Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume this week said President Donald Trump may be poised to repeat one of former President Barack Obama’s mistakes with regard to the prospect of U.S. military action in Iran.
Appearing on Fox News’ “Special Report” Monday, Hume suggested Trump was “in a predicament” after clashes between Iranian officials and anti-government demonstrators have become increasingly deadly.
“He told the Iranian authorities not to attack the people when they were protesting,” he explained. “Then they carried out this hideous slaughter, this hideous slaughter that killed tens of thousands of people, just ghastly ... and he’d warned them not to do it.”
He went on to note: “So he’s in a situation where he needs to do something. And the idea that there’ll be some kind of nuclear negotiation now with a country that has proven itself time and time again untrustworthy in such negotiations seems to me that will leave him with a lot of people thinking he came up short.”
Protests erupted across Iran in late December, with many demonstrators resentful of high inflation, severe economic distress and political repression.
