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president Donald Trump A new report explores the “buyer’s remorse” sentiment surrounding the war among the president’s top aides, saying Trump insisted to staff wary of military strikes against Iran that “I just want to do it.”
More than two weeks since the U.S. launched Operation Epic Fury on February 28, those closest to the president may believe U.S. involvement in the war was a “mistake,” Axios said in a new report on Monday.
As the White House grapples with a recent surge in oil and gas prices after Iran blocked the Strait of Hormuz, Trump continued to declare the operation a success, insisting that Iran’s armed forces had been “devastated.”
But a senior official told Axios that Trump “grossly overestimated his ability to force regime change” in Iran and was “highly reliant on his own supplies” following previous attacks on Iran that he claimed had “destroyed” Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities, as well as a military operation in Venezuela that led to the arrest of its president. Nicolás Maduro.
A source close to the administration said some key officials around Trump were unwilling or wanted more time. “He finally said, ‘I just want to do this,'” the source said. “He grossly overestimated his ability to overthrow the regime without sending troops on the ground.”
Trump downplays cost of war in call PBS NewsHour white house correspondent Liz Landers “We’re doing great,” he said Monday.
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