Broadcaster Hugh Hewitt said that President Donald Trump is “clear-eyed” about his approach to the Iran-Israel war, despite what his detractors on both sides of the political aisle may say.
Writing in an opinion article for the Washington Examiner on Wednesday, Hewitt reminded readers that Trump has been consistent in his stance that Iran should never have nuclear weapons. “President Donald Trump, like every president before him, declared this. But Trump meant it. In every interview, Trump said the same thing again and again. On May 7, the president laid it out to me on my program. ‘It’s very simple,’ he said. ‘Yeah, it’s very simple. There are only two alternatives there — blow [the nuclear facilities] up nicely, or blow them viciously,'” Hewitt wrote.
As on Wednesday evening, Trump said he has reviewed and approved a military option for the U.S. to engage directly with Iran, but has thus far withheld from giving a formal go-ahead. “I may do it, I may not do it,” Trump said in an exchange with reporters at the White House. “I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do.”
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