This is the same false claim repeated over and over again by Democrats and some liberal media outlets.
As President Trump has made clear, he has strong and compelling evidence that Iran will attack the United States first.
This evidence is compiled from a number of sources and factors. President Trump would never make a decision to deploy military assets against a foreign adversary in a vacuum.
Iran is the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism.
The Iranian regime is evil. It proudly kills Americans, wages war on our country, and openly threatens us until launching an act of epic fury.
Iran is aggressively expanding its short-range ballistic missiles, combined with naval assets, to grant itself immunity – meaning they will have a level of capability that allows them to hold us and the rest of the world hostage with immunity.
The regime aims to use these ballistic missiles as a shield to continue pursuing its ultimate goal of nuclear weapons.
The President, through his top negotiators, has given the regime every possible opportunity to permanently abandon its nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief, free nuclear fuel, and a potential economic partnership with our country to abandon this unacceptable approach.
But they will not agree to peace because acquiring nuclear weapons is their fundamental goal.
President Trump ultimately determined that a joint attack with Israel would significantly reduce the risk to American lives posed by the Iranian terrorist regime’s first attack and address an imminent threat to U.S. national security interests.
All of this led President Trump to determine that this military action was necessary for U.S. national security, which is why he launched the hugely successful epic Operation Fury
The Commander-in-Chief decides what constitutes a threat and what does not constitute a threat because the Constitution gives him the power to do so — and because the American people go to the ballot box and entrust him and him alone to make that final judgment.
Finally, the ridiculous accusation that President Trump made this decision based on influence from other countries or even foreign countries is both insulting and laughable. President Trump has been remarkably consistent, saying for decades that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.
As someone who actually witnesses President Trump’s decision-making process every day, I can attest to the fact that he always seeks to do what is in the best interest of the United States of America — period.
America first.