President Donald Trump has vowed the American public will hear ‘irrefutable’ facts about the success of the Iranian strikes as he mounts a defense of ‘great American pilots’ who carried out the mission.
The administration has rubbished reports by both CNN and the New York Times that the damage to Iran’s nuclear facilities from Saturday night’s bombing was not as severe as they had hoped, while simultaneously demanding the person who leaked incomplete intel be jailed.
In a Truth Social post on Wednesday afternoon, Trump revealed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth would address the public at 8am Thursday morning to provide ‘both interesting and irrefutable’ proof about the success of the mission.
Trump said the purpose of the conference is to ‘fight for the Dignity of our Great American Pilots.
‘These Patriots were very upset,’ he said. ‘After 36 hours of dangerously flying through Enemy Territory, they landed, they knew the Success was LEGENDARY, and then, two days later, they started reading Fake News by CNN and The Failing New York Times.
‘They felt terribly!’
Trump reminded them that the doubts about the success of the mission were ‘as usual, solely for the purpose of demeaning PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP.’
His comments come after the CIA confirmed Iran’s nuclear facilities suffered ‘severe damage’ after the devastating airstrikes Saturday night.
Trump had earlier suggested Hegseth’s title should be changed to the ‘Secretary of War’ given the deteriorating situation in the Middle East, and kicked off meetings at the NATO summit on Wednesday by comparing Saturday’s precision airstrikes to the two atomic bombings on Japan that ended World War II.
‘I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima. I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki. But that was essentially the same thing. That ended that war,’ he told reporters at The Hague.