Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) on Wednesday had a difficult time defending President Donald Trump’s claims that war with Iran could be necessary — as his own administration announced just last year that Iran’s nuclear facilities have been “obliterated.”
Mullin appeared on CNN to make the case for military intervention, only for “The Source” host Kaitlan Collins to balk at his purported reasoning that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is “obviously trying to rebuild” its facilities to build a nuclear weapon.
“Right, but, if we obliterated it, we being the United States last summer, then why are you worried about it right now if it was obliterated?” Collins asked Mullin, who echoed Trump’s ongoing narrative: “Because they’re rebuilding it and you can see them rebuilding it.”
Collins countered, “But it was ‘obliterated.’”
“But that doesn’t mean you can’t rebuild,” said Mullin. “I mean, people have car accidents and obliterate their bones and their legs, and yet they can still put, you know, they can still put metal back in ’em and walk again.”
