“President Donald Trump defended the U.S. war against Iran in a pair of interviews that aired Thursday evening, falsely claimed that no American troops had been killed in the past five months and said he hasn’t escalated the conflict at the request of other countries in the Middle East,” the Washington Post reports.
Trump Downplays Iran War Casualties
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