Vice President JD Vance wrote after the midterms that “the reason we lost is the war,” meaning Iran. Asked on CBS 60 Minutes if he agreed, President Trump said: “I don’t disagree with it.”
Trump said that if he had it to do again, his answer on attacking Iran would be “an emphatic yes,” because Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, and added: “I’ve stopped them from having a nuclear weapon. That’s a big thing.” The exchange is from the extended 60 Minutes interview.
Vance’s comment was one of the first public breaks inside the administration after the midterm defeat, and it put the Iran war at the center of the argument over what went wrong for Republicans. The war is also the ground for the impeachment drive against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who oversaw the operation. Trump defended Hegseth elsewhere in the same interview, while making clear he still believes the strikes on Iran were necessary.
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