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President Donald Trump has been, objectively speaking, helping contribute to the job security of CNN’s fact checker Daniel Dale for years, and Monday’s press conference was no exception.
The president spent some time on Monday afternoon answering reporters’ questions about the latest developments in Iran. One topic that got a lot of attention from the gathered press was Trump’s Truth Social post from Easter Sunday, a profanity-laced demand for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to strike Iran’s bridges and power plants if the strait stayed closed.
Numerous international legal experts have called out Trump’s post for threatening to strike civilian infrastructure, which would be a war crime, and the post was criticized by commentators across the political spectrum.
On Monday, Trump was asked about the expected timeline for the war, the recent rescue operation for two U.S. pilots whose plane was shot down, if he thought God supported the U.S. actions in the war, and about criticism of his Truth Social post. He also berated a reporter from The New York Times, made shocking and baseless allegations against Germany, and claimed Iranians were begging him to “keep bombing” their country.
Dale dutifully went through Trump’s comments during the meandering presser, chronicling...
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