told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to cut off trade with Spain:
Well, some of the European nations have been helpful and some haven’t. And I’m, you know, very surprised. Germany has been great. He’s been terrific. Others have been very good, terrific….But some of the Europeans like Spain, has been terrible.In fact, I told Scott [Bessent] to cut off all dealings with Spain. Spain.First of all, it started when every — every European nation, at my request, paid 5%, which they should be doing, and everybody was enthusiastic about it. Germany, everybody and Spain didn’t do it. And now, Spain actually said that we can’t use their bases, and that’s all right. We don’t we could use their bases if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody’s going to tell us not to use it, but we don’t have to. But they were unfriendly. And so, I told him, we don’t want to — Spain has absolutely nothing that we need other than great people. They have great people, but they don’t have great leadership.And as you know, they were the only country that, in NATO, would not agree to go up to 5%. I don’t think they want it agreed to go up to anything. They wanted to keep it at 2% and they don’t pay the 2%.So we’re going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don’t want anything to do with Spain.
The United Kingdom didn’t escape Trump’s wrath:
And I’m not — by the way, I’m not happy with the UK either. That island that you read about the lease — okay — he made it — for whatever reason, he made a lease of the island. Somebody came and took it away from him, and it’s taken 3 or 4 days for us to work out where we can land there. It would have been much more convenient landing there as opposed to flying many extra hours, so we are very surprised. This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with.
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