Another mark of an authoritarian regime - they care more about the impressions than the truth.
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Someone is walking around with a smug grin today.
This is the kind of thing where it is only believable until someone goes outside and looks at what happened, then the story falls apart.
It's Iran, and a nuclear site, and the location of a recent military attack, so I am under no illusions that this information would be trivial to obtain, but I really doubt Iran would have any interest in promoting Trump's lie. I would also expect Iran to be more than happy to announce "You Missed."
Leaked information or straight from ground zero doesn't really matter. How did Trump expect this sort of thing to stay quiet? No-one outside of the US would feel even slightly compelled to comply with his narrative.
Even for Trump this is stupid.
Maybe Iran wants people to believe it. 🤔
Perhaps. But if Iran was the source, and that source was incorrect, the response would probably not be to claim that someone on the US side was leaking classified information.
In bitching about leaks in his administration, Trump confirmed that the sites were, indeed, not completely destroyed.
Did Pete check his signal logs before complaining about the leak?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, they said it was, actually the report said it could have been very– they don’t know. I mean they did a report I could have Pete talk to it because his department did the report. They really don’t know.
I think Israel’s going to be telling us very soon because a Bibi is going to have people Involved in that whole situation.
We hear it was obliteration. It was a virtual obliteration. When you take a look at the ground above Don’t forget the flame is all underground But everything above, if you look at the before and the after picture, everything above is burned black, the trees, everything.
And there’s one building, but that’s a building that sunk substantially into the granite. So that, you know, the fire goes right over it.
Hmm.
Oddly one of the more coherent transcriptions I have read of his.
But did Pete talk to the report? I need to know. Hopefully, it was very.
And yet still sounds like a fucking child, and is barely coherent.
Needs more references to arnald palmers dick size.
And Hitler refused to believe until nearly the end that Operation Barbarossa was a failure.
Can we just skip to the part where Trump and Melania blow their fucking brains out in a bunker, please.
Lol. Where was the rage when hegseth included a reporter in an app chat regarding plans? Oh right conservatives are fucking hypocrites. Nearly forgot
Those guys look like people who I’d very much like to not know.
Dunno. I'd be okay with a passing awareness of their headstones' location and adding them to a mild bucket list of Places To Piss. 🤷🏼♂️
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PETE HEGSETH: Well, Mr. President, when you talk to the people who built the bombs, understand what those bombs can do and deliver those bombs, they landed precisely where they were supposed to, so it was a flawless mission, right down where we knew they needed to enter.
And given the 30,000 pounds of explosives and capability of those munitions, it was devastation underneath Fordow. And the amount of munitions? Six per location.
Any assessment that tells you it was something otherwise is speculating with other motives.
And we know that because when you actually look at the report– by the way It was a top-secret report. It was preliminary. It was low confidence, all right?
So this is a you make assessments based on what you know they don’t.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: And they said it could be very devastating, very serious.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PETE HEGSETH: Moderate to severe, and we believe far more likely severe and obliterated. So this is a political motive here.
Each GBU-57 weighs 30k lbs (13,600kg), and contains around 5k lbs (2,270kg) of explosives.
So first, I’m really annoyed they dropped 6 bombs, because while I wholeheartedly believe that Hegseth thinks each bomb has 30k worth of explosives, I’m sure that if I make that assertion, someone will “well, ackschually” me that 5x6=30 and say he’s technically correct.
But second, his lie is fucking stupid. So they saw a report that said the strikes were ineffective and they knew exactly what was being referenced when the reporter brought it up, but they’re saying the report is ‘wrong and low confidence’ because it disagrees with how they think things should have happened.
You’d think a man that drinks like that has played cards. Does he only play poker with people that let him win? Has he never bluffed before? No guile, no finesse. Just vacant stupidity.
I wonder what the WH doc has them on this time around.
So we revealed the limits of our precision strike capabilities to our adversaries all over the world and didn't even achieve our mission objective? Nice move, Trump. Maybe you could reveal more of our sub locations while you're at it.
Fortunately for everyone, the Iranians had lots of ahead notice, and so were able to move the 400kg of 60% Uranium out before the idiots actually sent bunker busters to "obliterate" a nuclear facility, which otherwise would have spread uranium all over. smh
They did a report. I could have Pete talk to it.
I assume it's like a cartoon report with eyes and a mouth. I bet those assholes stole it from School House Rock.
B O M B S H E L L
Mission Accomplished.