President Donald Trump on Monday delivered a slew of lies during an hour-and-a-half-long White House press conference about his escalating war on Iran, CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale said.
“President Trump uttered numerous false claims, including long-debunked lies, at his press conference today - in addition to several very-much-uncorroborated claims, like the one about how every living former president is saying ‘to their friends’ that the US should’ve started this war long ago,” Dale wrote Monday on X.
Trump claimed that Iran’s efforts to develop a nuclear weapon “should have been handled by seven presidents” of the past — which would include Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.
He then claimed “every one of them” is now admitting to their friends that “we should have done this.” Reagan and H.W. Bush are dead, and Trump himself attended the funeral of H.W. Bush.
Trump correctly said Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was killed on his orders in 2020, but added, “I did one other, but this one was not picked up: Osama bin Laden. If you read my book, I said, ‘You got to take him out,’ one year before the World Trade Center came down.”
