President Trump continues to defend the success of the U.S. assault on three of Iran’s key nuclear websites, criticizing information stories that say in any other case.
As Mr. Trump left the NATO summit at The Hague to move again to Washington Wednesday, he took to Reality Social to reiterate that the results of the bombings on Iran’s nuclear amenities was “complete obliteration.”
“We simply caught the Failing New York Occasions, working with Faux Information CNN, dishonest once more! They tried to demean the good work our B-2 pilots did, and so they had been in doing so. These stories are simply BAD AND SICK PEOPLE,” he wrote. “You’ll assume they’d be happy with the good success we had, as an alternative of making an attempt to at all times make our Nation look unhealthy. TOTAL OBLITERATION!”
On Tuesday, CNN was the primary to report that an early U.S. intelligence evaluation discovered with a low degree of confidence that the Saturday strikes on Iran’s amenities didn’t utterly destroy them as Mr. Trump had beforehand mentioned.
The evaluation got here from the Protection Intelligence Company, the intelligence arm of the Pentagon. Different shops, together with The New York Occasions and Related Press, have since reported the identical.
In a second put up, Mr. Trump mentioned Israel discovered that the “nuclear websites had been OBLITERATED!”
“Thanks to our nice B-2 pilots, and all others concerned,” he wrote.
The White Home shared an announcement with reporters earlier Thursday that mentioned it was from the Israel Atomic Power Fee.
“The devastating U.S. strike on Fordo destroyed the location’s essential infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. We assess that the American strikes on Iran’s nuclear amenities, mixed with Israeli strikes on different components of Iran’s army nuclear program, has set again Iran’s skill to develop nuclear weapons by a few years,” the assertion mentioned. “This achievement can proceed indefinitely if Iran doesn’t get entry to nuclear materials.”
In a 3rd social media put up, Mr. Trump hit particularly on CNN’s Natasha Bertrand, who was one of many reporters on the outlet’s story in regards to the intelligence evaluation report, calling for her to be fired.
“I watched her for 3 days doing Faux Information. She ought to be IMMEDIATELY reprimanded, after which thrown out ‘like a canine,’” he mentioned.
He referenced a narrative she beforehand wrote for Politico in 2020 in regards to the scenario concerning former President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and a laptop computer that contained paperwork and details about his international enterprise dealings. Within the report, she wrote that greater than 50 former senior intelligence officers mentioned the data on the laptop computer bore the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation operation. However the laptop computer was later confirmed to be Hunter Biden’s and the data on it right.
“She lied on the Laptop computer from Hell Story, and now she lied on the Nuclear Websites Story, making an attempt to destroy our Patriot Pilots by making them look unhealthy when, in actual fact, they did a GREAT job and hit ‘pay dust’ — TOTAL OBLITERATION!” Mr. Trump wrote. “She shouldn’t be allowed to work at Faux Information CNN. It’s individuals like her who destroyed the repute of a as soon as nice Community. Her slant was so clearly destructive, apart from, she doesn’t have what it takes to be an on digicam correspondent, not even shut. FIRE NATASHA!”
In an announcement, CNN mentioned it stands “100% behind Natasha Bertrand’s journalism and particularly her and her colleagues’ reporting of the early intelligence evaluation of the U.S. assault on Iran’s nuclear amenities.”
“We’ve got extensively coated President Trump’s personal deep skepticism about it,” the assertion mentioned. “Nevertheless, we don’t imagine it’s cheap to criticize CNN reporters for precisely reporting the existence of the evaluation and precisely characterizing its findings, that are within the public curiosity.”
Throughout his post-NATO press convention, Mr. Trump mentioned the pilots concerned within the nuclear web site assault had been “maligned and handled very unhealthy, demeaned, by pretend information CNN.”
“There’s one thing flawed with them,” Mr. Trump mentioned of NBC, CNN and The New York Occasions. “However you already know what? Try to be praising these individuals.”
