Trump defends war deal in marathon presser, using semantics on why Iran is getting $300 billion

This is Jack Blanchard, leading with Donald Trump’s latest overnight pivot in the ongoing spy drama that, as of very early this morning, scuttled his own nomination of Jay Clayton to lead the nation’s spy apparatus in pursuit of yet another demand for Congress to pass the SAVE Act — this time in tandem with a FISA reauthorization.

The president made the bold claim Wednesday during a testy bilateral meeting at the G7 summit in the French Alps, alongside an uncomfortable-looking Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, where Trump also blamed Democrats for the “made-up” affordability crisis.

An irony of the Iran war is that Donald Trump, whose patience for written texts and policy details is famously negligible, came to grasp the reality of the situation more quickly and clearly than his neoconservative supporters who spent years obsessing over the issue.

US President Donald Trump on June 17 (IST) made a series of strong remarks regarding the situation in Iran, describing recent military operations and suggesting a major shift in the country’s internal power structure.